healthy living

I am loving the Couch to 5K challenge by the Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans. I am not training for a marathon or a specific goal other than to boost my caloric out-put and to change things up a bit. I tried it on the treadmill once but generally just do it on the spot or on the mini trampoline. It fits my lifestyle this way and I can also hold the tablet and it tells me when to switch it up from walking to running as well as tracks my distance and average speed and calories out just as a

I mentioned last week that I joined the Couch to 5km Challenge.  The first week was great and I learned not to run two days in a row as my body needs the day off to heal. I even lost 1.5 lbs for my efforts and had a lot of energy. The second week just finished. I ran day one (w2d1). The rest of the week didn’t exactly fall into place how I had planned. Hubby was home with the flu, the kids had skating and swimming lessons start up so that took out two evenings that otherwise had me at the gym, I caught

I’ve been stalling in my weight loss efforts. I’m really good at maintaining my weight but I needed to come up with an idea to get more calories out then in. I’m not very interested or diligent with tracking calories so, with the new year and the Sisterhood of the Shrinking Pants’s C25k Challenge I decided to join in and see if I could shed a few pounds and tone up by making better food choices (but not tracking) and by running it off. Week one just finished and and so far so good. For two of the workouts I ran on

How come it is the night that you plan to do all sorts of things that the children decide to stay up until after 9PM?! At the end of our first week back to our routine, I want to tell you about what a great two weeks of vacation we had. I got a lot done and really enjoyed just being with my family. I started out doing really well food-wise and doing the Brazil Butt-Lift exercises (see my post about it here). Then we moved on to our next vacation venue and I was not able to take the