Jenn is an ambassador for MVP Health Care’s Generation Go. This program, as I understand it, is giving her prompts for blog posts and giveaways. Well, her post this week was regarding youth sports and tips for getting your kids involved in them. While I left Jenn a comment and suggest you go check out… Continue reading Youth Sports & My Friend Jenn
Just a quick preface to this post. I started writing this back in September of 2010. Not sure what caused me to stop writing back then but I only wrote two short paragraphs and will finish now. I am shedding. I have decided to clean house in a manner that leaves me with more… Continue reading Shedding
The last installment on my journey saw me still 40 pounds overweight from having twins and finding myself pregnant with number four. While I did not gain massive amounts of weight with the fourth pregnancy, I did start off at too high a weight so was in a bit of a quandry. I couldn’t, or… Continue reading Healthy Lifestyle Journey – Part III
I use to think that body image was a teenage problem. I am becoming more and more aware of body image as an all-my-life problem. No. I do not have a problem with my body. It is not perfect but it has born six children. It has, and hopefully will continue to, serve me well.… Continue reading How Do You View Yourself?
As I said yesterday, childhood obesity is an issue in the United States. Children from toddlers to teens spend too much time being sedentary. To me, as a parent, the big question is how do we measure who is and isn’t obese or even overweight as that may lead to obesity. I have some large… Continue reading How do we measure childhood obesity?
Childhood obesity is an issue in the United States. Children from toddlers to teens spend too much time being sedentary. I don’t recall every coming home from high school with six hours of homework and only, when deducting time for family dinner, five hours until a reasonable bedtime. I remember as a grade school student… Continue reading How much is too much?
I know I have asked this question before and few things have changed since those posts. How do you measure success in weight loss? Most people will respond with a number on a scale – how much someone weighs. I have to be totally honest. I do not own scales. I have never owned scales… Continue reading Measurements
Sitting on a school board in New York State, I know that concussions in youth sports are a hot topic at present. Legislation has been introduced into the legislature that will detail how a student will rehabilitate from a concussion, including believing a concussion to be present whether diagnosed or not. This legislation, which could… Continue reading Concussions
Community! We all live in one but do we have other communities that we are a part of? I know I belong to many different communities. I frequently wonder what makes community and how hard it is to keep a community together. I am a member of the “running” community. A lot of the runners… Continue reading What is Community?
When I first started racing, I was all about races I had heard about, that friends had run. Since my running friend pool was not all that local, these races were here and there. I missed some of the great local races last year in my first year of running races. This year I am… Continue reading Forks XV – Race Recap
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