Author: Patricia W. Fischer Author & Journalist

  With my respirtory not as fabulous as I’d like, I’ve had to turn to non-impact cardio. At first, I thought these workouts would simply help with flexibility and mobility, but I couldn’t have been more wrong....

My grandmother used to say, “Slow and Steady Wins the Race.” Of course she’d also said it would be fine if I stuffed my face with her homemade goodies when visited. At that visit, I’d already lost weight...

It’s a rough day here at my house. My sweet husband is trying to make it a nice day before Valentine’s Sunday and I was up all night with asthma problems. All these cold fronts and drastic weather changes along with...

Okay, I’ve talked to one of the fabulous women in the Mamavation Challenge and she’s given me a well-deserved pep talk. She encouraged me not to worry as much about the numbers on the scale and take my measurements....

  Back to 215. Ugh. But my measurements are as follows:  arms 13.75″, bust 38″, waist is 37.5″, and hips 46.75″.  So I’m up about 0.25″ in my arms, bust is the same, DOWN 0.5″ in my...

I’m playing catch up this week. Started out with the sinus stuff (again) and then we got nuts with the anticipation of the “great snow storm” we’d experience here in Central Texas. Now, after our...

  Whoo! Whoo! It’s week two and already I’m down three pounds. Last Monday the Mamavation Move It or Lose It (MILI) challenge began and I had no way to know if I’d even be able to stick with it. Although my...

I feel like I’m on the high dive, ready to jump in, and everyone is watching. I want to jump. I absolutely want to jump  and feel the cool of the pool, but I’m afraid. “Jump!” Someone yells. “You...

I remember well in high school when the rumblings of making Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday. Initially there were protests, angry comments, the typical push-pull of anything new. There were cheers,...