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Healthy Living: Developing my exercise habits

I took a little bit of a break during my 21 days to Healthy Living because I’m in the process of moving. But I do want to start back sharing how I’m developing my exercise habits during this time. I’ve shared how I am checking out Zumba and I’m loving it.

Another exercise that I added to my list is the slider. After talking ot my personal trainer, she said that it would be a great idea to add the slider because of the lateral movements I get to do during workout. I’ve been really excited to see my progress. I can tell that my choise to start-up with my healthy living program was a great idea.

Have you started your healthy living program? Do you have insight about a healthy living program to share with others? Please feel free to share.

Today’s Tip:

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Healthy Living: Track your eating habits

Tip 9: Track your eating habits. Keep a notebook, journal or even a blog that of what you are eating, when you are eating, and why you are eating. Are you eating because you are hungry? Or is it emotional? Are you at the computer working? Or are you at the table? You will be amazed at what you learn.

Mediterranean Vegetable Bake

  • 3 red onions, sliced
  • ¼ cup olive oil
  • 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
  • 1 eggplant, sliced
  • 4 zucchinis, sliced
  • 1 red pepper, seeded and cut into quarters
  • 1 mozzarella cheese alternative (sliced or shredded)
  • ¼ teaspoon oregano
  • Handful of fresh chopped basil

Preheat oven to 350F.

Slice the eggplant, place in a bowl and generously sprinkle with salt. Set aside.

Heat the olive oil in a non-stick frying pan and gently sauté onions for approximately 5 minutes.  Add the garlic and sauté a further 2… Continue reading →

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Healthy Living: Tools and resources for your transition to healthy living

Tools and resources are good for your healthy living program because they help you stay on course as you obtain your goals. Realizing that I am not the expert about all the tools and resources available for use, I will share that I have been given some really great suggestions that have helped me during my transition to healthier living.

Case in point, Latara Ham-Ying, who is one of my co-contributors, has been providing excellent resource information about recipes that are not only healthy for you but are fairly easy to create. Heather Moreno, another co-contributor, gave me great advice for alternative ways to workort for times when the knee I injured is in pain. These types of resources have been very helpful to me as I transition to a healthier “me”.

The tools that I’m using during my transition are basis in nature. I wear a pedometer every… Continue reading →

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Healthy Living: Resource for Healthy Living

Tip 8: While you may not want to be a vegan or eat raw foods, reading magazines and books in these niches can only help you learn more about being a healthier you.

Couscous and Guacamole Wrap

For the couscous:

  • 1 cup dried couscous, cooked according to package instructions
  • 2 tablespoons chopped, fresh parsley
  • 6 spring onions, finely sliced
  • ½ cucumber, finely diced
  • 1 tomato, finely diced
  • ½ red pepper, finely diced
  • ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
  • Juice of one lemon
  • Salt and black pepper
  • 4 whole wheat tortillas to serve

For the guacamole:

  • 1 ripe avocado, peeled and stoned
  • Juice of ½ lemon
  • ½ red chili, seeded and finely sliced

Place the cooked couscous in a bowl and add all couscous ingredients.  Mix together well.  Chill for 20 minutes. 

Meanwhile make the guacamole.  Do this immediately before serving or guacamole will brown (although the lemon… Continue reading →

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Healthy Living: Can I really accomplish goal of healthy living

My focus today is how to keep yourself encouraged to accomplish your goals of healthy living. It was hard to get into writing my blog post today because I’ve been business all day yet I felt that it was important to blog about my experiences today.

In the process of changing my habits in the health arena, I’ve found that keeping encourged is very important to accomplishing my goals for healthy living. Especially after I had a weekend where I had a boo-boo and slipped in my new eating habits. Yet I’m finding it rewarding to stick to my new healthy living goals as I see results such as my clothes becoming looser.

It would be great to hear how you have dealt with slips when you are trying to stick to your living healthy plan. Please feel free to share your experiences.

Today’s Tip comes from Latara Ham-Ying:

Tip… Continue reading →

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Heathy Living: Gauge status so far, recap

One of the things that’s very healthy when trying to form new good habits is to occasionally gauge yourself. So today’s focus will be on determining how things are going and what my plans are for the upcoming week. I’m excited that during the past week I have made really great choices in regard to healthy eating and setting up my program.

In setting up my program, I was able to determine the baseline for some of the areas that are being affected by my healthy living program. I’m still creating the baseline for my exercise program but I’m done one thing and that’s monitored my steps and have a good idea what my daily goal will be.

During the upcoming week, I plan to solidy my exercise program with different activities such as Yoga, Zumba and other types of workout routines. I want to determine what works best for… Continue reading →

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Healthy Living: Dealing with a healthy mindset

Tip 5: To help you maintain a healthy mindset with food, change the way you look at. Most of us live to eat when it should be the other way around – we need to eat to live.

Fruit sorbets are a good way to satisfy your sweet tooth.

You can make this sorbet with any of your favorite fruits.  Sliced strawberries, peaches, kiwi, bananas and mangos work well but really you can use just about any fruit of your choice.

Homemade Fruit Sorbet

Ingredients:

4 cups fresh fruit

1/2 cup fresh orange juice

1 pinchsalt

sugar to taste

Directions:

Spread sliced fruit in one layer on a baking sheet. Freeze, uncovered, until frozen solid.  Once the fruit is frozen, let thaw at room temperature for 15 minutes.  Place in a blender with the orange juice and process until smooth.  Add a small pinch of salt… Continue reading →

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Healthy Living: Get accountability partners & mentors

So I got a late start today on getting my blog post for my healthy living series. Today I want to share how I determined my mentor and accountability partners. Knowing that starting a healthy living series wasn’t a favorite thing for me, I decided that I needed accountability partners who would really keep me on my toes. As for my mentor, I wanted someone who would not only challenge me but also help me make wise decisions about changing things I need to do during this series.

So one of my accountability partners is Carol Dickson-Carr (@ProfCarol on Twitter) because she has been one of my encourager when it came to starting my healthy living serious. I found her on Twitter and have watched as she share how she was working out often. The mentor that I have chose is Heather Moreno because she has been an encouragement to… Continue reading →

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Healthy Living: Accountability for Eating Habits

Tip 3: Anytime you are adjusting your diet I think you need a support system in place. Locate a coach or join a healthy meal planning service to help you stay on track with healthier eating.

Face the reality of changing life for a healthier me

Tip 4: Don’t fool yourself into thinking that if you eat a piece of cake everyday or some fried chicken two times that you can work it all off. It just does not work like that. Once thing I have learned and still have to practice daily is that eating healthy is no joke. You have to determine that you will eat right, just say no, and get real with your eating habits. Then and only then can you adjust them.

Macaroni and Cheese

1 box of macaroni

2 cups soy milk

1 cup soy chesse of choice

3 tbsp nutritional yeast

2 tbsp… Continue reading →

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Healthy Living: Create a Baseline

When I first decided to start a 21-day Healthy Living series, I reached out to my co-contributors and asked what should be the first thing I do. The consesus was to create a baseline for all areas that I will be concentrating on during the series.

So today will be focused on creating a baseline for exercise, mindset, and eating. This means that I need to create a way for me to track what I’m doing in each of these areas. The tracking will help me determine my starting place and then create milestone goals to help keep me on track.

Below are key areas that I will include in my baseline that will affect my exercise routine, eating habits and mindset for this series.

  • Nutrition (include details about where I am now and where I want to be)
  • Exercise program (include different options such as walking & working out)… Continue reading →
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