Avid – diva’s Blog (used to be fitafter40)

Some times we let our feelings get the best of us. If the scale does not budge, if we eat one too many cookies, if your hormones are raging. The important thing is to take every day as a new beginning. A new day to start exercising. A new outlook on [...]

make you so angry that they fuel your dreams. It so happens that I have been dissed by a “friend” that feels more important than me. It is this “friend’s” understanding that his life and his job are more important than most people and so he does not need to apologize or [...]

On Saturday I found out that someone close to me is very ill. I am not talking cold or flu sickness. We are talking liver, kidney, maybe even cancer kind of ill. The kind of illness that you don’t know when or where it came from and whether you are going to [...]

I am happy today. After having only one soda in the last two weeks, and having relatively healthy meals for the last week (OK, yesterday I had pizza, which is also the reason for the soda, who eats pizza with something other than soda?!!!), I am now back to 185 and going down. [...]

As promised, posts are now every other day. I can tell you that for the last five days I could not go walking. My right calf muscle was acting up again. But I have spent Monday and Tuesday without going for my usual walk, and my body was not happy. Last [...]

Hello. It has been three weeks since my last post. I started working on Feb. 19th, this is the first day of my fourth week on the job. I work as an interpreter. And I love it. I am having a lot of fun and learning a lot. I [...]