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Looking Good and Eating Well on a SKINNY Budget
01 Jan. 2013

Looking Good and Eating Well on a SKINNY Budget


Dear Readers,
 HAPPY NEW YOU!!!  No doubt you met some of your fitness goals last year, but still have a bit of a ways to go.  No need to go through semantics; let’s get right down to business.
Gainfully employed, underemployed, or unemployed, no matter what your situation you realize that eating healthy costs a whole lot …

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This for that
06 Jun. 2012

This for that


 I know the first question in your head must be where have I been? Why has there such a lag time in blog posts?  My apologies dear readers, but life happened, in a good way.  A few weeks ago I graduated from Pharmacy school.  Graduation, the weeklong celebration, and the out of town well wishers …

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01 Jan. 2012

Love your body


Blog post Dec 5, 2011
 Love your body
 
When it comes to loving the body we have we as women are often our own worse critics.  We look for clever ways to disguise the self perceived faults of our physiques. Trust me, I know because I am guilty of it too. I had a  a couple of …

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11 Nov. 2011

I kept my promise


pictures are NOT photoshopped(on the left about to interview Danielle Knox from Lifetime and on the right at Kiss & Tell with Mimi from my thick girl column)
Let me say this is probably one of my proudest moments here. Yes I did it on purpose. This is the same dress I wore a year ago …

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Making light of the dark
11 Nov. 2011

Making light of the dark


 
Daylight hours are getting shorter, temperatures are getting cooler. Welcome to fall in South Florida. It is always during this time of the year that I am the most content with the decision to have relocated from the NY/NJ area. While I feel bad for my Northern counterparts, I can’t help but gloat a little …

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10 Oct. 2011

Making the decision to change


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I think I have reached the point of looking myself in the mirror and hating what I see. The constant question of “Are you pregnant?” and my obvious answer would be “No I”m not, I’m just fat”. I don’t think this response made me feel any …

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10 Oct. 2011

Conquering a Mountain


1 mountain, 27 waterfalls, 6 friends, 3 years of suffering with a torn left ACL, 2 years of being diagnosed with asthma and allergies.  All of this adds up to ONE AWESOME LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE.  In July I took a vacation to the lovely Dominican Republic.  While soaring over turquoise waters, I instantly felt both …

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My journey to a healthier me
09 Sep. 2011

My journey to a healthier me


I love the fact that my readers and contributors are able to see something different about this blog. Most health and fitness blogs show you how to be a size 6 to zero, when really the average woman is a size 12 to 16. I am really honored to share with you that Cynthia Jean …

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07 Jul. 2011

CHANGE..


CHANGE…A word that represents one of the few constants in life that we can always rely on.   As women we change our hair, our last names, our wardrobe and the list goes on and on.  I had a recent and exciting change in my life.  I switched from being a classroom student, to a clinical/rotations …

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05 May. 2011

Swimsuit craze!!!


Summer time is on it’s way and my dear Blog contributor could not be any righter than this Please read on:
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She wore an itsy bitsy, teeny, weenie, yellow polka dot bikini…. Remember that cereal commercial about the young woman who was eating right in preparation for that faithful beach day that would be just around …

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