Did You Gobble Til You Wobble?

November 29, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

How was your Thanksgiving? I am not just talking about food. I hope everyone was able to enjoy their Thanksgiving with family and friends. We had a busy, but a peaceful day. I can admit I ate a little bit more than I should have, but not too much. On Wednesday, I watched the Netflix […]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

November 28, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I know a lot of the country is experiencing very bad weather. I hope you will be safe and warm. Our internet is so slow, today, and I can only assume it is because of so much nasty weather everywhere.

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Mindful Monday: What are You Thankful For?

November 25, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

I know we should be thankful every day not just the week of Thanksgiving. But, this is always a fun exercise I do with my kids each year, and it is fun to see how their answers change over the years. I am doing it with my daughter this year. She is 15. I gave […]

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Wellness Wednesday: Cold and Flu Prevention Part 3 Break the Chain of Infection

November 20, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Updated April 28, 2021. Welcome to part 3 of breaking the chain of infection in preventing Cold and Flu. Last week I discussed the Reservoir. Today is the Portal of Exit. Since I am discussing Cold and Flu I will only discuss Portal of Exit as it pertains to that topic. The Portal of Exit […]

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Mindful Monday: Mindful Yoga

November 18, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Updated 4/12/2021 Below is an easy, slow Yoga practice video. Once you learn the Yoga moves it would make sense to me to do your Mindful Yoga with soft gentle music, nature noises, or no noise. Incorporating breathing exercises, with your Yoga would also be an awesome way to do Mindful Yoga. Remember with Mindfulness […]

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Sweating on Sunday: Health Buddy Melissa 2020 Walking Challenge

November 17, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Join me in 2020 to walk 1800 miles in a year. This is a walking challenge, and anyone can join for free. Post weekly to the Health Buddy Melissa Facebook page. The challenge will be pinned to the top of the Facebook page, once it starts, for easy finding. If you want motivational help, […]

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New Support Group for Chronic Illness Live on Health Buddy Melissa Facebook Page

November 15, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

This weekend I will be announcing a Walking Challenge for the year 2020. I am very excited about this, and I hope others will join in. Next Friday, for Foodie Friday I will be writing about CKD and Diabetic food dishes for a Thanksgiving meal that will be healthier options. I will also be announcing […]

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Health Buddy Melissa Podcast #2 Early Signs of Kidney Disease

November 14, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I have recorded my second podcast titled, Early Signs of Kidney Disease. It is available to email subscribers exclusively. If you would like to listen to it, use the contact form below to message request it. Disclaimer

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Wellness Wednesday: Cold and Flu Prevention Part 2

November 13, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Updated 4/21/2021: Last week I discussed the first chain of infection. This week I will discuss the second link in the Chain of Infection: Reservoirs. So, let us say the first link was not broken, and the pathogen or germ was able to continue to the next link in the chain. A Reservoir is anywhere […]

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Mindful Walking in Nature

November 11, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Edited 3/29/2021 Mindful Walking is not Fitness Walking. It is a walking Mindfully. What does that mean, exactly? Obviously, if you are walking you are still getting exercise. But, Mindful Walking will not focus on the exercise but rather experiencing everything about the walk, in the moment. If you think of who, what, where, when, […]

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Throwback Thursday: Why Obesity Was Rare In The 50’s October 21, 2021
Hello, and Happy Thursday! I have had a crazy week and I feel like I have totally neglected my readers. I still have so much to discuss on the topic of Obesity, and the month is almost over. My newsletter was supposed to go out yesterday, but I will literally not home at all yesterday [...]
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Obesity Causes Dementia!? October 19, 2021
Whoa, and Happy Tuesday! It is Obesity Awareness Month, so be sure and check out all of the other posts on this topic in the archives, or just search the word obesity. Dementia touches my life in so many ways. I work on a Memory Care Unit with Dementia residents, and I have a loved [...]
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Family Cook Off #2 October 15, 2021
I totally forgot to share this on Tuesday, so I am sharing it today instead. There will be a few other tidbits in this post. On Tuesday, my husband, daughter, and myself held the second round of our Family Cook Off. This is meant to be fun, family time, and a little competition too. This [...]
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Holy Fructosenomics! October 13, 2021
OK, so I totally made that word up. But, I had already done a post last year titled What the Fructose! So, I had to come up with something. For the purposes of this post, because the topic is very complex, and there is a lot to it, I am going to make some key [...]
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Sugar and Obesity! October 12, 2021
Hello, and welcome to another Healthy Tips on Tuesday post. October is Obesity Awareness Month, or improve your Metabolic Syndrome Health Marker if you prefer. You will find two videos below. I urge you to watch them both. Remember not only fat people have Metabolic Syndrome, and not all Obese people do either. But, if [...]
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Going From Stage 3b CKD to Stage 2 CKD! October 11, 2021
Hello, and Happy Monday! The sun is shining and my spirits are lifted. I am so very excited for my Kidney appt. this Thursday! A little back story. If you are new here, and you don’t feel like reading 2 years worth of updates on my kidney journey, I will give a very short summary. [...]
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Homemade Pumpkin Protein Bars! October 8, 2021
Hello, and Happy Foodie Friday! You know October is pumpkin season, right? Well it is. I am funny about protein bars. I am a texture kind of girl so a a lot of them just have a strange texture to me. The only one I have found, and I have tried a lot, are these [...]
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Stop Calling It Obesity? October 7, 2021
Hello, and welcome back to another Thinking on Thursday topic. For the whole month of October I am discussing Obesity. But, as you can see in my title I posed the topic as a question. However, by the end of the post I think you will see why I think it should be a statement. [...]
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Why Your Step Count Might Be Deceiving You: Walk With Me In October! October 6, 2021
I have mentioned this special deal in a couple other posts, but today I finally am getting to talk about it in full. If you read here a lot, then you know I have CKD, am not especially fond of intense exercise, and I walk a lot. But, I might not be walking enough. What [...]
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Why Should You Care About Obesity? October 5, 2021
Hello, and welcome back to another Healthy Tips on Tuesday post. If you have been reading along then you know that for the month of October I am discussing Obesity. This is the third post on that topic, so please be sure to read the other two, as I don’t intend to repeat myself for [...]
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