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Category: Lifelong Health

How Your Friends Make It Easy To Stick With Your Goals

Fruits & Vegetables, Wines & Beers

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Salad at a Parisian restaurant

This is a diary of the healthy lifestyle goals that my son, Chris, and I are making together each month.

Since it takes 21-30 days to develop a new habit, making a new goal each month is an effective way to improve your health.

In December, my goal was to make half of each plate fruits and vegetables.  Chris’ goal was to enjoy trying the wines and beers of his European tour.  😉 Continue Reading

How Your Friends Make It Easy to be Fit and Trim

fruit and veg color wheel

 

Click here to find out what nutritional advantage you get from each color of fruit and vegetable.

Five-a-Day & Cutting Down Serving Sizes

This is a diary of the healthy lifestyle goals that my son, Chris, and I are making together each month.

Since it takes 21 days to develop a new habit, making a new goal each month is an effective way to improve your health.

In November, my goal was to eat more than five fruits and vegetables a day.  Chris’ goal was to cut down on his serving sizes because he felt like he was eating too much. Continue Reading

How to Make Sweet Potatoes Special with No Sugar Added

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Sweet Potato and Apple Casserole with Thanksgiving dinner

Thanksgiving is coming, and to help you celebrate, I am sharing a sweet potato recipe that is healthy as well as delicious.  It is made with pure and simple ingredients, no sugar needed.  It became a tradition in my family for Thanksgiving because my father was hypoglycemic and another family member was diabetic.  Whether the whole family is healthy or there are special needs, this is good for everyone and tastes so good, too.  Age doesn’t matter when you eat right! Continue Reading

How Your Friends Make It Easy to be Healthy: Boot Camp & More

Five-a-Day, Water Instead of Pop, and Don’t Slip Back

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Time for fruits and vegetables

This is a diary of the healthy lifestyle goals that my son, Chris, and I are making together each month.

September was a whirlwind of activity, as we prepared for the premiere of Loserville the Film.  Chris was involved in promotion of the movie that he starred in, and we booked our trips and packed for Hollywood to attend the premiere on September 29th.  Also, at the beginning of the Month, my husband and I traveled to his niece’s wedding.   Chris and I kept to our previous goals, but did not make new goals until October. 

In October, my new goal was to eat five fruits and vegetables a day.  Chris’ goal was to reinforce all of his previous goals because he was slipping back on various things, such as drinking pop and eating burgers and greasy foods.  So he added the goal of drinking water instead of pop. Continue Reading

How Your Friends Make It Easy to be Healthy: Progress Report

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Walk in the Woods – Pinned from ArchitectureArtDesigns

Finding an Exercise Plan That Works, and a Progress Report

This is a diary of the healthy lifestyle goals that my son, Chris, and I are making together each month.

In August, Chris’ goal was to go to the gym five days a week and to run every other day, whether at the gym or not.  My goal was to get a half-hour of aerobic exercise five days a week, with stretching and weights on the other two days.  We had worked on similar goals in July, but wanted to do better.  We felt that some days get too busy and interfere with exercise, so we wanted to find a way to make it work every day.

This journal entry has two parts:  our August exercise results, and a report on the progress we’ve made since we started making goals in March.  Continue Reading