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Family Home Evening: Goals

The new year is a great time to have a family home evening based on goals. It is important to teach your children how to set and achieve goals. It teaches how to progress and to achieve their dreams. It can also bring a great sense of accomplishment to them. During this lesson you may want to have your children set goals in specific areas. You can share the goals you are setting. It is great if you can work out a way to support each other throughout the process. You can open the lesson by sharing 2 Nephi 28:30. … Continue reading →

Looking Thinner Without Losing Weight

You have been dieting for about a month but with your class reunion in two weeks, you realize you are not going to hit your weight loss goal. This reunion is the big one, the reunion where you wanted to show off your new and improved self but now you have doubts that you will look as great as you wanted to look. Well, do not be discouraged. Keep eating healthy foods and exercising rather than getting frustrated and stopping. However, you can also do a few things to make yourself look thinner; giving the illusion that you did reach … Continue reading →

November Weight Loss Goals

November is just around the corner. The weather is turning crisp. In some areas of the world, it’s already downright cold. This often sends people into “slacking” mode and turns weight loss efforts into mush. To avoid weight loss pitfalls, make goals for yourself and stick with them. What are your weight loss goals? Have you set any yet? If not, now is a good time to think about it. With the holidays approaching, perhaps weight loss aspirations are too much for you. Perhaps you should set a goal to maintain your weight or make a goal of only a … Continue reading →

Staying Fit in Space

Have you seen the movie “Space Buddies?” The Disney flick follows five puppies as they wander onto a space shuttle and are “accidentally” shot into orbit. After the dogs blast off they hook up with a Russian cosmonaut who has been in space for a very long time. He doesn’t say exactly how long he’s been in orbit, but from the looks of his long beard, unruly hair and skinny body, it’s been a while. I thought about the movie’s cosmonaut while reading a new NASA-sponsored study, which suggests that changes are needed to improve the in-flight exercise regimen of … Continue reading →

Happy Halloween! Monsters & Ghouls & Workouts Oh My!

Good morning and Happy Halloween – if you’re like most families, you’re probably laying in the candy to hand out to the trick or treaters tonight. Be sure to incorporate some other items to give out so that you aren’t overloading the kids with too much candy. Little canisters of play-doh or other small toys like plastic rings are a great idea for the trick or treat crowd. Still others of you are probably going to be on the run getting the kids ready for their Halloween parties at school (not to mention that school is going to be on … Continue reading →

Friday Fitness Thoughts – Your Thoughts Wanted

I’ve been writing the Fitness blog here for more than seven months. I actually got started on writing this Fitness blog in November of 2005. It’s hard to believe that it was nine months ago that I began this journey with Families.com after submitting my information and resume along with my list of ideas for writing about fitness. Those of you who may read my blogs on a regular basis may have seen me bounce around to the various different topics and currently I write regularly for the Marriage and Baby blogs, though I have done a lot of work … Continue reading →