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Are you ready for some footbaaaall!

January 31, 2012 8:28 AM

It seems New Year’s resolutions are barely off our lips when we face our first big dieting challenge … Super Bowl Sunday. In terms of home parties, the Super Bowl ranks #1, even beating New Year’s Eve celebrations and it ranks #2 in terms of calorie consumption, second only to Thanksgiving Day feasts. Super Bowl fans consume 4,000 tons of popcorn, 14,000 tons of chips and approximately 3,200,000 pizzas* – but who’s counting?

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Feeling stressed?

January 21, 2012 8:12 PM

What IS stress?

If you’re like me, you think of stress as the difficult happenings and hardships of life. It’s being short on time and long on obligations; short on cash and long on bills. In my mind, stress has always been the situations (or people) which make me feel, well, S-T-R-E-S-S-E-D! But that’s not the case …

In actuality, stress is our RESPONSE to those circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.

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DIET or LIFESTYLE CHANGE: Which do you really want?

January 15, 2012 6:42 PM

Most will answer, of course, "LIFESTYLE CHANGE!" But before you answer too quickly, think about what that means. Do we really want to CHANGE our LIVES?

And what's the difference anyway?

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Sound familiar?

January 10, 2012 1:23 PM

Everything in life has a cycle. Whether it's a business, an idea, or some form of life – all things are conceived, born, grow, peak, decline and die. Even diets have a lifecycle that is familiar to us all.

Conception: “I think I need to lose weight. I know I need to lose weight. I’m going to go on a diet.”

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Best way to lose weight? Eat a big, fat bullfrog every morning.

January 4, 2012 6:13 AM

There’s an old saying that if you wake up in the morning and eat a live frog, you can go through the day knowing that the worst thing that can possibly happen to you that day has already happened. Popularized in Brian Tracy’s book Eat That Frog! (see cute link below), the idea here is that you tackle the biggest, hardest, and least appealing task FIRST every day, so you can move through the rest of the day knowing that the worst is over with.

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You Can’t Get There From Here (Without a Map)

December 27, 2011 10:11 AM

Thanks Pam (sine-metu) for
your wonderful words of encouragement and honesty to motivate us all. ENJOY!

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One more person to add to your gift list ...

December 20, 2011 9:13 AM

Shoppers around the country say they are planning to spend an average of $646 for gifts this holiday season, down from $658 last year.* Budgets are tight and spare time seems to be even tighter. But with all the hustle and bustle this season brings, there is one more person you need to add to your holiday gift list ...

YOU.

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GO TEAM GO!

November 29, 2011 11:25 AM

I used to hate football season. Actually, it was just what the sportscasters used to say that bothered me. Hearing them talk about the immense size of football players – (in my best newscaster voice) “These guys are massive. Weighing in at 250 pounds, this linebacker could take out a tank.” Hearing this, as I drove my car, I would just sit there and shake my head. I was a 5’-6” female that outweighed these football players by one hundred pounds!

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