“You don’t always have to eat everything fat free or low calorie,” Jimenez said. “It’s okay to eat the ‘real stuff’ sometimes, just do so in moderation.”

If you’re like many military spouses, you reinvent your life every time you move to a new duty station. Though it can be fun to try new things, frequent job changes can also make it difficult to progress on a meaningful career path.

 The National Mall heaved with military spouses, Gold Star families and injured veterans. Stefani Barner, whose husband has been to Iraq twice with the Michigan Air National Guard, scanned the crowd for television cameras, which she had hoped would broadcast the throng’s concerns about the war in Iraq.