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10 Awesome Weight Watchers Blogs to Follow

by Carolyn 1 Comment

Are you in charge of cooking at your house? If you are anything like me, you are not great at coming up with recipes on your own. I love to follow Weight Watchers blogs for ideas.

You probably find yourself cooking the same things over and over again simply because you know how to prepare them and how many points per serving. 

This is especially true if you follow Weight Watchers.

Tell me if this sounds familiar. You find a recipe that fits your points, you know you like it and you know how to prepare it, it is way too easy to cook it over and over again. 

When starting WW (Weight Watchers) it is a great idea to learn from others. Here are 10 WW Weight Watchers blogs to follow for great tips and recipes. #ww #weightwatchers [Read more…]

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8 Tips to Get Started with Weight Watchers

by Carolyn 1 Comment

Are you ready to make a change in your health?  When you make the choice to get started with Weight Watchers, you have made the choice to change not just your health, but also your life.  You are choosing yourself.

I have done WW several times over the years and have always had success. How much success always depends on how dedicated I am and how much I plan ahead.

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7 Ways To Boost Your Healthy Resolutions

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This post was sponsored by Proctor & Gamble as part of an Influencer Activation and all opinions expressed in my post are my own.

If you are like me, every year I like to start at the beginning and make sure I am living a healthy life. As moms, we are known to put ourselves last and I don’t want my health to suffer for it.

My resolutions this year include exercise, healthy diet (that includes a bit of chocolate of course 😉 ) and keeping our house a healthy place. No more resolutions of a certain 10 lb weight loss, this year I want to feel energetic. That is my main goal, More Energy!

Keep up your resolutions and stay healthy this year with #AD Metamucil, Vicks VapoCool, Align and Dial. Be sure to check out www.WalmartHealthSupport.com for great information. #WalmartHealthSuport #IC #Resolutions [Read more…]

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How to Get Your Groove Back After Having a Baby

by Carolyn 7 Comments

This post was sponsored by Weight Watchers International, Inc. as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central and all opinions expressed in my post are my own.

There comes a time a few weeks after having your newest little baby that you get tired of the maternity pants. Even though they are super comfortable, we think, I wonder when I’ll be able to wear pants with zippers and buttons again.

Get Your Groove Back Weight Watchers Ice Cream Novelties #Wellness4RealLife #WWSponsored #IC #ad [Read more…]

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Best Probiotic For Kids With Tummy Or Bathroom Issues

by Carolyn 23 Comments

We are on a quest in our family to solve some bathroom issues with one of our kids. We have spoken to our pediatrician, used some medicine but we are now trying to get a step ahead and monitor their diets. Probiotics have been in the news the past few years and it seems like it could be the answer to our problems. I have been doing some research on why kids need probiotics in their diets.

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Ultimate Guide to Free Workout Videos on YouTube

by Carolyn 27 Comments

Did you know that you have access to hundreds of free workout videos on YouTube?!?!  I put out a call to my friends to see if they knew of any free workout videos on YouTube that they could recommend. So many people responded and wanted to give me their opinion of their favorites that I was overwhelmed. Turns out that all of my friends have been using exercise videos on YouTube and I had no idea that we could have access to all of this for free!

Ultimate Guide to Free Workout Videos on YouTube. I had no idea there were so many free exercise videos on youtube. These are perfect for when the weather makes it too difficult to get outside. Here are my reviews of the exercise youtube channels. [Read more…]

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4 Favorite Outdoor Games to Play with Kids of All Ages (No Toys Needed)

by Carolyn 22 Comments

This past week we were on spring break and had a great time at the beach. Unfortunately the weather wasn’t warm enough to be at the beach all day so we spent more time at the park than we normally do. Usually I can just let them run around at the park and I don’t need to entertain but we were there every day for at least an hour so I had to get creative to keep it fun. My boys helped me come up with 4 favorite outdoor games.

Easy fast games to keep things interesting when playing outside with kids. This weekend my boys taught me some of these and I love that they are quick and not complicated games that all different ages can have fun. I actually enjoyed playing them too.

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Little Known Secret to Finding The Right Music for Your Workouts

by Carolyn 8 Comments

Have you ever been running listening to a great song and feel like you could run forever and then the next song comes on and even though it is a good song it slows you down? I finally figured out why that happens and how to find songs that keep me going at a good pace.

Each song has a certain number of beats per minute (BPM) and the more BPMs in the song the faster your pace will be while listening to the song. You want to find the correct songs for the pace that you want, you don’t want one that is too slow or even one that is too fast.

Little Known Trick to find the right music to keep your workout on the correct pace. 2 websites to help find music to motivate you to keep working out.

My favorite way to find out which is the right pace is the next time you go for a run or walk pay attention to which songs inspire you to run or walk at the speed you want. Afterwards go to your computer and find out what the BPM is for that song by going to this website,  www.songbpm.com and typing in your song. Type in one or two that you like so you have a range of BPMs that work for you.

If you already know the pace you want to run/walk or you have now figured it out by the above website then you could go to www.jog.fm and it lists songs by pace.

For example it will say:

Shake it Off by Taylor Swift is 160 BPM and therefore a 9:00 mile pace

Love is a Battlefield by Pat Benetar is 181 BPM and is a 6:54 mile pace.

This is fun because it will give you ideas of songs that you may have never even thought of before. You also may try new artists that will pump you up for a good workout.

If you are like me, good music really makes a workout feel great. It even helps motivate me to go for a workout if I know I have new music.

What songs do you like to listen to while working out? I like Blurred Lines, Uptown Funk and Blow as some of my favorites. What are yours?

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Want to Fall Asleep Fast? Now I Fall Asleep in just a Few Minutes with this Solution.

by Carolyn 3 Comments

Do you feel so tired when you go to bed that you think you will fall asleep before your head hits the pillow? Then when you do lay down you can’t get your mind to shut off and you end up laying there for what seems like hours before actually falling asleep. I used to swear it took me at least 45 minutes to an hour to actually drift off to sleep. Now that is all over, I actually found the solution to falling asleep within a couple minutes of putting my head down.

A sound machine!

How I no longer stay awake over-thinking and now fall asleep so fast.

Yes, a sound machine is a must for helping babies fall asleep quickly and stay asleep longer so we should all be using them too.  I wish I would have figured it out 20 years ago. I would lay there telling myself I needed to fall asleep right then to get 7 hours of sleep and then stress myself out as the time dwindled away with me just continueing to lay there. Now I fall asleep so quickly that sometimes I can’t even remember putting my head on the pillow.

It is the constant buzz that drowns out changes in other noise. For example, you may still be able to hear the air conditioner kick on if you really focused on it but if you have a sound machine on and you are starting to drift off to sleep the sound of it kicking on no longer jars your body back to being awake. Here is an article that talks about it more scientifically than I can, click here.

It takes a couple days to get used to it. I recommend you try it at a very low setting at first so you barely hear it and then work it louder every couple days to get the full effect.

Here is the sound machine we use in our our house.

Now I can really say that I sleep hard like a baby. My baby and I both sleep listening to a sound machine.

 

 

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How Losing Weight is like the Debt Snowball

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In my last post about How to get into the Weight Loss Zone I talked about how it is important to start at a time where you have 3 – 5 days in a row where you know you won’t have any major temptations such as a party, birthday or other social event where you will be tempted to get off track. I am going to talk today about how losing weight is like the debt snowball that Dave Ramsey talks about in his book the Total Money Makeover.

How Losing Weight is like the Debt Snowball

You want to have several days to let yourself get into a routine and not have to make decisions. Make a meal plan or eat similar things each day for at least 3 – 5 days so you automatically are having some small successes. I ate basically the same meals each day for almost a week to limit any decisions I would need to make. If I left myself open to making a decision I would possibly give myself a decision that was not healthy or conducive to getting me to my goal.

This is the same situation Dave Ramsey is trying to give people who are trying to get out of debt. He recommends that you start paying off your debts smallest to largest. This way you quickly feel some success with paying off  small loans and then you are in the routine of feeling strong and successful in your mission. This will be the same with weight loss. Once you feel some small successes you can be stronger against temptations such as social events or being stressed and tired and can still acheive your goal.

Give yourself 3 – 5 days of your new way of eating so that you can feel good about yourself, strong and happy. This gives you the strength to get in the weight loss zone. Once you get in the zone you feel like nothing is more important than getting to your goal and you are strong against temptations. So set yourself up for success and get yourself into the zone!

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