Wanaka's Fitness Spot

I don’t have a heck of a lot of highlights this Thankful Thursday.  It’s been quite a ho hum week actually.  I’ve just been working on getting my taxes done and decluttering and packing where I can here and there. 1.  Altho I’m not quite done with the task of my taxes, we hadn’t been […]

My homemade taco is the best in the world – really.  At least Mister and I think so 🙂 I had my first taco when I was 17 and had moved from Maui to Washington to go to college.  I had never seen one before (I don’t think they existed on Maui back then; nor […]

Guess I haven’t posted an original healthy food recipe for a while.  For one thing, my camera was broken so I got out of the habit of taking pictures of stuff….especially of my meals.  Well, if you’ve been reading my Blog, you know that I bought myself a new point and shoot camera and am […]

I had the day off today so ran a few errands in town and then into the city.  I couldn’t help but feel so blessed to see everything so green!  I just love this time of the year!  Everything is so new with life and the winter browns and the blah has left.  That is […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.  […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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! […]