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Develop a Healthier Lifestyle Earlier In Life

I feel like I really need to make a plea with those who are under the age of 40. While you can, develop a healthier lifestyle by eating right and exercising. Throughout the course of my life I have been able to pretty easily take off any extra pounds that I might have gained. I thought it would happen again. After all, I have been exercising faithfully and eating well consistently for the past two months. Surely by now I should be seeing some results. Guess what? They are very slow in coming and I have determined that it’s due … Continue reading →

Confessions of a Foodie Mom—Week 5

“I had to have some to calm myself down,” my nine-year-old sobbed. “They [her brother and sister] are eating my very favorite candy in front of me on purpose and it’s going to be TWO YEARS before my braces come off and I can have it again. So I had to take some cookies to calm myself down.” Whoa. It’s not that the statement is shocking. My friends and I have commiserated with each other over our tendency to eat under stress, when alone, or otherwise emotional. It’s even become a pop culture joke—witness all the T-shirts and coffee mugs … Continue reading →

Confessions of a Foodie Mom, Week Two: Countering My Top Ten Sabotaging Thoughts

I’ll bite the bullet by putting the news up front: I am exactly the same weight today as I was last Saturday. At one point in the week I was down a pound; now I’m not. I do realize that fluctuations of two or three pounds can be water weight. So I guess I should be glad I haven’t gained. But I know I can do better. I mentioned last week that I was in a group this past spring that used the principles of Cognitive Therapy. Cognitive therapy is usually short-term counseling focused on helping people to reframe the … Continue reading →

Confessions of a “Foodie” Mom

Okay, here goes. Like Mary Ann said, I’ve often kept my weight loss efforts from people outside the immediate family. I figure if I succeed, they’ll notice, and if I fail, they won’t know I tried. (Hmm…I suspect that’s why some kids don’t try in school….maybe we adults are not so different from children after all.) But, sometimes accountability to someone else is easier than accountability to ourselves (I know that’s sad, but true.) So now I will be accountable to all of you. I’m a 40-year-old mom with three kids; the youngest is a kindergartener. I have been writing … Continue reading →

Ways to Work Out for Free

I’m in my third week of having a workout plan. It has been a great gift to myself because I have less stress, less headaches and more energy. And one of the best things about it is that other than having to purchase a couple of extra jog bras, I have spent zero dollars. Here is how. First, I take advantage of the weather and my local environment. Write outside my door is a neighborhood road that goes up and down hills. It is the perfect vehicle for interval training because there are periods of intensity and rest. Furthermore, I … Continue reading →

Two Dozen MORE Reasons to Lose Weight

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Losing weight will be CONVENIENT: • I will plan meals ahead of time, saving time at the store and at restaurants and fast-food establishments. • Eating only what I have planned will save time previously spent thinking about food, looking for a snack, eating extra food. • I will save time not sitting in doctor’s offices for weight-related illnesses. • I’ll save time shopping for clothes that fit! • I will save time by working thoroughly through the steps of this weight-loss program rather than have to do another weight-loss program later. The first stages of changing habits are the … Continue reading →

Two Dozen Motivating Reasons to Lose Weight:

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I’m happy to be guestwriting in this blog. You can also find me at the Adoption Blog here on Families.com, where I’ve written for over 2 1/2 years. Our responses to food are often not totally planned. Try programming your brain to think in new ways by reading, every morning and evening, your reasons for losing weight and possible things you can tell yourself in a tempting or difficult situation. Here are two dozen of my most serious motivations for losing weight. (My next blog will share two dozen more light-hearted–but sometimes no less motivating–reasons.)Maybe some of them are yours. … Continue reading →