It has been almost two and a half years since I stopped drinking. I stopped for a bunch of reasons. My body was no longer tolerating it. To be honest, my body never really tolerated alcohol well to begin with. But I was forgetting things and portions of my night after just a couple drinks. […]
Self Care
Five Mindset Shifts To Make About Exercise In The New Year
I’ve become pretty flexible in my thinking now that I’m fifty and have been around the block a few times and have lots of successes and even more failures under my belt. But there is one thing I am not flexible on in my thinking. Exercise needs to be a part of my regular routine. […]
Merry Christmas To All, And To All A Good Night.
The past 36 hours have been a little crazy. Much more crazy than I wanted them to be. I did not plan or prepare the way I needed to in order to have a relaxed Christmas Eve day, and everything was last minute and rushed. I didn’t sit down to relax until 7 pm on […]
Three Things
I am on the last day of a 4-day swim meet in Boston. My oldest two are swimming. Swim meets are very long. They are similar to wrestling tournaments and gymnastic and track meets. The format of the meet is prelims in the morning, and then the top 20 in each event come back and […]
The Weed/Marlboro/Franzia/Cap’n Crunch Approach Is No Longer Serving Me
I had an a-ha moment yesterday. Let me back up a little bit first. I have been all over the place with my weight pretty much my whole life. As a high schooler, I never thought I was thin enough. In college I was on the swim team and I swam — a lot — […]
What I Did For Exercise This Week And How I Motivate Myself
If I had to pick one form of exercise to do for the rest of my life, it would be running. I really enjoy running. I do other forms of exercise — I lift fairly consistently, I use the elliptical, I like spin classes and I still swim sporadically. But I love running the most, […]