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  • Wow – even more energy!

    I, a sometimes cynic, am totally impressed with the energy I have of late.

    In my cycling class, for the first time since I started over 2 years ago, I kept up with most of what the instructor was doing – I usually can not. [And she was into standing runs and sprints which I do not like and they generally wear me out quickly.]

    But not now….I have been running – I am waking up very early which is an odd Fall pattern for me as I generally only wake up this early in the summer…

    Where is all this energy coming from? The only change I have made in my life was to start taking a new fat loss product. It spares lean muscle as it targets fat. I can only guess that in losing fat [another inch in the waist and hips] I am changing something in my body balance and that is producing the energy….and I am exercising more strenuously because I have that energy…so I am burning more calories and … and … and …. Some of the ability to maintain the higher level of exercise may be the few accumulated months of taking another product that helps reduce soreness and stiffness due to physical activity or overexertion. It just may be that from now on it WILL take longer for me to wear out when I bike…We’ll see – and I’ll keep you posted.

    I also tried an experiment for a few days last week. After exercising in the AM – I kept my heart rate monitor on for several hours. It’s true – exercising does keep you burning calories for hours afterwards – 200 calories an hour for me – up to 5 hours later [when I took off the monitor as the chest strap gets annoying.] I put the monitor on one day when I did not exercise in the AM.. I burned substantially fewer calories that day when all else was the same except for not exercising.

    My body is functioning much better these days and I ain’t getting younger 🙂 so it’s got to be something else. I’ll keep taking the products because I assume it is they that are doing the good things for me as they are creating my personal version of healthy aging.

    And I really have to add this – it’s making me money ! I am an associate for the company that markets the fat loss product. Neighbors are joining my business and/or just buying the product. They are impressed with my noticeable increase in energy and the lost inches! And in this economy – they love the idea that they too can make money…so it’s a win win win. Why ? This business model works well in a recession… right now who can’t use extra money every month?

    [You can learn more about the product and the potential income by clicking on the link at the top right on this page.]

    glyconutrients, healthy aging, growing older, aging, nutrition, exercise, eating properly,

  • Watch Out! Take Care! It’s Your Money They Want!

    I know my readers are an intelligent group of people but I still feel obligated to mention the rash of new scams and potential new scams that are going on or likely to go on.

    The USA is in a financial mess and it is affecting most all of us here and around the world. I won’t go into my take on this in this blog – that I’ll save it for another blog…

    But the scammers are out in full force trying to take your money away form you in the form of “helping” you.

    I have gotten calls on my business line about accounts I do not have, I get emails about helping me sell my house, and I see signs all over my neighborhood along the lines of: “Need Cash? We will sell your house in x days!”

    There are more emails about “my” bank accounts needing to be reconciled…….

    These are all scams and are designed to have you turn your bank accounts and houses over to a scammer!.

    Please ride out the ups and downs of this financial mess….Do not make impulsive decisions about your property or your money.

    Do not be embarrassed if you start to fall for one of these scams – people do it all the time….Don’t let embarrassment stop you from asking or calling for help!

    glyconutrients, healthy aging, growing older, aging, nutrition, exercise, eating properly,

  • Energy Anyone?

    This country is having an energy crisis but that’s not the one I am speaking of right now…I tend to do that elsewhere : -)

    Do you have as much energy as you did say 10 or 20 years ago? I have been thinking about this as a few friends [some older, some younger] have said how tired they are feeling lately. It has nothing to do with exercising as they all exercise to some extent.

    It may have to do with the declining daylight but I’m not sure of that as it was not mentioned in years past.

    I find that my energy varies widely depending on what I am doing and I’m not so sure it’s always age related…I recall when I was a New Yorker who lived a 24-hour-day most of the week. My friends and I lived on little sleep when we were in college…NY never sleeps and neither did we…at least for stretches of time…but I was in my late teens and early 20’s….I then moved to sleepier cities and my habits changed…or was it the fact that I was getting older? Hard to separate the factors.

    But back to 2008. I seem to have more energy than others younger than I…I just had a busy week [which helps account for the lack of posts here – it’s election season.] Here it’s been election season for a long time as our primary was in later May – but right now it’s getting very busy and I am politically active..So I’ve been to meetings and fund raisers – which are actually fun parties – but don’t tell anyone.. Most think of politics as dreary. It energizes me!

    So is my energy coming from the politics or did the new fat loss supplement give me an energy edge? The two happened simultaneously and when I was a researcher – I tended to look at correlations between factors – and I still do. I have also lost more waist inches and a few more pounds. Is it the body change that is energizing me? [or all of the above?]

    Not knowing the specific answer – my thinking is to not change any of what I am doing…Because? I prefer being energized to not being energized – it’s part of my healthy aging “program.”

    And – If nothing else I sure feel good – in fact I feel great and I love that feeling!

    New mantras for us? Feeling great at 68 ! [and soonish] Feeling fine at 69!

    And there is a link at the top right of the page or HERE so you can find out more about this product I am taking.

    glyconutrients, healthy aging, growing older, aging, nutrition, exercise, eating properly,

  • Baseball memories

    My son asked today what my feelings were about the end of Yankee Stadium…

    To be honest, I knew it was ending, but did not pay attention to the fact that today was the last game to be played there.

    As a kid, I was a Yankee fan. Why? My father had grown up near Yankee Stadium and was a Yankee fan so we listened to Yankee games on the radio. The same way my son grew up to be a Red Sox fan – he heard and saw Red Sox games all his life.

    The difference being that at some point in my late teens I tuned out baseball and only go back into it when living in Boston – but that team “took” and I am still a Red Sox fan.

    Back to Yankee Stadium… It was the place I saw my first live baseball game at some point in the 50’s. It was an old timers day and so the day started with a game featuring famous players… it was exciting and I loved being there….but never went back as I left NYC.

    Since then I have been to many stadiums that have come and gone. Seems to be the nature of what we call progress. I had been to the old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. Had also been to the old Madison Square Garden and the old Boston Garden and I think the old St. Louis park.

    My son has seen the Bullets at the old US Air Arena in the burbs and the new Wizards at the Verizon arena in downtown DC. [Had to look up the name to see if it was still MCI – it isn’t.]

    Buildings come and go – even those with historical significance – money speaks and it speaks loudly. If players make millions a year, stadiums must have more seats for corporations so the team owners make a profit…and as corporations come and go so does the name of the building…yikes!

    [Sigh] By the time my son has kids, no one will be able to afford to take a family to ball park and the parks and arenas will continue to be demolished and bigger ones built…

    But Fenway Park and Wrigley Field will always be here….Some cities respect their baseball history and their baseball fans.

    glyconutrients, healthy aging, growing older, aging, nutrition, exercise, eating properly,

  • I’m back to blogging

    Don’t usually have jet lag flying West but this time I did…so it must be “a factor of old age ” 🙂

    Made me think about just how much normal stuff we assign to “old age” when it happens to older people…like my jet lag..

    But I had no lag flying East – so does that mean that as we age the direction of the jet lag changes?

    When you ask it that way the whole concept sounds silly. There are many reasons I was thrown off a West Coast schedule after getting home – such as getting busier with my business…

    Why are we as a culture so much more apt to throw negative connotations out about older persons when the same behavior is acceptable or ignored for one who is younger?

    More on the fat loss product tomorrow – but in short – it works! In one week I lost 2 waist inches….YEA

    glyconutrients, healthy aging, growing older, aging, nutrition, exercise, eating properly,