• Home
  • Blog
  • Archives
  • Links
  • About
  • Guest Blogger
  • Contact

Tricia's Musings

Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto

  • Home and Lifestyle
  • Recreation
  • Health Fitness and Beauty
  • Entertainment
  • Web and Technology


You are here: Home / Archives for Health Fitness and Beauty

Eliminate toxins and waste from your body for better health

April 27, 2007 by Tricia

As a person suffering from Inflammatory bowel disease I must say, that at least for testing purposes I’ve had to do my share of Colon Cleansers. You know, in order to prepare for lovely tests like colonoscopies and similar medical tests.

Aside from my own reasons for having to use this kind of product I know that many people use colon cleansers to improve their health. It’s true that for many years people have used various forms of colon therapy to detoxify their body. The process is said to help improve ones health, increase energy levels and even improve the look and feel of ones skin and hair.

Dual action cleanse is said to be the ultimate colon cleanse formula on the market today. It’s been specifically designed to help rid the body of accumulated waste and undigested matter. When the wastes products are eliminated it prevents toxins from building up in the body.

People that try these therapies may find that they have decreased bloating or production of gas, and as I said earlier healthier hair and skin.

Sometimes constipation is caused by a build up of waste products that just aren’t moving. I’m sure that a product such as Dual Action Cleanse might help in such circumstances as well.

If you are interested in trying Dual Action Cleanse to see if your health and or energy improves now is the time. You can save $30 off the regular price. Check it out.





Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty Tagged With: colon cleanse, colon cleanser, crohns, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, pain, therapy, toxins, ultimate colon cleanser, waste, well being

Drinking just got healthier

April 23, 2007 by Tricia

strawberry-daiquiri.jpgI was watching the news the other day and I heard something interesting that I think anyone who enjoys a strawberry daiquiri or any kind of red berry fruit based alcohol containing drink will be happy to hear.

The news story said that it’s been found that combining alcohol with red fruit berries like strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries or cherries helps to release more of the antioxidants in the fruit making these types of drinks a healthier choice for those that want a refreshing berry based cocktail. Considering the fact that it’s also known that a moderate amount of alcohol (1 drink a day) can reduce the chance of heart and stroke disease this is great news.

I went to the Global news site to see if I could find the actual story, but short of watching the full newscast online I couldn’t find a write up. Perhaps they’ll put it up shortly.

The story was done on the patio and inside a restaurant not too far from here. The restaurant, Jawny Bakers, makes great ribs! I love going there. Chris and I, and many of our friends and co-workers from the hospital, used to go there quite often for after work get togethers, and occasionally even work related parties. It wouldn’t be uncommon to find a few of my friends from the ER department enjoying a meal and a drink on the patio from this time of year onward pretty much any day of the week. I didn’t see any of them as the camera panned the patio in the news story though.

Hmmm I guess you could say that eating at Jawny Bakers might be a healthy choice too since there’s often medical personnel hanging around.

One of the first posts that I did on this blog was about my brand new Magic Bullet blender. I’ve had it for over a year now and the number one thing that we use our Magic Bullet for is to make fruit smoothies. Between my stomach problems and the pain medications I’m on I don’t tolerate alcohol very well these days, but it’s not uncommon for us to add some vodka or rum to some of the fruit smoothies that we make. At least I know now that when we do make a fruit smoothie that’s been enhanced with a bit of alcohol that it’s a healthy drink.

Don’t know how to make a strawberry daiquiri, or want some more great recipes for cool drinks? Check out my niece and her husbands website What2drink.com. It’s full of great drink recipes and ideas. Some of my creations are listed there too!

Filed Under: Dining and Restaurants, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation Tagged With: antioxidants, berries, berries and alcohol, Canada, daiquiri, drink recipes, healthy, healthy drink, magic bullet, news, red berries, restaurant, Toronto, what to drink

Tea that blooms – Fullbloomtea.com

April 17, 2007 by Tricia

I enjoy a nice cup of tea every now and then, as I’m sure that many of you do as well. So I was pleasantly surprised when I was asked to do an article for Fullbloomtea.com. Full Bloom teas truly are blooming teas.

bloom.jpg

Each sachet of tea is hand crafted by an artisan, and when you steep the tea it actually blooms into a floral bouquet right before your very eyes. In case, you are wondering this isn’t just a novelty, you can drink the tea.


There are 13 different types or floral bouquet teas to choose from, and I believe that all of them are composed of Silver Needle White Tea leaves, and then each different full bloom tea has it’s own particular flower flavor. One contains Jasmine, another Lily, Globe Amaranth and many other floral and herbal flavors throughout the whole collection.

When you look at the descriptions for each floral bloom tea, don’t forget to look at the other two tabs at the top of the description box. You’ll learn the health benefits of the ingredients of that particular tea, and how best to steep it.

You can purchase a full bloom tea separately, or you can buy several or a dozen at a time. You could also give them as gifts or enroll in their bloom club for 3,6,9 or 12 months and receive 6 blooms of the month. Each club plan includes different goodies along with the bloom of the month. Some will send along teacups and a teapot, while others will also include a tea commuter mug.

You can also purchase teaware and party favors along with a few other tea related items.

If you enjoy tea, or know someone who would enjoy getting a Blooming Tea as a gift please do visit Fullbloomtea.com and take a look at the different full bloom teas.

Filed Under: Gifts, Health Fitness and Beauty, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: beneficial tea, bloom, blooming tea, crohns, flower, fullbloomtea.com, gift, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, healthy tea, herbal ingredients, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, Jasmine, leaves, pain, tea leaves

Lazy day?

April 17, 2007 by Tricia

Sorry that I’ve been so quiet over here. Something weird is going on. Yesterday I didn’t feel too bad but I suddenly got tired around 7 pm and ended up crashing on the couch. I couldn’t get up. Finally around 7 a.m.

I made myself sit up and watch some really bad old sitcoms! Never saw Sirens before but I caught one with a young Will Wheaton in it.

I’ve just been in a lazy mood all day. I couldn’t make myself do much of anything. I’ve spent the day lying on the couch, curled up with my favorite blanket and lots of pillows.

The really odd thing is that my stomach/abdomen hasn’t really felt all that bad. Usually when I start sleeping a lot or end up lying on the couch all day it’s because I’m really sick and in pain. I have still had a lot of fevers, but again other than feeling wiped out I don’t feel all that bad.

Strange huh?

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: fevers, lazy, lying on couch, sleeping

I had the worst weekend!

April 11, 2007 by Tricia

I’m starting to feel like a broken record. “I don’t feel good” … I hope I don’t sound like that, really. In person or on this site. It’s just that, I really really don’t feel good! LOL

You know I like posting on my sites right? Well … if you don’t see new posts for day or more it’s probably because I’m not feeling all that well. I mean, I’m a woman … I can talk and post all day if I want to – it comes with the breed. We have lots to say. It’s just that when I’m feeling really bad I can’t make myself sit in front of the computer.

I thought that getting a laptop might help so I got one last August. My thinking at the time was that if I was having a bad day at least I could lie down or slouch on the couch (that rhymes!) and still type away, or at least surf my favorite sites. Stupid me … I’m a lefty and I like sitting or lying on the left hand side of the couch (left when facing) and uh … my left arm is touching the couches back. That makes it kind of hard to type. LOL

So you know what I do now when I’m lying on the couch not feeling well enough to sit up? I lie on my side, and have my laptop on the table next to the couch. I pull the table over so it’s touching the couch and lean in a weird position and type that way. I must say this works much better for surfing than it does for typing.

At least now that I have a laptop … well when my husband isn’t hogging it … I can go outside into my back yard garden with it, or uhm … I can lie in bed with it or even shhhhh take it in the bathroom. Shhhh I didn’t say that!

Having told you all the different ways that I can possibly use our computers, when I’m feeling good or bad, none of that helped me this weekend.

I have my bad days, and my semi better than bad days, but I think from Friday onward I’ve been the worst that I’ve been in a while. I might even be able to go back earlier than Friday, … but I know that whatever is going on got worse and worse from Friday onward.

I’ve been getting fevers in cycles of every two hours or so. It spikes up and I’m freezing and shivering, and then, maybe 20 minutes later I’m peeling off the sweater that I just put on because I’m too hot since the fever is coming down again. I’ll just start to feel better and boom another feverish spike. So on top of all the other medications that I take I’ve been taking Tylenol regularly for the last 6 or so days to try to control the fevers.

If you ever wondered why the domain that this website is on is called Feverishthoughts – well there’s your answer. Fevers are a regular part of my life. So is thinking.

I guess I withstood the fever spikes on Friday pretty well, but by Saturday they were taking their toll on me. My abdomen was aching and I was still feverish on and off. I went through a weird napping phase over the weekend and slept on the couch on and off from Saturday through to Sunday. I think the first time I slept in my own bed in days was Monday night.

Yesterday was the worst. Gut rot supreme. When I got up in the morning just looking at a glass of water almost made me lose whatever was in my stomach at the time. I think I got up around 9 a.m. and I managed to stay awake until about 3 pm, but then I crashed on the couch again until 6 or 7 pm. Spent a bit of time with my husband and then crashed on the couch between 10:30 pm and woke again at 3 a.m for an hour at the most. I thought I was wide awake, but ended up falling asleep on the couch again by 4 a.m and woke at 8 a.m. when my husband came down stairs for breakfast.

Today is going better. It’s going on 6 p.m. and I’m still awake. I’m still feverish and achy in a gut rot kind of way though.

What really killed me yesterday was that it was 1k Tuesday again. This time they were going to put out 5 $100 posts, and one $500 post. Judging by the leaderboard for the day I think they might have put out as many as 7 $100 posts. I missed all of them as I woozily lay on the couch with the lap top in front of me, watching all day (whenever I was awake that is) for big money writing opportunities to show up. The only one that I managed to see was the $500 posting opportunity at about 7:50 pm. I tried for it, but of course didn’t get it.

Oh well, them’s the breaks. I did get that excellent posting opportunity last Tuesday, and there’s two more 1K Tuesdays coming up this month. Maybe I’ll snag something on one of those.

Even though I still feel like crap today I’ve been working hard, trying to make up for not really doing much if any internet work over the weekend. Chris had a short day at work too and he’s been working on making some funds too. We actually broke a personal record today and we are both on the leaderboard at the same time. It might not last for the rest of the day, but as of right now, we’re both listed as being in the top 10 money earners for the day:

leaderboard41107.gif

That’s me at the top, yeahhhh, and Chris is second from the bottom in the second column. Cool huh? Together you can see that we’ve made over $200 US. We actually made a bit more than that too because we each did some work for other companies too. Whoohoo! Boooyahhh!

Being sick at home and not knowing when or if I’ll be going back to work sucks, but I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the companies that have enabled me to make some money from home, and the advertisers who’ve made that possible too of course. I always try to do a good job when I’m writing – paid or unpaid. I do hope that visitors to this site enjoy all of the posts and excuse my “feverish thoughts” from time to time too.

I think it might be time to go and lie down again. Hopefully I won’t fall asleep again! If you don’t hear from me for a while I’m still here, still reading … I’m just trying to feel better is all, and uh … I’m probably surfing your site in a weird and uncomfortable position while on the couch. LOL

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Finance, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Make Money, Sales and Marketing, Writing Tagged With: blog, Blogging, computer, crohns, fever, fever cycles, feverish, gut rot supreme, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, laptop, laying on couch, medication, Money, pain, posting, posts, sick, sleeping, sleeping on couch, Sore, surf, typing, typing in weird position, Writing

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 92
  • 93
  • 94
  • 95
  • 96
  • …
  • 121
  • Next Page »

Connect with Us

  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Categories

Sites of Interest

Useful Links

Eavestrough Cleaning Toronto

Shopping

Gifts, Gadgets,
Books and More!

Recent Posts

  • Is your home well insulated or do you have energy leaks?
  • Pet Safety Tips
  • Top 10 Most Fundamental Yoga Poses For Beginners
  • Will My Interior Décor Stand The Test Of Time?
  • Outdoor Furniture- Spicing Up Your Backyard
  • Ensuring You Have A Good Experience Staying At Hotels With Children
  • Mother’s Day Cookies

Recent Comments

  • Bill on Top 10 Most Fundamental Yoga Poses For Beginners
  • [bonus]old school new body-f4x workout on Why does my husband always bring home the wrong stuff?
  • Rodhe Stevens on 5 Little Known Secrets To Finding Cheap (But Durable) Furniture
  • Julia Carlson on How To Install A Mosaic Tile Kitchen Backsplash
  • Humane Raccoon Deterrent Idea on Helped save a baby raccoon last night

Subscribe


Subscribe to our RSS Feed It's FREE!

Subscribe to Tricia's Musings by Email It's FREE!


Follow me on TWITTER

Find us on Google +



Find us on Facebook



I have two mottos-
1. Live life to the fullest; and
2. Don't have any regrets.

Get More Traffic

Visitors since 2006

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Search this site

Tags

blog blogs camera Canada Chris computer crohns dinner dog Family flower flowers Food friends funny garden Gardening Green Thumb Sunday Health and Fitness Health Fitness and Beauty holiday home Home and Lifestyle house husband IBD Inflammatory bowel disease Internet Music neighbors pain photo photos plants puppy Shopping sick sleep spring Toronto TV Video visit website Wordless Wednesday

Blogs I Visit

  • BlogTO
  • LifeCruiser
  • Rick Mercer
  • Ah Ok Lah
  • Eavestrough Cleaning Toronto

Copyright © 2026 · Lifestyle Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in