Marilu Henner's Blog, page 186

Don't save up for a big meal

The worst thing you can do during the holidays is starve yourself all day in preparation for pigging out at dinner or a party. It's a common practice, but not a healthy one. In fact, it may be the best way to pack on the pounds and store more fat!

Instead, pace yourself and have small meals throughout the day so that your metabolism is regulated and balanced. If you're famished when you arrive at a party or at the dinner table, the food becomes nothing more than gut-fill, and you pay no attention to what you're eating and how you're chewing and digesting. Your brain (always twenty minutes behind your stomach) finds out much too late that you're stuffed.

Small meals throughout the day mean a healthier holiday.

 

Featured recipe from Marilu's table * Lumberjacks

Cookies are a big part of the Christmas holiday, so why not have some cookies made from good ingredients? If you like molasses cookies, you'll love Lumberjacks.

The dough keeps well in the fridge if you can't get them made and baked on the same day. The recipe works just as well with egg replacer, so you can have vegan cookies. And this recipe yields a lot of cookies!

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Lumberjacks

Yellow * Makes about 7 dozen cookies

1 cup evaporated cane juice crystals, plus 1/2 cup extra for rolling the dough

1 cup Earth Balance margarine

1 cup blackstrap molasses

2 organic cage free eggs or equivalent egg replacer

4 cups unbleached wheat flour or whole-wheat pastry flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground ginger

Preheat oven to 350F.

In a large bowl cream together the cane juice crystals and margarine. Add molasses and eggs, blend completely. In another large bowl combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and ginger.

Have at hand a small bowl of cane juice crystals. Pinch off a ball the size of a walnut. Roll it in the crystals and place on a cookie sheet. Repeat with the rest of the dough. Bake 12-15 minutes or until golden.

 

More from 60 Minutes on Marilu's memory

Here's the 60 Minutes Overtime video, with more from Marilu and Lesley Stahl.

Full story with video here, including the complete 60 Minutes segment that aired on television, and a quiz to see how good you are with dates.

 

New class starts January 3 * 7 in '11… Make 2011 your most memorable year!

Are you tired of being tired?

Do you need support for eating right?

Are you ready to create a great year for yourself?

Marilu is offering an exciting, all-new online class starting Monday, January 3rd. This class will give you the foundation for an excellent and memorable year! You'll learn to eat right for your health (and you'll lose weight if you need to). You'll get support for your exercise program. You'll find ways to get your inner beauty to shine on the outside.

7 in '11… Make 2011 your most memorable year!

Marilu has selected seven key topics to help you structure each day and create an amazing and memorable year. These topics will stretch you and challenge you to become your very best. You won't be alone – your coach will guide you through each day, and help you with questions and concerns. This is a great way to start your new year (and address all those resolutions you may or may not make).

Members are automatically enrolled in each class. Just check your inbox on Monday, January 3.

Not a member? It's easy to join. Just sign up here, and for less than 50cents/day you get personal support and coaching from Marilu and her hand-picked team. Get access to recipes and menus, too.

 

Spirit Sunday * Making memories

In honor of Marilu's superior autobiographical memory, we have a song for today. It's the kind of song that might make you want to get up and move – and we encourage that!

It might make you think back to when you first heard the song – or the artist.

What memories do you hold dear?

What holiday memories do you try to re-create?

What memories are you making today?

//www.marilu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Disc 2 11 - Remember The Time.mp3

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Amazon.com Widgets

 

Watch Marilu tonight

 

Marilu on 60 Minutes

CBS, 7 PM Eastern

 

Let it snow… you have other things to do

Spend time with your special someone this weekend. Here's a song to put you in the mood. *wink*

The song is sung by Linda Bianchi, from her album Christmas in New York. Linda is a member here at Marilu.com and we're really proud of her success.

//www.marilu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/08 - Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow.mp3

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Amazon.com Widgets

 

Fitness Friday * Interval training

Interval training is a way to work out so your body burns more calories. Just change the pace between fast and slow to create intervals.

It works like your furnace – if you turn your furnace off and on throughout the day it uses a lot more energy than if you have it set at one temperature and leave it.

So get your interval on, and change it up – warm-up, slow, fast, slow, fast, slow, fast, slow, stretch. Create your music playlist so you'll automatically have an interval training session, just by moving to your music.

 

Marilu and the superior autobiographical memory

(CBS) They can tell you what the weather was 20 years ago on a day picked at random when the rest of us have trouble remembering what we ate for lunch yesterday. They can recall almost every day of their lives. People with "superior autobiographical memory" are a tiny, but growing group that scientists are just beginning to study.

"60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl brings some of them together for the first time – including actress Marilu Henner, who Stahl realized had this ability but never knew how rare it was – for a report to be broadcast this Sunday, Dec. 19, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

…

As she considered doing this story, Stahl realized Henner, one of her longtime friends, had this ability and didn't know how rare it was. Henner, who starred in the hit television show, "Taxi," describes it. "It's like putting in a DVD and it cues up to certain places. I am there again…seeing things visually as I would have that day," she says.

Henner was tested by McGaugh and pronounced the sixth person with superior autobiographical memory the scientific world is aware of.

Read the complete article.

Marilu on 60 Minutes, Sunday, December 19, 7 PM Eastern.

May be delayed by football, so add an extra hour to your DVR.

 

Never leave a room empty-handed

It's one of Marilu's favorite tips, and it's something she learned from her mother (who had a husband, six kids, and two home-based businesses).

If, every time you leave a room, you do a quick scan and pick up one thing that belongs where you're going, picking up the house becomes less of a problem. If everyone in your house does it, just think of how much easier it will be to clean the house, and how much more free time you'll all have.

We've seen a spin-off of this with piles of stuff to go up or down the stairs. Don't leave the pile, though! Take it up (or down) on the next trip. (Yes, we've seen those stair baskets – the last thing anyone needs is permanent clutter on the stairs. Skip the basket!)