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Getting Healthy for Good: The Boss of Me

06/25/2010 nwamamas

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 […]

Getting Healthy for Good: Oh crap, it’s TRUE!

06/11/2010 nwamamas

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 […]

Getting Healthy for Good: Who needs a plan?

05/28/2010 nwamamas

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 […]

Getting Healthy for Good: Intentions Out the Window

05/14/2010 nwamamas

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, […]

Getting Healthy for Good: One Meal at a Time

04/30/2010 nwamamas

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 […]

Getting Healthy for Good: HFCS is the devil!

04/02/2010 nwamamas

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 […]

Getting Healthy For Good: Doesn’t typing burn calories?

03/19/2010 nwamamas

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 […]

Getting Healthy For Good: Fun with Fiber (the edible kind!)

03/05/2010 nwamamas

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 […]

Getting Healthy For Good: Bumps in the road

02/19/2010 nwamamas

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 […]

New Fitness Blog: Getting Healthy For Good

02/05/2010 nwamamas

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 […]