I’ve been dealing with a bit of frustration and disappointment over the last week or so, and as a result, my work-out routine as well as my blog writing has been inconsistent and out-of-sorts. I actually convinced myself that I didn’t actually need to work-out, which hasn’t really happened in months. Lucikly, it only lasted […]
Some real, do-able, every-day habits here in the following article. I excerpted the 5 habits below, and I especially like the section on service. Being of service is about action, and I like that all of these habits are about purposeful action. The 5 Habits of Purposeful People Habit #1: Live in the present moment. […]
This image reminded me of all of the benefits of exercise. All of the following are true for me. I was telling a friend just today that it’s a busy, stressful next couple of weeks, and I was beginning to worry about how everything would get done. Without even thinking, I said I will make […]
Sometimes I walk on my rest days, and this infographic reminded me of the benefits of walking. I really like that it can ease stress in 10 minutes. 10 minutes. Who doesn’t have 10 minutes?
I have been working on the following post for a good while. It’s a pretty hard one because it links lots of experiences related to my body and how I’ve (mis) treated it. I went to the doctor earlier this week for a check-up. I love knowing my blood pressure and it was perfect 124/70 […]
The gap between beneficial stress and harmful stress is small . This image always reminds me how the transition to harmful stress affects my health and well-being pretty drastically. One of the ways I stay idle in the optimal performance zone is through exercise.
Since 2003, I have served on ECU’s Institutional Review Board as a non-scientist. These boards have to have certain types of members on the committee. Physicians, nurses, scientists, community members, and at least one non-scientist. In fact for a while, I was the only non-scientist, and if I was late, they couldn’t begin until I […]
Back in June, the American Medical Association delegates voted against the conclusions by their internal Council on Science and Public Health. The council concluded obesity should NOT be defined as a disease because the Body Mass Index (MBI) used to measure obesity has issues “simplistic and flawed”. Arguments for classifying obesity as a disease included […]
When I began my journey to a more healthy lifestyle, I set 3 eating goals a day, and I focused on additive behaviors rather than deprivation behaviors. I needed to focus on what I was going to do, not what I wasn’t going to do. (That hadn’t worked, so I wasn’t confident it would work […]