AARP cites walking 50 miles per month as a great way to walk off weight!  “One New Year’s Resolution could improve your life in many ways!”  “I will walk 50 miles every month.”  Just half an hour of walking each day at a brisk pace of 3.5 mph will get you there.  Here are seven things you can accomplish within a matter of months:

The January – February AARP Bulletin (by Betsy Towner) lists the following benefits of walking 50 miles per month:

1. Get Fit
   Aerobic Capacity:  19% increase
   Physical Function:  25% increase
   Risk of Disability:  41% decrease
2. Save on Annual Medication Bills
   Normal-Weight Retiree:  $3,300.
   Overweight Retiree:  $2,500.
   Entire Country:  $1.4 Trillion
3. Improve Cardiovascular Health
   Heart Disease:  32% Lower Risk
   Stroke:  33% Lower Risk
   Type 2 Diabetes:  71% Lower Risk
4. Fight Cancer
   Breast Cancer:  18% Lower Risk
   Colon Cancer:  31% Lower Risk
   All Forms of Cancer:  33% Higher Survival Rate
5. Lose Weight: 
   Each Walk:  150 Calories
   Monthly:  1.3 Pounds
   Annually:  15.6 Pounds
6. Accelerate Recovery
   Depression:  47% Reduction in Symptoms
   Skin Wounds:  Shorten Healing by 10 Days
7. Battle Degenerative Disease
   Alzheimers:  40% Lower Risk
   Osteoporosis:  0% Loss of Bone Density

What benefits of walking are most important to you?  We’re all familiar with the benefit of walking to walk off weight – did you know that walking also reduces your liklihood of contracting cancer, becoming diabetic, reduces your bone density loss, and improves your mood?  So enjoy your walk, walk off weight, and smile all the way!

What is your favorite benefit of walking?  Do you walk each day?  Do you walk to reduce cancer?  Do you walk to reduce depression?  Will you set a goal to walk 50 miles a month?  Please join the conversation – leave a comment!

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OK, Halloween is upon us and I just want to remind you of some things before you rush out to Costco and buy the biggest bag of miniature snicker bars that you can find (HEHEHEHE).

Before you go and purchase your candy (if you haven’t already) make sure that you have eaten. I have made this mistake so many times. Going shopping for food hungry almost always means I will come home with some kind of junk food (its almost like it jumps into my cart) so make sure to eat before you shop.

Secondly, think about your choices. I have a friend that will only buy red hots every year to hand out. The reason why is because she doesn’t care for them at all but she still wants to participates. The other thing to think about is handing a healthy option. You can choose anything now days from pencils and play dough to granola bars and fruit roll ups. if you make a healthier choice you are not only helping others but yourself just in case you decide that you would like to have a treat.

Finally, If you are going to be doing any baking, you might think of making some low sugar hot apple cider, hot chocolate or tea to drink while you bake. For me it works perfectly to kill my sweet tooth and make me feel full.

In all of this planning ahead be sure to plan on having fun. Before you know it your planning ahead will just become second nature.

May God continue to bless you with great alternatives that will help you and others to be successful.

Blessings,

Cicely

Last week I chose to drink water more often than diet soda, and to take a 15 minute walk around the block more often than sitting relaxing for my break.  At the end of the week I found that I didn’t have to actively think about these new habits so often, because they had become, well, habits!  And healthy habits are key to healthy weight loss!

This week I choose to bring my lunch to work more often than eating out, and I choose to swim laps on more days of the week than not.  So, if I bring my lunch to work at least three times and swim at least four times, I’ll be achieving my weight loss goal for today.  Did you see how I phrased that?  My goal is NOT to lose two pounds this week, I’m not concentrating on the pounds AT ALL!  I am simply choosing a food item and an exercise item to think about, and choosing a habit I will do more of.  By doing more of healthy weight loss habits, it naturally follows, and without any effort on my part, that I will be doing less of an unhealthy habit!  I am focusing on the positive and letting the negative slip gently away.

What weight loss habits will you set this week?  Can you suggest a food or exercise habit that you will schedule to do “more of” this week?

Have a great week with your healthy weight loss goals!

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1. Make an appointment with your health professional.  We’ve gone into this step in depth in a previous post, please read more here: Best Diet Plan
2. Ok, we’ll be honest, this is going to take a HUGE investment on your part!  But don’t panic, the investment is TIME, not money!!!   But seriously, walk to the store right now and buy the nicest 3 ring binder you can find, and a spiral notebook.  The “Walk Weight Off 100 lb Weight Loss Challenge” rules will be created by YOU for YOU! 
3. Now that you’ve made the HUGE financial investment in your new walk weight off diet, (was it $7.99?)  take a fresh piece of paper and on the top of it write your name and today’s date. 
4. Weigh yourself, and write it down.
5. Measure your waist and write it down.
6. Write down this sentence and fill in the blanks:  “Today I am going to do this more ______________ and today I am going to do this less _____________________.  What will your goal be?  When you determine your goals, your brain is engaged, and you “buy in”.  Here are some suggestions to kick in your brain, the most important member of your weight loss team!

• Today I am going to do this more:  drink water.  Today I am going to do this less:  drink soda.
• Today I am going to do this more:  slice carrots and bring them with me.  Today I am going to do this less:  buy potatoe chips when I gas up the car.
• Today I am going to do this more:  bring water in a glass or metal thermos to avoid the danger of leaving my plastic water bottle in the hot sun.  Today I am going to do this less:  buy fancy fru-fru coffee.

So you get it, if you pick one thing per day and think about it all day, you’re being kind and gentle to yourself.  Just like an old fashioned knob on the T.V.  – change the channel!  When you’re about to do or think your “do less of” though or action, switch the channel to your “do more of” plan!

And today, pick your “walk”.  Your “walk” doesn’t have to involve your feet!  Are you challenged with walking?  No problem!  What physical activity can you do?  If this is a challenge for you, please speak with your doctor about a proper way to move your body to increase muscle mass and increase your metabolism.  Walking for weight loss might not be a healthy option for you right now, be open to the possibility of another movement or exercise that’s right for you!  Because with healthy weight loss diets, the only “rules” are the ones that are perfectly right for YOU!  So be kind and gentle with yourself, and get the help you need to hand craft your rules.  Think about these simple ideas with healthy weight loss:  your brain is in charge, and you might need to get some help from a professional with changing thinking habits, move more, drink healthy water, eat healthy foods.

Would you like to join the “Walk Weigh Off 100 lb Weight Loss Challenge”?  Please leave a comment on this post, and express your desire to start today with your 100 lb weight loss.  Then go buy a new 3 ring notebook and a new spiral notebook.  This will kick your brain into gear that your have made a financial investment in your future.  Then get busy and write down your first rule!

Please join us today, and leave a comment.

I’m setting out to find out!  There’s no time like today to begin a weight loss diet for health, and I’m setting out to do just that for my health and happiness!  Somehow I’ve created an unbalance in my life where I’m burning less calories than I am taking in, and I need to reverse that.  Simply, and happily, I’ve decided to walk the weight off!  One day at a time, beginning today!

What’s your weight loss story with walking?  It’s like taking the slow boat instead of the fast jet, I know, but for me it seems right.

Do you have a flood of information?  Are you having a tough time deciding what the best rapid weight loss diets plan for you might be?  Here’s a suggested course of action:

1. Start with your doctor or medical professional.  Get a thorough check up.  Bring a new journal with you and log the date and your health statistics.  Height, weight, age, blood pressure, and any relevant information.
2. Discuss your current health situation and your health goals with your doctor or health professional to chart a course of action.
3. Lay out your goals.  Is your blood pressure and blood sugar within a healthy range?  Do you have any health factors that need to be addressed by weight loss or medication?  Just like you wouldn’t take your car cross country without checking the oil and tires, don’t embark on a new diet and exercise plan without getting checked out by a professional.
4. How’s your fuel intake?  Just like a fine automobile, you’ll run better on the right fuel.  Have you been eating the nutrition that’s best for you?  Take out your journal and log everything you eat and drink for a week, with a note of how you felt and what your motivation was for eating.  Note the time and where you ate.  Getting to know your current habits is key to deciding what needs to be adjusted for the rapid weight loss diets best diet plan.  Be sure to include exercise, to the best of your abilities.  One really great exercise is to walk weight off.
5. A picture is worth a thousand words.  Find a place where you can take a private full length picutre of yourself.  If possible, wear a two piece bathing suit, or something revealing.  Paste the picture in your journal. 
6. Take your measurements.  To keep it simple you might take only one measurement, your waist.  Your best diet plan will include a goal not only of health measurements like cholesterol level, blood sugar and blood pressure, it’ll include some measurements.  Make note of your measurements in your journal.
7. After you’ve kept your food log for a week it’s time to enlist the help of a professional in the nutrition field.  Your doctor’s office may have a nutritionist on staff, or be able to recommend one.  It’s good to start with a professional’s help.  You might also consider professional help from a well known weight loss group or a nurse.
8. Make note of your exercise, or lack thereof.  Talk to your doctor about your activity level, and agree on a plan for the next eight weeks.  Talk to your doctor about your plan to walk weight off.  Following up with your doctor every other month, or more if suggested by your doctor, will help you keep on track and make any modifications necessary.

Time to tie motivation into your rapid weight loss diets best diet plan.  Make a list in your journal and answer these questions:  I need to improve my health because……  And then state your reasons.  And then, the big question – what will you do to change your life?  Make a list of your goals, whether it’s lowered cholesterol, lowered blood pressure, reduce or cure sleep apnea, reduce your risk of heart attack, feel better, look better, live longer, etc.  Now make an action plan.  Start with one thing you want to stop doing, and on thing you want to start doing.  Have you ever had the experience that you tried a great big new plan and lost weight and improved your health only to revert to where you started from?  If the answer to this is yes, you could benefit by learning some new habits.  This isn’t easy, it takes time, patience, and repetition.  Substituting a good health habit for a poor one will ease the transition you’re making with a new lifestyle, and be more likely to stay in your concience when you’re making decisions about nutrition, food intake, and exercise.  A great exercise to start with is walking, you can reall walk weight off!  Do you have 100 lbs or more to lose?  Take the “Walk Weight Off 100 lb Challenge!”. 

When you’re looking at your exercise plan, you’ll need to be honest with yourself about your level of exercise currently.  This is a good area to discuss with your physician and exercise and fitness trailer.  The best diet plan for your will include exercise at an appropriate level.  You might consider the eliptical trainer mentioned here;

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Does your rapid weight loss diets program include exercise?  Part of all healthy weight loss programs include exercise.  (Check with your doctor first, find out what’s best for you please.) 

Your weight loss plan will most likely include exercise!  Have you considered bringing the gym to you?  Have the convenience of working out in your own home!  Curlers in your hair, jammies on?  Great!  Hop on your elliptical trainer and go!  Here’s a link to one of the finest Smooth Elliptical trainers on the market:  CLICK HERE:  ELLIPTICAL TRAINER  The Smooth CE 2.1 Elliptical Trainer Smooth CE 2.1 – A great entry level elliptical with ergonomic foot pedals provide an impact free workout.  This type of elliptical trainer burns the maximum calories in the least amount of time.  Click the link with the picture above to see the tutorial regarding which elliptical trainer is right for you, based on your height.

Good luck with your weight loss program!  What’s the best diet plan for you? Drop us a line and let us know how your diet and exercise program is going!  Keep your health a top priority, and you’ll reap the rewards!

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Have you tried the Zone Diet for your rapid weight loss diets?  What did you think?  Did the Zone Diet help you establish the healthy pattern and routine you need to succeed with any new diet?  Is the  Zone diet right for you?  ““Check Out ZoneDiet.com Today!”“  Please share your thoughts with others that are considering the Zone Diet for rapid weight loss diets, leave a comment and join the Rapid Weight Loss Diets community!

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When is a quick diet appropriate?  What is a quick diet, anyway?  Does that mean that we’re ready to start a new diet, and want to be quick to start a new diet?  That might be ok…..  Or does it mean that we want to lose weight rapidly?  In that sense, it might not be ok.  What does a quick diet mean?  Let’s assume that you know why you want to diet, know how you got to the place where you need to diet, know what your motivation to diet is, and your’re ready to start.  Does quick diet come to mind?  Is that a motivational issue?  You’re ready to go, and want to be quick about it?  Excellent!  When motivation meets action, results are possible.  That’s your best dieting plan! If you’ve had your physical with your doctor, gotten the green light to proceed, selected which of the weight loss diets that’s good for you, with your doctor’s approval, then by all means, a quick diet is right for you!  Now, if you’re thinking of a quick diet to lose weight rapidly, please slow down and think carefully before you launch a quick weight loss diet!  You probably didn’t gain weight rapidly, and, in general, rapid weight loss has many negative health risks!  Each person is an individual, and deserving of a personalized diet.  Each human body is a complex organic machine, fueled by infinate interactions on a hormonal and chemical level.  What’s your human machine doing?  We consume our fuel with food and liquids.  We convert the available nutrition to maintain our bodies, and store excess fuel.  If we tamper with the processes without a healthy understanding of how our unique human machine operates, we could seriously disrupt our physical and emotional well being.  So please, if you are thinking of a quick diet for rapid weight loss, consider carefully why you want this, and what impact it will have on you.  Discuss this with your support group – your physician, nutritionist, counselor, and best friend.  Be good to yourself, you deserve the best weight loss program, which may not be a quick diet!

Have you ever felt pressured to start a quick diet?  How did that work out for you?  Any recommendations for others thinking about a quick diet?  Please join the conversation, and leave a comment!

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• Who – You!  (Your own best friend!)
• What – A New Diet
• When – Now!  (Of course!  If we could make it yesterday we would!)
• Where – Where ever we are.  This is not a physical place in the sense of where we live geographically, it’s a physical place in the sence of where we live spiritually, emotionally, and in our body.
• How – With help and support.  We’re not alone if we reach out for help and accept it.  We deserve to take the best care of ourselves possible, and we deserve healthy help from others.
• Why – We each have our own why.  Take the time to look deep into this question, and we’ll have the motivation to create a new diet, start it, and follow through to success.

Are you looking for a new diet?  What are your who, what, when, where, how, and why’s of your diet plans?  Please join this community by leaving a new comment.  You’re not alone on your journey to select a new diet if you choose to join others on this life decision.  Your comments are welcome and encouraged. 

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