Why Does Fitness Have to Be So Expensive?

Did you ever notice that even the simplest things can be made into something expensive? Let me give you an example. What about the “shape-up” shoes or other similar types of shoes that claim to help you lose weight while you walk? While a good pair of shoes does make a difference, I find it interesting that a pair of shoes that costs well over $100 can make such a claim. Now if you own a pair don’t get ready to send me a note about how great the shoes are. I’m not saying they aren’t great. All I am … Continue reading →

Spring Forward to Action 2007: Week 2, Day 3

I may have found a bike! That’s exciting news for me. If it pans out this weekend, I’ll be hitting the bike trails over the next few weeks to add more challenge to my workouts and continuing to build my endurance. Daily Goal Today’s goal was to kick up the treadmill routine from 30 minutes to 2 miles. I accomplished that in about 42 minutes, a little longer than my time spent prior to the surgery, but we’re getting a lot better at it. Following the 2 miles on the treadmill, I did some deep stretches and a series of … Continue reading →

How to Recover From Surgery

Are you someone who can’t stand to sit still for days on end? Then this is the blog for you. I am speaking from experience because this is what I am going through right now. I’ve had surgeries in the past, but I always seemed to bounce back from those with relative speed – apparently because what I experienced this time was a major surgery, my bouncing back is a lot slower than I expected. Great Plans of Mice and Men It’s said that there are great plans to be made – and that we base all of those plans … Continue reading →

Oy, I Overdid It – Recovering from Surgery

Let me tell you, the most frustrating part of having had surgery is that as an active person it’s very difficult to sit around and do nothing. So, while I am smart enough to follow my doctor’s instructions, I’m also stubborn enough to push the envelope and today – I overdid it. 15 Minutes of Effort Currently, 15 minutes of physical effort leaves me weak and exhausted. If I take a shower for fifteen minutes, I take a 2-hour nap right afterwards. When I go for my designated 15-minute walk, well that’s another 2 hours I need to spend napping. … Continue reading →

The Fitness Blog Weeks in Review February 10 – March 2, 2007

Weee – we’re back and we’re ready to get this party started! It’s been three weeks since our last week in review and we need to get ourselves back on track, so with that in mind, let’s look at our previous weeks in review. What are you waiting for? Start scrolling, because here we go: Saturday, February 10 Dear Heather … How Are you Coping with Your Medical Problems? This is a special Dear Heather designed to answer a very thoughtful and kind question put to me by a reader after I wrote about what was going on in my … Continue reading →

WHEW! It’s Benign, Can I Describe My Relief?

My doctor just called, they got the pathology back on the biopsy they performed on the tissue removed when they removed my ovary and fallopian tube. It’s all 100% benign. I feel like a tremendous weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I didn’t realize just how much I was stressing over this until he called. There is a history of uterine cancer in my family and when they said the mass was so bad they had to remove the ovary in its entirety – well, yes I grew afraid. But It’s Benign It’s benign which means it’s not cancer … Continue reading →

Well, Here I Am Again …

Good morning, it feels strange to be sitting down and typing. I know it’s only been a few days since I was last here posting my thoughts, my workouts, my research and more, but it’s been a very long few days for me. For those of you who read my blogs regularly, you know that I was scheduled for surgery just three days ago. The surgery was exploratory in nature, designed to go in and examine the mass they found on my right ovary. The last few weeks had given me plenty of time to think ahead to the surgery … Continue reading →

Update: My Ordeal & What the Doctor Said

First and foremost let me say thank you to everyone who has sent me a kind note, a thought or a prayer – it means more than I can say to all of you. Yesterday afternoon, I went to see a specialist about the mass the sonogram found on my ovary. Sitting in the waiting room for the doctor seemed like an eternity and though I have spent the weekend working diligently to not think about the doctor’s concerns over the weekend and though it remained a white elephant in the room – I was a nervous wreck waiting to … Continue reading →

My Ordeal – When Things Fall Apart

So I wrote about getting your annual physical a couple of days ago and how I’d scheduled mine and headed in to see the doctor. I arrived at the doctor’s office yesterday morning, filled out my paper work and sat in a chair, reading a book while I waited for them to call me in. Over an hour and a half later, I was leaving the doctor’s office on the way to the hospital for a sonogram. There was something wrong and the doctor wanted a better look at my insides. Needless to Say, I Was Worried The sonogram was … Continue reading →

Great Myths: Smokers Like to Smoke

You know one of the greatest myths and fallacies about smoking that are labeled on smokers is that we like to smoke. I’ve even espoused this belief myself. But the truth is – I don’t like to smoke, sometimes I wonder why I even bother and then I reach for the cigarette and I just light it. Am I doomed? Sometimes I think so. There are other myths out there, myths that we are told or that we believe or that we have accepted as true because we’ve not found another way to look at it or to think about. … Continue reading →