Dinner and a Movie (and more Dinner)

Watching television during meals is a bit of a no-no these days, but can I help it if I find it extremely comforting to, for example, make a big batch of tacos, refried beans, and a massive salad, and curl up with some quality programming like The River Cottage or True Blood? And maybe a [...]

SmarterFitter in the U.S.A.

This blog usually comes to you from merry England, but for the next three weeks I’ll be writing from my home country: the U.S. of A.
First, Chicago, my home town and the place I’m writing from now (alongside a hot cup of coffee and a very crazy bird). Tim and I are [...]

SmarterFitter in the Countryside

After three years of living in London, we’ve decided to up and move to the countryside. It’s a huge life change and I can’t wait for it to begin. I love London, but it’s time to do something completely different. I’ve always dreamed of living in the middle of nowhere, and I’m [...]

Changes Afoot

You may have noticed that I updated the design of SmarterFitter. This is all part of a bigger project to revamp the blog. I’m doing all this stuff in my spare time so the project is a little slow-going, but at least it’s going.
In addition to design changes, I’ve also got a bunch of [...]

RSS Feeds Working Again

And here I was thinking my posts were too boring for comments. Well, that still might be the case, but I only just realized the other day that my RSS feeds stopped working after I upgraded to Wordpress 2.7.1 on March 7. I finally fixed the problem (with the help of Tim – [...]

The “Smarter” Side of SmarterFitter

Things have been a little quiet around here. I just started a part-time gig teaching at the Open University, the UK’s distance learning government-supported university. My students just submitted their first assignment and, for the first time since grad school, I’m inundated with papers to grade. I don’t mind, though. The [...]

Veggie Blog Carnival coming up

I’ll be hosting the Vegetarian Carnival this week on behalf of Veggie Chic. Do you have a tasty recipe or interesting blog post you’d like to share? Then submit your entry by Monday, May 12th and we’ll consider sharing it with the rest of our hungry readers.
On a side note, Veggie [...]

Monica in the Telegraph!

My fantastically talented girlfriend really hit one out of the park here.
Her first article published as a freelance writer is for largest broadsheet in the country, the Daily Telegraph!

Link to the article
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Um… so how’s the new server?

We seem to be mostly cut over now, some people’s domain name servers might take a little longer but most hits are now on the new server.
Faster? Broken? Slower?
Please let us know if you notice anything anything broken or, for that matter, anything that is better.
The new server is in a data centre in Dallas [...]

We’re open to suggestions

Hi,
If you’ve got a great link, post, article, image, or whatever that’s interesting, about health and fitness and you think the SmarterFitter community would like to hear about it, we’re now taking link suggestions.
Pop over to our form and post your suggestion. We’ll start posting editorially appropriate suggestions as they come in.
Be sure to [...]