The New Citizens Press

To begin your diet program, use a journal to record everything you eat every day for two weeks.

By Katrina Bertol
Naturally Savvy

There are diet fads, diet pills, products, and strict protocols that will help you lose weight quickly — and then gain it back twice as fast. We develop relationships with food over the course of our lives, and many turn into addictions and routines. What we eat, when we eat, how much we eat, how we eat and why we eat are really the magical missing pieces of the weight-loss puzzle. If we’re not aware of these questions and answers, then no diet, weight loss routine, or supplement will ever work.
 

Test Your Noodles
By Tashmica Torok

Test Your Noodles
I do not enjoy doing dishes. In the ranking of household chores, it is at the bottom with other futile tasks like laundry, cleaning the toilet (did I mention I have three sons?) and emptying the litter box.

By Billy Graham
Tribune Media Services

Q: My neighbor isn’t religious, and whenever I try to talk with him about my faith he just shrugs and says that he doesn’t believe what the Bible says. How can I convince him the Bible is true, and that he needs to give his life to Jesus? – M.F.

By Mark Miller
Tribune Media Services

The word retirement needs reinvention, especially in our post-crash economy.

For the huge generation of baby boomers now approaching the traditional retirement years, achieving security will depend on working longer-often in new careers. We’ll also need to reexamine our traditional notions about investing and spending.
 

By TOM LAGANA
from “Serving Productive Time”

Almost everyone I meet receives a hug-a hug coupon, that is. My unique calling cards not only provide information about our business but are also redeemable for a hug, a smile, or an act of kindness.

Sidebar:    Magnolia Cafe
        1920 S. Congress Avenue
        Austin, TX
Price Range: From $4.75 – $11.00
Casual dining atmosphere with great customer service

By Robert Pagliarini, Tribune Media Services
Your Other 8 Hours

I was once an addict. Not to drugs or alcohol but to the quick fix. I’ve tried just about everything out there in the other eight hours that promised to instantly and effortlessly make me better, richer, stronger, smarter, healthier, etc. I’ve purchased books, tapes, CDs, DVDs, MP3s, teleseminars, webinars, seminars, pills, liquids, powders, courses, bracelets, calendars and more.