From October 10 – December 8, 2017 Head to Dailey Method Fitness Studio For Your Health and Win Some Prizes I’m committing to a 60-day challenge at my favourite cycle and barre studio, Dailey Method, and heading back hard to the classes that helped me so much this past year! I would love to see…
Category: GLV Spruces Up
Calming Skin Treatments By Apothekari
Apothekari – Pharmacist Designed and Locally Made When I was getting ready for my wedding, which was exactly five months ago as of tomorrow, I was taking a lot better care of myself and the results were obvious. I was watching what I ate and drank more closely, and working out a ton. I also…
The Dailey Method – Catching Up With Vancouver Studio Owner Jey Wyder
What Exactly Is This Dailey Method All About? I’ve been working out at the Dailey Method since about September and I’m totally addicted to their Dailey Cycle Classes and go at least 2 or 3 times a week. The cycle class is 35-40 minutes cycling and then 20 minutes of floor exercises such as planking,…
BMISmart Weight Loss Challenge
My BMISmart Journey to Better Health For those who’ve been following me of late, you may have noticed a lot more posts on health, fitness and good food on Good Life Vancouver and on our social media accounts. AND you may have noticed pictures of me where I appear, slightly smaller, AND that’s because I…
Alfa Renaissance and the HydraFacial MD Treatment
Start Fresh With a HydraFacial When you are choosing a skin care provider, especially when it involves procedures on the most visible and sensitive part of your body, your face, it’s essential that you choose someone very reputable and a clinic that explains everything to you extremely thoroughly. There’s a lot of “deals” out there…
Stop Bouncing Around – Get The Right Sports Bra With Diane’s Lingerie
Diane’s Lingerie Gift With Purchase – Anita Panty & Sports Bag with Any Anita Sports Bra until January 28, 2017 Diane’s Lingerie has been my go to for bras every since I discovered them a few years ago. The bra fitter is an expert and checks to guarantee you’ve got the right fit. Don’t be shy, the…
Fitness Fridays – On Cloudflyer Runners
Taking Cloudflyer Runners For a Run I’ve been running on and off for years and gone through my fair share of running shoes. This fall I decided to hit the pavement once again and, while visiting Kelowna, I went to the always trust-worthy athletic store, Fresh Air Experience for a new pair of runners. No matter what…
RYU High Tech Fitness Wear
RYU – Made By Athletes For Althetes What’s Canadian and rhymes with “You”? Well RYU active wear of course, a new brand that takes athletic technology to the next level. I first experienced RYU in bag form with their Daily Duffle, billed as “The Gym Bag, Reinvented”, which keeps its shape whether empty or full…
Sprucing Up At The Glamoury
Looking For A One Stop Shop For Make Up and Hair? The Glamoury Delivers On Glam! Over the years I have got a bit better at make up application and hair doing, but it’s not really my forte. I really do need serious help in this department and was super excited to discover a new…
Wedding Count Down – Skin Prep at Vital Wellness/Margo Dalinghaus
Wedding Count Down Is On After attending the wedding of my very good friends this past weekend, I am suddenly acutely aware that I better get planning my own! We’re going to be covering a few things in our new wedding count down series. My amazing friend, Summer Dhillon, looked like royalty alongside her king, Patrick…
Revlon Nutri Color Creme
Revlon Nutri Color Creme Brightens Up Dullying Color I like my hair black and it’s been that way for a while, but in the summer I lived a little on the wild side added some red streaks and loved it. Below is my Selfology Hair colour and style, read more about that here as it was a great…
Dailey Method Barre and Spin in One
I’ve had a couple months at The Dailey Method fitness classes, mostly the cycle class as I crave the cardio; I am renewing my membership this weekend as I miss it so much. I thought I’d delve a little deeper into the method behind the “method”. I posed a few questions to Jey Wyder, Co-owner and Master Instructor at…
Stops and Starts – Fitness Battles
Having just returned from a rather difficult, but rewarding class at The Dailey Method, I’m reflecting on my last few months of stops and starts in the endless battle for fitness and health so I can plan for success in 2016. There’s also only ONE DAY LEFT to win the 3 month PLUS 1 month membership…
Fitness Fridays – The Dailey Method and Ice Breaker – GLV Spruces Up
Continuing GLV Spruces Up with The Dailey Method Studio Well it’s been a week since I started Dailey Method Barre and Cycle Classes and I’ve now been five times and have the stickers to prove it! (I’m also in the photo above, but WAY, WAY in the back – I swear). Keeping accountable is the…
CONTEST CLOSED! Commit to Fit – Four Weeks with Carl From Subway
Congrats to Pam and to all that partcipated in the Commit to Fit journey. We have another giveaway and fitness challenge for ourselves and you coming up TUESDAY! As you may have noticed on twitter, we are participating in Carl’s Crew Commit to Fit, sponsored by Subway Canada for four weeks and will have some tips,…
Selfology Spa Does Exceptional Hair
“The Best You in The Best World” is the mantra of Selfology Spa, located conveniently near my Kitsilano home at 16th and Granville. I certainly do feel so much better each time I visit. Aren’t we all working on being our best, even if we forget to think of ourselves and our mental and physical…
Fitness Friday – Jawbone Fitness Tracker UP24
If you are a bit of a tech geek like me, you’ll get addicted to the Jawbone Fitness and Sleep Tracker. This attractive looking wristband tracks not only exercise, but calories burned, and hours slept and can even track your food intake should you care to enter it, which I actually don’t. It also has a…
Aging Gracefully
Now that I’m in my 40’s, I have other issues than when I was I was oh so fresh and young. My skin was pretty good to me growing up, however, now if I stare too long in the mirror, I notice the skin on my face is a little, or perhaps, a lot less tight….
Fitness Fridays Long Walks and Blue Sky
Not sure how you did with your fitness goals over the holidays, but I am going to give myself a C+ in the category. I ended up pulling a muscle in my back, and got a throat infection, but I still got out for long walks almost everyday. Now that I am not hacking up…
Fitness Fridays Steve Nash Fitness And Diane’s Lingerie
Yes, you did read that headline correctly. We will be doing Fitness Fridays and Steve Nash Fitness World AND Diane’s Lingerie are an important part of this first post. Each week I’ll be featuring something fun that will help me, and therefore possibly you, achieve my/your fitness goals. The first week I had to get myself…
