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You do it a little at a time.

Posted in Anybody Out There?, Exercise, Food-joy vs evil, Health, tagged , , , , , on August 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The doctor will be so happy with me.  He  wanted me to lose 10 pounds and I have lost 20, since January.  Not dramatic, but permanent.  How did I do it, you ask?  Well, whether you are being polite or really want to know, I’ll tell you, because it might help someone.
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Chris, it is all worth it.

Posted in Exercise, Health, Home Again in Indiana, tagged , , , , on April 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I received a comment on my post Words you do not want to hear « Savanvleck’s Weblog and just felt like this deserved a full answer.
 
My Osteopenia was actually caused by a para-thyroid gland gone wild.  It was robbing my body of calcium.  The tests I went through for this were really interesting.  You have not lived until [...]

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Do I have the energy for summer?

Posted in Exercise, Garden, Home Again in Indiana, My Weird Family, Nature, Seeds for Seniors, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Summer is almost here.  Tulips and daffodils are blooming and tomato starts, in the bay window, are two inches tall.
This means that I will soon be reminded that I have, yet again, overestimated my youth and energy.  I am still weight lifting and doing aerobics, and still stuck at 11 pounds lost, but I do [...]

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Words you do not want to hear

Posted in Anybody Out There?, Exercise, Health, Humor in Life, tagged , , , , , , on March 26, 2009 | 7 Comments »

When husband had orthopedic surgery under a local anesthetic, he told the doctor that he did not want to hear the words, “Oh, sh_t.”  He did not hear those words, but several times he heard, muttering and other words; as the doctor discovered he was trying to save a finger that was beyond repair.
 
Words that [...]

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Women DO sweat!

Posted in Exercise, Health, Home Again in Indiana, My Weird Family, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I grew up in a “women don’t sweat” type of family.  My dad did not watch sports on television and neither did my brother.  The closest we got to physical activity was once, my brother and I, played badminton.  We did not go to the beach.  We would do a ‘walk’ on our vacation. It [...]

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What do you look for in a mate?

Posted in Exercise, Health, Reasons I'll need Therapy, What Was She Thinking, tagged , , , on February 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Now that I am back lifting weights, I am back to reading a fitness blog. Happily Ever After ? Cranky Fitness is my favorite and the blogged linked to here is a great blog about choosing your life’s partner.  I am not sure what that has to do with getting in shape — Oh, wait!  [...]

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The proper way to fall down moguls

Posted in Exercise, Humor in Life, It's Entertainment, Travel, tagged , on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Coming from a totally non-athletic family, the joy of skiing came to me later in life.  It took a while for me to get over my fear of speed and I never really did enjoy the sport for the sheer speed of it, especially after skiing “kegger week” out west. 
 
There’s nothing like a drunk [...]

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