Category: health
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Finding Gratitude in Each Day
Have you noticed? All the New Year stuff is already starting to fade. While we are just 2 weeks into 2019, the healthy food sales are starting to wane. TV ads are changing back from Planet Fitness and Orangetheory to Papa Johns and Miller Lite. Keto and Whole30 are being exchanged for Valentine’s Day Chocolates.…
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A New Year – A Challenge to Lobsters Everywhere
What the heck? I’m starting to read the book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos to kick off this year. And I’m thinking of using the book as a month-by-month guide. One chapter each month. One rule to set into place. One new mind-set to focus on. The first chapter is titled “Stand…
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The first half of 2018…what the heck does it mean to be healthy anyway?
It’s hard to stay healthy in certain seasons of life – isn’t it? To me, May is right up there with Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the Super Bowl. In our home, it’s a month that is filled with birthdays, Mother’s Day, graduation parties, sports-viewings (so many sports), end of school events, city festivals…the list goes on…
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The struggle is real…and bad days are just part of life.
It’s been a hard day. Sometimes the struggle is real. While our brains know that first world problems are just that, they are still problems. They still make our days more complicated than we would like. The car is running weird. We accidentally pour decaf in our cup. Kids are sick, projects build up, checks…
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Food as a Love Language
I’m a foodie. I love shopping for food, preparing food, serving food. It’s creative, it’s calming. And on a day when I need to feel like I have closure on something, ANYTHING, building a fantastic meal from start to finish can often set my mind at ease. I’m somewhat confident that when Dr. Gary Chapman…
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Day 8 – 4 Easy Hacks for a Better 2018
This year has started a little rocky. As I mentioned before, I got sick on January 2. Welcome 2018! Don’t mind me….I’ll be over here buried in Kleenex and cough drop wrapped! And then my husband got sick. It was inevitable. I know. (Insert joke about what happens when men get sick here…) So I’ve…
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Love it or Leave it? LOVE GROWN Cereal
In the quest to eat healthy, I found these gems. It’s only been a few weeks, but I want to keep from getting bored with our food. I want to try new things. This wheat-free adventure is ridiculously hard for my foodie brain to comprehend. And breakfast is the most important meal of the day,…
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Time to get moving – with some Outkast!
OK — we’re in the new year. Are you ready to get moving? It’s day 4. Traffic is back to normal. Emails are coming in and the phone hasn’t stopped. What’s your motivation today? My day has started, well, frustrating. Things don’t seem any different. A week away from work just means a week farther…
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Pushing the Reset Button
It’s July 1. How did that even happen? I blinked, and suddenly we are half way through a year that feels like it just began. Wasn’t it just Valentines Day? Since Easter, I feel like I’ve been out of balance. Too much work. Not enough exercise. Not enough time with friends. Too many foods that…
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Monday Music Motivation — The Black Kids!
What music keeps you going at the gym? Is it some good 70’s funk? Maybe you need a New Wave blast from the 80’s. Hip hop, dance music or punk rock…what’s your choice? Today, that elliptical machine was taunting me when I walked in the gym. I reallydidn’t want to be there! It was…