It’s FRIDAY! We made it through another week, faced our battles, overcame our obstacles…now it’s time to slow down a bit and relax. Sleep a little later. Maybe veg out and watch a little TV. And likely let a few extra treats sneak into our meals. There’s nothing wrong with Read more…
Spring has FINALLY arrived up here in Iowa and the world is waking up…along with dandelions, crab grass and lots of other weedy plants. Thankfully, there are also tulips, irises, rhubarb and asparagus! The trick is to keep the stuff we don’t want away from the stuff we do want. Read more…
Precision Nutrition posted this recently and it hit home because this is something I struggle with too….and I know I’m not alone. There are several ways to fight this condition and one highly effective tool can be a nutrition tune-up. Most serotonin — the happy-making neurotransmitter — is made in Read more…
Monday morning through Sunday afternoon we try hard to focus on whole foods and keeping extra sugar to a minimum. We have 5 kids and we don’t live in a bubble so this is a formidable task, but it’s the goal. However, Sunday night is dessert night in our house Read more…
Ummm…NO. Obvious, right? Because we all know the dangers of smoking and alcohol and we wouldn’t expose our little kids to them. But there was a time when those dangers were not as widely understood and social norms were different. We know better now, so we (hopefully!) do better. But Read more…
Some change is fast (cut back on coffee and lose the jitters) and some is painfully slow (frequently, weight loss). If you’re paying attention to most magazines, blogs, podcasts or daytime TV there seem to be countless ‘hacks’ to cut corners to make change fast…but how much of it is Read more…
How many times have you wondered how a ‘fit’ mom got in shape? Part of why I got certified as a nutrition coach was to finally answer those questions…I was tired of wondering if the new ‘it’ thing on every podcast or best-selling book was real. Maybe it was. Or Read more…
Have you ever wondered how some people ‘always’ seem to make the healthiest choices? How do they cook balanced meals every night? How do they make themselves work out regularly? How do they even find the time to think about meal plans and work outs? I’m not going to put Read more…
We’ve all been there. Sometimes it’s on purpose and it’s totally worth it (vacation, holiday, birthday, etc). Sometimes it comes out of nowhere…we’re hormonal, the kids are acting like lunatics, work went nuts and it snowed. Again. We meant to deal with the stress gracefully, maybe prepare a home cooked Read more…
Have you ever wondered why we celebrate the way we do? For instance, why have stores been decked out in pastel colors with pictures of eggs and bunnies for weeks? Why are millions of us going to give our kids baskets of candy this weekend? Why do even more people Read more…