With my recent revival of a weight loss regiment, I thought it timely to review the health and fitness apps I use on my iPhone X. These are not the only apps in the app store – obvious – but after trying literally hundreds of apps in various categories (food tracking, weight training, water monitoring,…
Author: Bruce Hayes
Continuous Weight Loss Acrobatics
It’s been quite a while since I started my blog – which originally began as a small side project to share my challenges and achievements along life’s path. One of those challenges is weight loss (or the lack thereof) which has been something I’ve struggled with for years. Like many people, I have become subject…
An Alaskan Cruisetour Adventure
In May of 2015, I had the opportunity to spend two weeks on a Royal Caribbean Cruisetour through Alaska which involved a week of cruise ship exploring (beginning in Vacouver and ending in Seward) and a week of Alaskan countryside via motorcoach and rail. To say that this was the trip of a lifetime is an…
Contemplation: The Art of Mindfulness
Several years ago, I had the opportunity to spend a weekend at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia. To be clear, this trip was intentionally planned. I was at a point in my life where I needed a ‘break from reality,’ if you will, and this weekend of solitude and contemplation offered…
iPhone Health & Fitness Apps 2016
After several years on hiatus, and having used almost every high-end android phone on the market, it was time to move back to the iPhone 6S Plus. Not because I despise Android or Google but because after buying a new MacBook Pro, I just needed an ecosystem that worked fluidly. The issue at hand was…
Why meditate? How? And why now?
It’s interesting to me just how polarizing the topic of meditation has been (and continues to be in certain pockets) in America. Luckily those views have changed and softened over the years – progressing from a “foreign” concept that was “anti-Christianity” to a widely accepted practice alongside yoga and Pilates. Nowadays, when you google meditation, you receive…
Going Big: Weight Loss Highs & Lows
“Go big or go home.” A catchy yet overused motto that has applied to me in the past. In the middle of 2013, I “went big” and signed up with a personal trainer. Not just any personal trainer but rather a high priced trainer at a highly rated boutique fitness center located in the heart…
Astral Unrest
The noon day sun Too fierce to allow for sustenance Too merciless to allow for travel Binded by the force of life. The midnight moon Too impending to allow for freedom Too controlling to allow for peace A constant battle – the sun and moon Two great forces tirelessly fighting Two great forms co-mingling in…
Inside
It stops at nothing, this hunger inside, until it is fed. It makes my stomach knot, this hurt inside, until I fall over in pain. It makes my breathing labored and harsh, this anxiety inside, until I shriek in agony. It makes the tears come over and over, this sadness inside, until I mourn all…
The Labyrinth
Complicated, it lay before Me, a web of choices, a web of challenges, a course in Life. Some paths long, with smooth arcs of russet. Others short, staggering, twisting, tiring. They lead toward wisdom and knowing, but yet seem afar. Astray. They approach the cliff’s jagged edge, but yet I remain solid. Sane. When I…