How To Embarrass Your Children

My five year old is one of the most adorable children in the world. And one of the most difficult. Yep, he’s stubborn and has a mind of his own and wants the whole world to know his opinion on everything. In other words, he is just like his mother.

Love Your Body Before You Change Your Body

We all have moments where we do not love our physical appearance. Maybe it’s a big nose, a break out, a bad hair day (or month), or gaining or losing too much weight. These days come and go and are completely normal. But sometimes we allow our bad days to become bad weekends, weeks, months and years.  If you find yourself looking in the mirror and repeatedly putting yourself down over your physical appearance, you need to stop. Now! While it’s normal to want to change something about your body, it is very dangerous to put yourself down or to assume you [ ... ]

Easy Ways to Be Healthier and Get In Shape

I’ve never counted calories before. In fact, I had no idea how many calories I was supposed to consume in one day. I also didn’t know how quickly calories add up. Last weekend while talking to the Mrs. Idaho America trainer, I was introduced to a free app for my iPhone called “Lose It!” This app makes it quite easy to track your food intake (even has popular restaurant menus on there to make finding the foods easy) and to track your different types of workout to see how many calories you are working off. Of course, the problem is getting myself [ ... ]