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This week I had the extreme pleasure of chatting with some clients about their meals and how we could improve them for better health and weight loss.  The recurring theme, it’s too hard to cook for just me, for 1 (or 2). This really got me thinking…when do we decide that cooking is too much work?  When is it not work?  Is this a belief that happens when we have kids?  Do people who don’t have kids think this way too?  What about kids (the adult kind with homes of their own)  And why do people eat?  What makes eating/cooking enjoyable?  Does it have to be enjoyable? So first I called my own 23 year olds asking 1) if they cook?  2) where do they eat?  and then called a few friends with kids in similar situations.  Yes they can and do cook, often because it’s cheaper than going out for all their meals.  They are split on whether they...Read More

     Ever had something you’ve been thinking about for a while and then all the sudden you just need to do it right now? Well for quite a while I have been wanting to spice up my wall that I do a lot of workout videos in front of…and by spice, I mean GLITTER!!  And 2 weeks ago, during one of my video rants I declared (yes, declared, it is a much stronger statement than said or told you) that I would glitter paint the wall by the following week.  Keep in mind the idea of a glitter wall came a couple years ago while we were painting our deck and I say a bag of paint glitter in the paint department and that was all I knew about glitter walls.  Also, I do not do the painting in our house nor do I generally care if Hubby wants to paint as long a s I don’t have to...Read More

The last official week of summer…you know, the one right before Labor Day Weekend and then the kids head back to school, the weather suddenly has a crispness to it, windows are left open overnight, pools come down, sweaters and jeans are pulled out aaaaaaaand all of those fall activities start!  High School Football games, after school programs, pre-Holiday functions are just around the corner…. aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! And as moms, we get organizing! Who is driving whom to what activities and just as important, who is picking them up?  Who is making supper?  Do we have all the ingredients?  Are all of the lunch makings in the pantry?  Did I pick up the birthday present for the party?  The bathroom, ugg.  ARE WE OUT OF COFFEE????!!!! And just when we thought we were going to catch a little break when the kids are in school we can’t resist signing up to volunteer in the kids’ classrooms or at their sporting events…...Read More

A little about my hormonal filled journey 6 years ago I started sobbing uncontrollably. I had no idea why. My husband stood there asking what he could do. Nothing. There was nothing he could do because I had no idea what was happening. I wasn’t bothered or stressed at work, things were fine at home. Life, as it were, was peachy. Except for this urge to cry for no apparent reason. I worked more on my mindset….that must be the problem. I worked more….after all the kids were not around quite so much, high school, jobs and sports. I started every day with a cup (or 2) of espresso and ended every night vegging in front of the tv with a mega glass of wine. I couldn’t sleep. Or more accurately, stay asleep, I saw 1-3am every dang day. Was it really a wonder that I needed coffee each morning. And as I passed that 40th birthday, I realized the...Read More

Do you ever read a line from a book and it just stops you, makes you go back and read it a couple more times and then just have to think about it? I was reading, “The Virgin Diet” by JJ Virgin a few years ago and quite honestly had a couple of those moments.  First though you need to know that I literally avoided reading this book for months just because of the title, when I finally realized it was the authors last name I felt pretty silly. So she has 7 foods she calls out for their inflammatory properties…no problem there, I had definitely been on board with all of them.  But then she goes on to say, “you are what you eat ate.” “You are what you eat ate.” What a flashing light bulbs, sirens moment!  I understood that corn was bad for me personally and that when I ate corn my head began to itch and...Read More