Acai-Berry Scam

Hydroxycut Warning

Excuses

Smart Goals

Marathon Wrap Up / My stroke hero

Acai-Berry-Scam

Consumer Warning:

Companies Use Fake Blogs, Fake Endorsements, Fishy Science,

and Hard-to-Cancel Credit Card Transactions to Bilk Consumers in Açai-Berry-Scam

Hydroxycut-warning

- Source: MedWatch -

Dietary supplements associated with serious liver injury,

liver failure, seizures, cardiovascular disorders, rhabdomyolysis

News alert: 
Hydroxycut-warning !

[Posted 05/01/2009] 
FDA sent out a Hydroxycut-warning for consumers to immediately stop using Hydroxycut products by Iovate Health Sciences, Inc. Hydroxycut products are associated with a number of serious liver injuries. Hydroxycut products are dietary supplements that are marketed for weight-loss, as fat burners, as energy-enhancers, as low carb diet aids, and for water loss under the Iovate and MuscleTech brand names.
FDA has received 23 reports of serious health problems ranging from jaundice and elevated liver enzymes, an indicator of potential liver injury, to liver damage requiring liver transplant. One death due to liver failure has been reported to FDA. Other health problems reported include seizures; cardiovascular disorders; and rhabdomyolysis, a type of muscle damage that can lead to other serious health problems such as kidney failure.

Excuses

Every person in this photo had a long list

 of valid excuses not to run...

Above is a photo of our 2009 Tedy's Team just prior to going to the start line for the Boston Marathon.

Tedy Bruschi mentioned a statistic when he spoke to our team that stuck in my brain- it went something like this…

“Less than 1% of all people in this world can say they completed a marathon”.

Bottom Line:

Millions of ordinary people choose millions of reasons why they don’t reach their goals. 

Here’s just a few of the obstacles (or better yet excuses)

that went through my head when I was deciding last Fall to begin training for the 2009 Boston Marathon.

Read my list here....

Smart-Goals

 Original article from Are YOUR Goals SMART ?
By David Dansereau for Stroke Smart Magazine

To reach your goals the first step must be to get clear on what you want to achieve. In order to reach any goal, the following smart-goals guideline tips should help.  To check if your goals are smart, follow this guide:
Adapted from David's Smart Moves Guidebook &

Smart Moves 7-Day Nutrition Action Guide

Specific

The reason for being specific is to uncover your true “why”, or ultimate goal as well as the reasons behind it. During your stroke recovery, injury or stressful time in your life you may have gained weight. A goal to lose 10 pounds, for example, is specific, but let’s investigate why losing 10 pounds is the right goal to begin with. If you had more energy from being lighter and could move your extremities easier to exercise them more, would that be more appealing than what the scale reads? Perhaps it is not so much the number (10 pounds) but the increased energy and good feeling that would come from the process in attempting to lose the weight. So, your why for weight loss may really be to make it easier to move your body to exercise for 15 more minutes daily. You may find that the goal itself is now completely different from what it started out to be.