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Healthy Living: Know Your Starting Point

Failure to measure a baseline is what keeps most people stuck. That’s because they begin with an ideal picture of the end result without being fully aware of where they’re starting from, and then attempting to do too much too soon. It’s critical to know where you’re starting from so that you can take steps to make measurable improvement. 

Common baselines include measurements such as body weight, body fat percentage, cholesterol, and blood pressure. These are important measurements, but a baseline ideally measures behaviors too. Asses your current activity levels (calories burned or steps taken), your perceived levels of exertion to exercise, heart rate, schedule, stress levels, health status, likes and dislikes, and any number of other aspects specific to you.  That is your complete baseline measurement. 

Measuring a baseline of your current exercise and eating habits and certain lifestyle factors will help you put together a realistic plan to… Continue reading →

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Healthy Living: Determine areas of concentration

As I start my new 21 day makeover for healthly living, it was suggested to me by my co-contributors that I determine the areas of my life that I want to concentrate on. I chose only three at this time so that I wouldn’t get overwhelmed. The areas I will focus on are eating, exercise and thought-life.

Each of the areas that I chose are important to me as a business owner because each one helps me sustain my body so that I am able to function and run my business. If I become healthier in each of these areas, I feel that I will be able to produce at higher levels of performance in my business.

As a business owner, have you reviewed how healthy you are living? Are there areas that you need to improve in so that healthy living is top priority? Then please feel free to… Continue reading →

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Determine areas of concentration for eating

Tip 2: While you are on your health journey determine what foods need to be eliminated from your diet and focus on removing them one at a time. Don’t try to go cold turkey all at once. Create a baseline.

Crispy Vegetable Wrap

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup Tofutti brand “cream cheese”
  • 4 10-inch flour tortillas
  • 1 cup shredded spinach
  • 1/4 cup alfalfa sprouts
  • 1/2 cup sliced avocado
  • 1/2 cup shredded carrots
  • 1/4 chopped tomatoes
  • 1/2 diced cucumbers
  • 2 tbsp finely chopped purple onions
  • Sea salt and olive oil

Directions

Spread 1 tbsp of the “cream cheese” on each tortilla. Sprinkle and even amount of the Remaining ingredients on each wrap, drizzle with a little olive oil, add a pinch of sea salt, and roll up.

Serves 4

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I am LaTara Ham-Ying, your nature friendly scribe. I have always loved writing and I enjoy making words come to life. Over… Continue reading →

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Healthy Living: Why Start a Healthy Living Series?

As a business owner, I decided that learning healthy living good habits is important so that I would be able to sustain myself when dealing with the pressures of managing my own business. I can to this conclusion because I realized that if I’m healthy that I can live and work without having a lot of health issue. So I decided to start at the beginning and determine what I need to change in order to live healthy.

To help be during this series I decided to have one accountability partner and three co-contributors to the series so that I would have a well-rounded way of determining what it would take for me to live healthy. The people who will be part of my accountability team are:

  • Carol Dickson-Carr (accountability partner)
  • Latara Ham-Ying (healthy eating co-contributor)
  • Heather Moreno (healthy exercise co-contributor)
  • Julette Millien (healthy thinking co-contributor)

These are the areas… Continue reading →

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