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Meatless Monday??? (Yeah, I sort-of gave it a whirl)

26 Oct 2024 4 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead

I was victimized by the glamorous world of Facebook reels. If you have read this blog for a while, you've read my confession that I end up down those rabbit holes.  I especially like to watch cooking videos on Facebook and I really like reality TV co...

I Got Squirreled..... (I know it's really not an excuse....)

25 Oct 2024 8 minute read 2 comments 7th Decade Redhead

I wish I had a really awesome story to tell you about why I haven't blogged in a long time. I don't, really. It's not to say that some challenging events have not happened.... they have... but I won't blame life for my lack of blogworthiness.   I thi...

How to find the right amount of calories to lose weight

17 Oct 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Conscious Fitness

Struggling to find the right amount of calories to eat in order to lose weight? Well try this! What I want you to do is log and track your food for seven days. Don’t make any changes to it. Just log and track everything that you eat so you can see ex...

30 Pounds in 10 Weeks: How I Quickly Lost Weight with Intermittent Fasting

19 Sep 2024 2 minute read 1 comment coip

Two months ago I wrote about how, fed up with being the heaviest I’ve ever been, I began an intermittent fasting schedule known as OMAD (one meal per day). Also known as 23:1, I refrained from eating or drinking anything except water for 23 hours of...

The Summer of DOG..... (how's that workin' for ya?)

23 Jul 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead

I know I have been among the missing in this blogosphere in the last month or so. Occupational hazard of being back up in Northern New England at our summer camp and being busy. The weather up here was unseasonably warm in June, mid-eighties and very...

My weight loss journey: birthdays

16 Jun 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Namae

I don't know if I've mentioned this before but I have a largish family at a little over 40 members. The thing is that our birthdays tend to get grouped. For example, in the three weeks between the end of May and mid June, there are 6 birthdays in a r...

In case you were wondering where I went.....

4 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead

I have not dropped off the face of the earth.  I just got back from a three-week bicycle tour in Europe. We rode our tandem recumbent bicycle from Prague, Czechia to Budapest, Hungary over 17 riding days, covering about 600 miles and riding through f...

My weight loss journey: hope

1 Jun 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Namae

I once heard that, accounting from the dawn of times, humanity has left registry of around 10000(ish) deities. A week ago I was willing to believe that at te very least 51% were taking a pee on me. Most likely way more than that. Today, I'm willing t...

My weight loss journey: grief

12 May 2024 4 minute read 1 comment Namae

Content warning: I'll mention death in this post. Two weeks ago I went to visit the orchard I mentioned in my last post. I wanted to write about it last week but I ended not writing anything at all. My grandfather passed away more than five years ago...

There's a reason we have two ears and one mouth...(Shut....Up...)

7 May 2024 3 minute read 2 comments 7th Decade Redhead

It's travel days and we are off for our amazing bike tour in Europe. We left the house way too early in the morning only because of all the flooding that has happened in our area and we had an hour and a half drive to the airport. We did not encount...