Get Sleep To Balance Your Blood Sugar

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When you get enough sleep, you can ingrain (no pun intended) healthy choices necessary to balance your blood sugar and stop the rollercoaster of mindless eating. If you’ve been on a snack laden diet, you’re going from sugar high to sugar low many times a day. And feeling moody, tired, and not as alert as […]

Add Protein To Balance Your Blood Sugar

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Why do you need to add protein to balance your blood sugar? All day snacking sends our bodies on a wild ride. Blood sugar dips and swings demand sugary foods every 2-3 hours. On day one of balancing your blood sugar, we up-ed our water intake. Today, we’re changing our fuel source. As we nourish […]

Get Moving To Balance Your Blood Sugar

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The final step to balance your blood sugar is to get moving. Movement is activity or motion, including unorthodox exercises like: Washing the car Painting Walking the dog Gardening Scrubbing the shower Going up and down the stairs doing laundry Emptying the dishwasher Staining the deck

What Are You Doing Now

When the decades of life are attached to a societal norm of being, looking around often answers the question, “Am I doing what I’m supposed to be doing?”

10 Break-Up Take-Aways

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I needed some break-up take-aways to understand what happened and how I should feel about it.  When a relationship is over, you don’t have to think of it as failed, but simply completed. Your break-up provides an uninvited opportunity to examine the past and future.

How Long Does It Take To Heal

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Eighteen months. That’s how much time researchers say it takes to heal. Eighteen months for each stress inducing life event. Be it marriage or divorce, birth or death, diagnosis or remission; the fact is that the body doesn’t know “good” stress from “bad” stress. The time allotment is the same for each: eighteen months. When […]