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The Holiday Survival Guide will help keep you from overeating this holiday season

December 7, 2007 by Tricia

The holidays are a stressful time of year for a lot of people. I think most people feel that this time of year is rush, rush, rush as they try to get their holiday shopping done, attend work related holiday parties and plan and attend family related gatherings. Not to mention all of the cooking that must be done to prepare for these gatherings!

I don’t know about you, but even though I love each and every family member, the holidays sometimes bring out the worst in me. My sister and I are often cranky and this can lead to an argument or hurt feelings.

For some, all the stress at this time of year and dealing with family dynamics can lead to overeating. It’s certainly easy to overeat with the wonderful supply of tasty food items all around isn’t it?

Lucky for us, the man who wrote the best selling book Shrink Yourself, Dr. Roger Gould, has recently launched a new website that is called the Holiday Survival Guide. The site is completely free to use and the tools on the site which include 7 Ways Your Family Makes You Fat are designed to help you deal with the stress of the holiday season as well as unique family dynamics. The type of dynamics that only add to the stress and possibly overeating!

You’ll find tips and insightful information on the site that will help you prepare for this stressful time of year. You’ll learn how to pinpoint the issues and challenging situations that might lead to overeating and weight gain as well as learn how to deal with these issues via personalized solutions. You’ll even be able to apply these techniques to your day to day life.

Visit the site today and learn how to lessen your stress and prevent overeating during the holidays.





Filed Under: Dining and Restaurants, Entertainment, Family, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Nutrition, Recreation, Socializing Tagged With: christmas, cooking, deal, dr Roger Gould, eat, eating, Family, family dynamics, family events, family gatherings, Food, free, guide, help, holiday, Holiday survival guide, holidays, information, over eating, personal, personalize, rush, Shopping, Shrink Yourself, sister, solutions, Stress, the holidays, tips, Unique, website

Suffer from Irritable bowel or a digestive disorder?

November 7, 2007 by Tricia

Earlier in the week when I posted that I was very sick due to my Crohn’s disease one of the people who left a comment suggested that I try an Aloe Vera drink to sooth my symptoms.

Shortly after receiving that comment I came across the Serovera website where they sell a product that is made up of the healing agent Aloe Mucilaginous Polysaccharides that is found in Aloe Vera plants.

This supplement, when taken regularly for a period of time, is said to help with the symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Colitis, Crohn’s and diverticulitis.

Serovera is an all natural supplement. Research has shown that the main ingredient in this product, Aloe Mucilaginous Polysaccharides, help to decrease inflammation, promote healing and boost the bodies immune system. It does this by helping to fortify the cell walls, improves cellular metabolism as well as helping with constipation and diarrhea.

The site actually has a whole list of disorders that Serovera can help with such as Acid reflux, autoimmune disorders such as Crohn’s, Ulcerative colitis, Lupus, and Rheumatoid Arthritis, as well as several types of Ulcers and other disorders, particularly digestive disorders.

I might give this product a try myself. I’m having a terrible time lately and this sounds like it could help.

If you have any of these disorders or know of someone who does you might want to visit the Serovera website where you can learn more about the benefits of this all natural supplement, read testimonials, FAQ’s and order Serovera if you are interested. You’ll also find a number of informative articles about Serovera and the disorders that benefit from the supplement.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Nutrition, Shopping Tagged With: acid reflux, all natural, Aloe Mucilaginous Polysaccharides, Aloe Vera, anti inflammatory, articles, autoimmune disorders, bowel, crohns, digestive disorders, disease, disorder, immune system, irritable bowel syndrome, lupus, plants, Product, rheumatoid arthritis, Serovera, suppliment, symptoms, Ulcerative colitis, ulcers

Rumbles and growls

November 2, 2007 by Tricia

Oh Man … I’m sitting here typing away and my stomach is just growling like crazy! it sounds like a volcano that’s about to erupt or the grumbling that you’d expect to hear from a monster hiding in a closet.

My stomach’s been very noisy this week. Sometimes it does that when my Crohn’s is really bad, and other times, after a long period of silence the growling seems to signify that my tummy is getting better. I don’t know what it means this time round, but I have been pretty sick this week already. Hopefully it means I’m going to start getting better for a while.

I must record the sounds sometime. It’s really loud and not your typical tummy growls sounds either!

Even though my stomach will growl when I’m not hungry – like when I’ve just eaten, this time some of the rumbles really are caused by hunger. I’d better start thinking about dinner and whether to cook or order my favorite Greek Food.

Hmmm … guess which one I’ll pick?

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Dining and Restaurants, Entertainment, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Inflammatory bowel disease, Nutrition Tagged With: aches, crazy, crohn, dinner, eat, Food, greek, Greek Food, growl, hunger pains, hungry, ill, loud, loud stomach, noisy, record, rumbling, sick, Silence, sound, stomach, tummy growls, typing

I really need to get into shape!

September 28, 2007 by Tricia

You know being stuck at home due to illness can really make you get out of shape fast. I’ve been feeling so awful for the past two months that I really haven’t done much of anything.

When I work in my garden, wow, I really feel it. I don’t think there’s been a time this summer when I’ve worked in the garden and haven’t come in with a sore back.

I need to get back into shape! I’ve lost muscle tone – that’s for sure. Lately I’ve been thinking that I should buy one of those treadmill machines. It’s going to be cold here soon and bad weather will follow. I couldn’t convince myself to get outside as much as I should in the summer so I doubt it will change in the winter time. That’s why I think some form of exercise machine might be in order. Maybe I’ll even try something like muscle milk to speed up the process of getting back into shape. Maybe.

To make matters worse my doctors talking about putting me on prednisone soon. Almost everyone I know that’s been on steroids ends up gaining weight. I’m at a good weight right now, but if I go on steroids I’ll probably bloat up and gain weight. Great. Inactive, out of shape and facing weight gain? Bad news!

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Great Sites, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease, Nutrition Tagged With: cold, doctor, Doctors, exercise, garden, get in shape, home, ill, illness, inactive, not feeling well, shape up, steroids, Summer, time, treadmill, weather, winter

Spirulina sounds like a worthy nutritional supplement

September 21, 2007 by Tricia

As some of my regular readers know, I have Crohn’s disease.

This is a disease that affects the bowels. I won’t go into all the details, but lets just say that inflammation and scaring can develop as a result of the disease as well as many other symptoms. Needless to say this affects how a person with Crohn’s can digest their food. People with Crohn’s often have trouble eating certain types of foods and in some cases, usually during a flare up of the disease, the inability to eat or digest some foods can cause nutritional deficiencies.

As a result of this disease and all the trouble it gives me as far as getting proper nutrients into my system I’m always looking for supplements that might help my condition.

One dietary supplement that I’ve thought about trying is Spirulina. Spirulina is actually a microalgae and it contains a very high amount of protein as well as several important minerals such as calcium, iron and magnesium. If that weren’t enough it’s also full of vitamins.

Taking Spirulina regularly would probably be a good supplement for anyone to take, but certainly for someone like me who needs to boost the amount of nutrients they take in Spirulina seems like it would be a beneficial supplement to take regularly.

If you’re interested in learning more about this wonderful microalgae you should visit the Spirulina For Nutrition page. The page explains in detail exactly what Spirulina is, it’s history of use, how it can be used as a supplement for birds and fish, and it’s health benefits.

The health benefits page lists a number of research studies that have been done with Spriulina in recent years and their findings. Some studies have shown that it might be helpful with inflammatory conditions, diabetes, high cholesterol, and oral cancers, but it’s clear that more studies are warranted before scientists will fully back these results.

I think it’s worth trying. Spirulina can be purchased in capsule, tablet and even powdered form. I’ll probably try the capsules. If I do give it a try I’ll report back a month after starting the Spirulina supplements and let you know if I’ve had any improvements.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Nutrition Tagged With: calcium, crohn, disease, easy to digest, Food, Health Fitness and Beauty, help, high protien, iron, magnesium, microalgae, nutrients, nutritional supplement, Spirulina, spirulina information, supplement, vitamins

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