Rediscovering my zest for life through adventure, food & movement
Losing 1lb A Week in weight sounds like it should be easy. After all, who can't manage to lose just one pound a week? You may be surprised at what it takes! I wanted to provide some tips and information in case you, like me, are interested in the slowly but surely weight loss attempt. [...]
Armed with the information that my body was hurting due to inflammation I looked out for an anti-inflammatory diet. I already knew that changing from a standard diet to one that contained more vegetables and fruit had made a difference. At that time it was without exercise. The food change alone helped. In an effort [...]
The most surprising part of my weight loss journey so far is learning that building muscle is the key to my success. I never really thought about weightlifting or the power of weight lifting for midlife women. I just assumed the key to success was cardio, cardio and more cardio. Turns out no matter what [...]
I have found it to be really important when using intermittent fasting to monitor calories. After a fast it is really easy to go crazy and eat all kinds of food, which isn't healthy, and mess up your weight loss results. I use myfitnesspal and put in all the food I have eaten as a [...]
I have been reading up on forming new habits. I think I never really give something long enough to become a habit, which is why I stop and start different things all the time. There are all these books that outline 21 days or 30 days to a new habit but I couldn't find any [...]
I am continuing on my journey towards helping the self saboteur within work with me rather than against me. I don't believe it is worth trying to eliminate it completely because it plays a part in my life. I would just like it to stop playing such a very active part and to sit back [...]
