Ever Feel Like You're Running in Circles?

I'd heard this theory before and had brushed it under the table and forgotten about it, but Donna Kretch (CEO and Founder of Thin&Healthy) brought it out again....and since I sometimes feel like I am just running in circles, I though I'd post it here for all of us to enjoy...

"I'm so busy! I feel like I'm running in circles! Where does the time go?"

One of the most common things we all want is to find more time to do the things you really WANT to do. Is it really possible to make more money and find more time? YES!!! The answer lies within two letters. The letter "H" and the letter "V":

NEED / WANT NEED / WANT
H V

Imagine that the things you NEED to do are one side of the letter "H" and the things you WANT to do are the other side. We spend so much our time focusing on what we need to do all day long (like at work, for example) then we run the bridge to get to the other side of our lives.

When we get to the other side (for example, at home) we go, go, go in order to get all our home tasks completed. Then we cross back over the bridge to work and do it all over again, leaving us with no energy for either of the two sides.

Now, envision your needs and wants blending together without a bridge to cross. This looks like the letter "V." Here we can blend our needs and wants so that we can give our all at both.

Once you find that balance between needs and wants (or work and home, for example) then the two can work together instead of against each other. Life will become more fluid and balanced which will result in more productivity (at work) and more quality personal time (at home).

I have a saying that I live by: "Quality at work; Quantity at home." I am a speaker, author, business leader and an entrepreneur, but first and foremost, I am a mother and a wife.

You CAN find balance! Log on to www.neverendingmotivation.com and receive the 7 Secrets to Maintaining Motivation e-book for free.

You can find more time with your friends and family without losing sleep.

Life is too short to spend only doing what you need to do and not what you want to do.

Pool Party

The Treehouse athletic club sponsored a Draper City Event on the evening of Monday July 14 and it was a great event. We hosted a booth with a small fish pond for the kids and checked the body fat of adults.
Cindy, Tammy from Erikson Enterprises Great Clips, Jenn, and myself were all on hand to help with everything that was going on. Lynn from the Treehouse estimated close to 2000 people (including children) showed up at the event, so that's a pretty good showing.
It was definitely to our advantage having 4 of us in the booth. Both Tammy and myself were just trying to bounce back from being sick. I wouldn't have had the energy to keep up with everything, and was feeling very fortunate to have great family and friends there to help out.
The same night we launched our first Kids Nutrition class at Personal Mastery Martial Arts and hosted a super-star party for Don (see previous post)...so it was a very busy evening. We definitely learned our lesson about over scheduling ourselves....and I learned I need to check in with Jenn more often.

Dax 5K

We survived the Dax 5K race event on Saturday July 12th at the Draper City Park. There was a pretty good turn out of racers. Much thanks to Tyson of Northwestern Mutual, Jan of Bark Busters, and Tammy of Erikson Enterprises Great Clips for their help in the Kids Corner and bringing their games.
The sprinklers suddenly came on about the same time the race was starting so it got pretty exciting for a minute as everyone was scrambling to move papers, props, and games out of the way of the sprinklers.
Soon people discovered that putting garbage cans over the top of the sprinklers helped block the water (see the picture of Andrew)

...so many of us ended up with garbage bins right in the middle of out booths! hahahaha It made me laugh.

Super Star

We just had our super star party for Don Gerdy last night! Don is Great! He hit his first 20 lb goal in the middle of June - he is now down another 7 pounds and doing great. We'd been trying to plan his hooorah hooorah party at Chick-Fil-A for quite some time, and finally got a time nailed down late last week.
We first met Don and Sharon during the Sandy Slimdown. They were very diligent about making it to as many of the walks as possible, despite their busy schedules. It's been amazing to see Don's transformation. I always get a chuckle when I hear the healthy foods coaches telling Don to up his fat grams because I've heard it so many times. I imagine he feels the same each time he hears it too....hahhahhahahahaa.
Don and Sharon are two top notch people we have truly come to love and respect. It's awesome that in just 13 visits Don lost 20 lbs and 30 inches! I know Don loves putting new notches in his belts - and at this rate, he'll have to shave parts off his belt to keep it from wrapping around him twice!

It’s A Party!

Bring your family, friends, neighbors, and people off the street to help us support one of our SUPER-STARS - Donald Gerdy!

Join in the fun and help us congratulate Don for this great victory. He lost 20.6 lbs, 30 inches, and 2.1% body fat in just 13 visits. If you haven't seen Don in a while, come check out his picture on our Wall Of Fame! The Super-Star receives a complimentary meal from Chick-Fil-A. When will your picture be next to his?

WHEN: Monday July 14, 2008

WHERE: Chick-Fil-A

(10090 South State Street )

TIME: 6:00pm

For more information call or get online:

(801)571-8870 Jed Judd

thinandhealthyutah@gmail.com

http://thinandhealthyutah.blogspot.com

The Link Between Obesity and Nutrition

Join us for a 3 week nutrition class crash course where we'll cover the new food pyramid and discuss what's changed and how it affects you.

Personal Mastery Martial Arts 8663 S Highland Dr Sandy, UT 84093 Phone: 801-947-1010	Thin&Healthy's Total Solution 9486 S Union Square (700 E) Sandy, UT 84070 Phone: 801-571-8870
Week 1 - Introduction to the new Pyramid and Portions
Date: Monday July 14th Time: 7:00-7:30	Date: Tuesday July 15th Time: 5:30-6:00
Week 2 - Benefits of each food group and show how foods work in our bodies
Date: Monday July 21st Time: 7:00-7:30	Date: Tuesday July 22nd Time: 5:30-6:00
Week 3 - Show examples of portions vs nutritional value
Date: Monday July 28th Time: 7:00-7:30	Date: Tuesday July 29th Time: 5:30-6:00

“The number of Utah children at an unhealthy weight increased dramatically from 1993 to 2006. In 2006, an estimated 22.5 percent of the 261,089 elementary school students, or approximately 58,745 students, were overweight or at risk of becoming overweight. More boys were overweight than girls. If the number of elementary school students at an unhealthy weight continues to increase at the current rate, in 10 years a total of 30.3% of elementary school students will be at an unhealthy weight.”

“In 2005, more than half of Utah adults (55.2%) were overweight or obese. This amounts to over 977,000 adult Utahns! Nearly two-thirds of adult males (64.1%) and nearly half (48.2%) of females were at an unhealthy weight. The percentage of obese adults has grown from 10.4% in 1989 to 22.1% in 2005 (age-adjusted), an increase of 112%.“

~ http://health.utah.gov/obesity/data.html ~

Sandy 4th of July

The 4th of July was great! We had a very serious family emergency we were trying to recover from, but having a booth at the Sandy 4th of July has been one of the BEST things we've ever done...both for meeting people, but also for getting a positive image of Sandy.
Sandy did a lot of things right. I liked the layout of the days events and vendors, the shade was great, parade was in the afternoon, and the weather was awesome!
If I were to change anything, it would be our signage and I want to create a theme for our booth. I felt like our booth was pretty empty.
We were giving free Body Fat Tests. It made it easier to approach people, but some of the people I wanted to register for the FREE Year didn't because they didn't want their body fat checked. I did really like being able to interact and talk with people more when they stop by our booth. I really like having the body fat analyzers at these events with us.
One thing I'm not sure I like or not is having candy at the booth. Kids like picking some up, but most parents don't - and even question why we have it there....so we'll have to evaluate that further.

Obesity and a Fatty Liver

I've heard about fatty liver over the last year or so and only glanced at a couple of articles - but Cindy caught my eye here with a blog post to an article from MedicineNet.com "Body Fat, the Silent Killer". The two MD's from MedicineNet report, "the BMI correlates with the degree of liver damage, that is, the greater the BMI the greater the liver damage".
We see a lot of high BMI's through our place. Yesterday I had my first person say their doctor had given them a liver cleans. It was very validating to me to hear from another person that their doctor had recommended the cleans.
The interesting thing with fatty liver is there are not always symptoms, but that it elevates enzymes in the blood. So fatty liver is discovered when routine blood tests show elevated levels of liver enzymes (ALT and AST) in the blood. According to MedicineNet, "Doctors and public health officials project that obesity related liver diseases will become the leading cause of liver failure and liver transplantation in the not too distant future."
The bottom line, however, is that the single most effective treatment for obese people with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver is to simply lose weight through diet and exercise. That's where Thin&Healthy can help. Our program is founded on the three pillars of the Total Solution: Healthy Foods Education, Metabolism Retraining, and Motivation.

Car Classic And UCE Review

Classic Car Show
Saturday June 28th we set up a booth at the Classic Car Show & Barbecue at Ardell Brown's Ranch in Draper. True to fashion, I showed up late and was lucky enough to squeeze between AAA and my friend Randall Limb of Extreme Graphics. The booths were not placed in an ideal location - along the fence back behind the car line up, with the food and auction placed closer to Ardell's garages.
Only a few brave souls dared visit the booths - mostly looking at the wheels on display by Les Schwab and Discount Tire and speaking with AAA about insurance.
At the suggestion of Lynn McDonald (of the Treehouse Athletic Club), I finally got brave enough to walk around the event and hand out coupons and collect registrations for a year membership we were giving away. She playfully encouraged her friends to register - it seemed like she knew about everyone there - and that made it more fun.
Our tent blew over - so I learned my lesson about always tieing it down. I had all the strings and stakes there to secure it to the ground, but didn't use them because it was such a calm morning. The breeze that blew the tent over wasn't that strong - but damaged the tent none-the-less.
Ultimate Combat Experience
After the car show, we helped Erikson Enterprises Great Clips with their event at the Ultimate Combat Experience at the E-Center. This was our first event at the UCE and was very educational.
We set up in between the US Army booth and a beer booth. Great Clips had some koozies and razors to give away along with some coupons. It was a little difficult to get people to take the free koozies - it seemed because they 1. didn't understand they were free 2. didn't want the coupons and/or razor inside.
I'm interested to see what another one of these events is like. From the information I gathered the Saturday night was not as big a draw as normal.