You may or may not have heard yet, but our food pyramid has changed! For the first time in over 20 years we have a new guide for nutrition! The old guide was the food pyramid I am sure you remember it, the groups of food in descending order, labeling how much of each group [...]
We are getting down to the nitty-gritty of this challenge! How have you been doing with the challenges? Are you guzzling water, 86ing the drive-thru, and journaling your food consumption? Are you ready for your new set of fitness and non-fitness challenges? Here they are: And an extra special message from Christy (made by Debra [...]
Good Morning Sisters (and Brothers)!!! How is everyone doing this fine morning? It promises to be a HOT, HOT, HOT day in in Southwestern Virginia…how’s the weather in your area? Well, it’s Wednesday, and you all know what that means!!! It’s weigh-in day! Go on…get on those scales. I’ll wait…. You back? GREAT! Now, blog [...]
About 6 months ago, I decided that I was going to switch from standard groceries to organic. I buy organic almost exclusively now and have no plans on turning back. One side effect, though, is that we’ve had to replace some of our best loved processed foods with their closest organic counterpart. Some have been [...]
It takes 21 days to form new habits. Goodness knows I need to work on creating some new habits that I’ll stick with. I’m just as good as anyone else at declaring that I’m going to do something, then doing it for a little while, and then slowly petering out. As we all know, this [...]
Today is St. Patricks Day! Let’s celebrate, okay? Like, do it up right. How about we GO GREEN today. Yeah, don’t forget to wear green and all, but let’s also incorporate GREEN into our diets. In a big way. No, I don’t mean green beer (although that’s fine as long as it’s light!), I’m talking [...]
