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Most of you know I'm training for my first competiton in August. It's pretty exciting because Bill from our site and Lisa my friend (and PNP member) are doing it with me. The training is going well and I wanted to spend today discussing lessons learned from the first four weeks of training. Attention...

I would blog about this on the autism site , but this is more about my resolve with food than Logan's new diet. Just for those who aren't familiar, Logan is on a GFCF (gluten free and casein free) diet. All of his food is now cooked naturally, on the stove, fresh, no microwaving, etc. We use...

I was responding to the diabetes thread when I stumbled upon a topic I would love to discuss: our kids learn a lot of lessons watching us. We tend to think about how our girls are impacted when we talk about diet and we get paranoid about teaching them poor self-esteem and terrible body image issues...

Twice today “Lead by Example” has been brought to my attention and it inspired me to write to all of you…especially all of my Mommies out there searching for a healthy lifestyle they can share with their children. (Click on More… to see the rest of this post.) The first instance was while talking to...

What keeps you motivated has to be in the top five questions I am asked by my clients and readers. Motivation is such an individual thing; what works for one doesn’t always work for another. I decided to list some of the things I found helpful along my journey. Maybe you will find something on my list...

Yesterday I was sent an interesting article about replacing junk foods in school with more nutritious foods. Amen! I can’t believe in this day and age it takes a panel of experts to decide that junk food is not good for children. Even though that sounds like enough fodder for a whole article on how stupid...

Obesity in our children is going to define my generation as parents if we don’t get a hold of ourselves. This topic really steams me up but I don’t want this blog to be about chastising mothers who choose to feed their kid’s junk food or plop them in front of the TV rather than playing with them. No...

I was going to blog about a running question, but when I was writing this post I couldn’t get to the internet to find the exact question. I will do better tomorrow. :)Today I want to share a long story about being a mother that I received from a good friend. When I read it I started to cry. I spend a...