BITS-O-WISDOM: "My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint." -- Erma Bombeck

More Fun With Exercise

Play-n-Freeze Ice Cream Maker: Makes Dessert & Exercise Fun

The Play-n-Freeze makes about a pint of delicious soft-serve ice cream with no electricity. Great for outdoor play, parties, camping, picnics or just your backyard. Add ice and rock salt in one end, ice cream mix in the other, then shake it, roll it and pass the dessert! Substitute Splenda or your favorite sugar alternative and create some great treats for the warmer months coming up.

Making Science Fun:
Play-n-Freeze & Other Ice Cream Makers

Exercise While You Work

I tried to operate my laptop while riding my exercise bike one day, and while it wasn't very comfortable, it made me think: Wouldn't it be great if I could surf the Internet or catch up on e-mail while exercising?

Apparently I'm not the only one who's got exercise on the brain. Dr. James Levine, endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota designed a treadmill for the office. Workers walk at a slow but steady pace while working. If you want to sit, you can pull up a stool. Not everyone will think this is a great idea but for those of us working at our desks 10 or more hours a day, and finding time to exercise is a challenge, it would be a dream come true. I want one.

Check out The Prophet of Walking While You Work

Weight Loss Begins With Cleanse

If you've ever had a colonic you'd know, you can easily lose five pounds just cleaning up that bad boy colon or yours. Sorry if this is gross, but hey, there you go. If you eat meat especially and don't get much fiber, the stuff gets a bit stuck, that's all I'm saying. Clean it out, and you'll feel better, plus you'll lose a few pounds in the process.

If the colonic approach doesn't appeal, an annual or bi-annual cleanse is the way to go.

Spring is a great time to do an annual cleanse. You clean your closets, right? Why not clean your body too? Once you get your colon in good shape, besides losing several pounds in the process, you'll be absorbing more nutrients when you eat, creating a healthier system.

Use Paraway Pack for one to three months for a healthy colon. Many people lose a substantial amount of weight doing a cleanse.

Here's the 5-step Approach to Better Health.

Parasites and Your Pets. Got pets? You maybe got parasites too. Ick!

Food Safety and Inspection Service, Parasites and food borne Illness

One More Bite's Readers Get Results

"Thank you for your story on the web it was such an inspiration. I have been working really hard at the gym for the past 5 weeks and my husband has noticed the difference. I can see my body has a new shape but I made the mistake of weighing my self and I had put on a kilo. I was ready to throw in the towel. I have been eating healthy. I now know what is happing with my muscle and fat in my body. Thank you. I'm going to keep going." Regards, Claire

That's what I'm talking about!

Keep those cards and letters coming folks. I really enjoy reading your successes (and failures too) so I can devise new materials and address whatever's on your mind.

Food: The History of Chocolate

The approach of Valentine's Day always makes us think of chocolate (well, actually, so does almost everything). Read The History of Chocolate and find out how chocolate became both an industry and an all-consuming passion.

The 15 Grossest Things You're Eating

Candy Addict

Why do I show these sites with food and candy and such when you want to lose weight? Because I'm crazy for food and I'll bet you are too. Why not have fun with it?

Supplement News

OTC (Over-the-counter) Medicines

Big controversy amongst scientists over the latest published results of studies for certain supplements. The results were skewed to give the results they wanted, which is nearly always the case, so when you hear eggs are good, eggs are bad, eat more fiber, eat less fruit, and so on, just take it with a grain of salt.

Common sense must prevail. Studies that prove a drug's efficacy are published in the PDR (Physician's Desk Reference).These are drugs and supplements (and even foods) that do what they say they do, and doctors rely on this reference text when prescribing. If you want to try an alternative and it's in the PDR (such as Bios Life Complete), just ask your doctor about it. He or she can then look it up and offer you a healthier alternative.

Eating a Balanced Diet ala Dave Barry

In "Stay Fit & Healthy Until You're Dead" Dave Barry says, "To make sure your digestive system gets the 'raw materials' it needs, at every meal you should eat at least 1 food from each of the 15 Basic Food Families: Fruits, Vegetables, Meats, Fishes, Loaves, Hors d'Oeuvres, Canned Goods, Jellies, Snacks, Shakes, Additives, Eels, Those Little Wax Bottles Filled with Colorful Sugar Water, Pez and Spam.

Read Dave Barry's Guide to Life which includes Stay Fit & Healthy Until You're Dead.

Kids Nutrition

KidsNutrition.org: USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center Calculators for Kids: Healthy Eating, Body Mass Index & Energy also Adult Energy Needs and BMI. Consumer News includes large archive of FAQs on topics like childhood nutrition, school lunches, picky eaters (who knows one of those?) and more. Tips to dress up vegetables so kids will eat them.

Enough with the drugs already! Every time you turn around the drug companies have invented some new disease or propose a pill we should all be taking. Does anyone else see something wrong with drugging 6-year olds to keep them quiet in class? Kids are naturally fidgety; that's not a disease.

GeezerJock Magazine

You can still get a free subscription to GeezerJock just for asking, but not for long [Sadly, no more]. Featuring mature athletes 40 and over, there are people in their 80s running circles around the rest of us. Go get inspired.

Portion Distortion

No small wonder our waistlines are expanding faster than the national debt. Take a peek at the National Heart Lung & Blood Institute's visual explanation of how our food portions have increased.

Hudson's Bay High School Kids Raise $91,733.17 for Doernbecher Children's Hospital in 2006

Hudson's Bay High School leads the nation in raising funds for charity. Every year a select group of boys are chosen by faculty and staff. These boys go on to raise funds and then perform a two-hour show call the Mr. Hudson's Bay Pageant. See the Hudson's Bay High School Wiki which currently shows the kid's efforts brought $$65,748.90 in 2007 and the Eleanor Copps Trust donated $72,965 to the pageant bringing the total for the 2007 pageant to $138,443.90. The show is a spoof of the Miss America Pageant and is put on entirely by students (with a wee bit of assistance from advisors).

Since the kids of Hudson's Bay started this project, about a dozen years ago, they've raised over $500,000 for Doernbecher Children's Hospital, a Portland Oregon facility which provides treatment for kids suffering cancer and other illnesses at no cost to the parents.

What I like best about their approach is they aren't out hawking candy bars but rather simply seeking donations for a good cause. This is community service at its finest, and I'm very proud to be a parent of a former Hudson's Bay High School student, Moses Cochrane. Moses is currently a Junior at University of Washington.[Update, Moses graduated from UW June 2009]

Kid's Sites

Keep your arms and legs inside the browser at all times

Getting Enough Nutrition After Weight Loss Surgery

If you or someone you know has had a gastric bypass, banding or any type of weight .loss surgery, you know how difficult it is to get proper nutrition. The fact is with a stomach 1/10 the size of normal, you simply cannot eat enough food to get the vitamins and minerals you need to stay healthy. It's also not practical to take vitamin tables as they are also too big for your new mini stomach.

Enter LifeHealth (TM) on the Go

LifeHealth™ on the go is a tasty nutritional powder in packets. Pour some on your tongue and let it dissolve, or mix with water. No pills to swallow and you get 100 percent daily value of essential vitamins, minerals and 24 different fruits and vegetables. Helps too with hunger pangs because when you're well fed the hunger signals can turn off.

To order go to One More Bite's Unicity site or call me to talk about your needs.

Try it, then when you want to re-order get on the preferred order plan for wholesale pricing with no obligation or member fees. If you have questions or want more info, just drop me a line any time

The Paris Hilton Diet

Taken from the Diary of Paris Hilton, follow her one week diet plan and you can look just like Paris Hilton!

1. Day 1: Nothing. I'm fasting.
2. Day 2: Starbucks frappachino, no ice. Hold the frappa, hold the chino.
3. Day 3: Bathe in sunlight for 45 minutes, then sip cool nectar of
   pine nut tree for 30 seconds or until full, whichever comes first.
4. Day 4: One egg white, poached.
5. Day 5: Black coffee. No ice.
6. Day 6: Double mocha frappachino, no ice. No frappa. No mocha,
   no double, no, forget it, I don't want one now.
7. Day 7: Pass out and try to remember where you are
8. Day 8: Rinse, repeat. Oh, yeah, there's only seven days in a week. Whatever.

Dancing the Weight Away

Read about several kids (but works for adults too) who lost the weight they wanted to lose by using a dance game

Convenience Packs Cost More: Don't Be Fooled

I spied 6-pack boxes of Odwalla food bars. I happen to like Odwalla so I looked closer. Then I noticed the bars were smaller than the ones I've had in the past. The box included 6, 1 ounce bars, where a regular bar is 2.1 oz, so you're getting less than half the size, but here's the kicker: the price was more for the 6-in-a-box per ounce! Yikes. Don't get snared by this packaging trick.

Food Blogs

It's not all about diets and taking off pounds, it's about life and living fully. Enjoy your meals, take time with them, slow down the pace and see what you're eating.

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If you've taken seminars, read books, bought gadgets, and tried everything to lose weight, but nothing ever works or you always just gain the weight right back, the answer may be discovering and resolving the emotional issues that have kept you stuck.

The One More Bite 8-Week Ending Emotional Eating Workshop and/or private sessions may be the answer. If now is the right time to end your obstacles to losing all the weight you want, then get started today.

More Info on Weight Loss Workshops or To Register

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Fresh Fruit Cups Removed from Wendy's Menu

No surprise there. People may say they want healthier choices, but reality is they don't order fresh fruit for the kiddies, and why would they? You can get that at the grocery store. Why pay a premium? A better idea? Cut back on how often you go to McD's or Taco Time. Everyone in the family will drop a few pounds.

BellyGraph.com

Here's a fun way to graph your progress. I created a facsimile of my progress when I lost my 80 pound pregnancy weight gain. I couldn't put the correct dates as they only went back to 2000. Notice how some weeks there was no loss, some weeks there was even a gain, but overall progress was slowly and steadily downward. That's what you can expect too, if you make slow, steady changes in your usual behavior.

Learn EFT for Losing the Weight in The Daily Bites

Get The Daily Bites for ideas and suggestions for using EFT in your weight program. See how I use EFT in my day-to-day life and how it helps with keeping my weight steady after losing 80 pounds 18 years ago. This really works for the long-term.

Of course, there's that pesky problem about having to actually use it.

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Yours in good eating,
Kathryn Martyn Smith, M.NLP