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Here it goes. We’ve cut out most high fructose corn syrup in our house over the last couple of years, but I’ve clung tightly to my soda. It’s funny how intellectually you know something is terrible for you, but giving it up is another story. I started the 5+2 food plan outlined in Jackie Warner’s book This Is Why You’re Fat today. Basically I eat clean for 5 days a week and then I get 2 cheat meals. Mountain Dew {Read More}
This week for A Healthier Story I wanted to let you know about a new weekly feature on Give Me Neither. Each Thursday I’ll be putting together a list of health and fitness deals, including printable coupons, deals online and in the store. I hope to show you ways to fit a healthy lifestyle into a budget. Completely Free 7 Day FREE Pass to 24 Hour Fitness Smart School Time Recipes: The Breakfast, Snack, and Lunchbox Cookbook for Healthy Kids {Read More}
And so it begins… Last week I shared my hopes for this New Year in regards to health and weight loss. I’m starting my new eating plan today. I say eating plan, because I’m not looking for a diet…I’m looking for a sustainable way to relate to food. One of my friends recommended Jackie Warner’s This Is Why You’re Fat and I finished reading it about a month ago. Today I’m starting the 2 week start-up. I don’t take anything {Read More}
This really isn’t a New Year Resolution…it’s been brewing in me for a while. Let’s start at the beginning… My Childhood Me… A knobby-kneed, blonde hair and blue-eyed girl that generally loved life – I’m the one in the middle of my sister and brother. I was an active child who loved to explore the outdoors with my siblings and roam the neighborhood with my friends. I clearly remember my dad paying us not to watch TV. It started at {Read More}
My whole life I haven’t considered myself to be athletic. I’ve always believed I just wasn’t made that way. What I’m learning in my adult life is that I’m stronger than I thought and I can do things physically that I never thought I’d be able to do. I could never touch my toes in the presidential fit test back in elementary school (do they still do those tests?). And I could never do a pull-up or a chin-up. I {Read More}
The 4th day of the week for P90X is always the hardest for me. It’s yoga day. I love yoga, but the workout is 90 minutes long and that’s a lot of time to figure out how to fit into my day. And the workout is hard! Last night when I finally got down and did it, I felt amazing and strong as the sweat poured off me. I’m getting to the point now where I can workout really hard {Read More}
So I’m a day late this week because I got caught up writing my adoption update. One of my goals this past week was to keep a glass of water close by and I did pretty well most of the week. I have this tendancy to be so thristy, but I keep plugging along at whatever I’m busy with at the moment. Today I have a recycled Classico jar filled with water sitting next to me. I’m a work in {Read More}
I met my goal this week to work out 4 times! That feels really, really good. I’m nearly 2 months in to making exercise a priority again and I’m starting to noticed subtle changes with my body. I decided today that after spring break I’m going to start P90X again. It’ll almost fit perfectly before our summer vacation. I’m going to start looking at the eating plan included and make a plan. I’m ready for the challenge. Here’s what I {Read More}
Healthy Confessions becomes A Healthier Story… And here’s why… from a post I wrote last May. I finished Donald Miller’s book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life. I LOVED it. Now this book has nothing specifically to do with being healthier or exercise, but about truly living life and telling a story that’s worth being told. Here’s the truth about telling stories with your life. It’s going to sound like a great {Read More}
It started out to be a pretty good workout. I did P90X Plyometrics on Saturday and again on Monday. I planned to work out on Tuesday, but my back was very unhappy with me. I was in a rhythm, working out 4 days a week for the last 3 weeks. I’m actually wanting to work out more and work out hard. But I have this tendency when I don’t meet my goal to just give up. It’s the perfectionist in {Read More}
