24 April, 2009 (14:30) | BlogHer, Health, depression, dieting, food, happiness, life, nutrition, thoughts, weight loss, women, women's health | By: Catherine Morgan
Understanding why we overeat is an important step on the road to making healthy food choices. And for many of us, our unhealthy emotions are contributing to our unhealthy eating.
It’s called being an emotional eater. Are you one of them? I can admit…I am. I think if we are being honest with ourselves, we all do this to some degree. And in small doses, emotional eating isn’t so bad. But many of us have gone way beyond minor emotional eating. Many of us are using food to avoid dealing with our true feelings…and not only doesn’t it work, but it also compounds are troubles with feelings of guilt and anger toward ourselves.
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15 April, 2009 (17:06) | BlogHer, Health, Women 4 Hope, dieting, empowerment, exercise, food, inspirational, life, nutrition, positive thinking, success, thoughts, weight loss, women, women's health | By: Catherine Morgan
Valerie Bertinelli’s Weight Loss: Inspiring or Controversial?
Last week I watched Valerie Bertinelli and Marie Osmond on the Oprah Winfrey Show talking about their personal weight loss success stories, and I found both stories to be very inspirational. As most of you already know, I’ve been struggling with my weight for several years now. And for that reason, I find myself easily able to relate to these two women. After watching that show I felt more motivated then ever to continue eating healthy and losing weight. I don’t think I was alone, but as always, there was also a backlash.
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15 April, 2009 (16:59) | BlogHer, Health, Women 4 Hope, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, family, happiness, life, thoughts, women, women's health | By: Catherine Morgan
We all know that in order to be healthy (and happy) we need to get enough sleep. But still, most of us either don’t get enough sleep or our quality of sleep is lacking. Let face it, if you’re a mom you probably don’t get enough sleep. If you work you probably don’t get enough sleep. If you worry, you probably don’t get enough sleep. And if you’re a mom who works and also worries, you may have already forgotten what it means to get a good night’s sleep.
I don’t know about you, but I am tired all the time. I guess it doesn’t help that I stay up till all hours of the night doing my blog posts.
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5 April, 2009 (00:09) | Health, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, empowerment, family, healthcare, heart disease, life, vaccines, women, women's health, writing | By: Catherine Morgan
KEEPING A PERSONAL MEDICAL JOURNAL — by Catherine Morgan – (cross posted at Be The Change You Want To See In Yourself)
Whether you are suffering from a chronic illness, pregnant, or just getting older. Keeping a personal medical journal, is important, and can really come in handy. Some may want to do this on a weekly or monthly basis, others on a daily basis, this will depend on the severity of your health issues.
STEP ONE: Just go out and get a notebook that you can use for this purpose alone. This journal will be helpful to you, as well as the medical practitioners you are working with. Especially, if you move, need to change doctors, or are hospitalized. Which reminds me, if you go on vacation, or extended holiday, bring your medical information with you, it will make it much easier if you need to see an unfamiliar physician, or be hospitalized.
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4 April, 2009 (20:17) | Health, empowerment, exercise, family, heart disease, inspirational, life, mommy bloggers, positive thinking, success, weight loss, women, women's health, yoga | By: Catherine Morgan
When you hear the word “yoga” what do you think of? You may think you know all there is to know about yoga, but there is a good chance that you don’t. Let’s take a look at some of what women are blogging on the topic of yoga.
Have you heard of Hot Yoga?
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2 April, 2009 (16:31) | BlogHer, Health, Women 4 Hope, dieting, empowerment, exercise, food, happiness, heart disease, inspirational, life, mommy bloggers, nutrition, positive thinking, success, thoughts, weight loss, women, women bloggers, women's health | By: Catherine Morgan
Would you like to live to 100 years and beyond? Dr. Oz and other medical experts believe that a calorie restriction diet can help people to live longer with a higher quality of life. The calorie restriction diet also focuses on consuming calories that provide a high nutritional value, not just low calorie.
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2 April, 2009 (16:25) | BlogHer, Health, Women 4 Hope, depression, empowerment, happiness, heart disease, inspirational, life, mommy bloggers, news, peace, positive thinking, success, thoughts, women, women bloggers, women's health | By: Catherine Morgan
I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about today, and then I came across this interesting article on how reading can reduce stress. Since I love to read, and I also love anything that can help me reduce stress, I thought this would be a great post for today.
Are you stressed about the economy? Your job? Your kids? Politics? It’s no secret that life is very stressful these days. So…What can we do to reduce stress? Apparently, reading a book is one of the best ways to reduce stress.
Reading is the best way to relax and even six minutes can be enough to reduce the stress levels by more than two thirds or 68%.
New research by consultancy Mindlab International at the University of Sussex says reading works better and faster than other methods to calm frazzled nerves such as listening to music, going for a walk or settling down with a cup of tea.
Are you a reader? Does it help you relax and de-stress?
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