New Year's Resolutions

Have you set your New Year's Resolutions yet? The holidays are over, kids are back to school and it's time for a "do over". That's what the new year brings us, a chance to start fresh and resolve to do things differently. Whether it be that you want to lose weight, begin an exercise routine, organize your home, live more frugally, or just get a grasp on your budget, now's the time to start!

Here are some of our favorite articles that will help kick start your New Year's Resolutions!

Break Free From Your Sugar Habit
Food Combining
The Key to Serving Sizes
The Scale Is Not Your Friend
Exercises to Get You and Your Kids Awake in the Morning
Get Fit on a Shoestring Budget
The Benefits of Exercise: Weight Control and Beyond
The Key to Losing Fat May Not Be Aerobics Alone
30 Healthier Snack Ideas for Kids
5 Exercises Kids Should Never Do

30 Quick Cleaning Tips for a Tidier Home
Decluttering Your Home Office
How to Streamline Your Morning Routine
10-Hours (or 10-Days) To A Spotless and Organized Kitchen
An Organized Pantry
Developing a Price Book
Organized Dinner Planning and Grocery Shopping
13 Tips To Help Get Your Kids Organized

10 Steps to Improve Your Financial Situation
After Bankruptcy Blues
Budgeting for the New Year
Five Money Issues Couples Must Never Fight Over

You can find a large selection of helpful articles in the following categories on our website.

Finance
Frugal Living
Organizing
Cleaning
Fitness
Dieting

Keep Going When Motivation Takes A Hike

What's the hardest thing about exercising at home? If you're anything like me, it's simple lack of motivation. Before I became a mother, I belonged to a gym. No matter how ambivalent I felt, I knew all I had to do was get myself there and the instructor would take over. Even if I was planning a weight training session, just being at the gym surrounded by other fit and sweating bodies was enough to re-energize me.

At home, I'm more likely to be surrounded by piles of laundry and dishes waiting to be washed. Is it the same in your house?

So what can you do when the motivation slips and you begin to feel that simply getting the house in shape presents enough of a challenge?

The first thing to do is figure out what's causing the problem. Burnout, boredom and failure to see results would be the most likely culprits. Although it's not impossible to suffer from more than one at a time, we'll deal with them one by one.

Burnout happens when you overdo it. You dash headlong into fitness hoping to see results fast. When you see them, you try even harder in a quest for more visible results, greater performance. Soon, you begin to suffer niggling little injuries, unexplained aches and pains, fatigue. Minor infections become more frequent, last longer.Your reasoning goes askew. "I need to be stronger," you think. "If I'm fitter, I'll stop feeling like this."

So you work out even harder.

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5 Exercises Kids Should Never Do

Fitness isn't just a fad; it's a way of life. Sooner or later, your kids will want to make it a part of their lives, too -- if they're not too turned off by their gym classes, that is -- and you should encourage them be as active as possible. However, not all exercise is good exercise when it comes to kids. 

Jordan Metzl, M.D., a pediatric sports medicine physician at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, explains that kids go through rapid physical changes between the ages of 8 and 12. For girls, a growth spurt will occur usually around the age of 8 or 9, and boys will encounter the changes around the age of 11 or 12. "During this sort of adolescent growth and development," says Metzl, "kids' bones are growing a lot faster than their muscles." Because of this phenomenon, kids lose flexibility as they grow, says Metzl, because the rapid growth puts pressure on their tendons. 

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