Hello all! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and that you get a more relaxed week this week to enjoy family and friends! I had an amazing Christmas! My husband and son are techies. One of their favourite things is to find me some new techno-gadget for Christmas, and this year was no exception. The first gadget thing was a pair of incredibly warm gloves that...

Getting healthy should be a journey, not a destination.  We should be constantly checking and tweaking our lifestyles to get the most benefit out of our diets and exercise program. However, we don’t need to obsess.  Just keep some “healthy attention” on what’s going on, and try to get maximum benefit from minimum effort.  That’s my...

Here’s this week’s graph for my weight loss efforts.  Considering it was my birthday this week, and I there fore ate more “bad stuff” than I would have otherwise eaten, I’m very pleased: Get your own graph at skinnyr On the weekend I did a stupid thing and walked for 3.5 hours with a sore hip that is costing me at least two days of...

-25°C/-13°F outside today. Very happy for my good, warm, walking clothes! A beautiful sunny day with some clouds; brisk and fresh. I’m starting to like this – but my toes are still suffering. I’m pretty uncomfortable “toe-wise” in the warm up, but once I get going at my training HR, they thaw out, and are reasonably happy until the...

I’ve had such a struggle with walking this winter. I convinced myself to go out today and brave the ice with my funky ice-pick straps that actually work with Vibrams (though only just – they are a bit finicky and need lots of readjusting, which is still better than cracking my head open on the sidewalk). I checked the temperature (-12°C or 10°F) on...

Do you know what you really should weigh? Your ideal weight is not some magic number pulled from the air, or some hopeful number that works best for your beautiful best friend. Your ideal body weight is your lean body mass plus your “ideal body fat” percentage based on your age. You need a certain amount of body fat to be healthy, and women need a...