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Dec 13 2013

Holiday Gift Guide – Advanced Edition

by Marilyn McKenna

There may be someone on your holiday gift list who is not only a regular exerciser, but who – let’s be honest – everyone thinks is just a little bit crazy. They sign up for races and actually GO even though it’s freezing cold and pouring rain the morning of the race. They get up […]

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Dec 11 2013

Healthy Holiday Gift Guide: Intermediate Edition

by Marilyn McKenna

For those on your holiday shopping list that are already committed to healthy eating and fitness, gift giving is easy! Snoop through their gym bag to find out what they’ve already got, then click or hit the stores to make their healthy holiday wishes come true! Here’s a great place to start:

Filed Under: Close to Home, Healthy Families, Style + Substance Tagged With: Healthy Christmas Gifts

Dec 8 2013

Healthy Holiday Gift Guide – Beginners Edition

by Marilyn McKenna

Because I choose to live a healthy lifestyle I don’t give gifts that are in contradiction to that guiding principle. I want to be true to my values, but of course the reason you give a gift is because you want the recipient to enjoy and find meaning in it. So the balance is to […]

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Dec 6 2013

Everyday Activity: A Graduate Level Course

by Marilyn McKenna

Incorporating activity into your everyday life can become addictive; at the very least I hope that it’ll become a habit for you. It certainly has for me! Once daily exercise and constant movement have become second nature to you, you may find yourself wanting to up the ante a little bit. There are ways to […]

Filed Under: Cardio, Close to Home, Fitness, Healthy Families, Weight Loss

Dec 2 2013

Choose to move

by Marilyn McKenna

Most every day I hear people say that family is the most important thing in their lives. Yet consistently they act as if that double bacon cheeseburger were the most important thing in their lives. Because in a very real way, when you choose the double bacon cheeseburger (or the cookie dough ice cream or […]

Filed Under: Close to Home, Fitness, Weight Loss

Nov 29 2013

Black Friday

by Marilyn McKenna

We all know what “Black Friday” is. The day after Thanksgiving is now as near and dear to our hearts as Labor Day. It conjures up images of those intrepid souls – devout shoppers and deal-hunters – camped out in front of Target stores across America to get the 4am door-buster on a 60” plasma […]

Filed Under: Close to Home, Comfort Food Makeover, Healthy Families, Recipes, Style + Substance

Nov 26 2013

Moms Gone Wild

by Marilyn McKenna

My husband (aka “resident comedian”) has said for years that you can time the guests’ arrival at any family gathering by the onset of my nervous breakdown. Haha! Funny guy! He can afford to make light of such situations because it’s not his keister on the line. Beleaguered cooks across America know what I’m talking […]

Filed Under: Close to Home, Healthy Families

Nov 24 2013

Knock, Knock: It’s Your Mother-in-Law

by Marilyn McKenna

It’s not fair to pick on mothers-in-law, but since I’m not one yet I’ll use them here to illustrate my point. Having out-of-town family and friends stay with you in the days before and after a big holiday can be helpful if they pitch in and offer constructive help in a non-judgmental way. Unfortunately, that’s […]

Filed Under: Close to Home, Healthy Families Tagged With: Close to Home, Entertaining, House Guests, Thanksgiving

Nov 21 2013

Thanksgiving with Rob and Marilyn

by Marilyn McKenna

Filed Under: Close to Home, Healthy Families, Videos

Nov 21 2013

Thanksgiving with Rob and Marilyn

by Marilyn McKenna

Probably just like you, I have a folder full of recipes that are dog-eared and stained from years of use. There is no other meal more steeped in tradition than Thanksgiving. Our family is no different from yours in that we want our tried-and-true favorites from year to year. And even though we’re all about […]

Filed Under: Close to Home, Healthy Families

Nov 18 2013

Thanksgiving Preparations: Part One

by Marilyn McKenna

There is no other American holiday more steeped in food tradition than Thanksgiving. At Christmas there are decorations, carols and shopping for gifts, in addition to the food. Halloween and Easter have their fair share of sugary treats, but not course after course of tried-and-true family favorites. We crave the traditional foods that define this […]

Filed Under: Close to Home, Healthy Families

Nov 14 2013

Moms gone wild!

by Marilyn McKenna

Filed Under: Close to Home, Healthy Families, Videos

Oct 31 2013

Don’t be the raisin house!

by Marilyn McKenna

Filed Under: Close to Home, Healthy Families, Videos, Weight Loss

Oct 31 2013

Don’t be the raisin house on Halloween!

by Marilyn McKenna

Week 5 of “Health for the Holidays!” and we’ve been laying some important groundwork for the coming holiday season. Here we are at the end of October and it’s Halloween! There’s something about this holiday that brings us back to childhood and fills us with memories of trick-or-treating, collecting a huge bag full of candy, […]

Filed Under: Close to Home, Healthy Families, Weight Loss

Sep 17 2013

Unhealthy Food Does Not Cross My Threshold: The “You Deserve A Break Today!” Edition

by Marilyn McKenna

In last week’s blog “Unhealthy Food Does Not Cross My Threshold” I talked about how I create a safe haven in my home, where only healthy food options are available because I don’t allow unhealthy ones in. It’s a pretty simple concept and if you adopt it at your house it will go a long […]

Filed Under: Close to Home, Healthy Families, Weight Loss

Sep 10 2013

Unhealthy Food Does Not Cross My Threshold

by Marilyn McKenna

Understand that my “food rules” are not absolute.  I mean, don’t think that I’m just making this up as I go along, or that I prescribe this stuff but don’t abide by it, because I do!  But there are times when an occasional Easter basket or bag of Halloween candy does indeed cross my threshold. […]

Filed Under: Close to Home, Healthy Families, Weight Loss Tagged With: Close to Home

Nov 29 2012

Holiday Horror (or “Mom’s Gone Wild”)

by Marilyn McKenna

Posted November 29, 2012 My husband (aka “resident comedian”) has said for years that you can time the guests’ arrival at any family gathering by the arrival of my nervous breakdown.   Haha! Funny guy! He can afford to make light of such situations because it’s not his keister on the line.  Cooks across America know […]

Filed Under: Close to Home, Healthy Families, Weight Loss Tagged With: Holiday Entertaining, Perfectionism, Thanksgiving

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