Here is my staycation beach photos – the beaches I combed while on my Maui staycation. This first group is of a couple beaches (where I acquired my sunburn) that was located south of Olowalu. They were pretty sandy and had only a little bit of kiawe thorns under the trees by the roadside.   […]

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I couldn’t find my cucumbers.  Can you guess why?  This is what happens when the weather is hot and cold, wet and dry. We get rain, then it gets really dry and then rain again. That kind of weather makes for fertile ground to grow weeds and grass.  Throw in “no time” to tend the […]

I’ve been wanting to do another vlog for a while but haven’t made the time to do it.  So on a whim, I decided to video one of my hula practice sessions, aka my hula workout, and this is what I came up with.  Since dancing is one of my favorite ways to burn calories, […]

My most favorite part of my fitness journey is dancing. Yes, dancing is my favorite calorie burner! 🙂 I’ve been dancing (as far as I can remember) since I was 5. (I’m pretty sure as much as I like it, I probably was dancing in my mother’s womb!) My first formal encounter with dance was […]

I made it through the short 3 days of cleaning out my system and here are my protein cleanse results.  Just a note to reiterate that the protein-packed Shakeology shakes kept me from feeling hungry  and I did not feel tired during my 3 days on the cleanse.  I was able to do low impact […]

A person could get used to this cleansing/detoxing stuff!  And of course a protein cleanse is the way to go.  At least it’s working for me so I’m endorsing it. This morning’s weigh-in and BFP:  129 pounds, 29%.  I’m down another pound for a total of 2.5 and 1% less on BFP.  Sweet! I wanted […]

I was very pleased when I weighed in for my protein cleanse this morning.  I was 1.5 pounds down. WOOHOO! 🙂 Weight and BFP:  130 pounds, 30%. I walked for 30 minutes on our gravel road again for my low key workout and was not hungry or tired.  This is what I ate and drank:  […]

I have to get off this plateau! I’ve been moaning and groaning this for a while now. And I haven’t done a Shakeology Cleanse in a few months so this is what I’m doing for the next few days.  This protein cleanse is one of the better cleanses I’ve done in my life.  I don’t […]

I have to chuckle. A couple recent ‘events’ has me wondering, “Is my nest empty or is it new?”.  All my adult life I’ve been told that I don’t look my age and I especially take pride in that fact since I only seriously started my fitness and health journey at age 50.  I didn’t […]

How many of you have ever had salmon patties?  I love that stuff but did not have any canned salmon here yesterday.  I did however have canned mackerel so I used that instead to make our last meatless Lenten meal I call easy canned mackerel patties. Yum!  A nutritious dish full of protein 🙂 Easy […]

Spring has been deluding us since that groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil showed up however many weeks ago and told us it was right around the corner.  So today when it seemed like it was here, I took my fitness outside – the temperature being a crisp 71 degrees and the sun shining brightly, I went […]

There’s one more week to Lent.  Some of you may know that for us Catholics, one of the things Lent means is that we give up eating meat on Fridays.  I love seafood and I like eggs so I enjoy this season of our Church.  I like the idea of getting closer to God, eating […]

It’s been a bit of a while since I’ve posted anything on my Blog. I know….I’ve been a slacker aka procrastinator – and I admit it. During the month of February, I was dealing with a lot of challenges. I had several family members pass away; I had to work on my taxes cos my […]

Here’s another food post for Asian cuisine lovers like moi involving my favorite – noodles 😀  I’ve always made Pad Thai from the box – where you get the rice noodles, the liquid sauce and then you add your meat, vegetables and nuts.  I decided to go one step further and make it from scratch […]

I was going thru my photos and getting ideas of what I could post about.  I found this photo of my last vegetable garden harvest from December which must have gotten lost in the holiday shuffle.  So I’m calling it my last empty nester harvest. We had a variety of sweet potatoes this year – […]

Healthy eating is always on my mind even if I don’t eat clean 100% of the time.  I look for an alternative way to make dishes I like that I’ve eaten in restaurants or purchased in the store and feel I can make just as well.  Since it’s been winter weather – aka soup weather […]

The last couple weeks of my Holiday Fitness Journey wasn’t anything to write home about.  I gave in to some dang holiday temptations instead of buckling down to eat cleaner. And I paid the price for it! I did not lose any more pounds or inches but instead gained 1.  🙁 Therefore, my total loss […]

So who would have thought that December temperatures would be so mild? I took a couple pictures today while out for a walk.  I choose to stay cooped up inside when it’s so cold outside but needed some fresh air.  This is what I found in my driveway.   Yep, these are dandelions!  Just a […]

I’m back to say that Week 5 and 6 of my Holiday Fitness Journey ended in a 1 lb. loss each week!  Woohoo!  Thankxgiving fell into this time frame and I didn’t work out all 5 days that week, but I’ll take the loss.  Some day I think I want to do a journey and […]

I love healthy eating and now have a new favorite salad I wanted to share with other cucumber and tomato lovers.  I did not grow up liking tomatoes at all.  In fact, I remember when I was 13, my mom bribed me with a pair of dress shoes that I wanted.  But being the bull-headed […]

Week 4 of my Holiday Fitness Journey ended and I’m a bit disappointed in myself.  Yep, it’s getting ugly!  I had a 2 pound GAIN from the week before. Hello! That means I’ve only lost 1 pound in 4 weeks.  But there is good news in the fact that I’ve lost a total of 4 […]

I said I’d come back to post the good, the bad and the ugly.  Well, the good news is that the first week, I lost 3.5 pounds!  Score! The bad news is I had to work my part-time Temp job assignment the next week so didn’t get in a whole lot of workouts and didn’t […]

I started my refocused fitness journey a couple days before I actually came up with the idea to blog about it.  The first day was two days after we got home from our mini road trip.  Since I hadn’t done my regular dvd workouts for 5 days, I was a bit slow moving doing it.  […]

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