My tooth is acting up again. I limped home yesterday evening, took two pain killers and flopped into bed yelling at the kids, please don't bother me tonight I'm on the injury list. My husband called from work a couple of times (he's on the night shift), trying to lend support giving me his remedies and telling me what I need to do. All I want is to be left alone - dammit! I told him quite nicely, I'm just going to lay down for a while. The pain woke me up again at 4am so now i'm going t...

I just returned from the dentist's office. What a collosol waste of time! If there was ever a profession that need overhauling, this would be it! I went in the hope of getting my tooth taken care of. As you know, I have a tooth ache from a loss filling and it's been giving me hell. Anyhows, I was so happy my dentist (this is actually my first time seeing him too) could see me today. I was early for the appointment, at least I got there 10mins early. Waited for 15-20mins then was calle...

While away I saw a news report about pharmacists who are refusing to fill certain prescriptions because of their religious beliefs?!! OK, so I go to the pharmacy to fill my prescription for birth control pill or the morning after pill and I'm going to be refused because the pharmacist doesn't beleive in birth control or abortion? What is wrong with this picture? Actually, let me rephrase that. Doesn't anyone see something wrong with this? My spin on this is that if you are a pharmacist...

A couple of months ago, I read an article written by Dianne Holes in the Health on Parade section of our local paper where she says you can think yourself thin. She said the focus of dieting shouldn’t be on the belly, apparently where most of the fat is, but rather the brain. You can think yourself thin with affirmations. The brain is a powerful tool that can make you believe whatever you want to. So by being positive and repeating affirmations to yourself, you can actually think your...

Hi Everyone! I wanted to create a blogsite where I can focus mainly about working out, weight loss and anything in between. Basically, the road to wellness and serenity! When the New Year started, I made a decision to not be a couch potato anymore. That is, I will no longer sit by and let things happen to me, my body, my kids, my life. I will no longer just sit and whine (except for a few rants here and there!) and not focus on my goals anymore. Let’s face it; life happens to ...

I feel like a bad mommy. Bad in the sense that I let my 3 year old down. Very, very bad. I'm not crying yet, but I'm really angry at myself. I finally got her to a dentist this morning. I knew it would not be good news because of the problems with her teeth, big problems. I knew this going in because we gave in to her too much when she wanted to have her bottle in bed. Yes, I said bottle in bed. So now you know what I'm talking about. She has what is commonly called "bottle mouth". ...

I'm still sick. Not as badly as last week, but I'm still not a hundred percent yet. That's partly my fault though cause I've not gone out to get my vitamins yet. But I will do so this weekend. In the meantime, people around me are dropping life flies! It's been a skeleton staff this week. some people here have been out for two, now three to four days. The Flu does not discriminate! It doesn't care who you are, how fit you are or even if you did everything under the sun to protect yo...

I feel... tired, old, worn out, hungry, hot, cold, bothered miserable, I want my mommy.... I feel achy, weak, limp, listless I know they're words with the same meanings but I really don't care.... It's been a while since I've been sick with the flu or is it the cold? I have no idea, but a bug is going around, and I've caught it My baby had it, she caught it from her brother I caught it from her because she kept slobbering kisses all over my face And insisted that I eat from her...

There has been a persistent murmur about deodorant and antiperspirant that one of them or both causes cancer. I’ve been hearing this for sometime now. I’ve ignored it but it keeps coming back and it makes me wonder, is this something I need to worry about? Earlier today I was reading responses to a blog thread by Greywar or Gideon, forgive me guys, now, let me stop to see whose it was….it was Gideon’s (see link below), fellow JUser, Kobrano responded and one of the things he menti...

The other thing that happened from my walk today was my hands swelling up! My hands were swollen, my fingers were swollen so much so I couldn't get my wedding rings off! It scared me abit because I was wondering what the heck...?! My hubby asked me if I had eaten anything that could have caused that, I said no. I drank a cup of tea and had a slice of bread with peanut butter before I went out in the morning, that's it. Apart from some water during my walk nothng else! He then mention...

It was very interesting to see this news article online from Reuters on Yahoonews.com , given a recent article I did on body image and our young girls; Link . Two points in the article I'm posting below stood out very clearly to me on why what they’re doing in Italy is a good thing. 1: "Madrid's fashion week has turned away underweight models after protests that young girls and women were trying to copy their rail-thin looks and developing eating disorders". 2: " O...

Journal entry for August 5 On Saturday I decided to go to the gym after not being there for about a year now. I was in the mood for a good work out! When I got there it was closed but I didn’t go back home. I decided I would walk for a bit and then come back to check if they would be open later. I walked for 30 minute at a good strong pace. It was going to be a hot day but since it was so early it wasn’t that hot yet, thank heavens! When I got back to the gym it was open so I...

Yep, as the saying goes, sick as a dog, that's me and it's not pretty. I've been out from work and everything else in between. Even my kids are sick. They gave it to me and I've been fighting it for weeks but suddenly it was like a hurricane that rebounded and held me down, knocking me over and I had no clue I would be this sick! Racking, hacking coughing, none stop, head ache, belly ache, light headedness, feeling like there's an alien trying to possess my body and wondering how in th...

I bumped into this website recently, which was so coincidental too since I’m learning to “think” more freely. Apparently it’s a new type of fitness that is becoming popular with a lot of folks. It’s called Mental Yoga ! You do things to exercise the brain. They featured an article written by Phyllis DeBlanche of the San Diego Magazine about the practice of mental yoga. It’s all about the way you think! I’ve already come to this deduction by myself but it was great reading the...