healthy living

Everything looks harder than it is….

May 12, 2013
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Here is my latest update from my #InfiniteCoaching and #LeanforLife program with Jessica at Infinite Fitness.  I can just imagine the ad team for Nike. All sitting around a conference room table one day, brainstorming about slogans for their biggest client. They are all talking about fitness and exercise and running and someone makes an off-hand remark… “Why doesn’t everyone just do it?” And there you have it. Three words that have revolutionized a brand and made Nike a recognized and household name worldwide. BUT… Even with the biggest brand in the world telling us to “Just do it”, so many of us just DON’T. The problem in our fast-paced, busy, busy world is hidden in that original question… Why don’t we eat better? Work out more? Go for a walk or a bike ride? Plan out our meals better? Clean out the storage room? Or our inboxes? Or our...

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Everyone needs a good coach in their life…

April 29, 2013
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I have Jessica Zapata of Infinite Fitness. And she is going to help me to LOSE…. A LOT!   Food. Jessica has told me for years now that in order to lose weight, it doesn’t really matter how much I work out, if I don’t change my eating habits, it will be all for naught. And so here is where I get to tell you that I have some pretty bad eating habits. Not so bad that I am putting junk food in my mouth every chance I get and hitting the McD’s drive-thru every other day, but bad enough that I don’t even think I realize how detrimental all the “little” things that I do are to my body and my health and fitness goals. What are all these little things you ask? Well, first of all, I eat fast. I have two kids who are in two...

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one year later. After the Mirena break up.

April 5, 2013
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one year later. After the Mirena break up.

I feel like it is time for a follow up post about my Mirena experience. My original post receives between 700-1100+ visits daily and has generated over 200 comments from women from all over the world who have shared their own, sometimes very personal, struggles and experiences with this supposed innocuous form of birth control. I appreciate each and every one of these women for sharing their stories, for listening to their gut and for persevering for answers when they were not getting any from their health care professionals. It is proving difficult to answer every single comment, but there are some common questions within a good majority of them that I feel like I can answer, at least from my perspective and from my experiences at this point, one year post-Mirena. The dreaded “Mirena Crash”. Before I had my IUD removed, I too did a lot of research...

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430,000.00 Silver Linings

March 23, 2013
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430,000.00 Silver Linings

I am exhausted. A really good exhausted. Today I spent the whole day moving my butt, shaking my groove thang and busting some moves with over 400 other people at the 2nd annual Bust a Move for Breast Health. I was part of the BamBassadors Social Media team with the lovely @JenBanksYeg, the superb @realturkeylady, our at-home-with-a-concussion tweeter, @AprilWiens and the ever a good sport, wearing his pink tutu with pride, @ChrisTse_ . We are Team Hello Titties and we all had a blast today tweeting, Vine-ing, Instagram-ing, and Facebook-ing all about this amazing event (and we managed to get the #bamyeg hashtag into the top trending topics for Edmonton too)! Bust a Move for Breast Health is a six hour fitness extravaganza that will have you move more than your feet to raise valuable funds for the Cross Cancer Institute. One small step for events, on large step...

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Daylight.

February 17, 2013
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Oy! I am one tired human tonight. It was a good day. Bikram yoga, skating with the kids, some shopping with the SILs and then dinner at the inlaws. I have a post that I have been working on that I wanted to finish tonight, but I just can’t. I can barely keep my eyes open. So instead, I am going to finally finish folding Mount Laundry and then take my tired bones to bed… EARLY! And that ladies and gents, is my Silver Lining for today. #9. An early bedtime. Oh yeah, AND… I can’t stop singing this song. {Badly, just ask my kids!}

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Lose your mommy buts

November 5, 2012
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Lose your mommy buts

This post has been brewing in my head for a few days now and I finally have some time to get it onto the screen. Last week I read this post from Rachel Martin at Finding Joy. In it, she talks about why it is OK to take a mom break. You run on empty. I run on empty. It’s the nature of our society to push everything until the last drop – and then we are beyond worn out. We wait to get gas till the light warns us that the tank is empty, we save the last drops of milk, we scrape the peanut butter from the sides of the jar – and we do the same with our self. We push, and give, and push, and give, and we often ignore the warning lights telling us to refuel. And then shortly after I posted her link...

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Nothing in life is ever really ‘FREE’

August 4, 2012
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Nothing in life is ever really ‘FREE’

I am confused. And I don’t want to add fuel to the fire of the ridiculous and never ending how you feed your baby Mommy Wars, but I am serious. I am really confused. New Your City has a new initiative called “Latch On NYC”. It is aimed at promoting breastfeeding in the city’s many hospitals. In order to do this, the plan is to limit access to “free” formula samples and any advertising and marketing materials from the formula companies that are distributed to new mothers and their babies in the first few hours and days after birth. And there is a lot of hulabaloo about it all over the interwebs this week. Especially because it is World Breastfeeding Week. A lot of people are quite upset about it and like in this article from Cafe Mom think that this is removing a woman’s choice in how she...

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Learning to ride and learning to let go

August 2, 2012
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Learning to ride and learning to let go

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow. ~ H.G. Wells The Wheels of Chance My son learned to ride his bike a few weeks ago. And neither his father nor I had very much to do with it. I enrolled Little C in the Pedalheads Bike Camp and after seeing the results of this week long, 2.5 hours a day camp program, I know that it was the best thing for all of us. For one thing, they took the training wheels of his bike on the first day! (I know for a fact that I wouldn’t have done that for a long time because I would have been the one afraid to, not him!)...

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The Virgin Garden

July 13, 2012
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The Virgin Garden

This week I decided it was time to go all the way. I mean, I have waited 40 years, I weighed all the pros and cons and I was pretty sure I was mentally ready to handle the consequences. So I had a long shower, cleaned myself up real nice, put on a pretty pink dress and off I went to get my flower plucked. The setting was perfect. A beautiful, tranquil place, filled with lots of nice sounds and smells. All of it intended to relax me and help put me in the mood. I had a drink and I washed my face with a cool cloth. I took off my clothes and folded them in a neat pile on the chair and laid down on the bed. I was ready. And then I heard these ominous words… “Let’s see what we are dealing with here.” And the...

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stealth attack

June 8, 2012
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It hit without warning. A small dot on my chest that felt a little tight. And then it got bigger. And bigger. And then I started to breathe a little faster. And shorter. I managed to get the kids dressed and fed before it hit me full force. But come it did… And then BAM! There I was, hunched over my desk, sobbing and hyperventilating uncontrollably… And having the first FULL ON anxiety attack I have had in over 15 years. My poor little girl just looked at me and said “Mommy, what is wrong with you?” I didn’t have an answer for her. I somehow managed to pull myself together long enough to get the kids to school. I did not talk to anyone for fear that the flood gates would not hold if I so much as opened my mouth. I lost it again when I got...

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