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It Happened this Week: Mother’s Day Gifts, Playground Workout, and Diabetes Guilt

May 7, 2010

Flowers and candy are nice touches on Mother’s Day, but Forbes has a few ideas of “experience gifts” — ways that you and your mom can bond together — whether it’s taking a bike ride, a cooking class, or indulging in a spa day…together. It was around this time last year that Lauren Herskovic won [...]

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On Rainy Mondays & Physical Activity (& Ducks)

March 29, 2010

I wish I had a good camera with me on the way to work this morning.  As I drove over Red Bridge, I noticed three ducks dancing on the edge of the receding ice above the dam that separates Echo Lake from Lake Pauline.  It was a lovely sight that underscored for me the beauty [...]

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Back to Basics

January 26, 2010

Well, for some reason which I’m not too sure, I’ve gone and buggered up my back again. So much so, that I’m finding it a bit challenging to sit at my desk and write this post. (pity not required). The two things I am very inconsistent about (stretching and ab work), have taken shape in [...]

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Tennis Anyone?

November 24, 2009

I just read a blog post entitled, “Exercise Equipment You Don’t Need” by Kalvin Chinyere, M.D. , whose blog, ‘Dr. Kal’s Weight Loss Tips’ , includes some wise and down-to-earth advice, so you should check it out. Included was this little gem to a reader, “Always establish the habit for free if you can. Then [...]

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It Happened This Week: PCOS, Exercise for Healthy Bones, Magazine Advice & Making Changes

November 13, 2009

Monika Woolsey, registered dietitian and founder of the inCYST network for women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), has spent the week here at our women’s healthy weight loss program leading our first-ever intensive week-long program for managing PCOS.  Monika also blogged this week about why living an anti-inflammatory lifestyle is important for healthy skin. Moving [...]

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It’s Time To Bump It Up

November 11, 2009

I’ve been moving happily along during my stay at Green Mountain’shealthy weight loss program, losing inches off my body and completely whipping my body into better shape.  But now I’ve hit a wall.  I’ve hit a challenge in my fitness journey. When your body is being whipped into shape it eventually decides that if you [...]

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Dancing with the Stars

October 20, 2009

I enjoy watching Dancing With The Stars.  Corny? Ok, but even from the beginning — when it was really corny — I was hooked. Not because I’m a big ballroom fan, but because these D-list celebrities really seem to be authentic in their desire to do well and even to win. Most put their heart [...]

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It Happened This Week: Vitamin D, the Hormone, the Freshman 15 and Juggling for Fitness

September 25, 2009

Turns out Vitamin D — the sunshine vitamin –  isn’t actually a vitamin at all.   It’s a hormone, and a pretty powerful one, too (are any of them not?).  Check out the Vitamin D Council for info and a do-it-yourself test for vitamin D levels that you can do in your own home.  If you [...]

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Getting Fit: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

August 11, 2009

Opinions — everybody has one, right? Among the opinionated, falls the reformed exerciser. You recognize them, the ones who enjoy sharing what exercise regime works best. And somewhere mixed in all that enthusiasm, can be a lot of unsolicited advice about what they think might work better —  for you.  Sometimes ’the reformed’ can be a little too quick to forget [...]

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It Happened This Week: Diet Sodas, Body Image Heroes & Getting Over Fat Phobia

July 3, 2009

Should we or shouldn’t we…drink diet sodas?  Experience Life Magazine weighs in.  My bottom-line thoughts:  If we’re using them to mask hunger, we need to be ingesting calories instead.  Things like diet soda may drive hunger underground for a while, but hunger always wins. Dara Chadwick, author of You’d be so pretty if…., tells us [...]

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