Being the fat kid sucks.I was overweight from the age of 8 – 15 and it was brutal. All my friends had boyfriends, but I didn’t. Gym class was agonizing. I felt so uncomfortable in my own skin, betrayed by…

Yesterday we looked at labelling gas nozzles and today here’s good news about a better way to label food. A series of studies add up to the conclusion that if people were aware of how much walking it would take to burn off food they eat less. Calories can be confusing so by telling people how much time walking it can help people understand how much energy they are consuming.

“People who viewed the menu without nutritional information ordered a meal totaling 1,020 calories, on average, significantly more than the average 826 calories ordered by those who viewed menus that information about walking-distance,” writes Scientific American. People who saw the menu with walking-distance info also ordered less than people who just saw calorie info.

Read more.

Now I’m going to go for a walk…

The snow has nearly disappeared. The sun is so warm on this side of the house.The goldfish pond is beginning to melt nearest the house.I’ve put out a wee pump to circulate the water a bit. Last night it was -10 C. (14 F.) and some of it froze over agai…

Okay so after 8 kiddies being popped out of this tiny body frame I have to say that I don’t look THAT bad.  However, there are a few annoying things that I would like to improve upon.the saggy boobsthe boob…

Spring break hasn’t been all the springy, if you catch my drift. SNOWDRIFT, that is. Based on all of my Canadian friends’ status updates on Facebook bemoaning the latest blizzard, closed highway or white-out conditions, it’s pretty clear that we’re…

Four full weeks on Weight Watchers. Reflecting, this is what I see:Week One: I was very eager. Totally onboard. I researched recipes, tracked everything, ran three times in the week and resisted all cravings.I lost 5lbsWeek Two:I started to feel temptation…

This is literally the most annoying decision I’ve ever made.

I hate waking up. Especially to an alarm clock.

Because morning’s are the worst. I’m sleepy, grumpy, and all the other negative dwarves (dwarf’s? My spell checker says I’m wrong). Definitely not happy.

But there’s this…thought gnawing at me. It says “Remember that time you used to jog three mornings a week before work?” and I nod grudgingly.

And then I hear another thought. “Remember how you survived and you actually didn’t hate getting up so early with a passion, only with annoyance, after a few months?”

No. I don’t remember that part. But the thought thinks I didn’t hate it so much by the end there.

Well. Something’s got to change. Maybe I don’t have to go jogging in the wee hours but I’ve got to at least get on a different schedule.

I’m pretty tired most of the time, and I’m dragging myself through the day.

Sure, the super-cold of ’13 has a bit to do with it, but I think it’s more to do with getting into a rut. Giving in to bad habits and becoming lazier and lazier.

So now I have to combat the ‘ziness with some Rise Up And Shine action.

No matter how grumpy I am at first.

(Watch out co-workers, this is not going to be pretty.)

Wanting to do this right I Googled around a bit for some good tips for magically transforming into a morning person.

All I found were pretty silly ideas like “do your hair the night before” and “give yourself a pep talk.”

Um…

My favourite suggestion was “set an alarm clock.”

Perhaps someone out there has a real suggestion? My husband says “just get up,” which I guess is the essence of what I’m trying to do…but I’d like the answer to be a little more sugar coated and, well, easier.

This is literally the most annoying decision I’ve ever made.

I hate waking up. Especially to an alarm clock.

Because morning’s are the worst. I’m sleepy, grumpy, and all the other negative dwarves (dwarf’s? My spell checker says I’m wrong). Definitely not happy.

But there’s this…thought gnawing at me. It says “Remember that time you used to jog three mornings a week before work?” and I nod grudgingly.

And then I hear another thought. “Remember how you survived and you actually didn’t hate getting up so early with a passion, only with annoyance, after a few months?”

No. I don’t remember that part. But the thought thinks I didn’t hate it so much by the end there.

Well. Something’s got to change. Maybe I don’t have to go jogging in the wee hours but I’ve got to at least get on a different schedule.

I’m pretty tired most of the time, and I’m dragging myself through the day.

Sure, the super-cold of ’13 has a bit to do with it, but I think it’s more to do with getting into a rut. Giving in to bad habits and becoming lazier and lazier.

So now I have to combat the ‘ziness with some Rise Up And Shine action.

No matter how grumpy I am at first.

(Watch out co-workers, this is not going to be pretty.)

Wanting to do this right I Googled around a bit for some good tips for magically transforming into a morning person.

All I found were pretty silly ideas like “do your hair the night before” and “give yourself a pep talk.”

Um…

My favourite suggestion was “set an alarm clock.”

Perhaps someone out there has a real suggestion? My husband says “just get up,” which I guess is the essence of what I’m trying to do…but I’d like the answer to be a little more sugar coated and, well, easier.

Two weeks ago I received an extremely kind and thoughtful email from Maureen McVicar, physiotherapist and ACSM Clinical Exercise Specialist with the Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Health in Motion Program in Nova Scotia.I’ll post her email below, but the…

I know there is a whole anti-New Year’s resolution movement happening but this isn’t about that. I am fine with resolutions. Being forced to reflect and make plans to be and do better seems OK to me. I have made…

(Original Source:  The Soup TV)By my count during the first week of this season’s The Biggest Loser, three contestants lost consciousness, two threw up, one suffered a stress fracture in their knee and a thirteen year old boy fractured his foot.Wa…

New post. Mommy Moment is owned by Jody Arsenault, from Manitoba, Canada.Quick question to everyone out there…who LOVES to work-out?  I mean REALLY loves it?  I am going to take a stab in the dark and say that for most people who have included …

Yesterday, we met Mark (as a prototypical representative of the National Weight Control Registry), who, deciding that enough was enough, managed to turn his weight around with a self-directed regimen of eating less and moving more (ELMM).
Today, we meet Julie (whose story I also made up), another prototypical weight-loss maintainer, who believes most vehemently in [...]

Few events are likely to command your attention as urgently as a sudden interruption of blood flow to your heart muscle.
Fortunately, thanks to the miracle of modern cardiac revascularization, you may well find yourself amongst the many, who today survive this “heart-wrenching” event – a situation which often precipitates remarkably intense longings for lifestyle change.
Indeed, [...]

Last summer, before beginning his first year at Robert Land Academy 15-year-old Peter Darwin (who requested that his real name not be used) weighed 360 lbs. Since then Canada’s only military-themed school for adolescent boys with multiple challenges has transformed him. He Was A Poster Boy For Morbid Obesity No more. Darwin has dropped 105 lbs., [...]

Brass buttons were bursting with pride at last month’s 33rd annual Robert Land Academy graduation ceremony. Another class of mature, respectful, goal-oriented and successful young men completed their high school education at Canada’s only military-style boarding school for adolescent boys, some as young as 11 years of age. School Stresses Academic Excellence Nestled in southern Ontario’s Niagara [...]

It is my belief that we all need a little extra padding in the winter. Okay, maybe not my belief but my reality since I seem to acquire a little extra padding (specifically in the tummy and rear end regions) during the colder months. This year seems …

It is my belief that we all need a little extra padding in the winter. Okay, maybe not my belief but my reality since I seem to acquire a little extra padding (specifically in the tummy and rear end regions) during the colder months. This year seems …