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It’s a new year and the time many of us opt
to make changes in our lives. Each year, we set
out to better ourselves.
We make promises to do things different in
our lives. We want to break bad habits and the
biggest one many hope to accomplish is to lose
weight.
Why do we make resolutions in the first
place? We want change.
You have to want change in your life for it to
happen. If your goal is to lose weight, then you
must do it for yourself. You have to be willing
to commit to a new lifestyle.
Like many of you, my journey to being fit
has not always been easy. I’m headed in a new
direction. I didn’t make a “resolution” to lose
weight. I made a promise to myself to change
the way I was living.
Changing the way I ate and exercising more
was part of my plan. I don’t diet. Let’s face it
the word itself has “die” in it and of course
that’s how most people feel when they are on
one — well, not good.
The biggest change in my diet was how I ate.
I cut out the majority of processed foods and I
feel better for it.
Changing how I ate was the first step, the
second was moving my body more.
Although I walked and ran several times a
week, I felt myself going nowhere. I joined a
fitness studio and then several months after
that I found something that fit me better —
CrossFit.
I like that the exercise is constantly varied
and challenging. It’s helping me succeed in
making the changes I want for myself.
Resolutions are hard without a plan. I had
one, but even so I’ve ventured from it and
didn’t beat myself up over it. I realize I’m creating a whole new life and it takes time to reprogram bad habits.
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how much a woman weighs it
doesn’t determine her beauty,
but most think it does.
Women often feel they need
to achieve a certain weight
or dress size in order to be
beautiful.
It’s a myth. Skinny doesn’t
equal beautiful any more
than fat equals ugly.
The media portrays beautiful women as being thin,
however beauty comes in all
shapes and sizes. The truth
is beauty is in the eye of the
beholder.
In 1913, Webster’s dictionary defined beauty as
“properties pleasing the eye,
the ear, the intellect, the
aesthetic faculty or the moral
sense.”
According to Dr. Nancy
Etchoff, an assistant clinical
professor at Harvard Medical School the definition of
beauty has shriveled. She
said the contributions of the
ear, the intellect, the broader
aesthetic faculty or the moral
sensibilities are gone.
“Beauty is visual,” Etchoff
said.
Etchoff, who wrote “Survival of the Prettiest” and
co-authored “The Real Truth
About Beauty: A Global
Report” commissioned by
Dove, believes beauty is less
about social origins and more
about biology.
“The features to which we
are most attracted are often
signals of fertility and fecundity,” she said.
Body acceptance is a big
issue.
Bobbi Brown, make-up artist, beauty editor and author
of Pretty Powerful, believes
it takes a lot for a woman
to feel and look good about
herself.
“It takes an incredible
amount of hard work,” she
said.
She said diet and exercise
play a key role in how a
woman feels, but so does her
appearance.
“Wearing makeup and getting dressed on days when
you’re not feeling your best
can be powerful,” Brown
said.
Burlesque dancer and
model Dita Von Teese and
now author of Your Beauty
Mark: The Ultimate Guide to
Eccentric Glamour said her
new book (released Dec. 1)
is not just a “how to” about
achieving a look, but also a
way to show women about
how she feels in achieving
her looks.
Dita said the book is about
eccentric glamour and any
woman can create her own
look.
She believes the real
measure of beauty is how a
woman feels about herself. If
she’s confident in herself others will see her beauty.
“You can’t dictate to a
woman what should make
her feel sexy or beautiful,”
she said. “She has to feel that
in herself first.”
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Loretta Goebel has always been a stickler for details, an attribute that has gotten
her through the toughest of times.
That quality has also applied to the
kitchen, and when she began cooking after
marrying and having her two children,
meal planning became a big part of her
life.
“Every year, I would get the newest version of ‘Hometown Collection America’s
Best Recipes,’ and then experiment,”
Loretta said. “I liked the fact that the
cookbooks were made up of recipes from
women’s groups and firehouses and other
organizations that were all straightforward
and came from real kitchens.”
Her family became accustomed to being
her “guinea pigs,” when she would try out
recipes and present what she called the
“trial version one.”
“I would make a dish once and then
tweak it to fit the family’s tastes,” she said.
Family members say they only remember that she tried to kill them once. One
dud recipe in a long list of trials is not a
bad track record.
Growing up, Loretta was used to homemade foods, and consequently, thought
that’s the way it should be in her own
home.
“I was lucky enough to be a stay-at-home
mom, and I wanted my kids to come home
to a home cooked meal and the smell of
baking like I did,” Loretta said.
She spent hours planning the week’s
meals that would work around everyone’s
schedules of dancing, sports, friends and
commitments; made a long list and went
to the grocery store one time.
“Sometimes meals were simpler if we
had to be somewhere, sometimes they
were more extravagant, but no matter how
simplistic or complicated, when we sat
down to eat, we said grace,” Loretta said.
“From the table in my home growing up,
to my table now, we always give thanks.”
Loretta Goebel has
overcome many
obstacles to achieve
her “new normal”
life that includes
cooking her family’s
favorite meals.
“I was lucky enough to be a
stay-at-home mom, and I wanted
my kids to come home to a
home cooked meal and the
smell of baking like I did.”
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And still today, Loretta and her three sisters
call their mom, full of questions of how to make
this or that, or for tips on making a special
dish.
Loretta’s children were always game to try
most of her creations, and of course, each had
a favorite or two. Her daughter, Alyssa, favors
individual baby meatloaves, sweet potato casserole, macaroni and cheese and carrot cake. Son,
Mitch, frequently asks for Cherry Berries on a
Cloud, a scrumptious, fruit-filled dessert, and
little pecan tarts.
On Christmas Eve, an overnight egg bake
and overnight French toast are a treasured tradition. Last year’s new version of the overnight
breakfast was Bananas Foster French Toast.
“I remember the kids standing on a chair at
the counter watching me cook. They still like
to watch me cook, and they like to cook, too,”
Loretta said.
Both of them, now on their own, call to ask
Loretta for cooking advice and for some of her
recipes. She shares some, but said she holds
some back because she wants there to be a few
that are what “mom makes.”
Now, she tends to make a lot of soups and
fish like salmon and Talapia. Loretta, her mom
and three sisters frequently get together for
soup luncheons, each trying to dazzle the other
with a new recipe, like Loretta’s Italian Sausage
Soup with Tortellini or Baked Potato Soup.
Her father loved her English Muffin Bread,
she’s known for her Rocky Road Brownies, and
for years, she made holiday cookies and candies
like peanut butter balls in white chocolate.
A few years ago, Loretta suffered a serious,
life threatening, and definitely life-changing
illness that resulted in permanent, major
physical challenges, but she didn’t let that stop
her. One of her main goals was to get back
to being “mom,” still cooking and caring for
her family. And once again, she didn’t skimp
on the details. She didn’t want to just get by;
she wanted to do everything she did before.
And she remained thankful even through the
extreme ups and downs of her sickness, recovery and life alterations.
“My children were my motivating factor for
getting better,” Loretta said. “And my family
and friends helped me in so many ways. And I
never gave up on God. He was in my story all
along – even during the worst of times.”
Cracking an egg, chopping an onion, lifting
a plate, were for a short time, major obstacles,
but she overcame them all or improvised in
order to be self-sufficient and still able to prepare the dishes that her family had come to
love and expect. The book, “A Life in Parts”
chronicles her illness and the perseverance
it took to get back to her life and learning to
function with what she calls the “new normal.”
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2 c. thinly sliced carrots
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1 8-oz. can tomato sauce
1/2 tsp. dried basil
1/2 tsp. dried oregano
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Kelli Greer, left, who has three
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coaching individuals, make their
Iron House Crossfit classes
entertaining along with helping
each individual feel welcome and
help them all reach their goals.
By CYNTHIA M. ELLIS
For years Kellie Greer struggled with
her weight.
She went to the gym and spent countless hours on a treadmill or elliptical,
taking classes and even hiring a personal trainer, but to no avail.
“I always worked out, but I didn’t feel
like it was getting anywhere,” Kellie
said. “I worked out because I had to, not
because I liked it.”
Four years ago the 38-year-old found
her niche. She found CrossFit.
Now she does exercises like rope
climbing, pull-ups, handstand push-ups
and Olympic lifts in a strength and conditioning program.
“From the moment I started I was
hooked,” she said.
She worked with CrossFit coaches,
Corey Waltz and Lesley Elkins, and fell
in love with fitness. She studied hard to
learn the new language, which includes
acronyms like WOD (Workout of the
Day) and AMRAP (As many rounds as
possible) as well as weightlifting movements like a snatch, thruster and clean
and jerk.
She enjoyed her time in the “box,”
which is what CrossFitters call the bare
bones gym where the athletes work out,
she knew she wanted more from it.
“I wanted to learn as much as I
could,” she said. “I like that it’s a fitness
program that is constantly varied. I got
more out of that hour than a traditional
workout ever gave me.”
Kellie, who works as the executive
director in central coding management
at Mercy Health in St. Louis, turned
her new love for fitness into something
more.
She became a certified CrossFit
trainer, but when the “box” where it all
started decided to close, she and Corey
saw an opportunity and two years ago
opened Iron House CrossFit in a former
Dixon Distributing warehouse in Godfrey.
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members go through
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during their scheduled
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“You don’t realize what you’re
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idea what your body can do or how
strong you really are until you do.”
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Iron House Crossfit instructor
Corey Waltz, right, shouts out some
instructions to the Saturday morning
class while his Iron House Crossfit
partner Kelli Greer, standing, looks on.
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“We opened to the public on Jan. 1,
2014,” she said.
CrossFit combines weightlifting with
sprinting, gymnastics with kettlebells,
plus the fundamentals of powerlifting.
CrossFit Inc. started in Santa Cruz,
California in 2000. Today there are more
than 10,000 CrossFit gyms worldwide.
The approach for those who do
CrossFit is they can become a “jack of
all trades, master of none.” The fitness
program enhances 10 key physical qualities — cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power,
speed, coordination, agility, balance and
accuracy.
Kellie said CrossFit is built around
functional movements, which mimic how
we stand, step and move through everyday life.
“The exercises help to improve daily
activity, making us stronger everywhere
— not just in the gym,” she said.
Kellie and Corey, who is an elementary
physical education teacher in Litchfield,
and Lesley, who’s worked as personal
trainer for years, coach classes daily starting at 5 a.m.
Each day everyone does a WOD, which
will more than likely include a met-con
(metabolic conditioning session). In a
met-con, you’ll try to get as many rounds
or reps as you can in a given amount of
time.
Lesley teaches a fundamental course,
which is a five-hour introductory class
for anyone who is interested in the exercise or joining Iron House.
“We teach you the basics,” she said.
“We don’t just want to throw someone
into a class where they don’t know anything. We also don’t want anyone to get
hurt.”
To get even more into the swing of
things, a CrossFit gymnastics class is
offered on Saturdays.
Kellie said women shouldn’t fear the
workouts.
“CrossFit is designed to target every
type,” she said. “It’s not just for athletes.
People with different body types, different ages and fitness levels can take part
in it… From day-to-day, no workout is
identical.”
She said discovering CrossFit helped
her gain control of her weight, but
before she started she had switched to
clean eating, which was giving up processed foods.
“We can only do so much for you at
the gym,” she said. “It starts outside
of the gym. You have to do well in the
kitchen to do well at the gym.”
She said the one thing she tells all
women who start CrossFit is to stop
looking at the scale.
“It shouldn’t be about that number,
but how you start to feel once you
start working out,” she said. “It’s about
improving and building self-confidence.”
Both Kellie and Lesley believe CrossFit is empowering for women.
“You don’t realize what you’re capable
of until you try it,” Kellie said. “You
have no idea what your body can do or
how strong you really are until you do.”
“I used to think I knew what CrossFit
when I first started,” Lesley said. “I was
a personal trainer. It’s not the same.
“CrossFit is a life changing experience.”
There are approximately 125 members at Iron House and half are women.
There is also a broad range of ages, from
as young as 19, to as old as 70.
Both women agree CrossFit has its
own culture, but it also promotes a
family environment. Kellie’s husband,
Chris Greer, and Lesley’s husband, Bub
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given day of the week as well as their
children.
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22 January 2016
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Rash is the common term
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the skin’s surface. Fungal,
bacterial, viral and parasitic
infections can cause a rash
that requires the attention
of a physician. Most rashes,
however, are allergic reactions that can often be managed with over-the-counter
medications or avoidance of
the substance that is causing
the irritation.
Some of the most common non-infectious rashes
are:
• eczema,
• contact dermatitis,
• hives and
• heat rash.
ECZEMA is also known
as atopic dermatitis. Atopic
means an inherited predisposition toward developing
allergic reactions. Many persons with eczema also have
hay fever or asthma.
About 10 to 20 percent
of infants have eczema,
but most outgrow it by
their 10th birthday. Some
individuals continue to
have eczema from time to
time throughout their lives.
And some individuals have
their first encounter with
this allergic reaction during adulthood. It can occur
on the face, the back of the
knees, wrists, hands, feet or
just about anywhere on the
body. Although it can be difficult to determine what precipitates a rash, it’s often a
response to an irritant such
as rough or coarse materials
or sudden changes in temperature or humidity.
Another form of eczema is
nummular dermatitis eczema, which means simply
“round” eczema. Nummular
dermatitis eczema can cause
an itch/scratch cycle. The
more you scratch it, the
more it itches. The goal of
treatment is to stop the itching so that the area does not
become infected.
If the affected area is
large, you might be prescribed triamcinolone
cream, a long-acting corticosteroid. For many cases,
one percent hydrocortisone
is sufficient. It is a less powerful corticosteroid that is
available over-the-counter.
Moisturizers are also
recommended. They are to
be applied while the skin is
damp, such as after bathing,
to help lock the moisture in.
CONTACT DERMATITIS, as the name suggests,
is a skin reaction that occurs
after contact with a certain
substance. The most common offending substances
are jewelry (usually because
of nickel), leather, latex,
soaps, cosmetics, perfumes
and plants such as poison
ivy or poison oak.
A reaction to poison ivy
or poison oak is harder to
identify since the rash can
appear an hour or more
after the contact occurred.
If you know you have
come in contact with poison
ivy, wash your skin with
mild soap and cool water
right away. Also wash the
clothes you were wearing
and any gardening tools that
may have come in contact
with the oil from the plant.
If the rash covers only a
small area, hydrocortisone
cream or calamine lotion may
relieve the itching. If there
are blisters, use a cold, moist
compress for 30 minutes
three times a day. And, if
the skin has been damaged,
a good moisturizer can help
restore the protective outer
layer. Call your doctor if the
rash is painful, keeps you
awake at night or persists
for 10 days or longer. In the
meantime, stay clear of that
plant with three small leaflets.
Another common type is
irritant contact dermatitis
which occurs with repeated
contact with anything that
irritates the skin, even water
(as in dishwater hands). Diaper rash is another example
of irritant contact dermatitis.
HIVES are welts that
appear on any parts of the
skin. They vary in size and
may connect to form even
larger welts – sometimes as
large as a dinner plate. They
usually itch but may also
sting or burn.
The most common causes
of hives are certain foods,
food additives, medications
and insect bites. Offending
foods include nuts, chocolate,
fish, tomatoes, eggs, fresh
berries and milk. Fresh foods
are more likely than cooked
foods to cause a reaction.
Drugs include aspirin and
other NSAIDs, ACE inhibitors and painkillers such as
codeine.
The first and best treatment is to remove whatever
is causing the reaction. And
it’s sometimes difficult to
find the cause. A thorough
exam by your primary care
physician or a dermatologist
is recommended.
Excess release of histamines is involved in the allergic reaction, and antihista-
mines are usually prescribed
as part of treatment.
Angioedema is a similar
condition, but with swelling
under the skin rather than on
the surface. Deep swelling
can often occur around the
eyes, lips, genitals, hands or
feet.
HEAT RASH: Most of us
have experienced heat rash
at some time in our lives –
red bumps on the skin with
a prickly or itchy feeling. It
often appears in skin creases
or areas where tight clothing
keeps air from circulating
around the skin.
Sweat glands are blocked,
and the perspiration that is
needed to cool the skin cannot get to the surface. The
result is inflammation. Allow
the skin to cool, and the rash
usually fades.
Babies, who lack fully
developed sweat glands, are
vulnerable to heat rash if
they are exposed to very hot
weather, are overdressed or
have a fever. Since an infant
can’t complain verbally, he or
she may be fussy.
If the rash doesn’t resolve
when the skin cools, calamine lotion or hydrocortisone creams may help. Pustules forming at the site of
the rash may be a sign of an
infection, requiring medical
treatment.
The skin is your body’s
largest organ and offers
important protection from
heat, cold and intruders.
Allergic skin disorders are
usually no cause for concern
as long as they are treated
promptly.
Priya Kumaraguru, M.D. is Board
Certified in Family Medicine with
special interests in aesthetic medicine,
dermatology, hypertension and
hyperlipidemia. She is a member of the
Saint Anthony’s Physician Group located
in the OSF Saint Anthony’s Medical
Office Building, Suite 205.
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