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Now one of the things you have to remember when you are on a journey, time to time you will stop to take a break or a rest stop. So the last few days I was not writing I was taking a break lol.



I will tell you what I did, because then you will see that even when you are on a break you still adhere to the guidelines, so that when you return you do not have to make up lost ground. Because that would be counter productive. So while I was on break this is what I did that contributed to… Continue

I was reading my Facebook the other day, and one of my friends mentioned he was going to workout at home and I thought what a great topic.



If you go to the gym regularly it is good to workout sometimes at home. Finding things you can do at home will help keep you on track on those days when you don’t have the time or don’t feel like going to the gym. Also doing workouts at home will help change up the workout at the gym, which is a good thing for muscles. It helps them work harder… Continue

What makes you fat?



Simply put we eat more calories than we burn off in a day’s time. Take for instances a person that drives a truck for a living and has to unload and load all day long. Now even though they may not get to the gym daily the amount of energy they are burning is probably off setting what they are eating, unless they are eating a slab of ribs at every stop lol.



Now take a person that sits all day at their job in a call center, talking to people all day long.… Continue

So last Friday Cecil, my husband and I set out to regain our fitness status of fit and healthy. I might have mention last year we spent it overcoming cancer. During my cancer treatment I was fortunate and gained weight. About 40-50 pounds. So one of his ways of supporting me was to gain weight with me (and that was sweet). Now back to the gaining 40-50 pounds. Through my fitness training I have learned muscle and fat cells have memory. That means you body remembers all your stationary weights.… Continue

So you say you want to lose weight. Most people really want to lose unwanted fat. There is a difference. Fat is the culprit that causes a lot of unwanted diseases along with just making you look undesireable. So below I will give you the answer. But first I must say, when I was 40 I weighed close to 200 pounds. I got tired of being fat. Now I was exercising, but to no avail I was still fat. So then I got a clue. I recognized that maybe it was not the exercising that was causing the problem, but… Continue