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Healthy You Challenge Week 4, 2012

Hi everyone! How did you do with your goals last week? I ended up doing great with my goal to stay hydrated. This weeks goal is to increase exercise...but I'm baby stepping this one. I'm not going to start doing X amount per day and then beat myself up when I don't stay with it. I'm going to do a reasonable amount of exercise or some active outing each day. What do you have planned this week?

One slip is not the end of the world

I’ve been blogging a while, dieting a lot longer. Historically this is the week where people start to give up. Maybe the first two weeks of the new year the scale really dropped and you felt great and then this week the scale didn’t move as much. Or maybe your willpower started to show signs of cracks. That food that couldn’t tempt you back in week 1 might start to look just a bit better. Or maybe worse, maybe you’ve CHEATED and you think it’s the end of the world, why bother, I’ll just stay fat and unhealthy, it doesn’t really matter anyhow, blahdiddy blah blah blah…STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!

Every step towards better health, no matter how small is a step in the right direction. Did you take your measurements? It’s not too late to do it! There are so many ways to measure success besides the scale.  Did you write a list of why you really want this?

One of the things that overwhelms a lot of people and causes diet failure is that we try to take on too much at once. I think most of us have been there we decide that we’re going to never eat __fillintheblank__ again and we’re going to exercise for an hour a day, every single day no matter what, get your gungho game face on and woooooohooooo….. and then something happens. You have a bite of something you don’t think is on your diet, maybe you missed a day at the gym or a workout? These are NOT reasons to quit.

I read a quote on a friends facebook wall the other day that  I wanted to share: Saying “oh, I’ve already ruined good eating today, I’ll just eat crap” is like saying  “Oh, I dropped my phone on the floor. I’ll just smash it til it breaks.” How true is that? Just because your car runs out of gas or breaks down doesn’t mean you have to go out and buy a new one! The comparisons can go on and on and on. One slip being eating or exercise is not the end of the world.  Now say it with me: One slip is not the end of the world!

If you’re struggling this week, I hope you aren’t but if you are, stop and take a minute to regroup. Take a minute to think of what you’ve already accomplished and think of the small steps you can take. Make one change each week. Add one healthy new thing to your life once a month. It all adds up. It all matters. Just like one candy bar didn’t make you gain 100 pounds, it takes time to undo what we’ve done to our bodies. Don’t give up!

Now say it with me: One slip is not the end of the world!

Healthy You Challenge Week 3, 2012

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great week. I've noticed that its around about now that people start to lose their diet mojo. Quite often we see such great results on the scale the first few weeks of the new year that when it starts to slow down we get discourage and eventually quit. I'm here to tell you right now...don't do it! Every step towards better health, no matter how small is a step in the right direction.

This week my small step is going to be to focus on staying hydrated. What is your small step of the week?