The Menopause Blogs

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 31 to Day 32 (3/13/24)

    This cold is still hanging out in my lungs and preventing me from working out. It’s sad that I am losing all the momentum I had for this, but I will get it back. When it comes to my lungs, I don’t mess around. At age 11 I had walking pneumonia. I got it again…

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 23 to Day 30 (3/11/24)

    Hot and Healthy — Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time — Day 23 to Day 30 (3/11/24)

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 22 (3/3/2024)

    I was up too early. Went to go meet a cat artist for my non-profit. I’m going to cross promote here for a sec. So I have a non-profit cat rescue, but we don’t intake cats. We are building a mobile feral cat feeder. If you want to see what we are doing or possibly…

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 21 (3/2/2024)

    Wow, three weeks of getting healthier. I still have a cough, but I slept better last night. There was a market trip first thing and then I did aerobic steps to: Now this step workout by Jenny Ford is tough because there are no water breaks built in, but it gets your heart rate up…

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 20 (3/1/2024)

    I lost too much weight too quickly. The internet says it is mostly water weight even though I am keeping quite hydrated.

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 19 (2/29/2024)

    Naturally, the day I had planned did not work out.

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 18 (2/28/2024)

    I have been attacking my workouts randomly and thought it would be a good idea to see if structuring my workouts would be a better way to go. Right now, it seems I do full body stuff every workout: Legs, arms, butt, tummy, etc. so I need to find out if structure is better.

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 17 (2/27/2024)

    Let’s talk about food. Not only eating for Menopause but eating for health and to lose weight.

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 16 (2/26/2024)

    Let’s talk about logging what you do. It wasn’t until I started seeing the calories and fat on paper that I realized how many extra calories I took in a day.

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 15 (2/25/2024)

    I have had several personal trainers over the years, both gym sponsored and not, and they each tell you something different. You need to do what is in your heart.