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Week One: How Do I Measure Up? Get a Baseline of How You are Doing! How do you measure your success if you don’t know where you are? This is why you need an initial weigh-in. Use the weekly weigh-in sheet to track your weight and see if you are maintaining. If your weekly sheet [...]

Over the past several months, I have not kept up with my blog. During that time it had gone down due to technical difficulties and I had not even noticed. I can be tough on myself for not achieving the goals that I have set. Many of you can relate to this concept. However the [...]

How did you do maintaining your weight over the holidays? It is not easy. If you maintained, you did a really good job! Even if you gained one or two pounds, you can easily work to get back to your weight before the holidays. Now that you have survived the holiday season, it is now [...]

The holidays are coming soon in full force and many of us gain least 1-2 pounds or more which never comes off after the New Year. This contributes to a gradual weight gain of 10-20 pounds or more over the decades to come. Would you like to stop holiday weight gain in its tracks? Are [...]

After many tough weeks through the illness and death of my grandmother on June 11th, I am back to my post. Stay tuned for summer meal ideas and recipes and other health information. Thank you for checking in!

It has been a long time since my last blog entry. Life has been downright hectic but not necessarily in a bad way. However, I have had little time to collect my thoughts and when I get out of my routine sometimes I get a little stressed. I then have a tendency to eat on [...]

I was all set to write on ways to maintain exercise during the holidays and before I knew it-they were over! Now it has been several weeks since I have even attempted to make an entry! Well it is a new year and this is when many of us think about a new beginning. For [...]

This week my family learned that our dear friend died suddenly. In addition, I have had a tremendous amount of stress recently already in my life. For years, I had used food to comfort myself when stressed. But after fighting weight gain and wanting to be a stronger role model to my clients, I have [...]

This weekend, my husband, dog and I climbed Little Pisgah Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains. In addition, we also completed our last stretch of a 17 mile hike called the Shut In Trail. This trail connected the Biltmore Mansion in Asheville, NC to George Vanderbilt’s hunting lodge. This took us several trips to complete [...]

If school has not started yet in your area, it will soon. Whether or not we have children in school, there is a feeling of renewal and getting back into the routine with a little more structure once school starts. Maybe it is because summer time and vacation are more carefree or perhaps it is [...]