07 Aug 2008

Do You Live Frugally in Today’s Economy?

It had to happen sooner or later. Today’s economy in America has an impact on everyone, and has now become a topic for Plus Size Blog to explore. Let’s face it, with the price of gasoline skyrocketing, banks failing, foreclosures up, and the price of some “necessity” of life going up seemingly everyday, [...]

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27 Jul 2008

Stress and Coping Skills

By now everyone is probably familiar with the theory that stress can be harmful to your health. It has be proven to me in my life that excess stress has certainly impacted me negatively. At one time I was working at an extremely stressful job. Not only did I have to deal [...]

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19 Jun 2008

Let the Seasons Be Your Guide

I just read an article about healthy eating that puts forth the idea that the Seasons can be your guide to choosing fruits and vegetables. It made sense to me. The premise is that produce at the peak of it’s growing cycle contains the most nutritional value. As a guide, in Spring, [...]

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18 Jun 2008

Inspiration and motivation

Today I had time to really surf the web. In particular I explored a couple of websites. www.sparkpeople.com is a website that I joined back in April, but hadn’t really done anything with before now. It’s a fantastic website designed as one big community support group for realistic weight loss and healthy [...]

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15 Jun 2008

Muses from the Mediterranean

Something has been on my mind since I returned from my cruise of Spain, France, and Italy. In looking at my pictures and thinking back, I began to realize an interesting fact. The only people that I saw on the trip who were overweight, were the American tourists! None of the natives [...]

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12 Jun 2008

This is great!

As I mentioned earlier, I just returned from my first-ever cruise! It’s a toss up with me as to what was more exciting, all of the fantastic sites that were new to me; or all of the incredible food!

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