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Staying the Course

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One thing I do to maintain healthy eating is find ways to avoid the Deprivation Rubber Band (so depriving myself that I “snap back” into bad habits). Every August I will absolutely have a Wisconsin… 

Book Discussion Questions

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Just prepared some questions for a book group’s upcoming meeting. I’ve love to join yours and hear about your experiences. Just reach out: kathyb@kathybauernfeind.com 1. What are some ways the author learned to control excess?… 

Top 25 Lessons: #12

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#12:  I learned how powerful using delayed gratification can be.  As I wrote in the book, I don’t know how other people learn this.  I actually looked online to see how parents can teach their… 

Recreating My Journey

People have asked how I pieced together all the details of my health journey.  The same way I took back my health:  step by step by step by…

YOU CAN DRINK IT!

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Just shared this excerpt with a friend confronting the colon prep demon for the first time: “High-intensity training makes me tough. And speaking of tough, I simply must share my colonoscopy prep story—yes, really! This… 

Top 25 Lessons: #11

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Sharing the Top 25 Things I learned from taking back my health: I learned to be comfortable with the discomfort I felt from breaking barriers (going farther, going faster, going out when I didn’t feel… 

Top 25 Lessons: #10

Sharing the Top 25 Things I learned from taking back my health: explore adamancy. How often had I declared that “I don’t go outside once it gets cold” or “I don’t go outside if it’s… 

Top 25 Lessons: #9

I learned from taking back my health: #9: I learned to overcome psychological barriers: if my goal was to run one mile, I started feeling tired at three-fourths of a mile. If I wanted to… 

Top 25 Lessons: #8

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Momentum is everything. Every day I drew a star on a calendar for something good I did or something bad I avoided. Seeing the stars add up was the wind in my sails. The BAD…