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How Are Your Resolutions Coming?

As the end of the first week of our New Year approaches, New Year’s resolutions are in full swing! Most commonly people vow to lose weight and get into better shape during the New Year. With the first day of January comes hope and the thought that this is a new beginning. Toss the previous year’s failures to the wind and start forging ahead towards your renewed goals for the upcoming year. Single parents find themselves making resolutions to get in shape as well but also for better time management. Frequently I will write on topics related to time management … Continue reading →

New Year’s Resolutions – A Family Challenge

Every adult has experience in failed New Year’s resolutions. I am going to quit smoking this year, I am going to knit a pair of mittens, I am going to stop writing all my blog posts while working at my real job (umm…) – no matter what it is that we had planned to do, by mid-January those dreams have been dashed by nasty combination of a lack of will, an overabundance of time commitments and by the uninvited visit from our best buddy, Captain Lazy Face. This year, in an effort to motivate yourself to begin a resolution and … Continue reading →

New Year’s Resolutions – Where Do You Rank?

Are you ready with your New Year’s Resolutions? In just three short days, we bid farewell to 2006 and welcome 2007 into our lives. It seems like just yesterday we were facing the Y2K crisis as we prepared to roll the calendars over from 1999 to 2000 and now, we are just three years shy of turning it to 2010. I remember reading an article in 1999 that described the fact that we were living in an age when science fiction was no longer a fairytale, but becoming fact. No, we don’t have bases on the moon, but we are … Continue reading →

Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda – Resolutions & Change

It’s time for making new resolutions and changes. It’s a time for planning ahead to the New Year. It’s a time to think about the things you want to do and the changes you want to make in your life and for your life. The two most often made resolutions and most often broken are to eat less and exercise more. I’m sure if we made a plan to eat more and exercise less, we’d do just fine, but the truth is – we need to stop saying I should do this or I could do this or I would … Continue reading →

4 Tips to Help You Keep Your Resolution

As I blogged yesterday, my New Year’s Resolution is to lose weight – again.  The thing about making weight loss a resolution is that so many people do it (especially after all those holiday pounds!), but many fail to follow through. What can you do to keep your resolution?  There are a few hints from psychologist John Norcross on how to keep those resolutions: Believe it can be done. That’s right – don’t let the haters keep you down, saying “You can’t do that.”  Believe in yourself that you can succeed. Be realistic. I am never going to weigh 120 … Continue reading →

Women’s Fitness: A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

Helping your friends can really help you as well. Recent studies have shown that women who regularly support their friends have lower blood pressure and experience less stress. Does that make you more inclined to answer the phone the next time one of your friends call needing a shoulder to cry on? If not, then perhaps the other findings of the study will. Not only can helping your friends help you to maintain lower blood pressure and even reduce your own stress, it can help you build confidence as well as cultivating the types of interpersonal and intrapersonal skills that … Continue reading →

Home Design Trends—Where Do We Go From Here?

There’s nothing like starting your new year out with a home-improvement look that’s on it’s way out. I’ve spent the last week or so discussing decorating trends. I was inspired by a friend who recently created an interior masterpiece (and she doesn’t complain when I come over and drool on her newly tiled floors). My friend is not the only one jumping on the remodeling bandwagon. According to research conducted by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, in the past decade, almost 30 million homes have been “significantly upgraded.” The study revealed that the fastest-growing segment of the market … Continue reading →

Every One Needs a Day Off

As a good friend reminded me yesterday, working hard is great and it makes you dependable and reliable. These are fantastic qualities in the people in our lives – when we know we can rely on them and we can depend on them. But those who work hard and who populate the hours of their life with commitments and things to be done forget that along with working hard – taking down time is of equal importance. It’s important that our families can depend on us to not be so overworked and stressed that we forget what it is like … Continue reading →

Resolving to Exercise & Eat Right

Yes, it’s the day after New Year’s and for many of us that means heading back to work and the regular day-to-day activities that may have slipped over the last couple of weeks of the year. That means taking along your new year’s resolutions and putting them into practice as you get the kids back off to school, you return to work and other activities begin again. Consider the Following Ladies, consider the following as you try to blend your new resolutions in with your regular activities and you begin to change your shopping and activity habits – a new … Continue reading →

How to … Practice the Correct Technique

We discussed the fact that boredom is a factor in maintaining your workout program and not falling into a trap. There is another danger that can make you give up your workout before you have achieved your goals or felt any measured success. This trap is performing a workout incorrectly. Correct Form Every form of exercise has a correct form from walking to running to weight lifting to dancing in an aerobic class. You need to understand how to perform the exercises correctly so that you can maximize your results and minimize your risk of injury. While new exercises are … Continue reading →