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Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional

Clarion, Pennsylvania
Writer Lynn Haraldson-Bering maintains a 168-pound weight loss and blogs about weight loss, food, exercise and life in general. Lynn's story was featured on Oprah, the Today Show, Entertainment Tonight CNN, "People" magazine's Half Their Size issue in January 2008.
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How Blake Shelton Helped Me Take My Clothes Off (not literally, I swear, Miranda) by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss Sagging, bagging, wrinkles and all, I strive to love the body I occupy. I tell myself that it’s a good place to live in now, in this moment, and in every other moment past a ... Read on »
What Would Uncle George NOT Do? by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss Exercise has become so dull and predictable that I practically sleep through a workout. It’s the same old thing on the elliptical and recumbent – up and down, round and roun ... Read on »
Firsts by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss Last Wednesday, I finished my first year of a 2-year dietetics program at Community College of Allegheny County. I have never, ever felt so relieved to finish something in m ... Read on »
“What I Did On My Summer Vacation” by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss In grade school, we referred to the time between grades as “summer vacation.” It wasn’t defined by travel. It was simply time away from book learning. I’m many ... Read on »
“Nothing” Food by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss Here’s what’s in my fridge as of this morning, April 25, 2012: 3 packages of Shiritaki Noodles, a quarter-full bag of shredded carrots, a half-full bag of spinach, a contain ... Read on »
I’m Here! (And I brought along a “60 Minutes Australia” link) by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss I apologize for my absence. Clearly, I can’t blog and learn medical terminology, medical nutrition therapy, employment law, and the names of bacteria, viruses and tapeworms ... Read on »
"I did 'dit'!" by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss It started with, “Do you see that cleavage, Marge?” and ended with, “I’ll be walking up your fire escape in a minute!” I volunteer for a non-profit agency that, among a ... Read on »
Blackbird Revisited by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss This blog is dedicated to my oldest daughter, who turns 29 tomorrow. I, of course, am still 29 *grin* You were 16, I think, the day you told me I was your best frie ... Read on »
Hello Bike Path! by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss This morning, I took one helluva test in Medical Nutrition Therapy. 100 points. Math was involved. Yuck. And it was timed. Afterwards, I was shaking and second guessing myse ... Read on »
“Hotdogs, cheeseburgers, pizza sticks, cheese burritos, chicken fingers, fish... by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss Food. Is there a subject more complex or convoluted? Politics, religion, the differences between the sexes…those subject’s got nothin’ on food. We need food to s ... Read on »
(Just Like) Starting Over by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss Lying in bed this morning, listening to the rain, eating a bowl of last night’s stir fry, and playing Words with Friends on my iPhone, John Lennon starting singing in my hea ... Read on »
Lost In Space by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss The space of my life right now is filled with crazy difficult challenging things. School, work, joint issues, relationships…you know what I’m talking about.  In a few mo ... Read on »
I Give Up by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss When I was a kid, I viewed Lent as a six-week nightmare for my Catholic friends. They always had to give up something they loved, and it was almost always food. Usuall ... Read on »
New York, Day 2: FFG and the Australian Guys by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss I was in the lobby at 10:15, as planned, texting a friend because my hands were shaking and they needed something to do. A tall, thin man with round glasses walked past the ... Read on »
New York Day 1 by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss The airline gods were smiling down on me today. Not only did they order up a clear, calm and warm day, they sat me next to a gorgeous dark-haired man in row 12. While ... Read on »
Journey to the Center of the Pendulum by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss Most of us don’t consciously want to hurt ourselves. However, by driving our bodies beyond what they can do or, conversely, by not challenging them at all, we are hurting ou ... Read on »
Embrace the Swamp by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss I could have stayed back in a warm house playing Scrabble. Instead, I hiked through brambles and briars and oh-my-god wind, ice and swamp to help (OK…watch) hunting man boyf ... Read on »
I Still Believe by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss If there’s a theme song for perseverance, determination, and…in the footsteps of my last blog …resilience, it’s “I Still Believe” by The Call. When I listen to it, I believe ... Read on »
Undefining Who We Are by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss “Resilience is the difference between making _______ one part of your story and [allowing it to be] your entire narrative.” Robert Wicks, author of “ Bounce: Living the Resi ... Read on »
Food by Lynn Bering Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss Since embarking on this weight journey seven years ago, I’ve lived, breathed, written about and obsessed over food. I’ve studied it, planned my life around it, cursed it, ad ... Read on »