Today I was faced with a trip to the dreaded BATHING SUIT department. I have been in pursuit of the “perfect” bathing suit for years. At least once a year, I make this trip, convincing myself that this will be the year that I will look like the women in the February issue of Sports [...]
Three Steps to a Healthier Relationship
December 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
As women, we are all about relationships. It is often what we feel gives meaning to our lives. Yet, relationships also provide some of our greatest challenges. With intimate partnerships or marriages, the promise of “happily ever after” can feel elusive when it comes to the day to day of living and loving with another [...]
Holiday Season Inspires Selfless Selling
December 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Two Michigan businesses strive to do good while aiming to do well, too. “We get calls every day from students who want to keep doing yoga but who can no longer afford to pay for classes,” says Steve Feldman, co-owner of the Yoga Shelter chain of yoga studios in metro Detroit. “It’s one of the [...]
The Perils of Getting Too Comfy with Your Comfort Food
December 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Why we crave the foods we do, what our cravings mean and how to stave them off. Winter is upon us, the time of year when we gather with friends and family to celebrate holidays, go ice skating and build snowmen. It’s also the time of year when we eat, eat and then eat some [...]
And The Real Pigs Are?
December 3, 2009 By 1 Comment
Boost Mobile has a new series of advertisements and they are trying to be disturbingly funny. One features a woman riding a bicycle-made-for-two with several feet of underarm hair cascading in the wind… and her passenger’s face. As she waves and her firecracker-red armpit hair billows in the wind, she asks the audience, “What? You [...]
Save Yourself this Holiday Season
December 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In Your Face Healthy Eating Holiday Life Savers!
Decide what day the holiday season starts for you. Is it Halloween through New Years? Or can you hold off on splurging until the week before Christmas? Do you start binge eating just from the thought of the holidays fast approaching? See you head doctor immediately!
Move Forward With Fitness
December 2, 2009 By 3 Comments
There are no shortcuts or magic tricks to getting fit and staying fit. Working out to be ” fit for your future” requires dedication, commitment, perseverance and letting go of our often gripping past . One of my most influential teachers said it best. “Consistency of practice is the secret to success, consistency of practice [...]
Too Much On Your Plate?
December 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Do the obligations and mundane tasks of life ever take you over and take you out? It is as if you get caught up in utter chaos and can’t find the way out until you wind up with an overwhelming feeling of emotion. Your head spinning, mouth watering, and your physical body exhausted almost [...]
Magnesium: More Than A Good Mood Food
December 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Feed Your Goddess With Magnesium In recent years, magnesium has increasingly been referred to as “the mood food” due to scientifically demonstrated connections between magnesium deficiency and depression, mood disturbances associated with PMS, stress, anxiety, anger, and sleep disturbances. However, magnesium is much more than just a mood food…in fact, magnesium is responsible for or [...]
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