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Intermittent Fasting for Women Over 60

Intermittent Fasting for Women Over 60

May 26, 2022
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Fit and Strong, Food and Drink

Intermittent fasting is one of the most popular trends right now in eating. People are using IF for both weight loss and health benefits. Intermittent fasting is really an umbrella term for a variety of ways of fasting. Most often, people are really referring to Time Restricted Eating. This is where you avoid eating during a period of time. It can be as short as not eating after dinner and then having breakfast first thing in the morning. It can be longer than that, where you fast all day and then consume all your calories in a single hour. Most people who I hear talking about time restricted eating probably have a 16 to 18 hour window of non-eating, with a 6 to 4 hour window...

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Running and Grief

Running and Grief

April 7, 2022
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Fit and Strong, Mental Health

Is there a connection between running and grief? I think perhaps there is. Not for everyone, of course, but for some of us dealing with grief, running provides some mental health benefits. There’s a lot of discussion about how running helps with our mental health. If you want to read a great memoir about this, check out Depression Hates a Moving Target by Nita Sweeney. Chris and I talked with Nita about running and mental health on our podcast. You might check that episode out too. I don’t know if there’s much specific talk about running and grief, which is different than depression. Grief causes a lot of different emotions; sadness, anger, guilt, loneliness are a few. I think what makes running helpful is that it provides...

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Ways to Get Started with Strength Training

Ways to Get Started with Strength Training

March 31, 2022
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Fit and Strong, Motivation, Work Outs

One thing I’ve noticed in the Becoming Elli community is that many of us are looking for ways to get started with strength training. Many women who have joined the Becoming Elli Facebook group (it’s a private group and if you haven’t joined, please do so!) want to get started with strength training. Most of us know how to do cardio exercises. We use the treadmill or the elliptical or we bicycle indoors and out. If you listen to the Fit Strong Women over 50 Podcast, you know that we talk a lot about the importance of strength training for women as we age. Why Strength Train? We lose muscle more quickly than men and that loss begins earlier than we’d like to think about. Losing muscle makes it...

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Roasting Eggplant in the Air Fryer

My Roasting Eggplant in the Air Fryer Experiment

March 10, 2022
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Fit and Strong, Food and Drink, Recipes, Veggie Challenge

If you Google how to roast eggplant in the air fryer, you will discover a lot of recipes. Trust me on that. I found lots of different recipes for roasting eggplant, even when I limited my search to using the Air Fryer. I asked in the Becoming Elli Facebook Group (join us there if you haven’t already!) if anyone had any good ideas on what to do with eggplant. People made many suggestions so I have ways to prepare eggplant for a while. I also checked for other eggplant recipes in this site and found one recipe that Chris posted. It sounds good too so I may add that to my list of ways to prepare eggplant. Roasted eggplant was one of the more popular suggestions so...

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Rediscovering the Treadmill

Rediscovering the Treadmill

February 10, 2022
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Fit and Strong

What’s this about rediscovering the treadmill? My treadmill certainly hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s right there in my cardio room. That’s what I now call my home gym area. My bike on a trainer and the treadmill are in one room with all my fitness toys. You know, yoga mats, dumb bells, resistance bands. I recently decided to get back into more of a regimented fitness schedule and try to have something scheduled for every day of the week, even if it’s rest day. Currently, I am going to the gym to meet with a trainer twice a week. I’m going to have to write a separate post about that experience! Those two days are accounted for. Then I added one bike day. Since I started this...

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Beef Bone Broth

Making Beef Bone Broth

December 30, 2021
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Fit and Strong

I made beef bone broth yesterday using the bones left over from the roast I served on Christmas Day. The roast was from a local butcher with pastured raised beef, so it was delicious though expensive. I had several bones left over and hated to just throw them away, so I decided to make some bone broth. The last time I made beef bone broth was several years ago. I used my slow cooker to make it. The problem with the slow cooker was that it was indeed slow. I had to let it cook for over twelve hours to get the most nutrients out of the bones. This time I decided to make the beef bone broth using my Instant Pot. I did a little online...

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Ten Tips for Staying Fit and Strong Over the Holidays

Ten Tips for Staying Fit and Strong Over the Holidays

December 16, 2021
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Fit and Strong, Food and Drink

This year many of us are having a more festive time than we did last year during the pandemic shutdown. After all of our work throughout the year to be fit and strong, we sure don’t want to undo everything. However, we still want to enjoy the festivities that come our way. In 2019, I wrote about enjoying the holidays but today I want to focus on actually trying to stay fit and strong. Ten Tips for Staying Fit and Strong Over the Holidays Not to worry. I have some ideas that might help you not lose ground or gain weight but that will still allow you to celebrate the season. Keep moving. Remember all of those tips about how to get in extra steps? This is...

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Develop Sustainable Fitness

Ten Ways to Develop Sustainable Fitness

December 9, 2021
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Fit and Strong, Fitness

How do we develop sustainable fitness? Last week I wrote about what sustainable fitness is. Basically, it’s doing things that you can continue to do long term. It’s focusing on ways to continue to be fit once a short term goal is met. Sustainable fitness is figuring out how to be able to continue to move through our daily lives and be able to accomplish what we want to accomplish. Chris and I have talked about wanting to be able to lift our own suitcases. That’s what sustainable fitness does for us. So here are ten ways to develop sustainable fitness. Accept that there will be ups and downs in your journey. We will deal with illness, either our own or someone in the family. We may experience...

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What is Sustainable Fitness?

December 2, 2021
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Fit and Strong, Motivation

I read a book a few years ago by a woman who was over 50 and lost a lot of weight. It was both her personal story and some advice on how to lose weight and develop some fitness. I didn’t remember a lot of the details but when I went back to the book recently, I realized that she said she lost 60 pounds in four months. Who knows if she actually did or not, though that seems extreme but I know it took me a long time to lose 60 pounds. I had thought of her because I thought perhaps she’d be a good guest on the Fit Strong Women over 50 podcast. (You do listen to that, don’t you?!) We like to talk...

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What I'm Thankful For This Year

What I’m Thankful For This Year

November 25, 2021
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Fit and Strong

Today in the US, it's Thanksgiving so I'm going to share what I'm thankful for this year. Those of you not in the US, I'm sure it gets tiresome listening to us go on about being thankful every late November because really, shouldn't we be thankful a little more frequently? Well, yes, we should. However, I don't think it hurts to actually stop and think about it. As we head into the end of the year and facing the beginning of a new year, it doesn't hurt to contemplate what we can be thankful for. I know that many of us have had some very rough times the past almost two years now. I'm certainly not ignoring that but I think I can come up with...

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