I’m going to fess up right now.  Today I made beef stew for dinner and I put some potatoes in it!  I know, I k now, I can hear the gasps already.  But I did have a method to my madness so let me explain. First, it’s important to note that I’ve lost a fair [...]

I am regularly approached by people who are not losing weight on the P90X  or Insanity programs.  Most of them are women.  And that’s not surprising because women have a harder time getting a body that’s overweight and prone to put on fat to suddenly turn around and become a fat burner. But just because [...]

This week Chris and I have been trying out my new routine.  At the beginning of the week we were focused on high intensity, heavy lifting.  Then yesterday, Wednesday, we transitioned with a high intensity & high volume leg workout followed by a HIT (we did the HIT part of the Insanity Pure Cardio).  Today [...]

Let’s face it, if you are doing P90X, Insanity or Turbo Fire the odds are that you want to burn fat – lots of it.  Sure adding some lean mass is a goal but if your gut is too big it’s because you are too fat.  So if fat loss is the goal, should you [...]

I get this question regularly. But before I can answer this question, we need to define what ‘supplements’ are. This is particularly important when it comes to protein powder. I don’t consider this a supplement because it’s really a food. A good shake replaces some other food you would have eaten otherwise. Would you consider [...]

I’ve got some recent pictures up on Facebook. They are the same ones you can find here but there I’ve uploaded bigger pictures so you can really see me (just search for FitGirl1958 on Facebook or click on my ‘badge’ in the right hand column on this site). The thing is that I’ve had a [...]

Hi Everyone, I get a lot of questions about diet. How many calories should I (you) eat? Why the 40/40/20  ratio of carb/protein/fat for calories? Can I (you) change the 40/40/20 ratio to something else? Do I (you) have to measure & count everything? Do you have sample menus? How much or what can I [...]

Too often when I read through recommended diets for building lean bodies I see the same ol’ list of plain oatmeal (no milk), egg white omletes (you gotta be kidding me) and broiled chicken breast with steamed veggies with no salt.  No wonder so many people struggle with the diet part of the program! Now [...]

Too often I get comments from women stating that they are not losing enough weight. And almost as often, when I ask, they admit that their clothes are fitting much better and/or that they have lost inches. And that always makes me wonder why we women tend to obsess about what the scale says. I [...]

Yesterday the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) put out study results in which they indicated that women, particularly us mature women should exercise 60 minutes a day just to prevent weight gain. WHAT? I don’t believe that’s true – it hasn’t been for me.  I do exercise a good 60 minutes a day [...]