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Is healthy aging important to you? Are you interested in losing weight after 60? Let's explore how fitness and gentle yoga for seniors can help!

7 years ago

What is Your Weight Loss “Heart-Set” and Why Does it Matter After 60?

As a registered dietitian, the clients and patients I see are usually struggling with health issues such as overweight, obesity, insulin resistance, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, and more…

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7 years ago

Using Visualization to Lose Weight After 55 – You’ll Be Surprised That It Actually Works!

In my last post, I shared how I began the process of losing 50 pounds, and how learning to love myself as I was kick-started a healing process I didn’t know I needed. I began with implementing changes…

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7 years ago

Wow! FREE Gentle Yoga for Seniors and Beginners: Open Up and See What Your Body Can Do

A downward dog, a curling cat, an arching cow and a lying-down locust. What do the members of this unlikely menagerie have in common? They’re all poses you’ll encounter in the fourth and final installment of Sixty and Me’s free Gentle Yoga Flows…

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7 years ago

Need Another Reason to Avoid Excess Weight? How About Keeping Your Brain Healthy?

Many of us boomer women are aware that carrying around excess weight puts us at increased risk for diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, joint damage and falls…

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7 years ago

Yoga for Seniors Flow: Invigorate Your Body and Find More Energy (33-Minute Practice, FREE)

Welcome to Practice 3 of Sixty and Me’s Gentle Yoga Flows videos – and another opportunity to relieve a lifetime’s worth of accumulated stress and tension. Like all our free Gentle Yoga for Seniors and Chair Yoga for Seniors workouts…

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7 years ago

Find Your Tribe: Reach Your Goals with a Healthy Aging Community

In the US, a staggering 28% of adults over the age of 65 live alone. In recent years, a substantial amount of research has found that isolation in our later years increases the risk of adverse health events…

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7 years ago

How to Sleep Well and Get More from Life After 60

What pops into your mind when you think about the following question – what does it take to get the most from life after 50? If you are like most people, your thoughts probably jumped to suggestions like “being more productive” or “following your passions…”

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7 years ago

Senior Weight Loss 101: What Is the Microbiome Diet?

Our oldest daughter gave us a very special gift this past Christmas: two round trip tickets from Arizona to Minneapolis so we could spend four days after Christmas with her family. We laughed as we played games like Spoons, Telestrations, and Scattergories…

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7 years ago

Trouble Sleeping After 60? It May be Too Hot (or Cold) in the Bedroom

Sleep is a mysterious process.

For hours a day, we are whisked away to a magical world, fueled by our subconscious. As a result, we have a tendency to think of sleep as being out of our control. Read More

7 years ago

Full 37-Minute Gentle Yoga for Older Adults: Relax and Release the Tension in Your Body

Have you already discovered Practice 1 of sixty and Me’s Gentle Yoga Flows video workouts? Or simply someone who’s comfortable with our gentle yoga flow concept and looking for a fun…

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