As I may have mentioned in an earlier post, I have been for many years, an “all or nothing” type when it came to my healthy lifestyle. If I couldn’t adhere to a program or plan 100%, I would go completely off the rails. I have promised myself that I wouldn’t do that this time.…

Do you think the only people who can successfully meditate are Buddhist monks who sit on mountaintops? Do you think that because you have trouble shutting off your thoughts that you are a failure when it comes to the practice of meditation? If either of these ideas rings true for you, I have good news.…

You don’t have to be all things to all people. Even if you bend over backwards, there will always be those for whom you can’t do enough…or at least do enough right. This pertains not only to relative strangers but also people who you would expect to be in your corner. Sometimes you have their…

Wouldn’t it be nice if someone gave us the roadmap to a perfect life? What would you have done differently? How would your life look if you knew then what you know now? I have been thinking about that a bit lately and this is what I came up with. I don’t have regrets because…

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…