The world is full of gurus.  Everyone has “the answer” and everyone else is “wrong”.  Very few places have as much so-called “absolute truth” as the health and wellness industry.  It’s so hard to wade past the junk, sort through which studies are legit and which ones aren’t and find out what’s truth. The...

My discipline may, at times, be sketchy, but the truth of the matter is, I love walking. If I miss it for a time due to injury, stress, or some other reason, I truly cannot wait to get back to it. Why? Well, here are a few reasons: The rhythm helps me to deal with the physical outworkings of stress, making me calm and less overwhelmed The forced deep breathing...

Get your own graph at skinnyr Back in the right direction! Let’s see how long this lasts. One of the things I’m realizing is that I probably don’t eat enough -which is a little strange to say. I do believe in intermittent fasting – but maximum two days a week. With my job at Gymboree I find the days I work I don’t eat until dinner...

A few weeks ago I hinted that we were working on something that would enable us to meet our financial requirements in only 4 hours a week (or zero hours a week, depending on whose book you were reading!)   This is still part of our “Lifestyle Design” experiment as we work through Tim Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Workweek. Today I reveal our plan!...

My friend Laurette of “PraiseMoves” posted a brilliant thing on her blog a couple of weeks back.  With her permission, I’m posting the first bit here, and if you want to read the rest, just click the link – it will take you back to her blog. Most of us are accustomed to thanking God for our meal before we start eating. What I propose is...