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Getting Zzzzzs Can Fight Off Lbs.
Image credit: http://www.rd.comBe honest. Who really gets eight hours of sleep a night? I don’t know about you, but in college (and my darling roommates can attest to this!), I was at my “creative...
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Weather, Mood & Exercise
I don’t know about you, but now that it’s getting darker so much earlier, I’m having trouble adjusting to the time change. But here’s something exciting: with the usual annual stress brought on by the...
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Sleep Cycles & Exercise
For the past four years, I woke most mornings at 5:15 to exercise … after getting 5-6 hours sleep the previous night. Part of me loved/craved that feeling of virtuousity but the truth was, at the...
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Lose Weight While … Sleeping?
This month’s Glamour features a cover story called “Lose Weight While You Sleep.” The results are pretty surprising and, when looked at holistically, seem to make sense — in that if someone is getting...
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Five Truths I’ve Learned Through Pregnancy to Carry Me Into Motherhood
1) I do not need to exercise every single day to stay physically fit. Any amount of activity is better than none, and cutting my workouts in half did not change much about my physique … nor did it make...
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Who Needs Sleep? I do, I do!
I’m reading Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child and it’s one of the best sleep books I’ve read so far. Written by a prominent pediatrician (Dr. Marc Weissbluth), the basic premise of the book is that...
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One More Hour PLEASE?!
Stretching (and happy) in the morning! Dear G-d, I wish more than anything for a pause button between the hours of 5:30 PM (when I pick up Maya) til 6:30-7, when she starts rubbing her eyes. Every...
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Let’s Talk Sleep
Of all the sleep books I have bought and read, I’ve managed to take bits and pieces of each to create the best of all worlds for our family re: sleep schedules. I know sleep patterns and schedules can...
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Tune in to yourself … like a baby
We can learn a lot from watching babies. Babies, who can’t express themselves in any ways except crying and smiling (at least in the beginning, before they can communicate via expressions and words)...
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Preserving the Toddler Nap
For the past nearly 18 months, we’ve been very lucky: aside from those initial tough first couple of weeks, Maya’s been a great sleeper. Which you know means #2 someday will be a terrible sleeper. And...
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