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Nutrition Needs As You Age

I’ve always said after I had kids that items may have “shifted in flight.” My body may have bounced back, but things went to different places. For example, I am fairly the same size that I was before having Lola…

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Amazing Race Training: HIIT Workout

If there was one thing I learned from our time on The Amazing Race, it was how to get out of my comfort zone. If you watched the show, you know this included all sorts of challenges for us like…

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Amazing Race Training: Gaining Strength For Life 

We all know how important it is to build strength, especially as we age. In my 20s, I would run six miles a day but I couldn’t do more than a few push-ups without reaching exhaustion. Though I’ve tried to…

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Amazing Race Training: Running Workout

What you saw on The Amazing Race: Us showing up out of breath to every single challenge.  What you didn’t see: The crazy long run or mad dash sprint to get there.  There is so much it isn’t possible to…

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How We Got In Shape for The Amazing Race

The Amazing Race is a famously grueling show in which teams of two travel the globe conquering physical (and sometimes mental and emotional) challenges. In our mid-40s, we knew we’d be some of the older competitors. We wanted to be as…

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My (Medically Necessary) Cosmetic Surgery

This picture was taken about an hour after my Double Lateral Blepharoplasty. That’s a fancy name for what I’ve been calling an “eyelid circumcision.” Underneath the bags of frozen peas are two blacks eyes and incisions that looked like my…

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What I Get Out of Adult Sports

One of my core memories from being a kid was playing goalie in a recreation soccer league. I was around 10-years-old and it was through the YMCA, meaning they let every kid who wanted to play onto a team. (I’m…

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I Love An Assignment

For the month of September, I gave myself a challenge to blog every single day for the entire month. Call me strange, but I really love having an assignment. It felt so gratifying to hit the publish button on September…

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How This Month Has Changed Me

I set a goal at the beginning of this month to blog everyday in the month of September with a focus on my own mental health. I had no idea if anyone would actually read my ramblings, but I wanted…

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Sitting In The Suck

I’m sitting in front of the television and my whole heart is breaking. I’m watching my beloved beaches of southwest Florida get swallowed by Hurricane Ian. I grew up in Bradenton (about an hour south of Tampa) and most of…

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