I did something monumental the other day.  I had an orange as an afternoon snack! 
You may be thinking, “So what?”  But this for me was a big deal!  The afternoon is usually when I get snack attacks for something horribly sweet, fatty, and unhealthy.  I’ll grab a few mini candy bars from a coworker’s candy [...]

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• Girl Scout Cookies - Wolves in Sheep's clothing? Girl Scout cookies seem to be everywhere these days! Coworkers bring in their child's cookie order sheet to work and encourage you to, "Just buy 8 boxes, and Jenny will get her badge!" Bubbly girls in green bombard you as you enter and exit the grocery store by displaying the......
• Getting Picky Eaters to Eat Healthy A friend of mine shared her frustration of having a picky eater in the house and asked for suggestions on how to introduce healthier foods. "He doesn't like vegetables, rarely touches fruits, and would eat peanut butter all day if up to him." The "he" she was referring to is......
• Food Journal - Ally in Breaking Sugar Addiction I'm on a personal quest of sorts. Three months ago I made the realization that I am a sugar addict and decided to commit to breaking my addiction. Following Dr. Kathleen DesMaison's plan for sugar addiction, I started off including protein and a complex carb at breakfast. After creating......
• Solution to Sugar Addiction I've talked about the possibility of being addicted to sugar and more of the specifics on how sugar acts like a drug in some individuals. This post will cover the solution to kicking the sugar addiction, according to the book, Potatoes, Not Prozac. I think the following best sums up......
• This Week's Progress Report I had an "interesting" week, as far as eating and exercising go.  I experienced the winter blahs, was unmotivated to exercise, and had a few battles with the sugar monster.  The results:  I slept in more than getting up to exercise this past week.  I ate mini Twix and Milky Way......

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I think it’s time I add another weapon in my battle against my enormous sweet tooth: a food journal…

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• It's Working Much of what I write about here on Nutrition Fitness Life deals with changing my focus from simply looking thin to improving my overall health. Part of this goal includes the desire to conquer my sugar addiction and clean up my diet. To help me squash my insatiable sweet tooth,......
• Beating the Sugar Addiction - My Journey Funny how things suddenly become clear to you, as though a fog has lifted. I've been in a fog of sorts for quite some time, a sugar fog.  Only recently has this dense, gray world begun to disappear. I've finally come to a place where I feel confident I can......
• Deep in the Heart of Texas I'm back from the great state of Texas; my visit with family was long overdo and enjoyable. One of my goals during the vacation was to maintain an exercise schedule, and honestly that was a challenge! I focused more on isometric/strength training exercises in the privacy of the guest bedroom (with the......
• Development of Healthy Eating Habits Developing your own healthy eating habits is something that should never be "an ordeal" or make you feel miserable. Many of us are constantly on the run, and we are always rushing from one place to the next or to meet a deadline or return a phone call. As a......
• Sugar, The Other White Drug I appreciate all your comments on my previous post about sugar addiction. This topic has really got me thinking! I’d like to explore it further. If truth be told, I never considered sugar a drug, but much of my reading suggests that sugar is capable of acting like a potent......

Continue reading → Battle Against Sugar Cravings Step 2: Keep a Food Journal

My progress report for last week wasn’t the kind you’d want to hang on the refrigerator. I skipped workouts and ate a ton of sugar! This week I’m armed with a plan, and I’m sticking to it!

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• Baby Development Milestones at Week 5 After weeks' worth of rapid cell development, one of the biggest baby development milestones during this week is that your baby is taking on a much more distinct form. During your fifth week worth of pregnancy, here are some of the things that are happening inside of you: Your baby's......
• Day After A Binge Holidays are prime times to eat way more than is necessary with meals that are extremely rich and loaded with calories! It's fun to visit with family and feast on foods we normally would not allow past our lips, but it's not fun afterwards when we're in a food coma......
• Holiday Meal Battle Plan The holiday eating season is upon us, beginning with Thanksgiving and continuing on through the new year. To someone trying to lose weight, this season can be a huge struggle! However, I say you can win the fight against weight gain, even while enjoying the festive foods of the season.......
• It's Working Much of what I write about here on Nutrition Fitness Life deals with changing my focus from simply looking thin to improving my overall health. Part of this goal includes the desire to conquer my sugar addiction and clean up my diet. To help me squash my insatiable sweet tooth,......
• When Desserts Lost Their Mojo Friends, fun, fireworks, and lots of food! My husband and I have been invited to a friend's house out in the country for the Independence Day weekend, and I'm hoping all the above mentioned will be involved. I was asked to bring a dessert, and I accepted with some mild......

Continue reading → My “Battle Plan” for this week

I had an “interesting” week, as far as eating and exercising go.  I experienced the winter blahs, was unmotivated to exercise, and had a few battles with the sugar monster. 
The results:  I slept in more than getting up to exercise this past week.  I ate mini Twix and Milky Way candy bars during the afternoon slump [...]

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• Avoiding the M&Ms A large basket of candy sits on a table right next to my boss’s door. This attractive looking basket (Longaberger, no doubt) is joined by a glass candy dish filled with shiny, colored plain M&Ms. The M&Ms taunt me. Every time I walk past my boss’s office (which I......
• It's Working Much of what I write about here on Nutrition Fitness Life deals with changing my focus from simply looking thin to improving my overall health. Part of this goal includes the desire to conquer my sugar addiction and clean up my diet. To help me squash my insatiable sweet tooth,......
• Day After A Binge Holidays are prime times to eat way more than is necessary with meals that are extremely rich and loaded with calories! It's fun to visit with family and feast on foods we normally would not allow past our lips, but it's not fun afterwards when we're in a food coma......
• Get Up and Dance! I love dancing! There’s just something about a pulsating beat that literally makes me have to move! I can block out the world for a time, realse stress and just have fun.  I also get an incredible workout! Dancing requires using the entire body; it combines cardio and strength aspects. These characteristics make dancing not only......
• Beating the Sugar Addiction - My Journey Funny how things suddenly become clear to you, as though a fog has lifted. I've been in a fog of sorts for quite some time, a sugar fog.  Only recently has this dense, gray world begun to disappear. I've finally come to a place where I feel confident I can......

Continue reading → This Week’s Progress Report

I had a sugar craving the other day that I just couldn’t shake. None of the “textbook” remedies seemed to work. I waited, kept busy, read a good book, relaxed, drank water, and had a small piece of fruit.
Despite all these great alternatives, I still wanted the real deal. Visions of sweet bread danced in my [...]

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• The Afternoon Slump Ever feel sleepy in the afternoon? I do sometimes, right around 2PM. It's actually normal and related to the natural ebb and flow of our internal body clocks. It's perfectly normal to feel a twinge of drowsiness in the afternoon. So, what happens when we're really feeling sleepy and our......
• Day After A Binge Holidays are prime times to eat way more than is necessary with meals that are extremely rich and loaded with calories! It's fun to visit with family and feast on foods we normally would not allow past our lips, but it's not fun afterwards when we're in a food coma......
• Breaking the Sugar Addiction - Step 3 If you've just arrived, or you'd like a review, check out my posts about sugar addiction and the solution to sugar addiction. I'm following the 7 steps outlined in Potatoes, Not Prozac. I feel it's time for me to officially start the next step in breaking the sugar addiction, and......
• Noticing Habits - Discoveries From My Food Journal Since I've been keeping a food journal I've noticed a couple of things. First, I seem to crave something sweet after I eat, but it can't be just any sweet. If I try to eat what I'm not craving - say a banana when I really want a big, chewy......
• Word Power Funny how powerful changing one word can impact your mindset. For example, when it comes to eating healthy and/or foregoing the junk, instead of saying, “I have to avoid junk food and eat more veggies,” replace that “have” with a “get,” and the sentence has an entirely new meaning and......

Continue reading → When Only Sugar Will Do

I just learned that today, Feb 20, is Hoodie-Hoo Day! 
For this wacky “holiday”, people are to wave their hands over their head and shout, “Hoodie hoo!”  It’s supposed to chase away the winter doledrums and usher in Springtime. 
The silliness is to be performed specifically at noon, but I imagine any time would work just as well.  [...]

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• Three Steps to Achieve Your Goals I was struck by a story I heard the other day. I’d like to share it with you… After her moving performance, a great soprano was approached by a woman who gushed, “I sing too, but not like you! I would give anything to sing as well as you!” The soprano......
• The Common Cold Fall and winter are prime season for the common cold. Colds are annoyances that interfere with work, play, and our workouts. Wouldn’t it be great if we never caught a cold again? Well, there are some things you can do to decrease your chances of getting a cold as well......
• Overcoming the Lure of Sleeping in I get up at 4:40am Mon-Fri to exercise, but not because I really want to.  I am not a morning person by any means, but the early morning hours are the best time in my schedule to work out.  I have to say I feel good about getting my workout......
• Runners - I Envy You I love to run. Always have, even as a little girl. And I was fast! Oh, I may have looked sweet and innocent, but I deceived the boys and beat them in races on the playground (much to their chagrin). No one could catch me in "boys chase girls," and......
• Yoga for Busy People Too! Do you think you are too busy to exercise? Can't fit in a lengthy yoga session every morning? Don't worry, there is yoga for busy people too. Here is a quick and easy yoga sequence that you can do at home, in the office at lunch or whenever you need......

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I’m at that point where I am so ready for Spring and warmer weather! How about you?
I’m ready to shed the winter coat and scarf and go for a hike in a nearby nature preserve! I’m ready for sunny days and clear roads! I’m ready for longer days and no salt on my car! I’m [...]

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• Overcoming the Lure of Sleeping in I get up at 4:40am Mon-Fri to exercise, but not because I really want to.  I am not a morning person by any means, but the early morning hours are the best time in my schedule to work out.  I have to say I feel good about getting my workout......
• Your First Month Pregnancy Symptoms Pregnancy is by far one of the most possible fulfilling experiences that a woman can ever go through. Pregnancy does not have to be an overwhelming or worrisome ordeal for you. When you understand the first month pregnancy symptoms, the ones that you will most likely experience to the point......
• Breaking the Sugar Addiction Progress Report I've been working on slowly weaning myself off sugar. And when I say slowly, I mean s-l-o-w-l-y. That's just what I find works best for me. I've tried going off all sugar cold turkey in the past, but with disastrous results! I'm trying a completely different perspective I learned while reading......
• Happy Spring! Happy 1st Day of Spring, everyone! :) Did anyone see the moon on the horizon this morning? Wow! I wanted to take a picture and even had my camera with me in my backpack (How's that for timely)! ...BUT I decided it was better if I paid attention to driving......
• All Because I Saw a Robin Saturday was a cloudy, foggy, rainy day. To shake some of the gloom, I put on an aerobics DVD for a change of pace and exercised to Tamilee Webb's Tighter Assets video. As I worked on tightening my assets, I noticed a bird through the living room window. It was......

Continue reading → Who’s Ready for Spring?

My husband occasionally makes pancakes Saturday mornings. They are tasty, let me tell you!
Well, a couple weeks ago during one of these pancake mornings, my husband made a tiny, little pancake that looked like this:

See the heart in the middle? I thought that was so cool! The pancake with its little heart was [...]

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• Who's Ready for Spring? I'm at that point where I am so ready for Spring and warmer weather! How about you? I'm ready to shed the winter coat and scarf and go for a hike in a nearby nature preserve! I'm ready for sunny days and clear roads! I'm ready for longer days and......
• Me and My Heart Monitor As I write, I am wearing a heart monitor, a Holter monitor, to be exact. It's like a mini, portable EKG machine that you're hooked up to and carry around for 24 hours. Actually, "wear" all day is probably a better description. I've got 4 leads, complete with their different......
• My Daily Jaunts Earlier this week I created a goal of sorts, to be active throughout the day instead of focusing solely on the standard 30-minute exercise session. So, I've been making an effort to take the occasional walking break.  I took a 10-minute break at work to walk outside the building.  I......
• Food Journal - Ally in Breaking Sugar Addiction I'm on a personal quest of sorts. Three months ago I made the realization that I am a sugar addict and decided to commit to breaking my addiction. Following Dr. Kathleen DesMaison's plan for sugar addiction, I started off including protein and a complex carb at breakfast. After creating......
• Working on the Food Journal I started a food journal last week with the ultimate purpose of helping me get control of my sugar cravings and eat cleaner. I've been jotting down breakfast and lunch, but that's as far as I get. I take my journal (which is just an inexpensive notebook) with me to......

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I’ve been thinking about setting personal health goals for the past few weeks, two of them in specific.
Well, after some consideration, I’ve come up with two personal health goals I’d like to really focus on this year. They’re important to me, they would improve my health, they are a bit of a challenge (I like a good challenge now and then), and [...]

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• If you'd like to learn more about me, then read on, curious readers, read on! This was the week of the meme's. I was tagged by Weight Ladder to do a 6-word memoir. I had actually completed this meme in the past, but no worries. My "profound" words are still there for all to see. ;) JoLynn at The Fit Shack tagged me with a......
• Sugar, The Other White Drug I appreciate all your comments on my previous post about sugar addiction. This topic has really got me thinking! I’d like to explore it further. If truth be told, I never considered sugar a drug, but much of my reading suggests that sugar is capable of acting like a potent......
• When Only Sugar Will Do I had a sugar craving the other day that I just couldn't shake. None of the "textbook" remedies seemed to work. I waited, kept busy, read a good book, relaxed, drank water, and had a small piece of fruit. Despite all these great alternatives, I still wanted the real deal. Visions......
• There's More to Losing Weight Than the Numbers on Your Scale A friend of mine griped the other day about not losing weight despite exercising 4-5 times a week and eating healthier. She acknowledged a loss of inches, but associates success with dropping numbers on the scale. This is just one of the reasons why I dislike scales and don’t even own......
• The Common Cold Fall and winter are prime season for the common cold. Colds are annoyances that interfere with work, play, and our workouts. Wouldn’t it be great if we never caught a cold again? Well, there are some things you can do to decrease your chances of getting a cold as well......

Continue reading → My Current Health Goals

In a previous post I mentioned my goal of having breakfast with protein and complex carbohydrates. That post will tell you the “why” of my doing this.
Well, so far I’ve been keeping this goal.
My breakfasts this past week consisted of:

scrambled eggs (egg whites/egg yolk/finely chopped onions and peppers/low fat shredded cheese) and whole wheat toast [...]

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• Healthy Eating Plans for Increased Nutrition When it comes to getting healthy and losing weight, one of the best things that you can do is to add healthy eating plans to your lifestyle. If you want to lose weight, build a healthier body or just improve your general health, then healthy eating plans are going to......
• My Current Health Goals I've been thinking about setting personal health goals for the past few weeks, two of them in specific. Well, after some consideration, I've come up with two personal health goals I'd like to really focus on this year. They're important to me, they would improve my health, they are a bit of a challenge (I like a......
• Want to be Skinny I’ve been noticing an amount of search queries on my site that contain the phrases “get skinny,” “skinny models,” “what exercise can I do to get skinny.” I want to sincerely welcome all of you who typed such queries. So, why do you want to be "skinny*"? Will it make......
• Plan for Handling Cravings - Start with Breakfast Cravings happen. Sometimes they seem to pop out of nowhere. Sometimes they’re emotional. And sometimes they exist simply because I’m getting hungry! My feelings towards cravings have always been the same, regardless of the situation: I don’t like them! What I need is to come up with a plan that......
• Breaking the Sugar Addiction Progress Report I've been working on slowly weaning myself off sugar. And when I say slowly, I mean s-l-o-w-l-y. That's just what I find works best for me. I've tried going off all sugar cold turkey in the past, but with disastrous results! I'm trying a completely different perspective I learned while reading......

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