Dancing is My Favorite Calorie Burner

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 […]

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Is My Nest Empty or Is It New?

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 […]

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Holiday Fitness Journey – Weeks 2 & 3

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 […]

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First Empty Nester Road Trip Leads to Fitness Journey Refocus

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 […]

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Why Work Out At Home?

Have you ever felt so out of shape that you just HAD to go work out in a gym?  I haven’t ever worked out in a gym.  I choose to work out at home. I like to learn and try new and different things.  There are numerous resources available to us for just about any […]

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