"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." -- Buddha During this season of giving, don't under estimate the power of GIVING a complement. Yes, ultimately managing...
Yahoo...TrICity Chargers!!! As most of you know, I've spent the last week in Tampa, Florida watching my youngest son, Chase's TriCity Pee Wee level travel football team participate in their national competitions. Today was their last game and they defeated GC Buffalo,...
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." -Albert Einstein. Imagination is a powerful part of making our dreams a reality. It's critical that you can see, in your mind's eye, yourself getting to your reasonable* weight goal. If you...
Clearly our little dog Oakley (above) is prepared for the holidays, but are YOU??? This week at Weight Watchers we are taking the time to make an action plan for the remaining few weeks of 2012 in regard to our health and weight loss/weight maintenance. Taking the...
The good news around my house is that Chase's TriCity Chargers Travel Football team has qualified to compete at the national level in Tampa, Florida. Yay, Chase!!!! For those of you who don't know, Chase Carlson is my youngest son, pictured above, who is 12 years old....
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." - William James Oh what a Thanksgiving! I had such a nice, long holiday weekend with my family and I hope you did too! Hopefully you enjoyed every single bite...
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our...
"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first." -Ralph Waldo Emerson...
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt FEAR. Many of us harbor a lot more of it than we realize when it comes to eating...
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” ~Gloria Steinem After you have determined a realistic weight goal (one that allows you to feel your best AND maintain it comfortably),...