I don’t want to get fat over the holidays!

I don’t want to get fat over the holidays!

You’re going to the Holiday feast and it won’t be just one.  Let’s face it you are going to party until you groan out of bed on January first!  That’s quite a few meals and drinks away and I don’t know about you but I have a wedding dress to fit into so I do not want to tip the scales or miss a party in the next few months.  So what can I do here are three wise suggestions. Think About It Do you want to...

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Gratitude over Thanksgiving

Gratitude over Thanksgiving

I had a strange notion of what gratitude was.  Whenever I thought of gratitude I remembered my mom yelling at me during my teens that I didn’t appreciate anything.  Carrying that forward I missed the point of what gratitude was. I got it mixed up with feeling guilty that I had things.  Fast forwarding to today what I have noticed about gratitude is that it is more about you then anything else. When you look around and notice...

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New Years Resolutions for under achievers and the overwhelmed

So every year (almost) I sit down and consider making New Years Resolutions. I don’t write them down because I don’t want even paper to bear witness to the lies I am about to tell. I know the point is to improve you but first I have to get over that awful feeling that something must be done in other words change. And then there is the guilt and overwhelm when you notice you are not getting the job done. Change is one of the things that I wish I...

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Home For the Holidays (again!)

Home For the Holidays (again!)

How do you deal with the Holidays? It’s that special time of year where you should feel ……and you should have….. You get to make the list I should feel happy I should feel joy, I should have more money for a better gift ….And then you are in a room where frankly you’re rubbing elbows with people you have avoided all year. You avoid them because they ask you. Why aren’t you married, when are you having children and then what do you do for a...

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