The Resolute Woman

Category: Fayteen

  • Making a healthy decision

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    How did I lose 29 pounds this year? I have a gene that pre-disposes me to diabetes. After talking to my doctor, I decided that I need to treat myself like a person who is pre-diabetic if I want to be healthy and live a long life. I knew that I needed to lose some…

  • Fun Plus Easy Ways to Lose Weight

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    When I read the headline on the magazine at the grocery store, I shook my head. Fun plus easy ways to lose weight? Fayteen has lost 29 pounds this year, and she looks great. But she’s the first one to tell you that it hasn’t been much fun and it hasn’t been easy. Of course,…

  • If you need help, get it

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    We’ve suggested that you try talking to someone in your family or a friend when you’re struggling with a problem and don’t seem to be making progress. Talking to someone who cares about you and will listen can help. Often, that’s all the help you need. But, I want to add something to that suggestion.…

  • My perfect summer vacation

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    I didn’t go to Bermuda or Lyford Cay in Nassau this summer. I’ve had wonderful vacations in both of those locations, but this summer I was busy taking care of my daughter while she was being treated for breast cancer and I had limited time for trips. This summer I found another location that was…

  • Making a decision

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    Making changes is never easy—no matter if you’re trying to eat healthy, stop smoking or begin looking for a new job. The first difficult step, however, is the same for achieving most goals. You have to make a decision. My husband Tom and I recently decided to give up our evening cocktail. We still have…

  • Focus on what’s important

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    Fayteen is very busy now helping to take care of her daughter who is being treated for breast cancer and also trying to keep up with her real estate business. She is a wise woman, and she knows that it’s most important to focus on taking care of her daughter and keeping up with her…

  • Sometimes the goal is just to get through it

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    We’ve been thinking about Ranna, Fayteen’s daughter, who is being treated for breast cancer. Ranna has had some complications recently, and she had to spend several days in the hospital. She has had a tough time. That’s why I couldn’t help picking up Shelley Lewis’s book Five Lessons I Didn’t Learn from Breast Cancer (And…

  • My mother taught me to work hard

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    Work hard. Always be ready. Look your best. My mother Ester Burns was a Texas farmer’s wife—and a farmer herself. She cooked, sewed and cleaned the house. She also worked in the fields, hoeing the cotton and then picking it. She fed the cows, slopped the pigs and branded the cattle. She drove bales of…

  • We’re taking a stand against pornography

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    We really like Alicia Rockmore and Sarah Welch’s book Pretty Neat, which advises all of us to give up trying to be perfect. As we discussed in an earlier blog post, Rockmore and Welch stress that it’s impossible for real people to live in a fantasy world of “color-coordinated closets and pristine kitchens.” They conclude…

  • I procrastinated, and it’s okay!

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    My friend Suzie Humphreys gave me some important feedback after she read the blog post I wrote recently about procrastination. Suzie reminded me that, of course, it’s okay to procrastinate on writing a blog post when you’re taking care of your daughter who is battling breast cancer.  Thank you, Suzie. You are right. When someone…