Fitness Journal Example Day Two of P90X/Plyometrics Up at 5 am again. I am going to need to go to bed earlier, as it was not nearly as easy to roll out of bed this morning! Took my supps, fried KC his eggwhites before he was out the door to work, set up my living […]

Words Of Encouragement This is an inspirational story that all parents should read… One of the best benefits of learning how to eat to fuel my body, as a mom, was learning what a healthy plate looks like. At Tony Horton Fitness Camps in the days of old, Tony used to talk about the important […]

I have been an empty nester for about 15 months and the last trip I took anywhere was 4 years ago.  I flew three times in 2008 and got burnt out then didn’t want to fly anywhere in 2009.  Our daughter announced her engagement in the spring of 2010 and got married in the summer […]

  As I look out my windows and see the tractors, combines, semis and other assorted farm machinery in the cornfields and watch them travel back and forth on our gravel road, it saddens me.  It is harvest time around here and it’s definitely fall.  The trees are turning their beautiful colors of red, orange, […]

Are you a baby boomer or empty nester who does not want to give up your youthful appearance?  Or really someone of any age – a person with unwanted wrinkles that you want GONE?  lol  There are so many (too many!) products on the market telling us how we can get our fountain of youth […]

  The other day a Twitter friend said he was having this healthy dish for dinner.  He called it Broccoli & Shiitake Stir Fry with Black Bean Sauce.  As much as stir fry is one of my (many) favorite dishes, I thought it sounded great and figured I could throw those 3 ingredients together, add […]

In the spring, I posted about my workout at the dentist.  You know, the one where my heart rate rocketed becos of my fear of the dentist?  I go to the Dental College at a local University where I haven’t visited for about eleven years.  I stopped going becos I had completed the work that […]

Are you an empty nester who feels lost, lonely and generally depressed about life now that your home is not blessed with the presence of your children or grandchildren or someone you have been a caregiver for for a long time?  Do you feel you don’t have a focus now and/or your days are boring, […]

If you’ve been reading my blogs, you know that I usually work out to my Beachbody and a few other non Beachbody DVD‘s.  And you might also know that this summer I’ve been taking a bit of a break from them and doing outside activities to get my heart rate up and get my exercise […]

This is the season for zucchini squash, a very healthy vegetable that we have growing in our garden and love to eat.  I’ve been doing a ‘garden workout’ I simply call “harvesting” 🙂 over the last week or so and we have been enjoying the healthful benefits of this summer squash.  Today I am posting […]

This has nothing to do with fitness, health, working out at home, helping others, coaching, making money from home or being an empty nester.  It is just a little tidbit post about my lifestyle.  It’s about cornfields and sunsets in Iowa. I live in the country away from town on a gravel road.  Once a […]

“Gramma, look at me!”  “Hey Gramma, let’s play Hide & Seek.”  “Can the cats come in the house, Gramma?”  These are just a few of the things I heard one weekend when two of my grandsons, aged 9 and 4 came to spend the nite.  We always have a good time…and they expect me to […]

Today I received the news of a death. I know we hear of it daily in the news, but this was closer to home and very very sad.  It was the future father-in-law of my nephew.  They are getting married in a little over a month. Of course this is devastating news for everyone concerned […]

Recently my daughter who made me an empty nester, came home for a visit.  We always talk “nutrition” and about our at home workouts becos she knows my passion for it.  She was excited becos she had met a weight loss, and more importantly, an inches lost goal.  She told me how she had done […]

Someone has to get our lawn mowed.  I’m an empty nester, so I have the time.  This is a vlog on another empty nester workout – mowing!  We live in the country and it’s a huge yard that takes up about 8 hours of our time to complete the task.  And of course it’s a […]

Having a vegetable garden is a good thing in many ways.  It yields fresh vegetables for healthy eating and makes for some different cardio workouts – especially when the sun is shining 🙂 – to name a couple.  We finally got one of our vegetable gardens in and altho I can’t wait till harvest, I […]

  I had the opportunity of harvesting more asparagus so I had to make another short video right away.  Here is the recipe for the dish I referred to that I found on Pinterest.  I had to do it from memory becos I had trouble getting to the original recipe.  I’m kinda new to Pinterest, […]

I’m just practicing making videos – this time I wanted to go short – so this one is just under two minutes.  Yay!  lol  You might laugh, but this isn’t the most comfortable task in all of this so give me a little break.  haha This is about me harvesting wild asparagus – a treat! […]

For years I tried to make this dish and it just wouldn’t taste the same as when Mom made it or when I would buy it (a lot!) while visiting my  Maui home.  Finally on one of my trips home, I asked Mom to show me how she made it.  I found the secret!  And […]

I just wanted to add a little bit more information to the About Me Section, but in video form.  I’m pretty nervous and that’s why I’m talking a bit slow here (it does go a little faster towards the end tho!)  lol  I do want to apologize that this is not a short vlog…but hey!  […]

I’m a work out at home kinda gal so who would have thought I would be working out (half unexpectedly) at – of all places – the dentist?  Yep, I went in for a consultation/diagnosis and knew I had to have one tooth pulled and maybe the second one too if it couldn’t be saved.  […]

Lent is here (and almost over).  Being Catholic, I practice the fast/abstinence-from-meat thing on Fridays during this time.  I love seafood anyway so it’s not a very difficult thing for me.  These are two of my favorite healthy low carb-lunches – the first since I’ve discovered multigrain bread (altho I don’t eat a lot of […]

One of the more important pieces of workout ‘equipment’ is a good pair of shoes, right?  But I like to go barefoot…maybe it’s becos I have flat feet, or maybe it’s becos I was brought up on Maui and we used to go barefoot a lot…especially on the beach – or it could be the […]

Sometimes I just want to eat something different – healthy, but different – so I’m always on the lookout for a good looking (sounding) recipe to try.  I bought this book – Foods That Cause You to Lose Weight – The Negative Calorie Effect by Neal Barnard, M.D. which promotes Vegan eating.  My husband loves […]

I used to think a Blog was like a Diary – a Journal if you will, where a person could write about anything they wanted and however often they wanted or had the time to.  Since getting my Blog up, I have learned so much about this thing called blogging.  It is basically for my […]