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Nutrition Week 7: Breakfast

Week Seven of Inspiration to Fitness! Challenge... We're almost there! 8 Weeks & 8 Life-Changing Ways to Upgrade Your Diet Julie and I are thrilled to be blogging every week to challenge you to make a positive change to your eating. If you missed the previous weeks, you can still catch up and follow along at your own pace. Review our earlier posts and you can incorporate week one’s goal into your diet starting today.  Read more >

What's All This about Catholics Having to Provide Birth Control?

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On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which contains provisions that started taking effect that same year and will continue until 2017. One of these provisions -- which involves eliminating co-payments and deductibles for preventive care -- came under fire last week when the White House announced that as part of preventive care, employers would be covering the cost of birth control in employee health plans.  Read more >

I'm Seeing Results!

This weeks post is brought to you by the letter A. A for adaptation. My initial fitness goal for Inspiration to Fitness was to workout six times a week. And well, that's just not working out for me. At least not a "set of exercises for a set amount of time" sort of exercise six times a week. I am still doing the shred and exercising on a REGULAR basis, but now I know that for me and my family, that looks better at five days a week.  More in particular, the days of the week my husband works.  Read more >

I Signed Up for a Race!

Woo-wee, I've gone and done it. I signed up for a race. (In case you didn't catch this, check out my running tips for beginners or slow/clunky runners like me. All came from my marathon runner friend.)  Read more >