Archive for 'Getting Healthy For Good' Category
Getting Healthy for Good: Eating seasonally, locally
By Laurie Marshall My sister has been a brilliant menu planner for some time now. I’m always jealous of the images she posts on Instagram and Twitter that look healthy and yummy. Guilt starts to creep in and I think “I should make more creative, healthful meals for my family.” The thing is, though – [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: So, how’s it really going?
By Laurie Marshall How many resolutions have you given up on so far? Maybe “given up on” is too strong… have you postponed any? Re-configured one or two? Maybe just switched one out to a lower spot on the priority list? Yeah, it happens. That’s why, this year, I made NO RESOLUTIONS. Or, at least, [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: Bring it 2012
By Laurie Marshall As many of you are doing this week, I’m ignoring my bathroom scale. Okay, that’s not entirely true. I am stepping on the scale. Then I am looking down at the number. And then I’m choosing to ignore what it says. It’s been a tough road for me over the last couple [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: The Day of Diet Doom
By Laurie Marshall Next week. You know it’s coming. The Day of Shame for those of us who are trying to cut calories, count points, avoid carbs, etc… We skip meals the day before in order to be ready for the consumption of mass quantities of food. We scour websites and cookbooks looking for a [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: Don’t Be a Statistic!
By Laurie Marshall My sister and I recently spent a week away from our families, our jobs, and our daily responsibilities on a cruise to Mexico, Honduras and Belize. It was (and I’m not paid to say this) the ultimate in completely stress-free vacationing. If you have ever considered taking a cruise I cannot recommend [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: What does healthy look like?
By Laurie Marhsall You may have seen a Facebook topic that was going around this week that has caused quite a bit of discussion amongst women and the men who love them. It was a photo of a French plus-sized model named Tara Lynn (not the photo above). Many women reposted the photo and the [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: Honey, doctors are our friends
By Laurie Marshall Here’s the deal… I talk a lot about food and exercise here. It’s not always about losing weight, but that’s the point. My goal for this blog is to share some information about Getting Healthy, and that subject covers a LOT of ground. But today, I’m going to touch on a subject [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: School lunch news!
By Laurie Marshall School time! The tax-free weekend was taken advantage of, a new package of socks and two pair of sneakers were purchased for the boy-child (his first pair of Converse!) and his dad took him for a “big boy” haircut. Time to start getting up earlier, keeping track of backpacks and papers and [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: When bigger is NOT better
By Laurie Marshall None of you will be surprised to learn that today’s portion sizes at restaurants are MUCH larger than they were when we were kids. Not only have fast-food portions grown by 2-5 times their original sizes, but the sit-down places are even worse. I’m always blown away by the size of a [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: Backslider
By Laurie Marshall We’ve all done it. In fact, most of us have done it a lot. We say we’re not going to, we rally the troops to keep us on the straight and narrow… we do everything right to set ourselves up for success. But it happens anyway… We backslide. We start skipping our [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: How to eat like a farmer, but skip the ruined manicure
By Laurie Marshall As I was growing up, we visited my grandparents’ farm in Goshen every summer and for either Thanksgiving or Christmas. We sat around a big oak table, ate a bountiful meal that was raised within spitting distance of the kitchen, and learned the difference between fresh tomatoes and those offered by the [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: Yes, that IS my child
By Laurie Marshall I knew that altering my son’s eating habits would be challenging. It’s not just that there are few takeout choices to turn to on nights when I’m too busy to cook. Okay, yes, that has been tough, but the hardest part has been planning lunches. However, I’m happy to report that it’s [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: Are certain foods affecting your kid’s behavior?
By Laurie Marshall I’m going to take a little break from the usual discussion about my weight loss and healthy living journey to share a new wrinkle that has come up. And believe me when I say that my life already looks like it was dried on high, mashed into a laundry basket and left [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: Attack the snack!
By Laurie Marshall A few weeks ago I told you about all the women in my office who have decided to join Weight Watchers and take control of their physical destinies. As a result of our discussion of food and weight loss in the break room, we’ve recruited a couple more ladies to our mission [...]
Techno Mama: Living life unplugged
By Sarah Martin Hood A few weeks ago I had a day off from work and decided to spend it laying low. Apparently. I spent the day running a few errands and getting some things done at home. And by mid-afternoon I was getting Facebook messages and emails wondering where I had been all day! [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: It takes a village
By Laurie Marshall I heard a comedienne comment once on the loneliness of not working in an office environment now that her career is pretty much a solitary, road-oriented one. She said that when she was doing secretarial work the morning discussion in the hallways always centered around what she and her co-workers were doing [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: No more trying
“Do or do not… there is no try.” — Yoda By Laurie Marshall There’s been a lot of “try” going on at my house this year, without a lot of success. I have been “trying” to lose weight and get in better shape. This was going pretty well up until about two months ago when, [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: The wagon is nowhere in sight
By Laurie Marshall I think it’s impossible to be more unsuccessful at living a healthy lifestyle than I have been lately. Not only did I fall off the wagon about four weeks ago, I seem to have let it roll right on down the road and have made myself comfortable here in the dust. I [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: Willpower and a small ladle
By Laurie Marshall Right about now some of us are getting a little nervous about the holidays. And it has nothing to do with the size of our kids’ Christmas lists (or the value… which is often worse than the length). Instead, we’re anticipating the holiday parties, the baked goods hanging around the break room, [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: What’s your number?
By Laurie Marshall I recently read an online article by this guy who writes a lot about being healthy. I believe he’s also the editor of Men’s Health magazine. The article was about how to make good choices this Halloween season (yes, it’s an entire season at our house…) and made some comparisons between one [...]