Kanata Health & Fitness

I love working with dynamic duos!!! So much fun and lots of laughs...with a tiny bit of competitive spirit and a bunch of love thrown in!!! Workouts are a great way to spend time with your bestie...spouse or otherwise!!!

One drawer??? My running/workout stuff does not fit in one drawer! Be honest Fitness friends...how many of you have more then one drawer???

This is probably going to make some people angry but...I don’t care. This is 100% true. You don’t need a cleanse or a detox... How are you supposed to stay healthy when your life has you running ragged? This seems to surprise people, but the old advice of a balanced diet, regular exercise, making sure your vaccinations are up to date, and not skipping your annual physical? It’s still good advice. Treat your body well and it will do all the detoxing and cleansing for you!!!

Ok...I know you haven’t heard from me in awhile...but I’ve got something to say. I keep seeing all of these posts about magic coffee and crazy diets and cellular pills...I’m going to let you all in on a secret...it’s all horsesh**!!!!!!! ALL OF IT!!!! Don’t you think that if any of this miracle stuff (past and present), worked everyone would already be at their desired weight, have their optimal energy, and have IQ scores that are through the roof???? Ever notice that a...ll of these miracle weight loss, be smarter, have more energy, never have to do any exercise in your life solutions generally cost you an arm and a leg and leave you in the exact same spot your in now...even if you see initial results??? There is no magic pill but there is a common sense solution...EAT WELL AND MOVE!!!!! It doesn’t mean starving yourself and working out 3 hours a day. It means cut the sugar and processed crap from your diet and go for a walk. Oh...one more thing...being skinny is not synonymous with being healthy or happy...the numbers have nothing to do with it. All the love. See more

Tiny quail eggs...it would take a lot of these to fuel me through a workout. Lol Needless to say, we opted for regular chicken eggs.

So...this makes my head feel like it’s going to explode. Don’t get my wrong here, I was NOT a Kathleen Wynne fan...neither am I a Doug Ford fan but this isn’t about politics to me. Having spent the last 8 months immersed in our mental health system I can tell you that the LAST thing we need is a roll back of funding that had already been approved and had already started to trickle in. Our mental health system is disgustingly underfunded and totally misunderstood by almost any...one who hasn’t had to deal with it. It’s completely separated from the rest of the medical care system and for the most part, from what I have experienced, even the professionals within the mental health care system don’t work together. Get admitted to the Civic one weekend, have to go to the Queensway the next and there is no way for the hospitals to share information or treatment plans from one to the other. You actually have to tell admitting you’d been to another hospital because they can’t see it in the system when they enter your medical card??????!?? Individuals in the middle of crisis are turned away from the mental health units every single day because there are no beds. Ever had a psych doctor look at you and say, We can’t admit him, we have no room, and people kill themselves in the hospital all the time so I’m not sure what you think we are going to be able to do for him here. I HAVE. Ever watched someone you love in the middle of a crisis call the suicide hotline and NOT GET AN ANSWER????? I HAVE. It’s devastating. When someone is suffering from mental health issue and they feel worthless and useless and unloved... and the professionals who are supposed to be there to help don’t pick up the phone or tell you there is no room and you have to wait for 18 months to get help...they feel even more unloved. Cutting funding during a time when addictions and mental illness statistics are skyrocketing is yer another step backwards thanks to Doug Ford...which is really interesting considering his deceased brothers drug issues. This is heartbreaking. See more

We have been working so hard in Colombia that it has been difficult for us to eat at home. Last night we finally got to eat a homemade salad!!! Not as colorful as I’d make at home but it was so delicious!!!!!