My purpose in chatting, blogging, and posting on this site is NOT to convince you to go vegetarian, to tell you that you need to lose weight, or to say that you need to live like me.

My biggest wish IS that you will take some of the things that I share and use them to educate yourself and make the choices that work for YOU. I HOPE everyone becomes their own health advocates and become the healthiest version of themselves possible. You CAN do it and I am always here for comments, questions, venting and new ideas!  Now, onto this week’s tips….

Soup and salad are everyone’s “go to” healthy food, not necessarily. Just because you are ordering or eating a soup or salad, you are not being “healthy”. Some salads are over 800 calories when you add dressing, bacon, avocado, cheese, croutons and fried chicken. Soup is a great warming healthy food, only if you read the package or know what is in it. Look at these soups next time you are out or shopping. Remember cream, butter, half and half and anything rich are going to kill your “healthy” choice.

Well, almost three weeks into 2012, how are you doing on your “lifestyle changes”? 2012 is the Year to Get in Gear!

We started 2012 with making breakfast healthy and a couple snacks. Are you still on this road with us or do you need to step back reset and begin again.  Based on an incredible insight during a beach run, I was able to develop the new RockIt Mom motivation: There are no failures, only attempts that were not the correct way, so let’s try it again a different way.  Albert Einstein said, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” As women, we know — Failure is Not an Option! Let’s try lifestyle changes another way.  Hopefully, these tips will get you started.

Here’s an example of how easy it is to waste an entire’s day’s worth of calories on one bad lunch out.

To get back on track or start a new track — Don’t think “DIET TIME!” it will only frustrate you! Think what one thing can I do to be better? Here is your ONE THING for January — BREAKFAST!  Starting tomorrow – the first full week of January 2012 – eat the following every day for breakfast! After a few weeks, it will be second nature.

Hello all, this is more of a personal note to all of you and an explanation of being MIA lately.

First, I apologize for not keeping up on my social media, website and the like. Initially, I took a step back