You To Be Healthy

  You probably know what foods you need to be eating for a stronger immune system. It is as easy as adding fresh, unprocessed protein, vegetables, fruit,  legumes, grains, nuts and seeds to your daily and weekly diet for you to start feeling better. It's a wonderful bonus that many of those foods are excellent for providing other health advantages like a strong heart, better brain functioning and an improved respiratory system. Speaking of bolstering your heart, brain and respiratory process, exercise can provide those benefits as well. And you don't have to take up hours of weekly strength training or run 5 miles every day to benefit. Actually, over-training and exercising too hard can have a negative effect on your body's ability to fight off infection and illness.   How "Smart" Exercise Works to Boost Immunity There is a lot of research on the multiple benefits of exercise. You feel great about yourself, you sleep better, your brain is more cris...

Tuesday Tips Listen to someone who gets you and understands what it's like to struggle losing weight. Here is the link to the Leaner for Life you are welcome to attend. It's FREE! Leaner For Life

Depressed?  Feeling low with no spark?  No energy? There is one thing you can do right now that will almost instantly improve your mood...and it's free! Just watch! And here is the link to the giveaway I mention   7 Ways To Improve Your Memory, Focus & Reduce Mental Decline

Being a stay-at-home mom is wonderful. Being there when the kids wake up and also being there to snuggle and read bedtime stories is a feeling of blessedness. The mom (or dad) at home arrangement has many benefits. We all know what they are, but it also can have many drawbacks.  Some of those would be a tighter budget, loneliness and probably one of the most troubling is the feeling of lowered self-esteem. Many stay-at-home moms and even moms who work outside the home may have given up their dreams for their families. They often have given up fulfilling careers that may even pay better and have more job satisfaction.  They may also have given up the dream of further education and pursuing a specific career. It is common to find that women feel their very identity gets lost, especially if the woman ties a lot of her identity to what she did in her career. I know I did. While it’s been touted many times that if a mother was to get paid for al...

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Winter grays got you down? I know it can get to me. I can occasionally feel blue for what appears to be no apparent reason. Or sometimes I just can feel blah. Usually some sunlight and warmer temperatures snap me out of it. But some people need a little extra help. Not enough to necessarily see a doctor and go on harsh and sometimes dangerous antidepressants – they’re not feeling that bad. They just don’t feel as upbeat as they usually do. It often times may just mean that stress has taken a toll on them and winter time with its lack of sunlight doesn’t help any. In comes MoodLift. See below on how MoodLift may be able to help you with the winter time blahs. MoodLift®  C om plex*   Natural Help for a Positive Mental Outlook* Everyone wants to feel upbeat and enjoy life to the fullest. Yet p eriods of sadness are an inherent part of the human experience. Life’s events and ongoing stresses can trigger m elancholy...and sometimes people feel “blue” for no apparent reason. ...

Many people will spend their last dollar on a miracle weight loss pill. They will spend half their month’s pay on a diet program with slick advertisements that look like science. They will give it their all for a couple of weeks or even months then quit as they fall into a state of depression thinking they will never achieve their health goals. Do you want to know what they all have in common? They have the desire to achieve a different result, but they didn’t change themselves. See, in order for things to change, in order for our circumstances to change, in order for our failures to change into successes, we must change. That’s right, we must change ourselves, our thinking, our actions before anything we set out to achieve. Until we change our thinking, we will never change our actions. Until we change our actions, we will never change our circumstances. Until we change our circumstances, we will never change our lives. It first starts wi...

What do these major health issues have in common?  They all can come from a lack of sleep. While talking about sleep may sound boring – enough to put you to sleep - getting enough of it is crucial to good health. When someone tells me, “All I need is 4-5 hours and I’m good” I’m not impressed. In fact it annoys me, because they think I should be impressed with how late they stay up and still do a day’s work. I don’t think they’re cool; I think they’re acting stupid, maybe because of a lack of sleep. Here’s what happens when you don’t get enough sleep: Lose Your Sex Drive – I thought this first one would get your attention fast.  Sleep specialists report that those who aren’t getting the recommended hours of restful sleep a night say they have a lower libido and men show a drop in testosterone. So before reaching for some testosterone building pills, maybe you could use more hours snoozing in bed. Health Problems Start or Get Worse – Not enou...

Does this describe your life? Work is going through another round of layoffs. The kids are sick and involved in too many activities. Your spouse is driving you crazy. Your mom called and she needs your help this weekend. And on, and on, and on. The stress never ends. You are often running on fumes, both physically and mentally. So you reach for the food. The carbs, the chocolate, the sugar. The easy and handy stuff that while you’re eating it releases that feel good hormone, but the moment you stop or when the bag is empty, you feel just……awful. Defeated. Ashamed. Angry at yourself and your lack of discipline. Emotional eating – eating when we are stressed or depressed can sneak up on you. It steals your joy, your energy and your self-esteem. It creeps in slowly and takes over your health, bite by bite, slowly and steadily until one day those favorite jeans or that beautiful blouse is now not looking so good on you. If you can get into it at all. If you have ev...