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September 24th, 2014 Today's helpful tool in this sugar-free quest that crossed my screen this morning is a new app that helps you shop. Boy do I need this. Making food judgements in a grocery store is super hard for me – considering I don't spend much time in them. This app looks like something worth trying, . . . → Read More: How Good?
September 22nd, 2014 Over the weekend several people have joined the 10,000 step/beat sugar challenge. I'm in the gearing up phase – yesterday that meant finishing all the chocolate hidden in the freezer. Today I am going to read the packaging of everything I eat and tally up the grams (including my New Lifestyle Diet food I . . . → Read More: Beat It!
September 21st, 2014 Yesterday I announced my intention to participate in Michael Wood's 10,000 step challenge. Today I don't think I could do the sugar part – abstain from added sugar for the whole month – without doing some sort of gearing up during these last few weeks of October. I need some mental preparation and lots . . . → Read More: Gearing Up
September 20th, 2014 Now that we have all participated in the ice bucket challenge, how about challenging yourself to improve your health during the month of October? My friend, Michael Wood, Chief Fitness Officer for Koko FitClubs, has presented us with The 10,000 Step Wellness Challenge. Ok, I'm interested because I already have half of it locked . . . → Read More: Are You Up For It?
September 20th, 2014 Now that we have all participated in the ice bucket challenge, how about challenging yourself to improve your health during the month of October? My friend, Michael Wood, Chief Fitness Officer for Koko FitClubs, has presented us with The 10,000 Step Wellness Challenge. Ok, I'm interested because I already have half of it locked . . . → Read More: Are You Up For It?
April 29th, 2014 Eleven years ago I began strength training when I got my diagnosis of severe osteoporosis. The doctor told me the medicine would stop the bone loss, but the only way to reverse it was to put weight on my bones. So, one who never exercised in her entire life, made her way to the gym . . . → Read More: I Never Knew That
February 9th, 2014 This weekend my Boston daughter and her friends came down to the cape for what they call their “winter retreat”. They bring comfy clothes, food and drink, and settle in for three days. They park the cars Friday night and don’t leave the house until they say goodbye sometime late Sunday.
This year they . . . → Read More: Breakfast In Bed
January 31st, 2014 This morning driving to Koko for a cardio and yoga session, I had a great opening line for this post, but now, back at home, after having my banana pudding mid-morning snack, this is the best I could do:
Hey, it encouraged me on this recent food journey. I’m ready to pack up my . . . → Read More: Food Journey
January 7th, 2014 …from 2013. And when the dog bites and the bee stings I’m grateful for them. I am the kind of person who loves anything that makes life easier. I can’t help sharing any piece of technology that alleviates an annoying thing or any food that helps maintain weight or make me feel better, or any . . . → Read More: And These Are A Few of My Favorite Things…
October 22nd, 2013
Today I write about awareness because awareness could’ve saved my mother’s life. She could still be here on this earth enjoying life with my dad and her children and grandchildren, but because thirty years ago there was no awareness about a terrible disease that eventually killed her, she is not.
Last night I went . . . → Read More: Awareness
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