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February 3, 2011

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Manager’s Memo Last month I wrote that 22 inches of snow makes me cranky, well do

you know what 46 inches of snow does to me? It makes me absolutely crazy. I cannot wait for January to be over with but I see no end in sight to this weather. We are either dealing with the frigid cold or the snow; there has been no in-between. I was so happy the other day when I saw the temperature was in the double digits...that was until I saw the minus sign in front of the numbers. Once it got up to minus 4, my husband and I grabbed our beach chairs, beer and sat out on our deck in the sunshine. We both felt the need for vitamin D. Our daughters thought we were crazy, so they took pictures and, of course, plastered them all over Facebook. Everyone thought we were nuts!

The other thing I mentioned in my article last month was one of my New Year’s resolutions was to lose weight. I have done two interesting things this month to help myself along. I will share one with you this month and then I will share the other with you in our next issue. The first thing I did was to see a Holistic nutritional doctor. Not sure if you have ever experienced this but it was quite interest-ing and eye opening. Since I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in June I have been totally gluten-free, but I still had some symptoms that would not go away. I would feel good for two or three days and then ill again. I kept thinking I was getting contaminated somewhere, but I had my blood work done every 3 months and my Celiac numbers had finally returned normal. When I was diagnosed in June my number was 128, normal is 4 or below. The last time I had blood work done in December my number had dropped to 5, so I knew I was on the right track but just felt there was something else going on. Since I had every test done under the sun I figured it had to be food related. Something other than gluten was affecting the way I felt.

So, I went for the initial holistic testing which lasted almost three hours. First she tested all types of food and come to find out the only thing my body likes is protein. I have an issue with dairy, soy, starches, etc. - the list goes on. The second thing she did was a body scan. I figured she was going to hook me up to this big machine, but all of the testing was done by the doctor pressing against my arm and me pressing back. She could deter-mine everything just on my strength. As she pressed each body part and organ she pressed against my arm. My arm went completely weak when she touched my thyroid and my liver. Which indicates that these are both stressed and not working properly. My mother has had thyroid disease for 45 years but mine has always showed up normal in my blood work. The third part of the visit was testing to see what supplements your body needs. She placed all of the different supplements on my chest to see how the strength in my arm was, if it went weak then it meant my body did not want that specific supplement. Then she puts multiple bottles of supplements on my chest to see what ones would work nicely together with me and which ones wouldn’t. Funny, my body rejected vitamin D, the very thing I crave the most. To determine how many pills I should take a day she would place the pills in the palm of my hand one by one. She would continue to add another pill until my arm went weak. Then she would take the last one out of my hand and my arm would be strong again, and

that would be the magical number of pills to take a day. I am sure you are wondering how this has been working. Well I have

drastically changed my diet, which I will talk about how I was able to do it in my next month’s memo. I have lost seven pounds in the last 3 weeks. The most that I have lost in a long time, because one of my symptoms with Celiac was that I was gaining weight at rapid speed. Once I went gluten-free my weight held steady. I hadn’t gained or lost anything since I have been on the gluten free diet. So far, I am pleased and I will con-tinue to work hard because I want to be successful with my New Year’s resolution! I hope you are all doing well with yours.

This month check out our Meet the Merchants section. It gives our advertisers a chance to describe what they do. Please remember to tell them you saw their ad in the Yankee Shopper and Berkshire Penny Saver.

As always we encourage your feedback. Feel free to send us your press releases to [email protected] or

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-Renee Tassone, General Manager

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World-Class Event Takes Place in Vermont’s Snowy Green Mountains

PITTSFIELD, VT - The 5th Annual Pittsfield Snowshoe Marathon, the East’s most challenging snowshoe event (a full marathon, 26.20 miles through 7,200 feet of elevation change), begins at 8 a.m. on March 5 at Amee Farm on Route 100 in Pittsfield, Vermont. This race is for, as Race Director Andy Weinberg puts it, “normal” people who may be able to fin-ish the marathon in the allotted 10 hours.

Then there’s a 100-mile snowshoe race that begins at 4 p.m. on March 4. This is the second year of this particular trial by snow. Weinberg says that in 2010 eight racers entered and three finished this toughie, with a best time of 30 hours.

Last year there were 150 who signed up for the marathon and a half marathon that will be also take place on the 5th. The best time for the full marathon last year was 4 1/2 hours and for the half just under 2 hours.

There are registration fees for all events. Early registrants get a price break. The weekend includes a post-race pasta feed, awards ceremony and video presentation.

The snowshoe weekend is one of a full calendar of ultra running, com-petitive cycling, adventure racing, mountain biking, and other races under the auspices of Peak Races (www.peakraces.com).

For information please contact Race Director Andy Weinberg at [email protected]. For sophisticated overnight accommodations at the 12-room “green” Amee Farm Lodge please contact www.ameefarm.com. There are also bunk-style accommodations available at $25 a pillow but they are limited to first come first serve.

Amee Farm neighbors Pittsfield’s 300-acre Riverside Farm that is a premier New England country wedding destination. Both are located less than 10 miles from Killington Ski Resort.


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