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Christina Sgambato

Helping young widows reconstruct after loss

  • Writing Life. Toasting Hope.
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  • Writing Life. Toasting Hope.
  • My Blog
    • Bump Diaries: The Sequel
    • Moving Forward
    • My Pregnancy Journey
  • Coaching with Christina
  • Join My Email List

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  • Thanksgiving feast
    Nutrition

    Healthy Thanksgiving Tips- Happy, Healthy Holiday Series

    11/20/2018 /

    Welcome back friends and Happy Thanksgiving (week)! In my last post of the Healthy Holidays series, I discussed staying healthy, both physically and emotionally, during the somewhat taxing sojourn to your holiday headquarters. I’m assuming many of you are gearing up for that travel as I write. To you, friend: Good luck. I promise, at the end of the road, there’s a destination filled with love and gratitude. It may take 8+ hours to arrive, but you will survive. Once there, all of the travel stress will dissipate. Then comes the “how am I supposed to stay on track with my #health goals when I’m surrounded by all this delicious…

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    Healthy Holiday Travel Tips

    11/08/2018 /

    Can you believe we’re actually talking about the holidays right now? Personally, I love the holiday season. I love the family time;  I love the gift-buying; I love all the feelings associated with the holiday season:. Who can argue with a solid dose of nostalgia, love, joy, charity, and a sense of “home?” At the risk of sounding really cheesy, I 100% get warm fuzzies. However, I’m also not ignorant to the stressors that surround the holidays. From diet insecurities to travel stress to financial pressure, the holidays can really weigh us down. In my current health coaching practice, and in my past experience in weight-loss counseling, I’ve witnessed how…

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    Gestational Diabetes: Our First Scare & The Facts

    10/23/2018 /

    Hi friends, so this is a bit of an impromptu blog post, and not something I initially planned on chronicling. However, I just had my first  “scare” and wanted to share it with my blog community. This also feeds well into a blog I will plan on writing concerning health before pregnancy and what you can do to set yourself up for a healthy pregnancy. So, here we go. Last week, I went in for my gestational diabetes screening… My Gestational Diabetes Testing Experience The first screening, or the Glucose Challenge Test, is a non-fasted blood test.  It tests to see if you’re “at risk” of having gestational diabetes. So prior…

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    Labor Day Weekend: A Healthier Approach

    08/31/2018 /

    Hi friends! Happy Labor Day Weekend! Personally, I love Labor Day weekend. Yes, to some it may signify the theoretical end of summer. Everyone knows that it isn’t ACTUALLY the end of summer, right? For those of us still living in a 90 degree heat wave, summer is far from over. So, I’ll take the three-day, long weekend in September to usher in some #basic essentials like football season, dreams of leggings and flannels, apple scented candles and my favorite…pumpkin everything (dairy-free, of course). Fall is one of the most beautiful seasons (if not the most beautiful), and I’m excited to spend my first autumn in the country. Now, back…

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  • Healthy Workday
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    Building a Healthy Workday: The 9-5 Edition

    08/02/2018 /

    Eat better. Move more. Stress less. Sleep more. We get the picture. Optimal health, when you get to the crux of it, is pretty simple…in an ideal world. However, sometimes, our real world and our ideal world collide. Particularly within the workplace.  Modern technology is great. It has expanded our ability to communicate at record speed, efficiently solve problems, and advance at record rates. However, it has also fostered sedentary lifestyles, raised response-time expectations, and contributed to an overall decline in workforce health. So how do we create a healthy workday?    I remember my first job after college..   It was a 9-5 position as a sales assistant in…

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    Meal Prep Monday: The Healthy Breakfast To-Go Edition

    10/30/2017 /

    Happy Monday friends! Hope your weekend was every bit as fabulous as you are. Not sure about you, but breakfast is one of my most favorite (yes, that’s right…”most favorite”) meals of the day. I could literally eat all the components of a typical “breakfast meal” throughout the day. Specifically, coffee. Does that count? Anyway, the problem is, a healthy breakfast can be really difficult to fit in, specifically if you find yourself scrambling (no pun intended) to pull something together before heading off to work or school. Raise your hand if any of the following have become part of your breakfast routine as of late:   Mondays are for…

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    Meal Prep Monday: The On the Go Edition

    10/16/2017 /

    Many people have a difficult time maintaining a healthy diet because of their work environment. Here are a few tips and ideas for mini-meals that are fast to eat, easy to make, and portable.

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    10/09/2017 /

     After giving you a glimpse into my weekly grocery haul, I feel like it’s only appropriate to give you a few ideas as to what “meal prep” actually looks like for both Matt and I. As I mentioned yesterday, Sunday’s typically involve a walk around the neighborhood, football, grocery shopping...and meal prep.

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    Sunday Harris Teeter Grocery Haul

    10/08/2017 /

    Looking for some fresh ideas for your weekly grocery list? Check out my Sunday Grocery Haul!

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    Thirsty Thursday Things: A Healthy Approach to Cocktail Time

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    You can still enjoy the occasional glass of wine (or two) and be perfectly healthy.

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