Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Friday, January 2, 2015
Happy New Year!
Shame on me! It's been so long that I have written in my blog that I couldn't remember how to sign in. What I finally realized is that I had signed in under the wrong email account. No worries! I'm good now and will be signing in more often. I have so much to share!
First, I am now The Digest Diva! Yes, you can check me out on www.thedigestdiva.com. This was a wonderful idea shared with me by Michael Damond of Cold Slap Consulting. I love reading magazines and glean so much information from them by reading the articles. While I love books (and have sometimes purchased books based on the articles read), I love magazines because I can get enough information from the articles to make me"dangerous" with knowledge in a relatively short period of time. It takes me weeks to read books but only a short period of time to read articles. So I get the information faster. I love that!
As the title of my blog post states, we are in a new year. 2015. Yesterday was the first of the year and today, my hubby celebrates 52 years of existence on this planet! Praise God! He's looking well, doing well and enjoying life! I love me some him!
My usual practice is to start something new on New Years Day, like a new fitness routine, meditation, etc. then I make resolutions around that. I haven't stuck with the resolutions so I didn't do them this year. I talked about making some changes when I turned 49 in September. I started some things but didn't stick with them so I'm going to continue to work on what I started instead of starting something new.
In that vein, I have started tracking my meals on FitnessPal again, an app that can be obtained on most smart phones. It had been quite a while since I had done that so I didn't realize that I was missing out on so much. Now, not only can you track your meals but you can do meal plans and glean other information on the FitnessPal website, blog and Facebook page. Go figure! And you can connect with friends who also do FitnessPal to keep up with their progress and to track your own. When did they add all of this stuff? Or had they already added it before and I just didn't take advantage of it? I don't know but I'm taking advantage of it now. It's a great way of keeping you on track with getting shape.
I'm also reading a book called Juice by the owners of the Pressed Juicery. What a great way to get in shape! It helps with adding vitamins and minerals in an easy manner because you can't eat as many fruits and vegetables in a sitting as you can when they are compressed into a juice. So, I'll be juicing more. My reward for doing this will be to upgrade to a masticating juicer instead of my current centrifugal one.
What's the difference, you ask? The masticating juicer is a slow one. Works better on juicing greens and other fruits and vegetables. As a result, you yield more juice from the produce, thus saving you more money over time. Since it's slower, it doesn't create heat to work so you preserve more enzymes, as well. The problem with them is that they typically cost more money, from $200 tot $500 for some of the top brands. The centrifugal ones will juice but the are not good with greens and the high speed creates a little heat ( not much), which will kill some enzymes. But they are more affordable, ranging from $50 - $300. I would love to have the former but I won't upgrade to one until I see that I'm more regularly using the latter. I am currently inconsistent with it, at best.
Well, that's it for now. I'm going to go through all of my information to determine what to share first this weekend. Stay tuned!
First, I am now The Digest Diva! Yes, you can check me out on www.thedigestdiva.com. This was a wonderful idea shared with me by Michael Damond of Cold Slap Consulting. I love reading magazines and glean so much information from them by reading the articles. While I love books (and have sometimes purchased books based on the articles read), I love magazines because I can get enough information from the articles to make me"dangerous" with knowledge in a relatively short period of time. It takes me weeks to read books but only a short period of time to read articles. So I get the information faster. I love that!
As the title of my blog post states, we are in a new year. 2015. Yesterday was the first of the year and today, my hubby celebrates 52 years of existence on this planet! Praise God! He's looking well, doing well and enjoying life! I love me some him!
My usual practice is to start something new on New Years Day, like a new fitness routine, meditation, etc. then I make resolutions around that. I haven't stuck with the resolutions so I didn't do them this year. I talked about making some changes when I turned 49 in September. I started some things but didn't stick with them so I'm going to continue to work on what I started instead of starting something new.
In that vein, I have started tracking my meals on FitnessPal again, an app that can be obtained on most smart phones. It had been quite a while since I had done that so I didn't realize that I was missing out on so much. Now, not only can you track your meals but you can do meal plans and glean other information on the FitnessPal website, blog and Facebook page. Go figure! And you can connect with friends who also do FitnessPal to keep up with their progress and to track your own. When did they add all of this stuff? Or had they already added it before and I just didn't take advantage of it? I don't know but I'm taking advantage of it now. It's a great way of keeping you on track with getting shape.
I'm also reading a book called Juice by the owners of the Pressed Juicery. What a great way to get in shape! It helps with adding vitamins and minerals in an easy manner because you can't eat as many fruits and vegetables in a sitting as you can when they are compressed into a juice. So, I'll be juicing more. My reward for doing this will be to upgrade to a masticating juicer instead of my current centrifugal one.
What's the difference, you ask? The masticating juicer is a slow one. Works better on juicing greens and other fruits and vegetables. As a result, you yield more juice from the produce, thus saving you more money over time. Since it's slower, it doesn't create heat to work so you preserve more enzymes, as well. The problem with them is that they typically cost more money, from $200 tot $500 for some of the top brands. The centrifugal ones will juice but the are not good with greens and the high speed creates a little heat ( not much), which will kill some enzymes. But they are more affordable, ranging from $50 - $300. I would love to have the former but I won't upgrade to one until I see that I'm more regularly using the latter. I am currently inconsistent with it, at best.
Well, that's it for now. I'm going to go through all of my information to determine what to share first this weekend. Stay tuned!
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