Nov. 19th

Hello Girls,

We are happy to say "Feel Fit" had a beautiful kiosk at the information day in Fort Coulonge called "Breaking The Walls of Silence."
Marllyn, Shirley, Tina and myself spent the day at the High School lettng people know about our "Feel Fit" Program. Many people attended the day and we made new contacts who are very interested in starting a program  like Feel Fit!
Seniors so need motivation to stay active. The older we get the more get up and go we require.
Sometimes we wonder where our get up and go went!

I am pleased to have returned from Cuba  where the weather and ocean were wonderful! I walked the beach, played in the ocean and joined the aquactic class in the ocean. Lots of arm exercises were in the program.

We welcome new member Donna C. to our Feel Fit Family. Set your goals and try to get a buddy to keep you going Donna.

We send all our good vibes to Lise who had surgery yesterday. We wish you a speedy recovery.

Our next meeting will be at the Cafe 349 on Sun. Dec. 6th. Virginia Scwartz will be speaking on her trek in Nepal and her exxperience hiking through avalange conditions. Please let me now if you are attending ASAP.

Fitfully Yours,
Muriel

Hello Girls,

It has been many days since I have posted on our page. Much has happened to us all and I do hope we are stronger and staying healthy. We completed our 5 Yoga Retreat this Sept. and I am planning on another one in the Spring. April 15-18.  I'll let you know the details later.

The fall is always my favorite time of year as I love to hear the rustling of fallen leaves beneath my feet as I walk on the PPJ.

Speaking of walking I am very proud of France for completing her three day trek in the Dingle Peninsula. Ireland.  She will be speaking at our Oct. 25th meetiing at the Cafe 12:30 pm.. France will have many details to share with us and it will be a very informative talk.
A number of us walked with her from Campbell's Bay to Shawville on Sat. Aug. 29th. to help hher get into shape. We had a great time celebrating afterwards.

For our Sept. meeting a group of us walked the Terry Fox Walk and contributed to a very valuable cause.

Hope to see you out for our Oct. 25th meeting.. Al are welcome. Just let me know if you are coming.

Fitully Yours,
Muriel

Words from Muriel

Hello Girls,

How you are all enjoying this LOVELY wet weather!!!

We have returned from the Yoga Retreat feeling stronger and ready to take on the warmer weather??

Activities for this month are getting ready for the Relay for Life  which takes placeMay 31st. The Feel Fit girls do not have a team this year as many of you are on other teams. So good luck with your preparation and fund raising. If you are not involved with a team and want to sponsor some one I know Monica, Connie and myself are all walking. Feel free to give us a donation. Anyone else looking for sponsorship let me know.

Julia's Spring classes are in full swing and I am resuming yoga this week. Mon there is a slight change in time am yoga at10:00 instead of 10:30 am. (just this week as I have a noon commitment.)

Katharine Fletcher is having her first SOLO art show May 12  (7-9) at the Mud Oven on 1065 Bank St. Ott. just north of Sunnyside. In the Chinese Calendar this is the Year of The Horse and Katharine loves horses  hence her show depicting horses! Please join Katharine on May 12 and if you can't that evening the show will be on for a few weeks following.

We are pleased to introduce 2 new members Linda Hay and Fran Doyle. Both girls were on the Yoga retreat and we wish them success with their fitness goals.

Remember our next meeting will be June 8th, 12:30 at the Cafe. Please plan on attending and let me now asap so we can inform the cafe. I'll confirm our guest as soon as I have confirmation.

Please let us know asap if you plan on renewing your membership as we will be going through our contacts and deleting any non  renewed members this month.

Fitfully Yours,

Muriel 

Words from Muriel

It was good to see so many Feel Fit members yesterday at our Women's WELLNESS DAY.  I am sure you are all inspired to  continue your fitness journey . Kathie Donovan has a great gift  of inspiring women.

I am pleased to say we honored 7 members with letters for their bracelet. Congrats to Lyn, Katharine, Darlene, Velma,  Betty and Madeline on receiving letters.

We welcome 4 new members to our FEEL FIT FAMILY: Ann, Janey, Inger and Jenny. Good luck on your fitness journey. Remember to set realistic goals and put  your chart where you can see it. (ie the fridge)

This year if you are a new or renewed member for 2014-15 you will receive privileges from Gwendoline's Boutique, Shawville Shoe Shop, Cafe 349, Norway Bay Golf and  Muriel's Yoga. New Feel Fit members will receive 1 free pilate's class at Julia Clarke's Body by Design. Look at the attachment to see what each business is offering. 

Our next meeting is Sun. June 8th at 12:30 and I will let you know more details regarding the day asap.

A number of us are off to a yoga retreat in Alexandria this week so think of us and wish us good energy as we get stronger physically and spiritually.

Fitfully Yours,

Muriel

The 7th Women's Wellness Meetin

Thanks to everyone who joined us on Saturday, Feel Fit had a successful 7th annual meeting on Saturday, April 26. 

The meeting started with Muriel's opening, following by the inspiring and cheerful speech from our guest speaker - Kathie Donovan who was the co-host of Regional Contact on CTV for 24 years and now a public speaker, life artist and author of "Inspiration in Action". Through her life experiences and stories, she encourages women to focus on the truly important factors of being optimistic, embrace life and make stuff happen.

Here are some of the event pictures. What a wonderful time to spend with you ladies! Stay well and feel fit! 

 

Day 43

Well Day 43 almost half way through my 90 day detox! Yes I am pleased with the results so far.  I as mentioned in previous blogs have a much less coughing.

I feel a need to stay honest because of the Feel Fit girls who know I am doing this and also because I have committed to writing this blog.

So her is the honesty, I fell of the no sugar detox and had several tlbs of honey and cinnamon. I had just read on face book how honey and cinnamon have many health benefits and I wanted something sweet so chose to believe it at that moment. However what was going to be only 1 tlbs turned into 3-4! I repeated the honey/cinnamon fix a week later.

I also fell of the no wine/ alcohol last Friday evening and had 2 glasses of white wine. Barb  felt I should celebrate  my half way mark in the detox. It was something about 40 days and 40 nights. Mind you it didn't take a lot of convincing. 

I treated myself this week to a coconut /pineapple milkshake. It was a little flat so I added dates and sunflower seeds. The dates gave it the sweetness I required.

Thank goodness more restaurants are adding gluten free choices to their menus. Last Mon. after visiting family in Carelton Place we found a restaurant "Bally Giblins which had a full page of gluten free choices!

To my surprise Billy T's had gluten free individual size pizza's. 

Pizza is one of the fast foods that I missed the most and now thank goodness I can get it now right in Shawville Domino's have a very good gluten free pizza as well.

I have to thank Ruth at the Cafe for her excellent gluten free pasta salad she made today for our Feel Fit meeting.

Now wish me luck as I continue towards the second half of the detox! I have not gotten sick. Touch wood!

Muriel