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Category: Health Goal Diary

This Week’s Blog Roundup Will Help You to Have a Beautiful 2022!

Happy New Year from the Beauty Spotlight Team! This week’s blog roundup offers posts on subjects that will help you to have a beautiful 2022. They are all about pampering and nurturing your body. And that means you will end up looking and feeling gorgeous. Age doesn’t matter. Here’s what you’ll find:

  • a bath and shower gel that is the ultimate winter treat,
  • a long list of favorite products that one of our beauty bloggers repurchased during the past year,
  • goals to start the new year based on a Health Goal Diary,
  • a revolutionary prebiotic skincare product that is the perfect pick me up.

Just click on your favorite topics below to read more!

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What Better Time to Enjoy What Fashion Flash Has to Offer?

While we have time at home during the Coronavirus pandemic, what better time could there be to enjoy what Fashion Flash has to offer? Each weekly edition of this e-magazine by and for women over 40 includes topics ranging from beauty to fashion, fitness, lifelong health, food, decor, travel news and more. And to top it off, the bloggers and podcasters behind the Flash are some of the best in their field! These awesome women take turns hosting the rest of us on their website. This week’s host is award-winning author Barbara Hannah Grufferman. Click on her name below to connect to the latest issue. It includes a blog post from my Health Goal Diary on how to improve your diet and hydrate.

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How to Look at Spring Colors in a Summery Kind of Way

When spring began, I presented to you Pantone’s NY Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2019 Color Trend Report.  You can read my post, “Introducing Spring 2019 Colors and How to Use Them” HERE.  Pantone’s colors are for both seasons:  spring and summer.  Now that it’s the end of spring, the sun is coming out more often and the weather is warming up quite a bit.  So I am looking at the spring colors now in a summery kind of way.

An easy way to create an outfit from whatever you have in your closet is to choose a color combination.  So I have listed summer color combos below to inspire your outfit choices.  Age doesn’t matter.  Wear the colors you love and express your true self.

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How to Make Time for Ourselves

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My son, Chris, and I have been making health goals together each month for years.  I wrote about our experiences with this in my Health Goal Diary here on the blog.  It has made a big difference in our health habits, especially with diet and exercise.

It has been beneficial to both of us.  Age doesn’t matter.  Besides keeping us healthy, it has kept our weight down and made us look our best.

We took a break when the weather got cold in the fall and the holidays rolled around.  We got busy, sick, and then surrounded by holiday feasts and goodies.

When we decided to take a break from making health goals, we had a conversation about how overwork was taking a toll on us.  Self care was lost in the shuffle and we needed to find time for ourselves and our needs.  It was a goal that has not been easy to achieve.

Intending to think about what I needed to do to make time for myself, I dove right back into my work and never gave it another thought.  So I’m taking a moment in writing this post about self care to explore what I need to do that I haven’t been doing all this time.  I’m hoping this will be helpful to you as well.

Included is:

  • What happens when we don’t make time for ourselves?
  • Personal examples, both unsuccessful and successful.
  • The basics of self care.
  • Self-care tips based on specific needs.
  • 20 general self-care tips.

As you read on, you’ll find more and more helpful information beyond what you might already think of, which I hope will inspire you with some helpful ideas.

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How Your Friends Make It Easy to be Healthy All Year Long

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For almost three years now, my son Chris and I have been making health goals together every month.  Although we are from different generations, age doesn’t matter when it comes to health.  We have the same goals of good dietary choices, exercise, sleep and such.  These habits create lifelong health.

Since Chris and I started to share monthly health goals with each other, we’ve improved our lifestyle. In 2017, we got to the point where we were both down to our ideal weight, improved our eating habits, and developed exercise routines that worked for us.

In 2018, we were humming along very well, until October.  At that time, we became deterred by time, weather, sickness, and then the holiday season.

Now that a new year is beginning, Chris and I are reviewing last year’s goals and planning new goals, picking up from where we left off. Our last goals were to try to get back our previously good habits of exercising regularly and eating foods that are good for us. Continue Reading