Did you read guest blogger, Susan Laramee's post, Eat Less, Do More last month?
I decided since Monday marked the first day of National Nutrition Month and since Sodexo is the largest private employer of Registered Dietitians in the USA that I'd link back to her great post about nutrition and the common New Year's Resolution of getting healthy, or losing weight, or exercising more or how ever you want to describe being smart about your nutrition.
A few of the clinical recruiting team members will be guest blogging for us this month about nutrition and a career with Sodexo as a Registered Dietitian -- so stay tuned!
Susan wrote about the popular New Year's Resolution for better health and Sodexo's tools for success available in many of our Health Care accounts, called “Create Your Weight.” This nine week program is available for adults and children and taught by a Registered Dietitian.
Last year, I eluded to the need for a better health regime but I never committed to it. I love chocolate covered pretzels way too much to give them up. I am a firm believer in "doing what you say you are going to do" and because I don't think I have ever actually kept a New Year's Resolution, I don't like making them.
This year I made a New Year's Resolution and, of course, I have a story to share.
I've been working with my daughter on her use of the word "yeah."
I'll use "yeah" in a sentence so you can get the big picture.
Me: "Did you finish your homework?"
Daughter's Response: "Yeah."
It's a bad habit that she picked up "somewhere." I say "somewhere" because over the holidays, during our many days off together, we worked hard on this bad habit of "hers." I was being persistent and she was getting annoyed with me. No sooner would I correct her (do you mean "yes" I would say) and she would say, "yeah" again! My daughter is the sweetest little girl you'll ever meet (except to her brother who she torments on a regular basis). She would never ever intentionally show disrespect to anyone (again, except her brother).
After I had corrected her about 15 times during dinner one night she tentatively and quietly said to me, "Momma, you just said, yeah."
"Excuse me," I asked?!
She smiled sweetly and triumphantly said with a little more confidence, "YOU just said, yeah!"
And we both giggled.
So we agreed we would help each to correct "our" bad habit together. And because the timing was good, I made this my New Year's Resolution. With the help of my 10 year old, "yeah" will be replaced with "yes!"
I am happy to say, 2 months and 2 days into the new year, my daughter and I are both saying, "yes" way more often than, "yeah."
Can I get a woo-hoo!?
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