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Cathy’s Routine Reboot: Positive Attitude Part 2

Heidi — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:22:51 +0000

Week Three: Positive Attitude Peace begins with a smile. Mother Theresa My goals for this week were to offer help to others, and continue to give sincere compliments. My experience has shown me that just offering assistance makes people happy, even if they didn’t take me up on it! I can’t even begin to guess how many doors [...]

Cathy’s Routine Reboot: Positive Attitude

Heidi — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:01:46 +0000

Week Three: Positive Attitude What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson I fondly remember an elderly patient that I worked with about eight years ago. We were meeting once a month to help her learn about good nutrition for Type 2 diabetes and hypertension. [...]

Cathy’s Routine Reboot: Exercise Part 2

Heidi — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:50:30 +0000

Week Three: Exercise Part 2 While working on my exercise goals from the last post, I discovered that I am more “time challenged” than I imagined. When I come home from work, I think I have the whole evening open in front of me to garden, bike, or lift weights. But the hours are eaten away [...]

Cathy’s Routine Reboot: Exercise

Heidi — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:46:31 +0000

Week Three: Exercise We are all aware of the benefits of exercise and physical activity, and I bet that you discuss exercise recommendations for your patients with diabetes on a daily basis. While you are encouraging your patients to exercise, do you ever wish that you were more active? As I move into the next week [...]

Cathy’s Routine Reboot: Sleep Part 2

Heidi — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:01:05 +0000

Week Two: Sleep The past several nights I have slept well for seven to eight hours each night, and Millie has slept all night in her own bed. My sleep goals that I set in the last post have been met! After Millie kept me up, I began doing some research into the possible downsides of [...]

Cathy’s Routine Reboot: Sleep

Heidi — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:36:41 +0000

Week Two: Sleep I woke up this morning and continued with my yoga, and I brought a bunch of lilacs to the office to remind me to do my deep breathing exercises. Since I am ready to take on my next Routine Reboot challenge, I did not intend to continue the anti-stress behaviors, but in [...]

Cathy’s Routine Reboot: Stress Part 2

Heidi — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:17:54 +0000

Week One: Stress, Part 2 Thanks to all of you who have accepted my challenge and are joining me to reboot your routines! Your comments and emails are providing me with support and momentum. I appreciate that you are choosing behavior changes that are most relevant and meaningful to you. Is your week going well? Are [...]

Cathy’s Routine Reboot

Heidi — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:05:57 +0000

Week One: Stress Those of you who know me well know that I love to clean. Since spring is a time to get our homes in order, I thought I would take this opportunity to get my routine in order as well! Being a dietitian and diabetes educator I always say that my exercise habits are good, [...]

Grab Your Plate

Heidi — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:09:12 +0000

March has come to a close, and I have yet to write about National Nutrition Month, celebrated annually in March. The theme this year was Get Your Plate in Shape in reference to the relatively new “Choose My Plate” website from the USDA. The website contains many useful online resources like the SuperTracker that [...]

Are You Still Meat Hungry?

Heidi — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:19:20 +0000

My mom has a cousin in central Indiana, and in the 1970’s she and her husband raised Black Angus cattle. When I was little, my dad would leave Chicago and head down I-65 to Lafayette to a packing plant near their farm to pick up a side of beef. Dad would load up the 1974 [...]