Normal people are stressed, overwhelmed, and exhausted. Many of their relationships are, at best, strained and, in most cases, just surviving. Even though we live in one of the most prosperous places on earth, normal is still living paycheck to paycheck and never getting ahead. In our oversexed world, lust, premarital sex, guilt, and shame are far more common than purity, virginity, and a healthy married sex life. And when it comes to God, the majority believe in him, but the teachings of scripture rarely make it into their everyday lives. Simply put, normal isn’t working. Groeschel’s WEIRD views will help you break free from the norm to lead a radically abnormal (and endlessly more fulfilling) life.

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I came across this the other day while reading through some of my favorite blogs. Its from SummerTomato.com an awesome website! Darya Pino the creator of the site she  provides tons of  helpful  tips on healthy eating. The site is fun and packful of information but not to over bearing. It’s one highly I recommend.

Here is a great twist on the movie the Matrix. I hope you will enjoy this and at the same time maybe learn something you may not have know.

With all the information we have on the dangers of being over weight one might think we would be doing something to fight against it. Yet that  is not the case obesity is becoming  the new normal. Let’s look at the growth rate of obesity in the United states since  1994.

In 1994 less then 19% of the country was obese and many states below 14%.

In 2000 all but 1 state is over 14% obesity rate.

In 2003 we start to see the percentage of obesity is still growing strong. we even began to see states with rates as high as 29%.

In 2006 all but 2 states are over 20% obesity rates.

In 2009 all but 1 state is over 20%. The majority of the county is over25% and 9 states are over 30% obesity rates.

It’s scary to think what will be if this trend continues. That’s why it is important that we all  live a healthy lifestyle.  Let’s not sit around watching TV, eating  unhealthy foods and watch our friends, family, or even ourselves live in poor health. There’s no time like NOW to start living a healthy life. It’s time we all EAT- MOVE -REST

Eat real food, exercise and get the rest our bodies need.

All information comes from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention also known as the CDC for more information check out there website.

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.  ~Edward Stanley

If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all.  ~Joey Adams

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.  ~Plato

Fitness – if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.  ~Cher

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.  ~Thomas de Quincey

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!  ~Author Unknown

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.  ~Carol Welch

A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.  ~Joan Welsh

The word aerobics came about when the gym instructors got together and said, “If we’re going to charge $10 an hour, we can’t call it jumping up and down.”  ~Rita Rudner

I hear tons of excuses of why not to live a healthy life and while they may sound good. There is no valid excuse to NOT live a healthy lifestyle.  So here is a funny look of why NOT to live a healthy lifestyle

• Obesity is the new skinny
• You have extra money so why not use it for copays
• Managing diabetes is fun
• The muffin top look is sexy
• Being sick a lot gives you reasons to miss work
• Gasping for air after climbing a flight of stairs is all the rage
• Living a long healthy life is over rated

In the world of fitness there are all kinds of methods and gadgets to help you workout. Some helpful and some just make me laugh. So today that’s what we are going to do, We will have a good laugh watching Pro Golfer Ben Crane working out. I promise you want be disappointed.

Do have some funny workout video’s? Please share them in the comments.

How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our family?

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

You regularly here me talk about the importance of what you put in you body. Often it has to do with not eating processed foods and making smarter and healthier choices like eating fresh veggies and fruit. Today I want to share with you one of my favorite movies Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock. If you have never seen this its very eye opening. Morgan eats nothing but McDonalds for 30 days to see what would happen. The results just might shock you. One of the reasons I love this movie is it shows how are eating choice can effect us. If you have never seen it it’s a must watch and if you have its always a great reminder of how bad eating habits can effect your life.

People often ask me how do I get me kids to eat healthy and the answer may shock you. I don’t it is a choice they make but it wasn’t always that way, lets just say lots of trial and error. I think that one of the smartest choices I made for my family was not to buy junk food (chips, soda, cookies, cake, cracker, etc.) for the house. We replaced all that stuff with fresh vegetables and fruit. Then we explained to our kids that unhealthy food in itself is not bad but its not the best way to take care of your body. We wanted to make sure they understood that they weren’t going to die if they ate cookies but also that living of cookies is not a smart choice. I wish that was the end of the story but it wasn’t.

One of the things we learned early was sitting there making a kid eat every thing you cook is not the smartest move but also letting them decide what to eat isn’t either.  We either had kids mad all night long and a growing hate for healthy food because it was the reason they couldn’t play or they just ate certain fruits all the time. Sure they would eat veggies………if you covered them in ranch and that was not the goal. Now we knew that there were foods that we didn’t like we also knew that after a few years of eating junk your body is just not use the taste of whole foods. This lead to slowly working in new food items in at a time and not all at once, you can’t go from mac and cheese to egg plant and squash over night.(not the smartest thing I ever did I didn’t even like eggplant then) You have to start with what you know you kids like so if they like carrots then carrots it is, then add different options every week. Don’t force your kids to sit there and eat something they find disgusting and vice versa they can’t just say they don’t like it with out tasting it and that’s not just sticking it on their tongue.   You don’t want you kids growing up hating healthy foods (we all have that one food we refuse to eat now because we had to sit at the table for hours till we finished it for me its green peas). Have them describe why they don’t like it. is it the texture the consistency, the flavor? All this info is very helpful they might like to eat raw crunchy veggies but aren’t a big fan of cooked or mushy veggies.

The more info you have about why your kids do or don’t like something helps you and them learn how to process healthy eating. There were things are kids didn’t like by themselves but in a soup or stew they slow grew to love them. Sometimes I just had to change how we seasoned them. There are so many ways to cook veggies stopping at the first go round is waving the white flag way to early. If your kids are use to daily meals of processed, high sugar foods then it will take about 30 days for their bodies to adapt.

Don’t think that your kids will die if they don’t eat mac and cheese. At first you might get a lot of push back but that no reason to be discouraged and don’t go all health food Nazi on your kids either trust me that doesn’t work. Let you kids know that its not that family will never have cookies again but you making smarter choices when it comes to what the family is putting in there body.  It’s been almost 3 years since my kids have gone to the doctor for anything more than a yearly check up. They have great energy throughout the day and don’t have a hard time waking up because they have nightly sugar crashes.

One of the most important things as parents we have to realize is that our kids will follow the examples we set. When it comes to eating healthy its the same thing you cant fix your kids a nice healthy meal and go off and eat junk. So don’t just preach it but live it. Give it a try for 30 days and see the difference it make in the life of you and your family.