Health

The excess fat bananas I observed in the dissected frogs also metaphorically clouded my efforts at healthy food planning for my family.  Sometimes the fat weighing us down isn’t located in our [...]

For the Domestic Divas in the audience, your reaction to this blog might be, “And…?”  But if you are like me, very busy and unskilled at some of the basic everyday tasks, dietician Diane [...]

In my previous blog Home Sweet Home, I shared my secret sauce of fusing fun and other warm fuzzies with faith to create a powerful bond that will keep our kids on track with in their Catholic [...]

In the previous blogs I mentioned a couple of the “inner games” (mina to link previous posts) that operate when people have issues with weight control: not being concerned and being overly [...]

My coach Ryan says success is 90% the inner game and only 10% actual technique. Weight loss exemplifies that how we think, perceive, and prepare to act determines how we ultimately act and the [...]

With Gianna on her one-wheeler attached to my bike , Joe with Benjamin in tow, and Ian on his own, we raced to see who could reach our house first at the end of our Thanksgiving day family bike [...]

Weighing every morning keeps me in reality about my body size and the impact of what I am eating. I recently noticed the number on the scale was bumping towards the higher end of my weight range. [...]

In the previous blogs I mentioned a couple of the “inner games” that operate when people  have issues with weight control:  not being concerned and being overly concerned.  Regardless  of the [...]

My psychologist dad recently witnessed my son’s uncooperativeness around homework.   Ian argued with me  whether he had a second set of flashcards to study, until he ultimately presented them [...]

No lip stick, Bag Baum, Blistex, etc. would work on my dry lips. In the end my lips rejected any moisturizing concoction. Knowing something else was going on, I considered hypothyroidism as the [...]