by kelsey | Nov 30, 2011 | Etc.
Last week we finished up our fall session of STRIVE 2 Survive. We had a great group and really enjoyed working with all of you! The results are still coming in, but so far we’ve seen weight loss from 5-20lbs and great improvements in cholesterol, blood pressure, and waist circumference. One of our major goals of STRIVE 2 Survive is to promote lifelong health and wellness, thus this 12 weeks is just the start of a new way of living for our participants. We are not fond of fad diets and do not promote that, rather we encourage nutrition and exercise interventions that not only improve your health, wellness, and weight, but also can be followed long term.
We are taking a little break during the month of December and will start back up again in January with our winter session. Our first lecture is January 3rd at the County Fair Banquet Hall at 5:30. Since lab (lipid panel and fasting glucose) and body composition are included at the beginning and end of the program, enrollment is starting now! If you want to learn more and/or reserve your spot, please contact us. We look forward to celebrating the success of many more!
-Kelsey
by kelsey | Nov 29, 2011 | Etc.
Are you recovered from the Thanksgiving holiday weekend? I know I am still working on it! We had a great holiday weekend and feel so blessed to have been able to spend it with wonderful family. As Thanksgiving day came to an end, Adam and I attended 3 Thanksgiving dinners. We are fortunate to have much of our family around the area, however it does make our holidays a bit crazy as we try to get to everything! Practicing portion control was essential for us to get through the day. I work hard to practice what I preach and it was definetly put into action this day!
A highlight of my weekend was taking my 2 1/2 year old neice to the Children’s Museum in Brookings on Friday. This picture is of Kate grocery shopping at the store in the museum. To say the least, Aunt Kelsey is very proud of her grocery selections! It’s essential to teach them good nutrition at a young age to promote life long health and longevity. If you haven’t been to the museum, I highly encourage it! There are many options for the children to do, that not only promotes learning, but also activity!
-Kelsey
by Dan | Nov 27, 2011 | Exercise, Holidays, Weather, Wellness/Health
The annual Parade of Lights was again the day after Thanksgiving. It was great weather to be outside for. The temperature stayed in the upper 30’s. It was another way to get some more exercise in, and we covered about 2 miles with the parade. This is a side view of our Brown Clinic float.
Here is a view from the backside. “Merry Christmas”. It won’t be long before this holiday is here. Hopefully everybody had a good Thanksgiving, and a good holiday weekend. Enjoy the week coming up. Keep moving!
Dr. Dan
Consecutive Exercise Day #: 1522
by Dan | Nov 26, 2011 | Exercise, Family, Holidays, Wellness/Health
Here, Molly and Sarah are getting their numbers ready to wear for the Annual Turkey Day Race/Walk. For our family, it has started to become a family tradition for Thanksgiving. This obsiously has for a lot of other families too, and many of the same people come each year. Thanksgiving is a time when a lot of the families get back together for the holidays, and this is a good way to make it a part of tradition.
This is the race finish line. You cross the mat, and the timing system is connected to enter you and your time because of the chip we all have on our shoes. It worked great this year. As far as I know, there were no glitches. It did not work the greatest last year, maybe because of how cold it was. We use this same system for the hospital hill run, and we usually have some glitches with it. It still works much better than manually timing everybody, and then trying to get everybody categorized into their age brackets. Keep in mind for next year. Hope to see you then!
Dr. Dan
Consecutive Exercise Day #: 1521
by Dan | Nov 25, 2011 | Exercise, Family, Holidays, Motivation, Wellness/Health
Here was the registration area for the Turkey Day Race/Walk yesterday on Thanksgiving. All of the packets of the pre-registered people are all set up. There were also people registering that morning. A total of 329 participants for the day.
Here Jill Makepeace, family and friends are getting ready for the race. They decided to participate wearing “tutus”. It was a great way to spend the morning. Pumpkin pie for all participants, but after the race/walk was done. You had to earn your pie! I will show a few more images tomorrow as well.
Dr. Dan
Consecutive Exercise Day #: 1520
