It's Healthy Weight Week!!

Was a new year's diet plan a resolution for you this year? Is so, you're not alone. The new year for many people that means starting a new diet. And for many of them the next week, the second week of January, will be when they “blow” their diet and go back to square one. That’s why the Healthy Weight Network sponsors Healthy Weight Week during the third week in January, which this year is January 15-21.

Healthy Weight Week “is a time to celebrate healthy living habits that last a lifetime and prevent eating and weight problems, rather than intensifying them, as diets do. Healthy Weight Week promotes healthy non-diet lifestyles for children and adults of every size. It helps them move ahead to healthy habits they can live with long term - sound, reasonable habits that allow them to live well and get on with their lives. Eat well, live actively, and feel good about yourself and others.”

Diets don't usually work. It takes replacing bad health habits with better health habits. And it may not happen in 21 days!

Instead, Healthy Weight Week is about eating not like you are “on a diet” but adopting healthy living habits that last a lifetime. Recommended habits from Pathway To Healing include:

• Eating well. Choose balance and variety, focusing on fresh options from all the food groups. Enjoy your food!
• Avoiding deprivation. Instead, eat in moderation at regular times (three meals plus 1-3 snacks) to satisfy hunger, and tune in to your body’s internal signals of when you are hungry or full.
• Being active in your own way every day. Focus on the pleasure of movement and its health and energy benefits, not only on calories burned.
• Relaxing. Find ways to relieve stress in your life.
• Starting now, decide it’s time to be your own best self!

The Healthy Weight Network has some great information on living a healthy lifestyle along with identifying common diet fraud and quackery.

Instead of falling for the latest diet craze, let's arm ourselves with knowledge, work towards good habits that will last a lifetime.

Top 10 Workout DVDs

Prevention Magazine is a leader in health and fitness news and products. They recently came up with the top 10 list of workout DVDs. They have examined the many fitness DVDs out there and narrowed down a list of the best ones. There is a DVD for every fitness level. If you are looking to incorporate some exercise into your day in the convenience of your own home, take a look at this list. Here is an additional money saving tip: If you see a DVD that you are interested in, check out Amazon or Ebay before ordering. Many times they have pre-owned DVDs at a fraction of the cost of a new one.

Sometimes We Score, Sometimes We Block

Our family is in the midst of little league soccer season. My youngest son is playing and his enthusiasm is contagious. He is pretty good at the sport, but what makes it so great is that he loves it! He counts the days until the next game or practice. He loves his coach and teammates. He has moved up an age level this year and the players are working more like team, passing to each other and watching out for each other during play. During the last game, my son scored two goals, they were the only goals of the game. In today's game the team scored eight goals. My son came up afterwards to me and said, "I didn't score today, but I blocked". What a powerful truth those words can hold. In life, sometimes we score, sometimes we block. Sometimes we do great things, we excel, we achieve, we meet our goal - we score! There are also times we see the needs of others, sometimes they are sad or hurting, we block their hits. We look out for them so they can score. We...

WFW – Write It On My Heart

This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people. Hebrews 8:10 On a recent field trip to a museum featuring the days gone by, we sat in an old schoolroom as the teacher introduced us to the quill pen and bottle of ink. She cautioned us to use extreme caution using the ink and told us that if it got on our skin or clothes, it would not come off. This reminded me of this beautiful promise from Hebrews. God told His people he would put His law in their minds and write it on their hearts. This is a covenant which cannot be broken. He loves us and wants us to know Him through His Word. As we read more and more of His Word, it becomes w...

AngelJanuary 19, 2012 at 5:04 PM
I like this approach. It inspires folks like me who want to live healthier lives instead of, as you said, "falling for the latest diet craze". Thank you for this.

P.S. I would be honored if you would join me as I embark on a new blog hop which encourages the sharing of inspiration each Friday. It opens tonight and you can learn about it here:

http://findingtheinspiring.blogspot.com
Beth in NCJanuary 20, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Amen! Healthy living -- making one wise choice at a time.

I really need to start exercising and putting aside time for just me. Sigh.

Blessings to you!
Beth
Beth in NCJanuary 20, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Amen! Healthy living -- making one wise choice at a time.

I really need to start exercising and putting aside time for just me. Sigh.

Blessings to you!
Beth

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