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Fitness can easily be added to your daily routine by taking even very small breaks during the day. The next time you get up from the lcd monitor consider adding just a few steps to your routine. Walk to the basement or the sidewalk instead of the the fridge. Instead of going to grab a snack take the time to sprint up the stairs and back down. When out and about park farther away from the store doors or get off the bus a couple of stops early. These little steps will add up over the course of the day and improve your well being!

Its exercise, any exercise is better than none. it all adds up, you are using your muscles, even sitting down and breathing is using muscles (lying down and breathing is considered to be your base level and that uses up very approximatly 1500 calories per day). So if you are on a diet of 1500 cals a day and dance for 10 minutes you are then using more calories than you eat therefore you will start to lose weight, at 10 mins a day not much, but add that to walking the dog, vacuuming the lounge, raking leaves or shovelling snow for 10 minutes each activity you already have 50 minutes of exercise which adds up over a week.

Exercise does not have to be the gym and ONLY the gym, I love gardening, and when I add up the calories used in wheelbarrowing soil around and the bending and stretching of pruning, I am VERY pleased. A 5 hour day in the garden is counting in 2000 calories burned and its much more enjoyable for me that an hour in the gym.

If you think the only calorie burning is done in a gym or organised sport and you don’t like it, you won’t stick to it. But find an exercise/activity you enjoy and you will feel good about doing it and most probably not even consider it exercise.

I went to put on a pair of jeans this morning and was bit shocked. These were jeans that had always been comfortably loose until now. Today, I had to suck my stomach into button them!!! I definitely need to get back on track and look into some decent weight loss pills. I can’t stand myself when I feel like this and have only myself to blame!

After all the stuff in the news about BPA I switched my toddler to stainless steel sippy cups from Klean Kanteen. He’s really likes the fun colors and I love how easy they are to wash and the fact that I feel totally safe letting him drink from them. I got a great deal on ReusableBags.com where they’re on sale right now.
So, I’m going to pick up a couple more.

We have a ton of plans this year for the holidays. There are so many dinners and parties on our calendar for the next 3 weeks I don’t know when we will have a meal at home again. I also see my waistline suffering as a result of rich meals and tasty desserts. I was going to start a new diet this week but don’t see the point. It seems like putting this off until the New Year is a better idea. Maybe, will a little luck Santa will bring me a bottle of my favorite diet pill to help take the edge off. Santa, are you listening?

Has anyone had any personal experience with magnetic therapy? I have this ongoing pain in my wrists and magnetic therapy was recommended to me by an holistic practitioner. I found some of the cheaper magnets at the Big Lots store and put one on my this morning. It looks kind of like a piece of jewelry. My wrist seems to feel better. It could all be in my head and just be the result of the “placebo effect”. Just wondering if anyone else has tried these, if so, what were your results?

Not really a post about health but here goes~ I tried the grocery game today, I picked up some stock up items, out of a total of $101.00 I came out with a total of $54.00 so I’d have to say its a keeper. I got my money back already! I plan on using it again next week. I got print outs that showed sales that were not in the store fliers. I saved $50 without really trying and that included stuff I needed and were not on sale. It’s very easy to cancel it before the trial if you need to/decide to as well, you can just do it online. They have everything not only listed for each store but color coded so if you just want to do the freebies you can, another color for best price for the near future and yet another color for buy it only if you need it as the price may come down soon. Its all on a checkoff sheet so you can print it and take it with you to the store and compare ( without flipping through flyers ) if the price your getting it for is the best around

This year is the first year I have yet to get a flu shot. I am wondering how this will all work out. I would love to just not get the flu at all but I always have despite getting the shot. It would be great to bypass the entire process and not spend a weekend glazing upward at my bathroom light fixtures in a fevered state. Why is it the flu makes the floor of the bathroom so appealing anyways? I even read a book today where the character described spending the day sleeping on the bathroom floor because it just felt good. I think I have convinced myself that by homeschooling this year we will be exposed to less viruses. This theory so far isn’t holding water because as I type I am sitting here hacking up a lung from a serious cold. This cold began with my toddler and has progressed to my husband and now myself. So much for less exposure leading to less illness. Maybe I should discuss the flu shot in January when we go in for checkups?

One of the people on my Christmas shopping list is impossible to buy for. I wanted to get one of those edible arrangements I always see but the cost was too much and I didn’t know how big it would be. I decided to make my own. I think the total was $5-$10 including the vase, sticks for the fruit, and the fruit. It turned out great and the gift receiver was very pleased. Has anyone else made their own edible creation? I think I saved about $70 by doing it myself.

We moved into our new home about a two months ago. For the most part this has been a truly wonderful change for our family. We are fortunate to now be living in a much larger home situated in a more upscale neighborhood. There are only a few things I miss about our old home and they may come as a surprise.

I won’t bore you with how much I detest having house that is completely carpeted. Suffice it to say I really miss the hardwood floors throughout our prior house. The one feature missing in our new home that is forefront in my mind is a home security system.

Even though we now live in a nicer neighborhood crime still happens. No community is immune to crime. Just last week I sat one evening and watched police cars pull up down the street and make several arrests. As I observed the scene I couldn’t help but feel a little uneasy. Going to bed that night I was revisited by the concerns that plague my mind prior to having the security system installed at our previous home. How would I know if something was happening in a house this large? There is no way I would know from 3 floors above if someone had broken into the lower level of our home.

No longer do I have the peace of mind that when I go to bed at night that someone else is watching out for me. I can’t tell you the number of times people stopped short when knocking on or opening the front door of my old house simply because of the ADT stickers that were posted. I could see first hand the announcement that a security system was in place had on people. No one wants to be the one to inadvertently set off a security alarm.

The loveliness of our new house cannot make up for sleepless nights that are caused when glass shatters in the distance or a siren sounds a little to close to home. In this chaotic world you just can’t predict when an emergency situation could invade your cozy world. Having a security system is one measure of protection that could lessen the likelihood of some of emergencies occurring or save valuable time in the event they do take place.

This is the time of year when I hit an exercise slump. I don’t know what it is but I just feel like I am headed nowhere no matter how much I strive to fit in more exercise. Does this sound familiar? If you are dealing with an impossible schedule your know that orregular work hours and holidays can interfere with a regular fitness schedule. You may have trouble thinking of ways to fit in a workout.

This a suggested strategy:
Keep it simple
“If you need to change your routine around completely, do it,” says Tom Holland, exercise physiologist and author of The 12-Week Triathlete: How to Train For a Triathlon in Just 3 Months [8]. He says “If you’re in a slump, just get on a treadmill or go to the gym, regardless of how long you exercise. “Just get out the door,” .
Also suggested are that those in a slump:
* Ease into fitness, stay motivated
and avoid common mistakes.
* Find your ideal workout, and
try our exercise tracking tools .
* Learn how to avoid and
repair exercise injuries.