Archive for the 'Fitness and Health' Category
HSN.com has a Health O Meter body fat monitoring digital scale on clearance for a very cheap $19.98 plus $5.20 shipping and handling. What a perfect gift for the calorie-counting, obsessive-compulsive fitness and nutrition geek in your life…or anyone who is embarking on a quest to get fit.
Most body fat scales are in the $50+ [...]
Muscle & Fitness Hers 12-Week Makeover ProgramFor those who were interested, here is the Muscle & Fitness Hers 12-Week Makeover Program I am pulling my upper body workouts from for the rest of the year. As I’ve mentioned before, if your goal is really the Red Carpet Ready look, you probably don’t want to train this way because you WILL build [...]
Red Carpet Ready 6-Week Results and ReviewThe RCR Club Experience
I admit that I started celebrity trainer Val Waters’s Red Carpet Ready program with a healthy dose of skepticism about what it could actually do for me since I’ve been training and eating clean pretty consistently for over 4 years now, but I can’t argue with the numbers below. I have lost [...]
Celebrity trainer Valerie Waters whose Red Carpet Ready program I am currently following posted a pair of great workouts geared towards creating the Hollywood action babe look she gave to Jennifer Garner in Alias and Rachel Nichols who plays Scarlet in the upcoming G.I. Joe movie–lean and defined, but not quite as in-your-face powerful as [...]
RCR W5D2: Five Important Lessons From The Simple DollarTechnically, this blog post at The Simple Dollar is about personal finance, but if you replace the finance terms in each one with the appropriate exercise or diet equivalent, it can be applied just as easily to the journey toward fitness and a healthy lifestyle.
Here are my slightly modified versions of the author’s [...]
I think I did pretty well this week since PMS officially ended (no more random carb cravings at 8 pm). I stayed true to my diet, got in all of my workouts (even when I had to do them after a 13 hour day at work), consumed 5-8 servings of fruits and veggies daily, and [...]
RCR W4D3: Today’s EpiphanyI realized today that since my first Body-for-Life challenge in 2004, I probably take more bikini photos of myself in one year month than most women take in their entire lives.
Should I be concerned?
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TODAY’S EATS
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1. 3 egg whites, 1/4 c. mashed cauliflower, 60g oats and raisins
2. 3 oz. eye of round steak, 1 c. green [...]
Irene at Pink Dumbbells challenged us this week to find a race in our area on November 9 and join her in walking or running a 5k. Well, as you know I am not fan of running, but I am usually down for a 5k once the weather cools down a bit in Florida, so [...]