Today I learned a little lesson I should have considered as I embarked on this journey. As I have mentioned before, I’m practicing a way of eating called intermittent fasting. I eat within an eight hour period, usually about 9AM to 5PM and then I fast for the remaining 16 hours. This allows my digestion…

I promised to keep you apprised of my weight loss journey at the beginning of this blog challenge. As you may recall, I began in earnest on June 24th and every Monday would be the day I would venture onto the scale. So here we are, about a month in and I have lost ten…

Every day I look for subjects to discuss in my blog posts and almost always when I look for something, it comes to me. Today, I watched a video from Dr. Daniel Amen, who is one of the leading experts in brain health. Some of what he has to say about Alzheimer’s disease is very…

Don’t you just hate when the temperature reaches a balmy 95 degrees with what seems like 100% humidity and someone asks…”hot enough for ya?” I feel like saying, “not yet, could you please set me on fire?” Today was the hottest in recent memory, although in the past several years, we seem to be having…

What do you do each morning when you wake up? Do you hear the alarm and turn over to hit the snooze button? Or do you jump out of bed, eager to face the day? If you hit the snooze button a few times, you probably find yourself racing around trying to get yourself together…

Here is some news that many might find disturbing. You know that glass of orange juice you like to have in the morning? Well, drinking just that one small glass daily could increase your risk of some cancers. And it isn’t just orange juice…it’s any juice, or for that matter, any sugary drink. According to…

Remember when Hillary Clinton told us it takes a village to raise a child? Well, I think we can take that a step further. I believe it takes a village to get through the tough times. It even may take a village to get through the good times. Recently, an article was written about cancer…

I wrote yesterday about the negative impact sugar has on the body but there is so much more that I thought I should continue the discussion again today. We all probably know that eating too much sugar can cause weight gain which is where I left off yesterday. It’s more than just excess pounds that…