Don't Sit

     You don't have to sit on the cactus.  As a matter of fact, you don't have to sit that much at all.  If your job requires you to sit, at least stand up every hour or so and stretch and touch your toes and walk to get a drink of water or to go to the bathroom.  On your break, on your lunch, get up and move around.  At home, walk around the house, walk outside, walk down the block.  I firmly believe the more mobile you are now, the more mobile you will stay into your later years.
      Also, I am reading more and more about food additives, artificial sweeteners, GMOs and I really think that we need to make more natural food choices.  We should make 2/3 of our plate vegetables and fruits, with protein making up the last third.   Stay away from the artificial sweeteners, the soy and the corn additives, the food so processed you don't even recognize that it is food anymore.  Get back to basics.

At this rate, it might be better to eat the cactus...

Time To Start

 
   

     Every step that you take forward is a step in the right direction.  It might be small and you might think it doesn't matter.  It matters.  If you walk, just walk for a minute you burn 6 calories.
    I really need to stay flexible and keep moving. I am so determined to keep tying my own shoes, keep getting myself dressed and to really stay active into the golden years of my life.
    Don't tip toe into the coming years of your life. Go out, move and live those years. Take the first step.


You need to take the first step now...

One Thing Leads To Another...

     
     Healthy living is really a cycle of positive behavior.  If you eat better and exercise regularly, you feel better.  If you feel better, your attitude changes and you look better.  Your attitude changes and you tend to think  more positively than negatively.  You live a better life.
      Jump into the cycle.  Make the choice in the morning to eat better and pack some healthy meals and snacks to take to work.  Take a ten minute walk around the building or around the parking lot at break.  The weather is changing now, it's not so hot and humid and it's a good time to enjoy it.
      I do think one of the most important things in this cycle is positive thinking.  Because if you think you can't do something you are right.  If you think your life can get better, if you think you can find the time to exercise, if you think you can eat more produce and fruits--you can.  Thinking is believing and believing is doing and it starts the whole cycle out.   Did you ever notice that being around negative people has a tendency to suck the life right out of you?  They are always complaining about how bad their lives are and no one really feels comfortable around them. Positive people will always feel better, do better at work, home and school and will always attract other people.


Jump Into The Life Cycle...

Just Like That.

      Have you ever decided that, starting tomorrow,  you are going to make a positive change in your life?  You are going to eat better, exercise more, think positive thoughts, stay away from negative people...just make better choices   Then, in your head, you talk yourself out of it.  You don't have time to make salad for lunch, you don't have time to exercise and do laundry, etc.
     Change happens when you realize that you can accomplish anything you want to.  If you want to feel better, than you have to actively work to pursue that.  That means evaluating your eating habits, your vitamin and mineral intake, your exercise habits...and you have to decide that you are worth that makeover.  Because you are.
      You can change...just like that.  You decide it's a nice day, so on your break or lunch at work you are going to walk out to your car, then back the long way around the parking lot, walk up and down the steps a few times, soaking up the sunshine and Vitamin D.  You make a salad for dinner,  and you make a little extra and put it in a bowl for lunch the next day so it is convenient and you can just grab it.  Throw a load of laundry in, then walk on the treadmill until it goes into the dryer.  If you have a favorite show, and you are going to watch it anyway,  walk the treadmill, touch your toes, lift some soup cans or do something while watching it. Instead of going to McDonald's, go to the Farmer's Market and buy some fruit and vegetables to eat all week long.  You can always get something good to eat at your local Farmer's Market.


Tomorrow can start today...