In health and fitness as in life, we are faced with challenges and setbacks. This will happen to everyone, without fail, at least once and more likely multiple times.  How will you respond when the road gets rocky?

Will it be your health that sets you back? You might face an injury…foot pain, a broken leg, a broken neck.  Or do you find it challenging to make time for your personal fitness? We all experience challenges and setbacks- every person, everywhere.  The difference between overcoming these obstacles and succumbing to them has everything to do with how you view yourself.

Will you use the challenge to make yourself better, more focused, stronger? Or will you use it as an excuse to quit?

You can’t consider overcoming challenges and setbacks without examining the brilliant and unfinished story of Lance Armstrong. Sure, he is an outstanding athlete, multiple national “Athlete of the Year” awards. Oh- yeah, he has won the Tour de France a record breaking 7 times in a row from 1999 to 2005, before…

Vitamin D deficiency is a known Spokane health risk, yet not many people know about it.   It wasn’t until a friend was diagnosed with Vitamin D deficiency that I gave the subject much thought.  I had read that  people needed enough sunlight in winter to keep their vitamin D levels up.  I just didn’t realize how very important it was.   My friend is an upbeat, always energetic outdoorswoman so I was surprised when she became  tired day after day.  A visit to her doctor showed that her vitamin D level was entering dangerous territory.  I would have thought she’d get enough sunlight just in her day-to-day outdoor activities, but that wasn’t the case.  Since I spend little time in the outdoors in winter I knew I was at risk.  I haven’t been checked as yet but I’ve done some research on the subject.  It should be a concern for everyone.

What Does Vitamin D Do for Your Spokane Health?

• It protects against breast cancer and can  help prevent breast cancer from spreading.  A Canadian study found that women diagnosed with breast cancer…

I’m Missing Exercise in Spokane!

Who, me?  Can’t be.  I’m the one who chooses the elevator instead of the stairs.  I purchased an  expensive eliptical  four years ago and have  used it only once!   Was I lazy?  Maybe.  Sure I had periods where I worked out.  But those periods never lasted very long.  And I can’t say I ever really looked forward to working out.   But that was then…..

And this is now….. I am actually missing exercise in Spokane!  How can it be?  Six  weeks ago I started working with a personal trainer.  It was hard work.  Really hard work.  But I stayed with it.  I liked it.  I looked forward to it.  What’s up with that?

It didn’t take very long to actually feel the results.  It wasn’t necessarily weight loss at first but a noticeable difference in my overall health.  For over one year I had been experiencing some  health problems, nothing serious, but definitely quality of life issues.

Annoying They Were…..

I had been having trouble falling asleep.  I would lie in bed for over an hour tossing and turning. …