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We want to be like Elli because she was the Norse Goddess of Aging who beat Thor in a wrestling match. We want to be like Elli, fit and strong as we age
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Ten Tips for Staying Fit and Strong Over the Holidays

Ten Tips for Staying Fit and Strong Over the Holidays

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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Living Energized and Nourished with Amanda Nighbert

Living Energized & Nourished with Amanda Nighbert

Episode 96 – Living Energized & Nourished Download | Play in New Window Please Subscribe: Apple Podcasts  (iTunes) | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Android-Google Play | Audible |  Stitcher | Player FM | Castbox | Tunein | Spotify | RSS In episode 96, Jill and Chris interview Amanda Nighbert, a registered dietitian who specializes in weight loss nutrition. She is also an avid fitness enthusiast. Amanda is passionate about empowering people to break the all or nothing mindset. She wants us to find how to make changes that are sustainable and let us find long term weight loss success. She has worked in the weight loss field for over 19 years to help thousands of people reach their wellness goals, but is a strong believer that dieting is temporary and it is more important to focus on lifestyle changes to see long term...

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Develop Sustainable Fitness

Ten Ways to Develop Sustainable 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?

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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