Adventures · Going Gray

How to pepper your diet plan with effective retail therapy

Finding distractions so you don't fail is the tough stage of dieting plans.  If you're trying to stick to a diet or to eating healthily, the crappy for you stuff is way easier to grab and ends up being cheaper in the long run. I still haven't opened the new bag of chips.  YAY ME!… Continue reading How to pepper your diet plan with effective retail therapy

Adventures · Going Gray

Be a bada** – set up your landscape for diet success

One thing that Dry January taught me is that my desires to fulfill my cravings were damn prominent after the first week of the month. Then it got harder. I broke down on Quitter's Friday but started back up again.  I was determined, so I put my bada** mode on, and every day thereafter I… Continue reading Be a bada** – set up your landscape for diet success

Adventures · Going Gray

A journey affirming how to love my skin after turning 50

There's this thing about self-modification habits (i.e., changing our appearances) after the age of 50 - no matter what we do, we have emotional battles about our skin with ourselves that can be hard to control. That is if we let the sagging reality control us. I'm here to affirm with you that skin firmness… Continue reading A journey affirming how to love my skin after turning 50

Adventures · Going Gray

Challenge – Fall In Love With Your Over 50-self February

Ah, February.  The shortest month of the year!  The month when big changes happen for short people like me.  I shrunk a 1/2 an inch and lost 5-7 #'s in Dry January, and now reality has set in. I've got a little over a month (yeah, we have a count-down going!) until our tropical trip… Continue reading Challenge – Fall In Love With Your Over 50-self February

Adventures · Inspiration

H*ll Froze Over but I still accomplished Dry January

The 31st day of Dry January isn't over yet, it's only 6:00 ish am as I write.  And the weather forecasters didn't come through again...yet, that is - they predicted -34 below. Close enough, right. I periodically give it my best shot at being an unpaid meteorologist, and I do fairly well at it, so… Continue reading H*ll Froze Over but I still accomplished Dry January

Adventures · Inspiration

So yeah, it’s cold, cold, cold, really cold!

I wonder if ink in feather pens froze when these words of wisdom were penned? Now is the winter of our discontent. - William Shakespeare O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?  - Percy Bysshe Shelley You can't get too much winter in the winter. - Robert Frost Winter is natures' way… Continue reading So yeah, it’s cold, cold, cold, really cold!