Lead a Fit and Healthy Life
Parenting/Family
It’s Tough to Help Kids Lose Weight
03 months ago
Why is it so hard for kids to lose weight?
“I have had to deal with teachers who hand out Skittles, candy bars, lollipops and giant frosted sugar cookies to the children in class … before 10 a.m.,” McDonald says. “I think this is setting kids up for failure and un-teaching the healthy habits I have instilled.”
The fact that doughnuts and cupcakes are given out as a reward after soccer practice or dance class is a paradoxical hurdle in the fight against childhood obesity. As doctors and parents struggle to encourage healthy behaviors, our sugar-filled, sedentary surroundings resist every step.
Think about it, says Dr. Stephen Daniels, chief pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Every day kids are exposed to advertising about fast food instead of home-cooked meals. They’re surrounded by vending and soda machines at school. They have hundreds of channels on TV, own three video game systems and live in neighborhoods that were built without sidewalks.
Moments that change your life
03 months ago
by Stephy
in Parenting/Family
Today is World Cancer Day as I mentioned yesterday, but it’s also a special day for personal reason:
Feb 4 1995, I had a first date with this super cute guy I had met at work. 17 years later – my silver fox is still super cute.
Who knows what moments in your life change its course forever –
Revisit the Kid in you & uncover your Appetite for Knowledge
03 months ago
Kids have an insatiable appetite for knowledge and an unapologetic curiosity for all things new and misunderstood. When they don’t know the answer they actively seek the truth. They have a natural humility without posturing, pretense, or ego wrapped up in their questions; they fill up their knowledge bank by being open. Whenever I’m in the car with my 6 year-old daughter, she bombards me with, “Why this Daddy, why that Daddy?” and if she doesn’t understand how or why something works, from the simple to the complex, she has no hesitation asking. It’s amazing how the power of asking “Why?” and the conversation that follows always leads to a deeper discussion around the subject.
Approach every situation and every business challenge with a learning mindset. Put “why” to work by challenging convention and existing solutions with questions that help you gain knowledge and understanding. Use the power of “why” in all aspects of your work (and in relationships for that matter) for clarity on the objectives, reason for a project, and observational learning around consumer behavior. If you don’t know or you don’t understand why your team or the company is going down a certain path, don’t sit there as an uninformed passenger, ask “why?”! Here are some things you might consider questioning this week:
- Why not?
- Why did you ask me to do this?
- Why are we doing it like this?
- Why are we talking about this?
- Why don’t we think of a better way?
- Why don’t we step back and ask for input?
- Why didn’t I get the promotion?
- Why do people love this?
- Why should I care?
- Why is no one listening to us?
De-Cluttering Time! 25 Things to Throw Out Today
14 months ago
I love love love this article. I have a tendency to collect things that i mean to go through and get rid of. I do not have issues throwing things away, I have issues with having time to go through the stuff, to decide what needs to go. I’m going to do a lot of these this week — How about you?
Now, we all have a little hoarder inside each of us. We see some things that we just can’t bear to get rid of, probably because there’s an emotional attachment to them. Sometimes things are valuable, and we keep them for that reason. On rare occasions, we don’t even know why we’re hanging onto something, but we are.
Well, there’s a great feeling of liberation that can come from shedding these items. If you’d like to feel it yourself, here’s a list of 25 things that you should throw out today. And by that, I mean donate, dump, trash, incinerate, whatever you like…just remove them from your life.
Are you doing what you love?
14 months ago
This morning’s workout was the famous Lady of CrossFit – FRAN. Mentally I was just not in the game this morning – I heard some very sad news yesterday that brought both Scott and I to tears and has thrown me for a loop this morning.
Mrs McMichael, Nate and Ms. Megan
Nate, who is in 2nd grade now, had the most wonderful Kindergarten teacher. Mrs McMichael is the definition of teacher – smart, interactive, passion for teaching. While Nate was still in K, she and I talked about kids in general. She and her husband had been trying to have a baby for some time but had not given up hope. Last year, she finally got pregnant but the pregnancy was a very rough one. She was very sick and was put on bed rest. But she made it through the 9 months, and now Carter is 11 months old.
During her hard pregnancy, her husband became seriously ill and turns out he had a brain tumor. He died on Monday. 33 years old.
I have not been in regular contact with her since Nate graduated although have attended the fundraisers on their behalf and sent her a note. I can not even begin to understand what she must be going through – my heart breaks for her in so many ways. As a mother, a wife, a cancer caregiver, a young adult who shouldn’t be dealing with cancer changing their family. And as I have mentioned before, it brings up our own experience each and every time we hear about someone losing their cancer battle. That could have been our family -
I just can’t seem to get it all out of my mind — it definitely is a good reminder about priorities in your life. I wrote this short status update yesterday:
Life is so short & unpredictable– wake up every day thankful and appreciative of all the great people in your life. You never know what tomorrow will bring…
It’s the kind of news that you just shake your head a lot and think about where you are in your life — and what if it all ended tomorrow? Are you doing what you love?
Drastic Weight Loss Measures Endanger the Young
14 months ago
As a friend on Facebook said – I think people have SERIOUSLY lost their minds.
Young, obese and getting weight loss surgery
Though Shani Gofman had been teased for being fat since the fourth grade, she had learned to deal with it.
She was a B student and in the drama club at school. She had good friends and a boyfriend she had met through Facebook. She even showed off her curves in spandex leggings and snug shirts.
When her pediatrician, Dr. Senya Vayner, first mentioned weight-loss surgery, Ms. Gofman was 17, still living with her parents in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, her bedroom decorated with glow-in-the-dark stars because she was afraid of the dark.
There was no question, at 5-foot-1 and more than 250 pounds, she was overweight.
But she resisted, saying she could diet.
“I’ll lose weight,” Ms. Gofman assured her doctor.
Dr. Vayner said, prophetically, “It’s not your fault, but you’re not going to be able to do it.
Along with the obesity epidemic in America has come an explosion in weight-loss surgery, with about 220,000 operations a year — a sevenfold leap in a decade, according to industry figures — costing more than $6 billion a year. And the newest frontier is young patients like Ms. Gofman, who allowed The New York Times to follow her for a year as she had the operation and then embarked on a quest to lose weight, navigating challenges to her morale, her self-image and her relationships with family members and friends.
Fitness as a Family
14 months ago
Just did a CrossFit Impavidus KIDS workout as a family — 4 rounds: 30 squats/200m run! See, no excuses! Do it with your kids if you have to!
Late training can mean missed opportunities for Tweens
04 months ago
This article is really in line with why I am so thrilled that both my kids have started CrossFit Kids this past year. I want them to have the best foundation possible rooted in health and fitness. My heart skips a beat when I am watching them learn to lift properly…
Most kids begin training too late and miss their potential
Mather says Olympic lifting has been incorrectly accused of being dangerous, especially for kids.
It is a controlled activity and technique is vital, and that’s why he believes kids as young as nine should be working on the mechanics of lifting.
“We don’t do it with the huge weights; we start them out with broomsticks and teach them pat-terns and movements and work on maintaining their flexibility.”
He says that by the age of 12, most youth have lost much of their flexibility due to inactivity.
“Almost everybody that comes and starts here to do some training, for whatever sport, they start noticing differences within three or four weeks in performance of their own activity.”
Doing Nothing Together
05 months ago
My Sister Connie
Another great day spent with my Sisters and Mom — after my CrossFit workout, we headed into DC and spent a few hours at the Smithsonian. Then completed the evening with some Indian Food.
Nothing like spending time with people who know you best — the good and bad of you.
My big sis, Deb came to CrossFit with me today to give it a try. The fact that she came was so huge in my book and meant so much to me. As I have said before, I don’t care if CrossFit is not for you — I just want everyone to find their “CrossFit” — no matter what that is. She jumped in and gave it a try –even if it was like pulling teeth. She scaled it to what she could do — and you know what? She did great, she survived and asked if we can go again on Monday.
My Sister Dee & Mom
My family being here has been super fun — lots of laughs, eating and enjoying the moments –which in the end, is the most important part of having them here. We have done a lot of hanging out — and in the words of Hannah Bea –
If we are going to do nothing, we are going to do nothing together.
Our Workout:
Warmup
Indian Run with Med Ball
Jumping Jacks
Pushups
WOD
Moving Day
2 teams
20m AMRAP
Goal: Move as much weight as possible
Grab some weight, and run to first station
Station 1: 35 Sit Ups
Station 2: 25 Box Jumps
Station 3: Run with Water Pipes
Run to grab more weight and Repeat
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When all weight has been moved to station 1, repeat entire process moving weight back to original spot.
Dee and I were in Team 2 and we managed to move 3500lbs in 20minutes. Team 1 moved 3100lbs!
