by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 4, 2011 | for Love, Mormon Wedding
A Mormon wedding differs from others in a number of ways, but there are many aspects that will be familiar to just about everyone. While there is really no “typical LDS wedding,” there are traditions that tend to surround them, even outside areas with lots...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 22, 2011 | for Body, Losing Weight After Pregnancy
Losing weight after pregnancy has been a quest beginning with my first pregnancy in 1987, continuing through my last pregnancy in 2003, and ruining my wardrobe today. I embarked on The 4-Hour Body on January 1st. I stuck to it religiously for over five weeks. And lost...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 10, 2011 | for Love, Mormon Wedding
Ever since I was a young(er) mom, running around Boca Raton with four daughters in tow, I've heard about what I had coming. Most times we were in public I heard shrieks—from senior citizens with strong New York accents—directed at our little estrogen-heavy clan of,...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 28, 2011 | for Body, Why Can't I Sleep
Changing lifelong habits can be very difficult. Training myself out of being the night owl that I've been since birth is something that is now 46-years ingrained into my soul. To be completely honest, I'm more than skeptical about this (or any) help to sleep program,...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 27, 2011 | for Body, Why Can't I Sleep
The introduction to How to Become an Advanced Earl Riser says” The modules can be taken in any order and worked on as there is no linear way of doing this, this will become obvious when you read them, for example, I speak about cutting down on coffee, if you're...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 27, 2011 | for Body, Why Can't I Sleep
Yesterday I completed the Advanced Early Riser quick start assignments. Today I read about sleep science and the five parts to becoming a real morning person. The Truth About Sleep Author Steven Aitchison starts out this section challenging the vast majority of sleep...