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Super Bowl Party – I’m Splurging!

Eating Healthy
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We have a group of friends that have an annual Super Bowl party that rotates among our homes. Since embarking on my healthy lifestyle path, my husband and I have been supplying the veggies tray for the last two Super Bowl parties, the annual camping trip, and the annual Christmas party. However, my friends wanted the ranch dressing, but not my celery or carrot sticks.

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Staying Fit to Have a Healthy Baby – How do You Measure That?

Motivation
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The thing about having a goal like “staying fit to have a healthy baby” is so wishy-washy. The best time to lose any excess weight is before getting pregnant. So lately I have taken “staying fit to have a healthy baby” as my workout mantra. Problem is – the mantra is actually less motivating than having a defined goal of losing 2 inches around my waist by spring.

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Pregnancy Planning

Women's Health
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Like I said in my previous post about a brighter future, my husband and I are doing some pregnancy planning. Ok, I am the one officially thinking about pregnancy planning. My husband figures that we both have jobs, we both are ready to have children, so what is there to plan?

All you mothers out there, isn’t tons of things to think about? Just off the top of my head, I have at least a handful of questions.

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On to a Bigger and Brighter Future

Exercise & Injuries
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I believe that my physical independence as I age is base on the things I do now to make sure my body stay strong when I am older. I will never forget the frustration I felt when it took me 20 minutes to walk 2 blocks from my house to the church and back a couple of weeks after my car accident.

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My Hip Pain is from a Torn Labrum

Exercise & Injuries
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When my back stopped hurting from my car accident, the doctors were no longer interested with my complaints about hip pain when my first MRI and x-ray showed that there is nothing wrong with my hip. I even started believing that it might be from muscle imbalance or something I did from my workouts.

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Birthdays and Food

Emotional Eating
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I am turning 31 this weekend. Birthdays are always an exciting time for me. All the free lunches and free dinners because people want to treat you. Then there are the birthday cakes (yep, multiple ones). Lastly there is the grand finale feast that my mom spends all day shopping and preparing when I visit. And of course, there are all the restaurants my husband drags me to because of the lure of a free birthday meal.

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Free Biggest Loser Workout Music Mix

Freebies & Giveaways

I am not sure how long this deal will last, but you can download the Biggest Loser Workout Music Mix for free if you give them your email address (I made an email up).

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Expectations from People Feed the Emotional Eater

Emotional Eating
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Welcome to Small Steps to Health where we do not take orders from a cookie!
Some of us cannot lose weight because we do not exercise, eat too much unhealthy food, or just eat too much in general.  I am not part of the above groups, but I am an active member of the emotional eaters [...]

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Weight Loss Tools to Help Rid Post-Holiday Weight Gain

Exercise & Injuries
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If I watch what I eat and use some weight loss tools, I can almost believe that everything is “normal.” This post is a discussion of some weight loss tools I have around the house that I am using to get rid of my post-holiday weight gain.

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Lessons I Learned

Motivation
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I tried bribing myself with toys like the Wii Fit Plus and with food (ice cream in particular). Ice cream is on my deadly no-no list because I have a history with abusing ice cream. I cannot stop eating it until I finish the whole carton ASAP. Like I am on some kind of racing to see how fast I can polish off a carton because my husband will want some. The sad thing is — my husband does not eat ice cream.

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A Reflection on 2009 Blogging Goals

Blogging
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With the farewell post from Back in Skinny Jeans earlier this year, I am also slowly trying to stop writing about weight loss. At some point, weight should be a none issue in a woman’s life. I am proud of the fact that I write about the many facets of health that we deal with from making food choices to to our health insurance.

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Bob Greene’s Total Body Makeover DVD Review

Exercise & Injuries
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This post is a review of Bob Greene’s Total Body Makeover dvd. I will discuss the plan, the workouts in the dvd, the eating rules, what I like, and what I hate about the dvd.

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