| Do you know what it takes to lose weight, get | | | | YOUR vices!!! I don't care how many times you |
| healthier and realize your dreams?Awareness, | | | | have heard "You can eat what you love and still |
| Education, Determination, Action, and | | | | lose the weight" -- you CAN'T!!!! If you LOVE food, |
| Motivation!That's it! five simple tools in your tool | | | | that in and of itself is part of the problem! I think |
| belt of success and you are on your | | | | you should love life, NOT food! Educate yourself |
| way.Awareness is essential in that oftentimes we | | | | on the foods you will eat that are healthy and |
| really don't know that some of the little things we | | | | that work within YOUR lifestyle!Determination! |
| are doing are contributing in big ways to our | | | | YOU must be determined to succeed at this and |
| excess weight. For example, do you drink one or | | | | really want to change your lifestyle! It is NOT |
| more soft drinks in a day? ONE soft drink | | | | enough that you just want to LOSE |
| (approximately 10 ounces) is 120 calories, takes | | | | WEIGHT.What then? you guessed it -- the weight |
| 20 minutes of cardiovascular exercise a DAY to | | | | comes back on! You must, must, must make |
| burn it off AND is filled with unnecessary | | | | your goal to have a permanently healthy lifestyle |
| chemicals! Switching one's soft drink habit for | | | | and be determined to realize it!Action! Once you |
| water can amount to considerable weight loss | | | | have educated yourself as to what is unhealthy, |
| over the course of a year.Or are you cleaning | | | | are aware of unhealthy actions, and are |
| morsels off the kids' plates? ONE bite may not | | | | determined to change, all that is left is to take |
| seem like much, but many "one" bites add up to | | | | action! Make sure every day that you are taking |
| ONE | | | | action -- that is a step in the right |
| HUGE bite over the course of the day. It all | | | | direction!Motivation! Sometimes the going gets |
| counts!I speak with so many people who swear | | | | tough; that is when the motivated get buff! Make |
| to me they have fairly healthy habits. I think we | | | | some goals: short-term and long; plan some |
| kid ourselves a lot. Do you kid yourself? Is the | | | | rewards you are going realize along the way AND |
| joke on you?Open your eyes and take a long | | | | make it fun! For example, buy a terra cotta |
| hard look at your actions, and look for ways you | | | | planter and some small tiles, mirrors, large beads |
| can easily, and without much effort, improve upon | | | | or stones -- and then EACH day you stick to |
| your actions and make them a bit | | | | your plan, bust your vices and reach your daily |
| healthier.Education is essential in that we need to | | | | goal, glue an item on the planter. By the end of |
| know what is healthy. Today, that is perhaps | | | | the year, you will have the most gorgeous planter |
| harder than at any other time in history! There | | | | (grout over it, wipe down, let it dry and it will be |
| are so many confusing and mixed messages | | | | fabulous!!) AND you'll be, oh, about 100 pounds |
| about what is healthy: low carb, low fat, low | | | | thinner!Julia Griggs Havey, eDiets Master |
| glycemic and bears, oh my!I don't know what is | | | | MotivatorAt eDiets, there's something for every |
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