What are you doing the evening of Wednesday, February 29th, 2012? Laundry? Driving the kids to a game? Trying a new recipe? I’ve got a better idea, why don’t you get sassy? [Read more...]
Miss Lori is on a mission for National CPR week
June 1, 2011 By 5 Comments
DID YOU KNOW sudden cardiac arrests accounted for 62.3 percent among African- Americans; 63.7 percent among whites; and 54.2 percent among Hispanics, according to the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report. [Read more...]
Miss Lori is counting her 14 blessings of age 40 before her 41st birthday
April 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
For the year leading up to my 40th birthday I did a count down. Well, not actually a countdown more of a count up. I wasn’t intending to do anything big. And I wasn’t really doing it for anyone but myself. I was doing it because shortly after my 39th birthday I felt as though my life was blurring, or more specifically my days were blurring, blurring together. A run on sentence of days minutes and hours. So to combat that I started acknowledging each day on my facebook page. Day 1 of the year of 39. Day 12 of the year of 39. Day 145 of the year of 39. That’s all, nothing extravagant. Just a few words and number to separate each day from another. It didn’t stop all of my weeks from bleeding into the other, but it did help to change the way I looked at my life…at least I would like to think that it did. [Read more...]
Miss Lori says food isn’t a reward you earn
March 22, 2011 By 1 Comment
Do you ever get mad, mad that you can’t eat what you want to? I get so pissed off sometimes because I can’t just be free to pick my food without having to silently calculate the calories in my head. That I can’t simply choose a meal based on what I have a taste for, but instead I have to choose a meal based on what my thighs can handle. [Read more...]
Miss Lori wants you to dress for success on your Mamavation weightloss journey
March 14, 2011 By 5 Comments
What are you wearing? No this is not the beginning of a prank call. I really want to know. What are you wearing when you work out? It makes a difference you know. It really does. Most of us embarked upon this Mamavation journey because we felt that we need to improve our health; our physical health and our emotional health as it pertains to our bodies. We want to get smaller so our self confidence can get bigger, and our lives can extend longer. Makes good sense. However, when we started out on this journey, ostensibly, we were not too happy with what we saw when we looked in the mirror, or stepped on the scale. (I know I sure wasn’t.) [Read more...]
Miss Lori fell off the Mamavation track this week and lost sleep
February 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
So, this week was trouble. I was supremely stressed filling out financial aid applications filing corporate taxes, prepping my 2010 taxes, you sense a money theme here? Yup, that’s what stresses me most, money. The problem for me is that when I have to immerse myself in my personal and professional finances the numbers take over my brain and it’s extremely hard to turn it off. Do you ever have that problem? So what does any of this have to do with Mamavation, losing weight and the price of beans? Well, sleep is an integral part of a health plan. Yes, you heard me, SLEEP. It was stress and a complete lack of sufficient sleep that got me into this metabolic mess in the first place. [Read more...]
Miss Lori grabs time for exercise where she can #Mamavation
January 31, 2011 By 6 Comments
I am proud of myself. Since applying for the #Mamavation contest I have been consistently doing some sort of exercise every day. Nothing really huge though, but enough to make me feel a little springier. I’m actually running up the stairs in my house. That’s pretty cool. [Read more...]
Miss Lori has a list of 75 twitter thank you’s on the last FollowFriday of 2010
December 30, 2010 By 11 Comments
2010 has been quite a year for me, with serious highs and lows. But through it all I have had some fantastic, inspiring, hard working company. On this very special, final Follow Friday of 2010 I want to acknowledge some people who I think you should take notice of. [Read more...]
Miss Lori Go Red BetterU Week 12; Exercise your heart with joy
August 19, 2010 By 1 Comment
This Summer I have been serving as the Ambassador for the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women BetterU Program. A twelve week online course to help me be better by becoming better acquainted with my own body, and how to get it to properly function. I essentially started the program just after I turned 40 in May, and now, 12 weeks later, I have reached the end. It’s really hard to believe. What a journey! Week 12 is all about reflection and review. I need to go back over the key lessons of the program and remind myself of why they are so important in my continued journey to be better. [Read more...]
