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Give Yourself Weight Loss for the Holidays

by Heather Long

It's the holiday season and while Santa may be a jolly old soul with a belly that jiggles like a bowlful of jelly, that doesn't mean the rest of us are interested in the same.

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Brain Fitness: Learn Something New

by Heather Long

Learning something new helps to flex your mind and build your brain fitness up.

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Brain Fitness: Exercises to Improve It

by Heather Long

So we talked about the importance of brain fitness earlier today and we talked about warming up the brain. Now let's focus on some brain exercises that you can do. These exercises can be performed in any order and pick and choose the ones you like.

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Mirror, Mirror: Reinventing Your Own Self-Image

by Heather Long

It's easy enough to say that you love yourself and that you find yourself beautiful. It's easy enough to say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but many times we use these platitudes with only a wishy-washy sense of personal belief.

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Building Through Adversity

by Heather Long

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain Our lives are populated by challenge.

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Ladies, Do You Hate Your Body?

by Heather Long

I have a confession to make - I am not particularly fond of my body. It's not the exact shape I'd like it to be. It doesn't look like all those size 4 actresses on television and I'm not as tall as I'd like to be. One of my eyes squints funny when I smile and my teeth are not all straight.

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Fitness Tips: Building Up Your Self-Confidence

by Heather Long

There is truth in the statement that when you behave a certain way, it reflects on how you view yourself internally. Your internal views affect how you present yourself. So if you see yourself as someone who is weak, insecure and uncertain - that is how you will act.

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Balancing Our Lives

by Heather Long

Fitness is more than just exercising regularly. In fact, fitness is about balancing the body, the mind and the self. These three areas are what we need to take into consideration when we are caring for ourselves. This balance begins with the mind. It is a complex and powerful part of ourselves.

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Triathlon or Bust 1: True Confessions

by Laura Torres

I am not an athlete. In grade school, I was the last kid chosen for the dodge ball team. On cross country run days, I was the last one to finish. Or next to last. Me and the severely overweight boy struggling against the stigma of being the slowest kid in the fourth grade.

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Fitness Struggles for the Mentall Ill Person

by Gillian Markson

Exercise is hard. In fact, not exercising may be one of the all-time hardest habits to break, surpassing even smoking. Studies confirm what we already know: despite all the cheerleading health advice out there, Americans simply aren't getting enough exercise.

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