Have you ever started a project and immediately felt overwhelmed? Use this trick to prevent being overwhelmed by weight-loss.

If you missed our daily postings this past week, we invite you to take some time to catch up on our prior week's news and gear up for a new week of healthy living information and inspiration.

Have you changed-up your fitness routine lately? I used to squeeze in my daily walk whenever I had time. But now that we're walking to school every day, it just makes sence to keep on walking after drop-off. No more excuses! As always, if you need inspiration, you can find it in our daily posts. Here's a few from this week:

• If you aren't reading Karla Carrington's new feature The Good, the Fat, and the Hungry, well, you should be! Karla's trying to lose 40 pounds and is sharing her experience with the rest of us.
• What kind of pregnancy cravings have hit Rebecca Romijin? Jerry O'Connell (and Jacki) tell all.
• Bravo TV's personal trainer Jackie Warner has three stay-thin secrets. Find out what they are.
• Mary Kearl asks our female readers over 40: How do you lose weight?
• Beyonce packs on the pounds for a movie role ... then realizes she has to take them back off.
• Oprah is a more popular hiking partner than President Bush. Find out what else people are saying about outdoor recreation.
  
  

Have a great week everyone!

That physical you keep telling yourself you're going to get? Hasn't happened yet, has it? Despite the new year's resolutions we make to be healthier, and hopefully happier, we can't seem to make it to the doctor. Considering physicals these days are relatively quick and painless compared to the trips to the doctor we made as children wherein all we looked forward to was the possibility of a lollipop, it would seem like a no brainer to just make the appointment and go.

The primary excuse I hear (and give myself) for not going is that most of the time they turn up nothing, which stirs up the complaint that they're a waste of time. While that is one perspective, I'd rather be told that absolutely nothing was wrong than receive bad news. If anything, a physical resulting in a clean bill of health should be a reward for hard work of eating healthfully, exercising and striving for well being.

Yes, there are those times when a physical turns up something less than savory that can lead to other tests and possibly procedures. Wouldn't logic dictate that surfacing the issue allows as much time as possible to remedy the situation? Getting a physical every year at the same time can greatly reduce the possibility of something amiss going unchecked and untreated.

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