The Salad Caper

Answer the phone by LEFT ear. Do not drink coffee TWICE a day. Do not take pills with COOL water. Do not have HUGE meals after 5pm. Reduce the amount of OILY food you consume. Drink more WATER in the [...]

There are alarming cases of unexplained rashes among kids of my friends lately. Even their respective pediatricians are at a loss on which diagnosis to give – it varies between allergic reactions or skin asthma.
Being a mother myself, it can be quite worrisome to have something happen to your kid and even doctors do not [...]

I think I had one too many last week. And too many internal examinations (IEs too). I swear if I see another exam table next week I might just lose it. It makes me want to really go on a diet and lose weight so that I can avoid the exam table! This reminds me [...]

So in my quest to be healthy (my doctor told me to try to lose weight, even if it’s only a pound a month, to make sure I keep it off permanently), I am slowly trying to move my body a little. I cannot believe how weak my knees are already (and how tired my [...]

 
The premise of the shred is this, the DVD is divided into 3 levels of workouts. Each workout is about 20 minutes, and is 3, 6 minute cycles. Each cycle contains 3 minutes of strength, 2 minutes of cardio, and 1 minute of ab work.
For example, in workout 1: [...]

I wrote about my eyestrain a few weeks back and now I’m sporting eyeglasses whenever I’m in front of the computer. There are $ 8 Rx eyeglasses I’d like to try though after reading a High Five to Zenni Optical article online. I even got to see an advertisement of Zenni Optical on TV!!! [...]

It is summer and most families are enjoying the sun and planning Orlando vacations to experience sand, sun and surf + Disney World!
Now, if you are like 90% of the population who gained too much weight during winter season, you are also struggling, albeit unsuccessfully to lose all that flab to look good (well, even [...]

It only seems like yesterday when I was pregnant with my youngest. She is three years old and I still have all the weight I gained when I was bearing her. I lost it all when I breastfed her for almost a year but lack of control with eating made it all go back within [...]

The past few weeks have been hard on me. Life was stressful, my schedule so hectic that I felt a lot of things going with my body. I began feeling sick all the time, my eyes hurt a lot, I was feeling lethargic and my headaches were a lot worse than before. I think stress, [...]

I need to schedule an appointment for the kids’ dental appointment one of these days. The big brother is a pro already when it comes to dental appointments but it will be the first time for the little girl but she has been always with us whenever we go to the dentist. It is too [...]