Jenny Craig: Obesity Epidemic and Me

June 17, 2009

I’m short.  Five pounds looks like twenty on me. So any small weight gain shows up on me faster than a taller person.  I’m not obese but I’m close enough and have a family history that shows me that being at a healthy weight is critical to my health.
I’m also hitting my mid-40’s and I [...]

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Family Travel: Gas-X Commercial, Planet Unicorn Song

June 16, 2009

Kids and car travel can wear down even the most patient parents. It’s a fact that children of any age who get tired, hungry and off their regular routine will make mom and dad crazy. We all know that our offspring will, at times, push us to the brink after a long car ride. I’m [...]

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Family Travel: Cheap Travel Entertainment for Kids

June 12, 2009

Summer means family road trip time!  I thought it would be a good  to refresh my memory and give readers some ideas for cheap travel entertainment ideas for the road.  Some of my personal travel entertainment ideas:

Make the children listen to an 80’s music mix. While traveling through certain parts of the country.  It’s a [...]

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Jenny Craig: Progress, Not Perfection

June 10, 2009

One of the reasons JennyCraig’s program is successful is because they focus on progress—not perfection.   Unlike other attempts to lose weight, this time around, I’m being encouraged to just make progress!
The people at JennyCraig are not focused on how much weight I’m losing.  They want me to change my habits and concentrate on moving forward!  [...]

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Jenny Craig: Get Moving and Eat More?

June 3, 2009

I just started doing the JennyCraig program, so hopefully I’ll be as healthy as Valerie Bertinelli by next summer!  So far, so good. I am losing about 1 to 1.5 pounds per week. It’s coming off slow but steady.
Normally I would be impatient with this kind of slow, healthy weight loss—-which is why I keep [...]

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Sandestin: Family Fun in Beautiful Destin, Florida

June 1, 2009

The most beautiful beach family vacation we’ve taken in the United States was a trip to Destin, Florida when we stayed at Sandestin resort.
Not Hawaii, not the Florida Keys or Sunny California—-Destin,Florida.  The sugar white beaches of Destin rival any beach in the Carribean and the water is sparkling blue-green.

Sandestin Resort is the place to [...]

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Jenny Craig: Valerie Bertinelli & Me?

May 25, 2009

I began the Jenny Craig weight loss program three weeks ago. I haven’t blogged about it until now because I wanted to be sure that I could stick with it. There’s nothing worse than telling gazillions of people that you are starting a diet…and then not following through.  I was inspired to do the Jenny [...]

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Ford Edge Sport

May 16, 2009

Jess, Lolita & Walt in front of the Ford Edge Sport

I was in LA last week for two media events and I got the royal treatment. The folks at Ford gave me a Ford Edge Sport to test drive while I was there.  I was in LA to promote my parenting book, and I had [...]

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Whrrl: Share a Story on Whrrl!

May 14, 2009

Whrrl is an app I’ve become addicted to I’m using and I love it.  It’s a cross between blogging and using Twitter.  One of the best things about Whrrl is that it gives me a choice of who I want to share with—-I can share JUST with friends or I can share with the general [...]

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Travel Tools: Backtrack Personal GPS Unit

May 1, 2009

Romi Lassally, is a mom, a dear friend and founder of truu confessions, a network of online confessional communities and the author of True Mom Confessions: Real Moms Get Real.
Romi’s favorite travel tool?

Backtrack. Backtrack is a personal GPS unit. It’s not only handy when traveling….it’s great for those times when I lose my car [...]

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