I really didn’t want to get up this morning.  I was so cozy in my warm bed.  I didn’t want to fight the icy roads and fog (see below) to get to the stationary bike and treadmill (I hate winter) for this morning’s workout.
I was already a little sore from yesterday’s lifting, and if I [...]

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Welcome to 2009!  It’s our year.  This is the year we take back our health and happiness.  This is the year we dump the unhealthy habits.  This is the year we commit to healthy lifestyle changes.  Who’s with me?
How many thousands (maybe millions) of people are resolving to get healthier this year?  Are you one [...]

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• What Does "Eating Healthy" Really Mean? With hundreds of different diet plans, exercise plans, fad diets and weight loss short cuts out there, it can be extremely difficult for people to figure out what healthy eating really means. Does eating healthy really have to do with downing protein shakes, drastically cutting calories, eliminating carbs and taking......
• What is "Natural Weight Loss" Exactly? Do you understand the concept of natural weight loss? If you want to promote successful, long term and permanent weight loss, then you need to employ natural weight loss efforts rather than turning to other methods for losing the extra weight. Natural weight loss is weight loss facilitated by eating......

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 A quick thought to get you started today.  I share this because everyday I see/hear ads that promote quick health fixes and miracle products.  You don’t need those products.  You need to make healthy lifestyle changes that you can stick with for the rest of your life. 
“People who have the most success, not just with [...]

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• How to Lose Weight Over the Long Term When you first start a diet, it's easy to get all excited about the amount of weight you're losing and how great you look. Unfortunately, most of us reach our goals and then go off of our diets. Within a few months, we may be back where we started, or......
• Are You Skinny Fat? (ie: if thin people don't exercise they aren't healthy) Do you know what it means to be skinny fat? Just because you are not obviously visually overweight, that does not mean that you are healthy by any means. There are many people that appear to be thin and healthy, but......

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It’s Monday.  Time for some motivation.  The following is a quote from Rick Pitino, currently the head coach for the Louisville men’s basketball team.
Coach Pitino has been a successful college coach and is the only coach to lead three different schools to the Final Four (Providence, Kentucky, Louisville).
“If you look closely at all great organizations, [...]

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• My Weight Loss Coach Nintendo DS I have always been a big fan of video games. I don't play them very often anymore...  if I do I usually stop after no more than a week.  I just have too much to do and too many other things that are more important.  That being said I ran......
• Speaking of ice storms... Brrrr.... I'm in the sunny south, so ice storms are not going to affect me, but when I was in high school, my family would take 3 weeks every February and travel to Florida with our little travel trailer. That was the best time for my dad to get off.......

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Change.  That’s a word we’ve all heard thrown around lately.  We (America) elected who we thought would be the best choice to lead our great country and we also were able to cast our votes for our local leaders.
Good.  We did our part for our country and we will continue to do so.  But what [...]

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Creating healthy habits can be hard.  In order to change our bad habits to good habits, we have to want to.  We have to have the willpower and determination to do it.  
Of course it is hard at first.  But with time it gets easier and easier to stick with the healthy changes.  
Everyday I [...]

• Laying the Foundation For Your Child's Future (Healthy Eating Habits) One of the ways that you should be laying the foundation for your child's future is to teach healthy eating and exercise habits young, so that those concepts will carry on until adulthood, and help your children lead healthy, active lifestyles for optimum health and well being. It can be......

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So, you want to live a healthy lifestyle?  I do too.  I think one of the first steps to living healthy is creating a plan and setting goals. 
Why plan?  Because, at least for me, it keeps me going.  When I have plans and goals for my health, I work harder to achieve them.  It is [...]

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• 4 Tips on How to Get Active Right Now If you're trying to turn your life around and start getting more exercise, that first step you take will be the hardest. It's always hard to make a change and stop taking the easy way out, but you're going to have to stay committed if you want to achieve......

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Here are some interesting excerpts from an article written by a woman who struggled with eating disorders and body image issues throughout her adolescence.  It’s titled What I Wish You Would Have Said from Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty:  
“I wish people would have commented more about my heart, my kindness, and my ability to make [...]

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Today I had the opportunity do a guest post at A Life Less Sweet. A Life Less Sweet is a great blog about a family’s journey as they strive to eat healthier.  I love the site and it’s always full of great information.  Check it out.
And now for the Quote of the Week:
“She didn’t diet; [...]

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