Healthy Tips
6 Tips for Healthy Thanksgiving Grocery Shopping
Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Do you have your menu planned and your shopping list prepared? (Check out my RECIPES if you don’t I have some great options for Healthier Thanksgiving dishes) Smart choices at the grocery store are a key part of your healthy eating plans. Here are a few tips to make…
Look Better for the Holidays Instantly!
Holiday parties are just around the corner. What will people who see you once a year think when you enter the room? How about: “Wow, she looks amazing”? Of course they will. Never mind those few pounds you might have put on. You’re going to look terrific because I am going to teach you a…
10 Healthy Ways to Use Lemons – NO Sugar Added!
We have a lemon tree and this time of year we often have way too many lemons (I know poor me, right?). I’m also very much against using white sugar so I came up with the 10 ways to use lemons without adding any white sugar. Enjoy! 1. EVERY morning Drink 8oz of warm…
Meet Hidden Meadows Personal Trainer Amy Van Liew
By Debra Lee Baldwin, August 2015 Five weeks ago, as I drove the roller coaster that is Lotus Pond Lane (arguably Hidden Meadows’ most up-and-down road), I hoped that finding a competent and affordable personal trainer a mere five minutes from home wasn’t too much to hope for. I recalled the humiliation of going to…
Mindful Eating
It’s about 11:30 AM and I am sitting in front of the computer, getting a lot accomplished on a project that I am working on, when I am stirred from my computer induced trance by the grumbling of my stomach. Oh shoot, I am hungry. If I don’t eat soon I will get tired and…
Why do my muscles cramp during exercise (or at other times)?
Several of my clients and students have complained about muscle cramps during certain exercise, at night while sleeping or while doing day to day activities. I am lucky in that I rarely get them but it sent me digging into how I might be able to help. What causes a muscle cramp? The best description…
No Pain, No Gain?
We’ve all heard the adage “no pain, no gain,” but is it really true? Unfortunately the answer is YES and NO. It just depends on the type of pain you are feeling. When you stretch and challenge your muscles by trying a new exercise class or doing something you haven’t done in a while, like…
Spring Cleaning for us Women Over 50!
I love Spring Time! The Mountain Lilac burst and our hills come alive in an amazing shade of purple. The Gazania on our hills smile and open wide in the spring sun. It’s a time of renewal, to get a fresh start and the perfect time for spring cleaning! If you are a women over…
The 3 Things I worried about when giving up alcohol in January
2016 will be another year of experimenting with food, exercise and self-care in order to tear down MY roadblocks to better health My First Experiment in 2016 was to abstain from all ALCOHOL in the month of January. “Dry January” is very popular, in fact there is a webpage from the UK called dryjanuary.org. I…
Women Over 50, You MUST DO THIS 1 THING!
The one thing I am begging women over 50 to do is EXERCISE!!! As a personal trainer and fitness coach I have seen what happens if you don’t keep moving your body. You gain weight, your body may ache more, you may lose muscle mass and/or bone density and worse yet you might not be…