elizabeth

              Last February, I entered a Biggest Loser competition with the goal of losing weight, getting healthy, and becoming Connecticut’s Biggest Loser. The months of training, learning which foods fuel the body, and setting weekly weight loss goals paid off by the end of May. Then, in June, I took the learning experience a [...]

This summer I joined a certain gym in town specifically because it offers classes and a pool. I’ve been taking the classes for two weeks now and decided it was time to start using the pool. But in order to do that, I’d have to wear a bathing suit.

I’ve mulled this post over and over in my mind until I decided to be brave and write about it. At the risk of stepping on a soapbox and perhaps imitating our first lady, Michelle Obama, this post is about my reflections and observations of our young people and their over or under abundance of [...]

We’ve measured, weighed, and counted our foods at home until the nutritional values are committed to memory. Then someone suggests, “Let’s eat out!” and we groan, or worse, think “Ok, I’ll see what I can possibly eat, but forget about my eating plan for today.” Now we either feel like failure has reared its familiar [...]