I had my first time at the gym this past week. My oldest picked up her little sister from school, I had time to kill. My body made the motion of getting up, changing into work out clothes; while my mind was screaming "no, no, no....you're too tired...!" Thank heavens I didn't listen! I had a great 30 mins at the gym and look forward to doing it again. In the meantime I work out as usual at home, whenever I can. I've been making sure though to get up and take 30 mins to work out befo...

If there was ever an easy question to respond to, this one is surely it! For me, being rich of course! Even in my quest to be fit, surely I would rather be rich than fit? Of course! The answer to me is quite easy. Having the money to utilize quite freely without worrying about something else, I can hire a personal trainer, a chef, get new gym equipment, heck, get a gym! Some people, who responded to a recent poll by Women’s Day and AOL Body , as reported by Dan Fle...

Have you seen that new show with Carson Kressley on Lifetime, "How to Look Good Naked"? If you haven't you really should see it! It's both entertaining and endearing at the same time. In the show he has a woman, or as in one episode, two women (mother and daughter) who each hate their bodies for one reason or the other. These women or regular women, not celebrities or models, normal sized, average looking women who don't happen to look as bad as they seem to think in their own minds. ...

I'm not having a good start, or at least a good continuation to my work out schedule! I started off by working out for 30 mins on Monday, which was great! Yesterday, I didn't snack, healthy snacks that is, at work, all day. I had breakfast, lunch, and by the time I got around to dinner, I was soooo hungry, I had a bit more than my usual portion! I didn't over do it, but I ate a little too much and I was so listless for lack of energy, I couldn't get enough to workout! Then it was h...

I've had one of those days, where I was in pain, really badly! I'm a fairly healthy person with no ailments to complain about (knocked on wood)! For the past two nights, I have slept badly for whatever reasons, and woke up with a really bad neck pain. The day before, I had a slight pain in my neck, where I couldn't fully turn my head. I knew I had slept bad. I did some gentle stretches and took some ibuprofen. I felt better for the rest of the day! This morning however, I got up at...

Here's one of the moves I make that really can get you going when dancer-cising! Put on your favourite music. I usually like to stretch first, it helps to limber your body, get those joints loose! Put both arms up in the air about your head and stretch, gently stretch at first, then give yourself a good stretch, and really get on your tippy toes as if reaching for that forbidden fruit on a tree limb. Now slowly start to move your shoulders, one at a time, swinging first one arm, t...

I've started dancing again, at home, in my own little make believe studio and I'm having a blast! I didn't realise that dancing was such a release of pent up anxiety, and such a big stress reliever. Much like exercising, one of my big stress reducer too, but dancing is so much more! I put one of my favourite CD on and I just dance and dance the hour away. Now to get a good workout it as to be a really good up tempo collaboration of music. I've been dancing to the music from this pas...

I went for my follow up visit today with my doctor's fill in, who I thought was a P.A. but she's not, she's a full fledged M.D.! She's rather lovely too and easy to talk with and explains everything to me which is wonderful! I just might switch my Primary! Anyway, my blood pressure was not something to freak out about when the nurse took it before I saw the doc, in fact, it's the other way around this time. Last week I was 140/80, where-in my Systolic was higher than the Diastolic, this ...

Today I read this bit of news. There is actually a reason for people who are overweight and those who are obese, it's a virus! The virus adenovirus-36 or Ad-36 as it's commonly known as [so common I didn't know it!] The tests were done in a laboratory on animals who got really fat when exposed to the virus. Nikhil Dhurandhar, an Associate Professor and the doctor who lead the study, Dr. Magdalena Pasarica, also did the study on humans who had had liposuction, by using their stem cells a...

Dental surgery went well for my hubby on Thursday. I've been playing nurse since he has been in a lot of pain and trying to get used to the upper dentures in his mouth - ouch! I'm just glad that part is over and now all there is to do is for his gum to heal and him to get more comfortable with wearing his new teeth! Men are stubborn creatures though. He refused to give in to the medication, Percocet, very strong meds that really knocked him down! He didn't want to go to sleep and wa...

I know, it's not the best thing, self-diagnosis; nor is it the best thing to do, take a health quiz and start worrying, yet here I am doing just that! It all started because lately I've been feeling very anxious. I have a lot of things going on in my personal life. Plus work is just as up and down, busy lately and a lot of changes as I mentioned before. So far so good with still having a job. I've been sticking to working out, and even if I don't get to work out for as long as I like...

It's July 2007, are you half way through your goals yet? Do you remember the promise you made to yourself to eat better, exercise, lose some weight? Perhaps your promise wasn't about health and fitness but about something else? Whatever it was, are you sticking to your plans and focused on your goal? Or as happened to a lot of people, did you just gave up and decided you will try again next year? Hopefully, for your sake you are still focused on your goal. One of my resolution was...

I read an online article, "Watch Your Filthy Mouth" on MSN Health & Fitness today. I thought it was an interesting article and wanted to share because it's something that not everyone thinks about, linking the condition of your mouth, teeth, gums to your health. My mom as always told me that and I've even repeated the same thing to my kids - don’t' we all do that?lol - and it's something of concern to me given my five year old's dental operation a couple of years ago...seems like yesterda...

The weather is getting warmer, nicer for the most part in the places where it has been cold for the last couple of months. Of course, here where I am, although it's warm 90 percent of the time, you can still tell that it's getting into summer because the kids are out of school, which makes the traffic much lighter but also because of that feeling you get inside just because the sun is out and you feel like doing fun stuff! I like to try out new things all of the time. One of my fav thing...