Reaching Serenity After the Holiday Crunch
Five tips towards winding down from the holidays and heading into the New Year in peace, with a calm state of mind.
#1 - Take a moment of silence — or an hour — to ring in the new year. In this age of stimulation and 24/7 communication one of […]

Three Holiday Stress-Relieving Stretching Techniques
 Looking for a holiday stress reliever for the Christmas season — when you can’t afford (or don’t have time for) a massage therapist?
Try these:
*Get your circulation going. Stretch up on your tippy toes and reach for the sky, then lower your feet first, so you’re sure-footed, and bend at […]

Tips To Keep The Holidays From Halting Your Fitness Regimen
Don’t ignore the holidays — acknowledge that they will change your fitness regimen. Then, make the following adjustments to stay fit and feel good during the holiday season:
1. Schedule — re-schedule. Take an honest look at your schedule, and instead of trying to squeeze exercise […]

People who have only just started celebrating Christmas — either because they have married someone who grew up celebrating Christmas, because they have chosen to celebrate Christmas “suddenly” of their own accord, or because they’ve chosen the path of least resistance in school, offices and communities, don’t have the family history of Christmas with the […]

How Marriage Affects Your Weight
Unfortunately, many women ‘get comfortable’ once they ‘get the man’—letting themselves go only to subsequently assume the position that ‘a man should love them for them’—not what they look like.  But herein lies the trouble with that one-sided attitude. Yes, the man may indeed ‘love you for you’, but he also […]

Candy is not immune to fashion! The pendulum swings back and forth between the new and the tried and true, and when it comes to candy, there are always new and new fangled candies, but there are the classics like Hershey bars, Babe Ruth bars and Nestle’s Crunch bars that will always have a following […]

The days are slipping by and I keep meaning to write about tolerance, a wonderful trait to possess and a beautiful gift to share. Unfortunately I’m really, really devoid of it and things that fertilize my intolerant nature keep coming to the surface before I have a chance to write about how important it is […]

The difference between soda and other beverages is what it is that makes it attractive to soda lovers — the sugar, the bubbles and the packaging.
People who love soda love the sugar in their drinks, as opposed to hard core (no frappucinos) coffee drinkers, water drinkers and iced tea drinkers.
But what sets soda apart from […]

Considering the way I love to eat, I can’t believe I don’t write more about food. I’m totally stealing a recipe from a Kraft Foods Magazine and posting it here as my own delectable creation, which it sort of is. It sort of is because I altered theirs to make it easier and gooier. Last […]

There’s no question about it — being in an office and undergoing the ups and downs of office life DO affect eating and diet. But the stress affects eating and diet both ways:
Some people eat less when they are busy. Some eat less when they re stressed. Being busy and being stressed are not always […]