Archive for 'Getting Healthy For Good' Category
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 [...]
Getting Healthy For Good: ‘Those’ women
By Laurie Marshall You know how you run into someone you haven’t seen in a while who has obviously lost weight, and you tell them they look great and ask how they did it (purely to be polite, not because you really want to know), and they get all excited and proceed to tell you [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: On Purpose
By Laurie Marhsall I read a blog post yesterday by a writer that I follow on Twitter – Jody Hedlund. It was about being Intentional. As Jody puts it, being intentional “means that we choose to act deliberately, purposefully, and consciously.” Or as we said as kids – on purpose. The bulk of the post [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: School lunch limbo
By Laurie Marshall So, what does a mother who’s writing a blog post about getting and staying healthy do when faced with a child headed off to school for the first time? She stresses herself out debating the pros and cons of school lunch vs. home-packed lunch, that’s what!!! I’ve brooded over this subject for [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: Summer fit!
By Laurie Marshall Approximately 10 weeks ago I started the Summer Fit program that is managed by the Health Science, Kinesiology, Recreation and Dance department at the University of Arkansas. When I signed up, I had high hopes for myself. I envisioned a smaller me, a healthier me, and a me with a little more [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: New grandbaby is here!
Laurie Marshall is taking a break from blogging this week to spend time with her new grandbaby! Introducing … Rylie Mae Monday, July 19, at 4:42pm 6 lbs., 2 oz., 18.75″ long Congratulations!
Getting Healthy for Good: What fitness myths do you embrace?
By Laurie Marshall I was looking in the mirror this morning, making a critical appraisal of my midsection. This is not something I choose to do for fun, dear readers – I do it for you. You’ll be happy to know that my appraisal was positive! I have not seen a lot of weight loss [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: The Boss of Me
By Laurie Marshall Remember when I said that my husband was on board with the “high fructose corn syrup is the Devil” concept? Yeah… well… somehow he seems to have lost his way. I came home the other day to find a case of Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Treats on the counter. Sometimes exaggeration is a [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: Oh crap, it’s TRUE!
By Laurie Marshall If you are a woman, you’ve probably heard the commonly offered bits of advice that say that it’s harder to lose weight/get in shape in your 40s. Women’s magazines, fitness experts, even WebMD will tell you it’s an uphill battle if you leave exercise and healthy eating out of your routine until [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: Who needs a plan?
By Laurie Marshall I’m no expert at this, so I hope you haven’t made that assumption. If you’ve been reading my posts for a while you probably already have this figured out… I’m certainly no Jillian Michaels. Nor do I want to be, actually. I’m okay with having hips – cuts down on the need [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: Intentions Out the Window
By Laurie Marshall You know how you have all these Great Intentions sometimes? Like, intending to cut out soda, or intending to stop eating out as often? Then there’s intending to walk in the evenings, or write in your blog more often. Do your intentions go by the wayside when life interrupts too? Because let [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: One Meal at a Time
By Laurie Marshall Okay people, it’s nearly May. Remember the promises we made to ourselves, the folks at our Weight Watcher’s meetings and our office-mates to count our calories, or our points, or cut back on sweets…? Yeah, we’re starting to wonder what exactly the point was, aren’t we? Life has rudely intruded and made [...]
Getting Healthy for Good: HFCS is the devil!
By Laurie Marshall, healthy mama Last weekend I was telling my husband about an article that my brother sent me about a study done on high fructose corn syrup. My brother is being very supportive of my desire to get healthy this year. The Hubs and I were discussing the results of the study – [...]
Getting Healthy For Good: Doesn’t typing burn calories?
By Laurie Marshall A couple of months ago I had what I considered to be a brilliant idea. I would write about my efforts to lose weight and make healthy choices. Not only would I write about these subjects, but I would contribute to a popular local website! My extensive research showed that being accountable [...]
Getting Healthy For Good: Fun with Fiber (the edible kind!)
By Laurie Marshall, friend to fiber When I was a little girl, my grandmother filled an empty Metamucil container with my broken and peeled crayons and I pulled them out anytime I was at her house. When I later learned what Metamucil was, I was kind of grossed out that grandma didn’t just buy me [...]
Getting Healthy For Good: Bumps in the road
By Laurie Marshall I had to go to a work meeting last night and missed my belly dance class, and I’m a little grumpy about it. I haven’t started walking after work yet like I said I was going to do this year, but I have been going to this weekly class… it’s not much, [...]
New Fitness Blog: Getting Healthy For Good
By Laurie Marshall You know that commercial that has the guy driving along with a Suck-o-Meter in his passenger seat, reminding him how much it sucks to try to quit smoking? A friend of mine mentioned today that dieting needs to adopt one of those little contraptions, and I agree whole-heartedly. We all know that [...]