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I set a goal of working out on my assault bike (Air Bike) for 15 minutes every day for 8 days in a row and this morning it was completed. Every day was an improvement up until day 7. My muscles were loving it but my body was just tired, I still did better than day 1. This morning being day 8, it wasn't going to happen the way I wanted it to, so I did the 15 minutes at a steady cardio pace. Finished the 15 minutes, better than day 1 but worse than day 7. The assault bike is a killer...they…

Why?  Well, though I didn't get around to blogging yesterday, I'm happy to report that yesterday and today I have eaten on plan, drank a minimum 100 ounces of water and have been active both days by going to Salt Lake to do our 4 hour service assignment. Also Tuesday I did a Fitera workout for 30 minutes and added HIIT for 20 seconds during the minute cardio.  Today, for cardio, though I arrived in S.L. too late to climb as many of the stairs that I would have liked to, I did manage to climb…

Today I tried Greek yogurt with summer squash and I used dill seasoning in the yogurt as the new taste.  I didn't care for it much.  Maybe used too much, I could taste it all afternoon.

Hi everyone, hope you are all ok,  on Tuesday, we went shopping together, after taking \helen to work, so it was an early morning start, so I was quite tired for that.  Ashamed to say that  didn't do any exercises on that day, and tuesday night, didn't sleep so well, overtired I suppose, today I said to myself I must do something about that, so yesterday morning, I did a Leslie Sansones walking video, which did what it is meant to do, so I feel better about that, last night, I did a 30min…

Oh, I forgot to mention that our ski trip was during the deep freeze out West. Nothing quite like downhill skiing in -29C weather for burning calories...just to keep warm :)

The one downside of an active life....accidents happen. Fortunately, because of my active life and its consequences, I know how to deal with the fallout. Just returned from 2 weeks of skiing in BC and am recovering from a ski fall on day 2 of the trip. Not a bad fall at all, but sadly it wrenched my shoulder something awful and felt like someone had tried to twist my are right out of its socket! Despite the severe pain, I was still able to move my arm about when i did it really slowly so I…

A few times I've eaten four meals a day but other days I have enough with three and sometimes I'm staying so busy that before I realize it's getting late and don't like to eat much before going to bed so, will eat a little snack with some of the 3 required groups as much as possible. 

My grandson is five and his other grandma started him on mashed potatoes before baby food and he gagged on it. After that when it was time to start baby food it was hard for him to take but, eventually got…

I haven't been able to post since we have been having some power outages around town yesterday afternoon and through most of today.

Yesterday I tried beets as my new food experience.  It was pretty good, kinda earthy; I think I will make it a keeper.

Today I tried papaya with cottage cheese and some cinnamon.  I liked it!

I didn't do any trying anything unusual for me, nor did I exercise.  Why?  Because I have been on the computer all day trying to get rid of all unnecessary items and catching,up on over a month's worth of Facebook posts that I've not even looked at.  I wanted to do this before I begin using the new iPad Paul got me for Christmas!  The only thing I did towards the challenge was to look up some recipe ideas and put together a tentative shopping list.  We'll see how it goes this week!  Have a…

Well, it's been a year from January 18th since beginning this Ernest desire to improve my health by loosing weight, firming up and improving my blood sugar and cholesterol levels  and I couldn't be more pleased that I found this great plan and community that has helped me succeed.  It's been so helpful to be able to share all of my blunders and successes with my fellow FITerians (who came up with that fun name?) and to hear about everyone's personal journey too. it is proof that we are not…