Christine On: Leaving Forty

May 9, 2012 by  
Filed under On Life

It seemed like just yesterday I was writing about turning forty and how significant that event was to me. Tomorrow I am leaving my fortieth year and in many ways, I have not quite ended up where I thought I would be…

The devil is a liar and so is that scale I stepped on this morning…

February 21, 2012 by  
Filed under Fit at Forty, On Health & Beauty, On Life

What’s your relationship with your scale? Is it different now than it was when you were younger? My MIND knows the scale is not the only indicator of health, but my HEART sinks every time I get on a scale and it doesn’t tell me what I want to hear…

Born to run…or walk at a relatively fast pace

January 10, 2012 by  
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Women runners in their 40s and beyond are tearing it up on the side streets of America. I know they are – the bright light of their fitness glory blinds me each and every time they whiz by me on my WALKS. I’d love to be able to run, my body on the other hand, has other ideas…

My $25-a-week clean eating experiment a year later

June 29, 2011 by  
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A year after test-driving my clean eating experiment I can say that I’ve adopted clean eating as a way of life. Really, it’s a return to how my parents and grandparents used to cook and eat before advertising and big business began convincing people that they had it all wrong.

Somewhere outside a cafe in Italy…

October 27, 2010 by  
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If I’m being honest with myself, being comfortable in my own skin is my biggest dream, and the first step in making any of my other big dreams a reality. With a lot of hard work and determination, maybe one day I’ll be writing my book, or my next post, outside a little cafe in Italy.

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