(Note: Nicole Bergot, the Edmonton Sun’s uber-fit city editor writes today’s post. Bergot, who’s training for the St. Albert triathlon on Aug. 8, reviews the Movit Performance Gummie supplement.)

I didn’t really give them a fair test run, eating all four sample bags in one afternoon. But the new Movit Performance Gummie supplement tastes like Red Bull in a gummy bear costume and I like anything with an RB kick!

Created by gold-medal swimmer Setsuko Hansen, the ‘no-crash finish product for active women’ had me helping myself to 60-calorie-per-bag goodies before swimming 30 laps after work one hot day.

I became a shark, fin slicing surface. With porpoise even! (Each bag has 32 mg of caffeine compared to 80 mg for a Red Bull).

So, the bears I think boosted my sugars and caffeine to give me some edge.

This is how they break down in the scheme of that day’s fuel:

• 7:30 a.m. — three granola bars, glass of greens, dollop of fish oil, cup of black coffee, three glutathione caps (imported, legal), two adrenal caps, three chromium caps, one pricey multi, six vit A drops, six vit D drops, one iron cap, though I prefer drops but frickin’ ran out.

• 10 a.m. — as per usual, starving, eat bowl of raisin pine nut couscous (yum!) and handful of cherries.

• Noon — FedEx package arrives for Keeping Fit columnist Cary Castagna. Box dumped on his desk. Beside me. I snoop. I shake it. Smell it. Read it, seeing someone’s chicken-scratched ‘gummies’ on the delivery form. I risk jail, opening Cary’s mail. Because I help him sometimes. With the blog. I test girly things he can’t and should not. The four packets fall out. They are pink! Intuition spot on. Mine to assess!
I eat one bag, sharing a couple bears with online guru Max ‘fit-pack’ Maudie (because when you’re that fit, man, you swagger more than a six-pack; yo just call him girl for taking the gummies … Hardeee!).
Mmm. I taste Red Bull. Yes. Good.

• 12:30 p.m. — Eat orange found at bottom of purse. Eat another bag.

• 2 p.m. — Calculating if I will be starving by 6 p.m. pool time. Nope. Two bags left. Go for round of coffee for staff, get green tea latte. Figure third bag will taste just right with drink. Does so. Max leaves for dentist appointment. I beg of him food, thinking I will get a banana. He one ups and gives me half a choc protein bar!

• 3:30 p.m. — Eat last bag.

• Now after 5 p.m. — Gather items to leave, find stray banana under pile of paper. Set aside for morning.
Hit pool, swim like fish!

• After 7 p.m. – Eat again. Two soy burgers with spinach dip. Straight up burger, no bun. Glass of red wine. For dessert, sweet peanuts. Three more glutathione caps and that’s it save for water, which I take all day, the more the better.

Rating: Four gummies out of five!

(Addendum: Did not fall asleep until 2 a.m. Do not recommend four bags in one afternoon).