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Fruit Will Make you Beautiful

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1. Eat small meals: If you currently eat two or there large meals, split them into five or six smaller meals. Eat each of these small meals every two or three hours.

2.  Exercise religiously: It takes hard work to gain anything in life and exercising is the hard work you need to do to lose weight. There is no second opinion about it; if you don’t exercise regularly, you wouldn’t achieve permanent weight loss, no matter what diet program you follow.

Exercises not only help you burn fat during the workout session but also after it. Besides, exercises build muscles for you, and muscles help you burn fat even when you are resting. As such, you don’t need to depend on your diet program alone for weight loss. Even if you quit dieting at some point of time, you still won’t gain weight if you eat right and workout regularly.

3. Eat right fats and carbs: It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the right and wrong carbs and fats. The wrong fats and carbs are contained in junk and fast foods; these “bad” carbs and “bad” fats are what made you overweight. Instead of consuming them, try to have natural fruits and vegetables for carbs, and fishes and olive oil for fats. You would be happier that way.

4. Increase your protein intake: When you increase your protein intake and combine that with regular workout, you would build more lean muscles than you would without protein. Keep in mind that muscles not only strengthen your body but also help you burn fat; therefore, you should make sure to build lean muscles on a continuous basis.

5. Increase your water intake: To ensure that your muscular tissues don’t become weak at any point of time through dehydration, you should drink adequate water daily. An adult needs to drink at least 8-10 glasses of water every day. Water keeps you hydrated, strengthens your muscle tissues, detoxifies your body and also boosts your metabolic rate. A boost in metabolic rate would in turn accelerate the weight loss process for you.

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Crossmatch Day




My daughter and I went to the hospital today for blood tests. Not an uncommon occurance for my daughter who gets tested monthly but I don’t have quite as much experience.

But today is a special day for us.

My daughters kidneys have been stable at 27-30% GFR for the last couple months but we all know that her nephronophthisis that my wife and I gave her through a couple bad genes is going to lead to kidney failure likely within a year.

After all the tests that I have gone through to test my health and especially my kidney health and output I have finally been deemed a good candidate if…. if… my blood is a good match with Taylors.

Taylor and Billy doing a Crossmatch

So today Taylor and I drove down to the hospital and each of us had a few vials of blood taken and then after this the transplant people will mix them together. We are both O Positive but for my kidney to be transplanted we need to do this crossmatch to find out if the mix of our blood is going to be a problem for a transplant.


If the crossmatch determines that we are a good match still then we wait and continue to let Taylor’s kidney function to drop further to about 15% and then we can get a transplant done.

Right now Taylor, at 30% kidney function is still a healthy and somewhat active kid. She plays, she runs around laughing, and fights with her brother, but she does get tired and misses school as well. The trouble with kidney disease in kids is that it often does not outwardly manifest but in Taylors case she does get tired and sick way more often then her brother does.

Yesterday our son Jaiden got blood tests done to check how his Creatinine levels are. Since we know that my wife and I are carriers for these bad genes we also know that each kid has a 25% chance to get the kidney disease that Taylor has so we are quietly holding our breath that Jaiden is good.

So always more drama around our house but as time goes on the murky picture of family health is getting a bit clearer



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Biggest Loser Back in January




Biggest Loser Season 14 is back on In January with two back to back episodes on January 6th and 7th. And there are a bunch of changes with Jillian Micheals coming back and heavyweight kids on the show this time. I am sure the show will make people think about how they are feeding kids and what they are doing to themselves as well.

New mother Jillian Michaels is back, ready to whip contestants into shape with her tough-as-nails, no nonsense approach, alongside returning trainers and top fitness experts Bob Harper and Dolvett Quince. Alison Sweeney hosts the series.

This season’s 15 contestants will be divided into three teams — supervised by trainers Harper, Michaels and Quince. Each trainer and team of five adults will be paired with one child participant who will compete with and contribute to their respective teams.

This Years Biggest Loser Contestants

Biggest Loser Back in JanuaryThe adult contestants for season 14 of “The Biggest Loser” will include Lisa Rambo, a high school special education assistant and mother of four who wants to be a healthy role model for her children, and hopes to one day open a special needs gym in her community to help her overweight students; 21-year-old Jackson Carter, the show’s first openly gay contestant who was bullied both for his weight and his sexuality after coming out at age 14, and now works as a volunteer coordinator for an LGBT youth outreach center, and Joe Ostaszewski, a former high school and college football player who continued to eat like an active football player long after his athletic career was over.

Also competing this season will be 47-year-old attorney, law firm owner and mother of two Gina McDonald, who is very accomplished in her professional life, but has not been able to get control of her lifelong struggle with weight; 51-year-old police officer David Jones, who at 307 pounds is struggling to keep up with the physical demands of his job, and college professor and communications consultant Michael Dorsey, the heaviest contestant this season at 444 pounds, who wants to be a healthy role model for his young son and says. “Losing weight just seems like that impossible mountain that I cannot overcome.”’


Working closely with the children this season will be Dr. Joanna Dolgoff, a childhood obesity expert and pediatrician whose book “Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right” features the child-friendly healthy eating plan the kids will follow. Along with the trainers and the “Biggest Loser” medical staff, the kids will follow an age-appropriate program that will help them get healthy, achieve their personal goals and transform their lives during the course of the season.

Biggest Loser Kids this season

  • Lindsay Bravo (eighth grade), 13, Fillmore, California. Who loved being a cheerleader for two years but gave it up when others started teasing her about her weight, and hopes that by going on the show, she can inspire others to change their lives and get healthy.
  • Sanjana “Sunny” Chandrasekar (11th grade), 16, Rochester, New York. Who juggles Advanced Placement classes and extracurricular activities like singing and tennis, and says that being overweight takes away from her self-confidence and affects every aspect of her life;
  • Noah “Biingo” Gray (eighth grade), 13, New Windsor, Maryland.  Who aspires to be a professional baseball player and describes himself as a “skinny kid trying to get out of a fat teenager’s body”;

Biggest Loser Adults this season

  • Dannielle “Danni” Allen (Advertising account coordinator), 26, Wheeling, Illinois
  • Jackson Carter (Volunteer coordinator for LGBT resource center and movie theater assistant manager), 21, Layton, Utah
  • Nicole “Nikki” Davis (Make-up artist), 26, Chatsworth, California
  • Michael Dorsey (College professor and communications consultant), 34, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Pamela Geil (Executive assistant), 43, New York, New York
  • David Jones (Police officer), 51, Kiefer, Oklahoma
  • Cate Laughlin (Student), 28, Ransomville, New York
  • Gina McDonald (Attorney and law firm owner), 47, Hoover, Alabama
  • Nate Montgomery (Financial advisor), 25, Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • Francelina Morillo (Student and store manager), 25, Albany, New York
  • Jeff Nichols (Pharmaceutical representative), 24, Monroe, Michigan
  • Joe Ostaszewski (Senior sales executive), 43, Willston, Florida
  • Thomas “TC” Pool (Purchasing manager), 31, Albany, Oregon
  • Lisa Rambo (High school special education assistant), 54, Houlton, Wisconsin
  • Alexandra “Alex” Reid (Legal assistant), 24, Carrolton, Texas

I am again excited about watching the show this year and the kids will be a great added twist to the show. I have to wonder how they will change the show up this season to stop it from getting stale like it has started to get in the last few years.

Will you be watching next month when Biggest Loser comes back to TV?



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