Commencement address. He said the first thing you should do every day so you have a sense of accomplishment is to make the bed. Of course a Navy Commander would do that. 30 of people who dont make their bed in the morning feel guilty about it later in the day. Do you make your bed . Not really. In terms of like putting the pillows on and making it presentable no. Do i pull up the sheets and covers yes. Well yeah. I wake up and my bed is like i must not move a lot there is Small Movement in the bed. I dont move a lot either. I can just pull it back up and it looks the same. If my kids would just do that i would be happy. I only do it because i have a cat otherwise he sleeps on my pillow. So its protective not really, you know. More a preventive measure. I get that. There is an article about how nurses avoid getting sick. Because you always think you know washing your hands, getting a flu shot some of them will stay healthy . Thats a good question. I always wonder that. I was just at the Doctors Office the other day i would think they would be catching stuff all the time. I totally agree being around sick people all the time. One thing they do they pack their own lunch. There interesting. Part of that is because they say if are you eating food that other people prepare, whatever, more hands, more germs or they also have an issue sometimes with like, going to you know, store where there is food out and you scoop it up. Yeah i suppose you think about all of the lateles youre touching okay. The other thing they wipe down shopping carts. There were studies im not going to say what was on the handles of shopping carts it will gross you out, but there are some nasty things on the handles. [laughter] just in case you didnt know, cameraman dave is like thanks tiff. Two things i thought were fascinating they take their vacation days. They talk about the benefits of rest and relaxation. Most of us dont. Only 25 of people in america take all of the time off. Im in the 25 . [laughter] i know our boss is like shes trying to get more. I believe very strongly in work life balance. Me too. Vacation. Thats also bad. I dont do that at all. I should be a nurse. [laughter] there heres something you do though, they say talking about feelings is helpful, people who see a therapist or who journal, because according to research, from the university of texas in austin, regular journaling can strengthen your immune cells and journaling can lessen the symptoms of even asthma and really . I would think it would be opposite for arthritis. Picture of the fully potty trained and even helps with moms homework. His smile can win anyone over she said. He is potty trained. Isnt that cute. A super cutie. Pretty soon that picture will transform into a snow picture. If there is someone special in story and a photo at pictures themorningblend. Com. Thats a good idea. Send that picture when he is in snow well put them side by side. Cute. That would be awesome. First up this morning get ready to be transported back to the heart of victorian london. This year the milwaukee rep is taking a holiday tradition and made if big it bigger and betten ever. It has the same traditional story and your characters new sets, new costumes, script even a new scrooge. Jonathan wainwright is the 112th actor to play the scrooge for the milwaukee rep. People have seen a lot of you this year. Yes. In a good way. You are phenomenal. Anybody who has gone to the rep will recognize your face this year. Good im glad. This is exciting playing scrooge. How do you feel about that . I feel great. Im having a really good time. Are wonderful so. Thats great. I think your diversity as an actor for people who have seen you is really going to be so different in all of the roles they have seen you. How excited are you to be the 12th scrooge . Very. Some people that i really respect have been the other ones like jonathan and jim, jonathan daily and lee these are people i have respected my whole time as an actor in milwaukee. To be able to step into that is just, its just really cool. Yeah. It that they are doing a fresh take on this. Because this is supposed to be the biggest and most elaborate set in rep history. Right . So the best biggest ever. Yes and i havent been on it yet, we start that tomorrow, but just playing with the model and rehearsals is great fun. I bet. I bet i see. Its kind of like a miniature version of it there. Exactly like a fun little doll house. [laughter] for sure. Is it hard to play scrooge. Such a happy smile. Is it hard to play it . No not at all. Not at all. [laughter] you can go to work and be in a bad mood right . Sure use it. Its great fun, because, its a journey, you dont stay in that place. Its a journey and where you end up is you know where we all want to end up i think. And snow too i heard. How exciting is that . What a cleanup that will be. Look how pretty this rendering looks. I think that is fun it makes people feel like they are part of it in the set. Yes. Exactly. One of the things that people see this and it is a little different. There is even new music this year. Thats something exciting. Talk a little bit about the music of the show. Well john tanner once again because john tanner is a person who originally did the music for the one weve been doing for about 15 years. He has stepped in again and the music is just beautiful. Which you will hear in a moment. Wonderful amazing people over here. Carolers right . Yeah. The music is wonderful. I dont sing because im playing scrooge and you know he doesnt break into song much. Not the most joyous caroler. But the music is great you will love it. What about being at the pabst is it a place you like to perform . Sometimes for me its like stepping back into childhood. When i was a kid growing up in georgia i grew up singing in the in high school we performed joseph and the amazing technicolor dream coat. It was really amazing so i have memories there. Speaking of kids this is great for kids ages 6 to 106. Come out and see a christmas carol. Susan kim will be the walk on guest this year december 9. This is the at the pabst theatre from november 29 to tickets can be purchased at the milwaukee rep. Com or call. Otherwise can you go to their office right on wells street as well. And now, we have some carolers welcome back to the morning blend. Most of us wouldnt be a little surprised if around the holidays we put on a pound or two or more. Thats right thats why our next guest says right now is the perfect time to start a healthy new lifestyle. Were joined by 855burnfat health coach genuine and al may a nutrimost graduate. He lost 50 pounds. This time of year i really do in christmas is the perfect time to do a health kick because you start the new year off right. Why do you say this is a good time is that what you think too . I absolutely agree. Thats how i started. I didnt want to gain the 10, 1g this time of the year. A lot of us think we can let go and when january 1 comes around you feel awful. You do. This is a way to get a jump on my mind you actually lose ten more pounds because you didnt gain that 10 pounds. Check out al heading into the holidays you are doing that 50 pounds lighter congratulations. Thats fantastic. We have some of your before pictures. Tell us where youre at and how you found out about nutrimost. I actually found out i met a customer for lunch and i called her for lunch i said do you want to have lunch, she said i need a steak, a salad and some beans. Im like steak, salad and beans i need to hear. They said i will tell all about it. She explained what she was doing, she lost a lot of weight on the program. At the end of the day i was like i need the number to contact. It was wednesday i went in friday afternoon i started monday i lost weight from day one. Thats amazing. Fantastic. Think its great too. One of the things think is tough people always think my lifestyle or job isnt conducive to weight. You were in sales eating out was had fast food and sugars i had ice cream to stay awake, chips that was my job. Then i packed a lunch. I never have packed a lunch. I grilled out, you prepare your meals you plan ahead. I need two meals today because i cant make it home. Right. Thats what hi to do. I had to do. Being organized so huge. If we take a look at before and afters and side by side how do you feel when you look at these pi before and the after. What do they say picture is worth a thousand words. Pictures dont lie so that was the big change. Yeah. Were you surprised you didnt have to work out during the program . I didnt work out because of time, family, commitments, weekends were rough, weekends were busy. No time. The weight just literally every day you watch your weight you hold yourself accountable. Its wonderful. Thats part of our program no anything. You are eating real food it just melts off of you. There i think that is really exciting for people to think they dont have to exercise and can still have the kinds of results that al has had and in terms of food, jen just mentioned. Look how flat your belly is. Yeah check you out. I think thats where you really notice it the most is in your stomach area. And the neck area look how much had come off of his neck. Look at that stomach its flat. And your neck you look like two different people. That that was in 40 days you lost 50 pounds that is incredible. You are an avid hunter, fisherman. How is the hobby, how have your hobbies changed with your weight loss . Thats what i do every year i take a trip and i want to lose weight more that trip, hike the hills, mik hike the mountains ot warm front. West. This year i wasnt winded i enjoyed my trip. Woe. That was like week four. Thats incredible. Talk about your wife there is something shes really excited about right . Yeah so, one aspect that happened to me because of the weight loss, is at night i had more energy, and i stopped snoring. Really . I stopped snoring. Completely . Yeah. Thats phonal. Phenomenal. I stopped the breathing you have sleep apnea you nd in. So more energy . That is awesome you dont snore anymore. Part of that is the weight. We target the visceral fat which is the fat around the organs the neck the torso area. You always hear about the apple verses pear. The apple tends to have more visceral fat. We know your risk of diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver, stroke, colon cancer all go up when your visceral fat goes up to a certain number. You come in and see us and it comes off. You saw his pictures how much of that visceral fat disappeared. Its really a body reset isnt it . You look at metabolism too. Thats part of the scan you do. Its resetting your bodys metabolism among other things. We have different nutrimost techniques we can use that are going to help to individualize the program for you, and were able to customize it for you. I think its great. I bet your family is excited. Are you nervous about the da comfortable because the metabolism, the reset of the metabolism i can tell what foods i eat you go through that too you learn what foods you can eat. What foods you cant. What puts on weight what takes off weight. Im okay with it. You even brought your food journal. You kept track of everything you ate i did. Part of it is daily you record your weight, you keep track of your foods that you eat, and its part of my preprogramming had shrimp, scallops. Mahimahi. Going into the holidays 50 pounds lighter that is incredible. If someone wants to get started with 855burnfat, you can do that, have a customized plan made for you meet with coach. Can you go to 855burnfat. Com, their office is located on west mortgage avenue in wauwatosa west north avenue in wauwatosa. Some people who have die eyes learn to deal with their condition, after the break, a couple of doctors explain why it may affect your vision in the long run. Welcome back to the morning blend. Many normal every day situations can lead to dry eyes. Things like sitting in an air conditioned or heated room, riding a bike or looking at a computer screen too long. It is annoying, but can also lead to something else. Dr. Singh and dr. Sanka are here with Treatment Options from eye centers of racine. Scrubs. It was a tough game to watch last weekend, but were still proud packer fans. I like that sporting the team. Thats good. I have dry eye. It wasnt until i kept thinking why are my eyes always so dry i thought it was allergy related, but its a very common thing right . It really is. We talked about quality of vision and quality of life with laser floaters and cataracts. Dry air in the surface of the. Light has to hitt first if its not smooth its bumpy and dry it will cause the light to reflect off. A lot of symptoms are not just scratchiness or irritation it is fluctuating vision or quality of vision. Its such a prevalent condition a lot of people dont realize they have. They say my contacts arent working. Until they realize that they go see their eye doctor. It can be. There are also other conditions that can cause it as well. Lets talk about the signs and symptoms. That scratchy feeling. Feeling as if you need to blink a lot. Sort of that irritation that a lot of people feel. Think you can feel it whether it is air conditioning, or heat, both seem to be irritating for me at least. Yeah. Absolutely. One of the biggest symptoms is tearing. People say doc how can i have dry eye if my eyes are always watering. Any irritation to the eye, if it is windy outside, keep your eyes open and stare it will make it water, that watering is not a lubricant its a reaction. Its a tear filament. Dr. Singh is going to talk about that can coat the eye and help protect the eye. Were looking at this diagram these are the different layers right . Yeah your tears are covering the surface of your eye and the film is made of these layers. Each layer is made by a different gland on the eye. If there is any disfunction in any one of those glands can you lead to disfunction of the film overall and cause dry eyes. When are you blinking with each blink the oil is on the top layer of your fear film is refreshed with each blink. As you can see right there and it coats the eyeball and provides protection, and lubrication and helps to it as well. Is it over time those layers wear down . The glands that make those components can wear down and be affected by inflammation. A lot of times when you are having dry time it is because there is inflammation on the surface of the eye. That can be effecting the glands and causing them to not work as well and lead to the symptoms. If you examine someones eyes. Say they report the symptoms you suspect they probably have dry eye because they have the looking at it through an instrument or some type of scope whether they have dry eye or the additional problem of inflammation. A lot of times can you diagnose someone, but you can see dry eyes like in in picture. Typically would you have a nice smooth green ting. Here you can see speckled dots of green on big indication of severe dry eye that needs to be addressed in order to help their symptoms and quality of vision. What are some of the treatment symptoms you like . Inflammation as dr. Sanka mentioned is bag part of dry eye. Use a antiinflammatory drop. These are all drops that can help calm the inflammation going on to stop that cascade of there are also lubricants and ointments. A way to keep the tears in the eye longer. We can help increase the gland production and open the pores up. Its a lot more that we can do depending and tayloring the type of treatment depending on what type of dry eye they have. Thats what i use is drops overthecounter. If you are using those and still not getting the expect that is a reason to have your eyes checked and have you look at the inflammation and some of the other things you mentioned. Artificial tears will help you feel better, but dont cure the underlying problem causing the dry eye. Do the medications cure the problem or is it something you have to continue to use . Sometimes they can, but a lot will come back. Thats wonderful. Thanks you guys so much. I know a lot of people have questions about dry eyes. Its important not to ignore dry eye and symptoms you are having. You can call the phone number on the screen. Their office to set up an appointment for dry eye with any of the doctors there. The phone number for that appointment is 262 6370500 or go to amazing eye. Com that website has more information there. Great to see you guys. Thankou up next Medicare Advantage plans more options this year than the last five years. After the break how to find a customized plan right for you. From traditional music and dance to world artisans and food. Well give you all of the welcome back. Everybody loves a little friendly competition right . When it comes to healthcare plans competition is your best friend. In order to get the benefits with lower costs. So class is in session time for insurance 101 with Sovereign Select. Tom qualley is here to help make the medicare enrollment process easy for everyone. Welcome back tom. Real easy. This is the time of year people get a little nervous because medicare enrollment is in full swing until what this is the time to do it. So this is the time to take action, get in touch with us, you know they can call us, email us, to stop by our website and request information or read about things. Now really is the time to do it and thanksgiving is coming up next week. Yes next week. I know people have to get on it youre going to get busy and people are going to forget the date. For people who are on medicare, what does it mean for them . You know people that are on medicare, people need to really think about their rights. Uhhuh. This is their right to shop around, and make a change to something that may put them in better situation. They might also be right where they need to be, but its good to get confirmation on that too. Absolutely it can mean money in your pocket. Absolutely. When you mention competition there is competition between Health Insurance companies, but have to compete because were a broker. So we have all of the Different Companies that are out there, over 30. Over 30 and we can really sit down with a person, compare them side by side, and really just give them a nonbias opinion and option focused on their needs. I think that is so important because i like what you said about being your right its your right to find the best plan for you to save the most amount of money and get the best Medicare Program for you. Independently working with 30 different places if somebody is new to medicare, you really focus on education as well because that is something you feel very strongly about. Yeah you know, education is power. You know so, what we do is when a person is brandnew to medicare, whether they are turning 65, retiring and losing some sort of Group Insurance benefits or leaving a Group Insurance plan, or retiree plan Insurance Plan from their previous employer and they are like i should shop this around because it is getting a little expensive or if they are disabled and becoming new to medicare because they are 24 month waiting period is ending and they are finally going to get medicare. Were going to either