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Good morning my friends! It's that time again, San Antonio Living has allowed me back in the building and letting me talk about book picks. This month is Foster Care Awareness Month and if you've read some of my posts, you know this is a subject that's near and dear...
Unlike so many other years, I planned to make 2015 a far more productive year when it came to my health and wellness. Like so many, I’d allowed life obligations to get in the way of putting me first for an hour a day and each time I ate something. Comfort food had...
It may seem strange starting a new health regimen in August. I mean, the summer is almost over and the holiday feasts are just around the corner. So why on Earth, would I even fathom starting such a monumental task now? Why not? I've spent a lot of my post-pubital...
Win a backpack full of New Year's Resolution Tools--Box of Shakeology, arm bands, ear buds, with a $10 iTunes gift card. Okay, my friends. We're only three weeks until the new year. Those resolutions might be sitting heavy in your mind or inching their way forward...
There's always a great momentum to starting something new. Diving in, seeing what you can accomplish. The world is wide open and ready to welcome you with open arms, right? Okay, not really. It's scary, frustrating, and downright intimidating to start something new,...
Julie Andrews Sings "The Lusty Month of May" from Camelot The first of May is one of my favorite times because the hot summer hasn't quite arrived, but the chill of the spring has faded. The days are perfect and sunny. Plus, I'm counting the days until the kids are...
Fall down seven times...get up eight. --Japanese Proverb At Thanksgiving, I took a long, hard look at myself and didn't like what I saw. Despite attempts to lose weight and keep it off, I'd bounced right back up again. Now I weighed in at 225lbs. Not only...
Wow! I didn't realize I'd been gone for almost three months. In the back of my mind, I thought I'd only been away for two, not that's really any better. Life gets away from us all. It's already August and less than a month away from school starting. So far, I've...
Up 1/2 pound this week, but down 9.5 for the 7 week MILI challengeOkay, we've made it 7 weeks and I've lost as follows: Weight-211.5 from 221 Waist 37.5" from 38" Hips 47.5" from 48 Arms: 13.5--same Calves: 15.75" from 16" So...
One of the most frustrating things for me when losing weight is the slow pace at which I do it. Now, rationally, I get that's a good thing, but that other part of my brain, the impatient one, tells me it's not fast enough. So when I come up with a 2 pound weight loss,...
Patricia Fischer speaks about supporting her best friend during her ovarian cancer journey as part of the Our Way Forward program created by TESARO, with The Moth, during the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition’s 2018 National Conference in New York.
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