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A Healthy Challenge: From Fat To … Less Fat – An Intro

Contributor Jessenia Lua has started A Healthy Challenge as well. Read her intro and welcome her: I stepped on the scale this morning to see what damage I’ve done to my body after slowing down on exercise and eating whatever … Continue reading

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A Healthy Challenge: From 28% to 100%

Once, when I was having an exceptionally bad day, I walked across a bridge and thought about how wonderful it would be to jump into the river below, letting life just swim past you as you simply watched, no longer … Continue reading

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A Healthy Challenge: Action

My Healthy Challenge is about so much more than just weight loss, it’s about overall health and well-being in my life from the physical to the emotional. The concept of starting this challenge came from a very emotional place and … Continue reading

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A Healthy Challenge: Accountability

I’m only a few words into this post and I can already tell it’s going to be one of the hardest I’ve ever written. In the past few months my sister’s had an emergency C-section, my brother’s been diagnosed with … Continue reading

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A Healthy Challenge: Acceptance, My Second Step

I sat on my ass all day yesterday and when I finally got up, it was to move to a bar to play board games with friends, eat sweet potato fries and drink Shirley Temples. Today, I did the same … Continue reading

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A Healthy Challenge: Forgiveness is Just the Beginning

My father got diagnosed with leukemia when I was 12, but, as much as the incident forced me to deal with mortality at a young age, I didn’t really relate that mortality to myself, as much as to my parents. … Continue reading

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