So are you one of those people who “hates the cold”? Do you use “it’s too cold to walk/run/do anything ouside” as an excuse to avoid physical activity from October to March? I used to hate wintertime too (well, except for Christmas and my birthday) and now people think I’m a freak because I have [...]
So many people claim to know what the ONE thing is that has turned our country from normal sized humans into overweight and obese people. Some claim it’s high fructose corn syrup, others blame McDonald’s, many say it’s the prevalence of soda pop, still others say we’re just “lazy Americans.” The reason I want to [...]
I would guess that most of us understand the value of goal setting. It allows us to create a plan and get and do the things we want in this life. So why don’t we all do it? Is it the fear of failure? Is it the fear of success? Perhaps we don’t believe we [...]
Last week was Thanksgiving–or have you forgotten already? Did you “miss the target” as it were? Did you have the best intentions to eat only until you were satisfied and not until you were stuffed? Were you planning to take dainty sips of low calorie beverages and ended up chugging egg nog straight from the [...]
I cry at the end of “Terms of Endearment.” I cry at the end of “Rudy.” Sometimes I even cry at the end of “Forrest Gump,” but the one that really, really gets me is “The Biggest Loser.” I’ll be doing dishes and sweeping the floor and cheering and crying for those contestants. They are [...]
I was reading Shape magazine at the gym today and there was an an article about a woman’s weight loss journey. I think she had lost about 40 pounds or so and was doing really well. She was feeling healthy, attractive and “flirty” and was excited about the new clothes she got to wear. The [...]
I just read the announcement on People Magazine about “How Jennifer Garner got her Body Back.” I thought, was it stolen from her on-set trailer? Perhaps she left it in a first class seat on a trans-Atlantic flight. Oh, dear, had she loaned it to somebody because she was too tired to do another romantic [...]
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? Your are a child of [...]
Lyrics from Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”:
I know a woman, became a wife
These are the very words she uses to describe her life
She said a good day ain’t got no rain
She said a bad day’s when I lie in bed
And think of things that might have been
I was twenty years old and was driving down [...]