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