By Briana Rognlin for Blisstree.com
�??More miles means more wine, and more cheese,�?� reads the tagline of i run to eat, a blog tracking the workouts and training goals of Katerina, a Vancouver-based food blogger. The same sentiment is echoed in the title of a similar blog, �??Eat to Run. Work to Shop.�?� And chances are, you know at least a few men and women whose fitness philosophy is simply: Burn enough calories to eat a lot of food without getting fat. But is it a �??healthy�?� attitude towards fitness and nutrition? Possibly, but there are also a few arguments against it.
Katerina, who also blogs at Daily Unadventures In Cooking, probably wouldn�??t have gotten into marathon-running or fitness at all if it weren�??t for her passion for (sometimes calorie-laden) food, much like Blisstree contributor Dana McMahan. McMahan (whose love letter to powerlifting has been one of our most popular posts this summer) got into Crossfit and, eventually, competitive powerlifting because of her work as a restaurant critic and travel writer, which sometimes had her sitting down to ten restaurant meals in 24 hours. As she put it, �??It would take more than a daily stroll to combat this kind of work!�?� So she got into Crossfit�?�then powerlifting�?�and now counts her habit as one of her biggest passions in life -- and a perfect way to justify some of the heavy meals she still eats for her job:
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