March 9th, 2009
Sometimes I have to stop and put my health above all else and make it my number one priority, shifting priorities on the fly when the situation necessitates it. One night last week, I was all set to head to a board meeting when it dawned on that I was absolutely exhausted. Probably had to do
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Filed under: Optimal Health, Prevention, Time Management | 2 Comments
March 2nd, 2009
I’ll be the first to tell you that I struggle with drinking enough water everyday. Some days I do really well, but many days out of the week I don’t drink enough, despite my best intentions. But the truth of the matter is that I feel exponentially better when I’m drinking plentiful amounts – lots
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Filed under: Healthy lifestyle, Optimal Health, Water | No Comments
February 27th, 2009
I can’t imagine life without my dear friends who are my support network, cheering squad and a constant source of laughs. And you know what? The friends we have, that we cherish and enjoy spending time with, are a key componenet of creating a healthy life. Study after study has found that people with at
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Filed under: Family and Friends, Heart Health, Optimal Health, Relationships | 2 Comments
February 24th, 2009
One of my new favorite tools to support healthy eating and exercise is fitday.com. Are you one of the millions of people who are already familiar with the power of Fitday? If not, now’s the perfect time to learn more about his handy, useful tool to help you stay on track with your health. I
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Filed under: Eating Less, Mindful Eating, Optimal Health, Weight Management | 1 Comment
February 13th, 2009
To me, Valentine’s Day is best when we truly take care of ourselves and practice guilt-free self-love. The kind of thing we should be doing year round but often wait until now, when a spark of inspiration or wisdom hits us. You know, that glimmer of, “I’m driving myself into the ground, not eating well
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February 8th, 2009
I spent the greater part of today doing nothing and my body and mind are seriously thanking me. Creating a healthy lifestyle, having sufficient energy, avoiding illness and feeling our best requires a mix of various ingredients and often a degree of experimentation to get it just right. Healthy eating and exercise are part of
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Filed under: Body wisdom, Healthy lifestyle, Optimal Health, Slowing Down, Tuning in | 1 Comment
January 27th, 2009
There’s something about quality that trumps quantity every time. In this case, I’m talking about the quality of the food that we eat, but this same principle could easily be applied to almost anything in our lives – spending quality time on what’s most important, having quality relationships over a bevy of friends, having one
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Filed under: Eating Less, Healthy lifestyle, Healthy Meals, High Quality Food, Optimal Health | 2 Comments
January 11th, 2009
A snowy day is the perfect time to relax, unwind and take care of our health (assuming it happily falls on the weekend, of course). I revel in days like this, look forward to them. I read more, rest more and love spending time in the kitchen making healthy dishes. But it wasn’t that many years
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Filed under: Optimal Health, Self-care, Slowing Down, Winter | 1 Comment
