Before the word quarantine was part of my daily vocabulary, my fitness routine was pretty much set—boxing 3-4 times per week with a personal training session focusing on strength training once per week. I felt great. I was eating pretty well. Despite how hectic life was in early 2020 as we prepared to sell our [...]
Category: health
Reflections on 2019
My iPhone can tell me a lot about 2019. I don’t see pictures on the camera roll from New Year’s Eve into New Year’s Day because our NYE plans were changed when our friends got sick. I didn’t stay up to see the ball drop to begin 2019, but I went with the flow [...]
Fabulous musings: Community, support and kindness
Did you love the show Friends as much as I did? Well, a pop-up experience just came to the Boston area, it’s all over the news and I’m going next weekend. Could I BE anymore excited? Hearing yet another news story about this event got me thinking about the importance of friendship, the importance of [...]
Thoughts on time and simplifying schedules
Each day, I get a daily email from the website DailyOM. Sometimes the topic speaks to me; other times I see the subject line/title of the post and I know it’s not for me and I delete it. Last week, I got an email with the subject line “Simplify your schedule.” I couldn’t read it [...]
My side hustle why
I feel like the timing of this blog post is just right. I joined ZYIA Active as a representative on Memorial Day and since today is Labor Day, the other side of the bookend of summer, I wanted to share some reflections on this still relatively new adventure of mine. I know some people who [...]
It’s ok to change. Really, it is.
I was inspired by a member of my Facebook fitness/wellness group to write about this topic. I know that I have changed quite a bit as a person in the last 10+ years. Now, while I don’t think I’ve changed at the very core of myself (i.e., I’m still a good person with morals and [...]
I started a side hustle. Am I out of my mind??
Don’t answer that. Earlier this spring, my sister-in-law introduced me to a new line of activewear, ZYIA Active. C is a wife, a mom to two busy teenagers, and a professional in the corporate world with a job that requires regular travel. She had just signed on to be a rep for ZYIA. In addition [...]
Changing up the workout routine
About six months ago, all I wanted was to get back to boxing and be able to hit a heavy bag. Now that I’ve been back to boxing regularly for three months and feel great, I knew recently that it was time to add strength training to my routine because I lost a lot of [...]
Unexpected wellness tools
I was thinking about this recently because I know I’ve been pretty vocal about my passion for productivity and time management tools. I’m a huge fan of Laura Vanderkam, a well-known writer on time management. She offers a lot of great tips in her books and on her blog. The other day, a light bulb [...]
The Keto Diet: Navigating a new way of eating
As I mentioned in my last post about starting the ketogenic diet with my husband, we did a lot of research prior to starting. Understanding how this new way of eating works prior to starting was key. I think it’s a way of eating that many people just don’t understand and I know I didn’t [...]
