Healthy body, happy life!
Research on over 10,000 people that have lost weight and kept it off lists “eating breakfast daily” as one of their healthy habits. The following are the other most common habits they engage in.
Continue reading “Tips for a Healthier Diet. #3 – Eating Breakfast Daily.”
If you read my last post then you know the first thing you need to do for a healthier diet is to start reading food labels. Then you’ll know what’s actually in the processed foods you buy. The next step is to eat foods without labels. In other words, natural foods. These foods don’t need labels because they haven’t been altered in any way. The benefit of eating more natural foods is that it gives your body the necessary nutrients it needs to not just survive but to thrive with a stronger immune system. Continue reading “Tips for a Healthier Diet. #2 – Eat foods without labels!”
People often decide they want to adopt a healthier diet but have a hard time knowing where to start. Mostly they jump right in trying to change all of their eating habits at once. But this just leads to overwhelm and giving up. So my first piece of advice for achieving a healthier diet is to read food labels. Every one of them! Continue reading “Tips for a Healthier Diet. #1 – Read food labels!”
Ever wish you could go to heaven just long enough to check it out and get some questions answered but then return to your life on earth? Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen until we die. However, some lucky people do die briefly but get the chance to come back. Then the rest of us have the opportunity to learn from their experiences and use that information to live our own lives better. Continue reading “Dying to Be Me – a book review”
Since the Covid-19 pandemic started I’ve been bothered by it. But not in the way you might think. What bothers me is that people are so worried about Covid-19 but NOT nearly as worried about the handful of diseases that have been killing most Americans yearly for decades. Continue reading “Worried about Covid-19?”
Have you been trying to figure out how to achieve a healthier body but not making much progress? From my own observations, people tend to look to exercise as the one way to reach that goal. But in my experience and research, I’ve learned the best way to get a healthier body is to first change your diet. Continue reading “Change your diet for a healthier body”
Not long ago I came across the book Positive Intelligence in a second-hand store and snatched it up to see what I could learn from it. One of my first loves in education was the study of psychology and in today’s world, I find it even more fascinating! It turned out to be a great book on how our thought patterns hold us back in life (duh!). But it also does a great job of explaining what we can do about it! Continue reading “Positive Intelligence – book review”
In September of 2020, my husband and I took a hiking trip to Utah for our 25th anniversary. The main destinations were Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, but we visited lots of other places along the way. It was an amazing trip and taught me a lot about motivation to exercise! So that’s what I want to share with you in this post. Continue reading “Find your motivation to exercise and don’t let age define you!”
We’ve all heard that we should be drinking more water, but why? Because getting hydrated helps with both weight loss and better health. And I’ll share those details with you in this post.
But even when we know things are good for us it can still be hard to follow through on adopting new healthy habits like drinking enough water. Continue reading “Get hydrated for weight loss and better health!”
I was having a conversation with a friend recently. She was complaining that she hasn’t lost any weight at all even though she’s been walking “miles every day”. And she’s been doing that for years now. I tried to explain to her that walking for weight loss can be very effective if it’s done in the right way. But her routine needed a rehaul. Continue reading “Walking for weight loss: how to get much more out of it.”