Stay Healthy with Susan

 This is a place for you to learn about healthy habits like diet and exercise.  If you aren’t into dieting or exercising don’t worry, there are no judgements here.  Each day you will receive an action step by email, but only with your permission.

Improving Eating Habits

We’re going to be talking about how you can improve your eating habits easily so you can start to see and feel a difference in your body almost immediately.  You will be making some decisions on your own as to how you will add exercise into your busy life, or if you are already exercising you will decide if what you are doing is accomplishing your goals.

How to Begin 

  1. Food Diary – Easily begin eating healthier and losing weight by keeping a food diary.  Grab an old tablet, notebook, or anything you can use to start tracking what you eat each day.  Keep your food diary wherever it is you nest at the end of the day, maybe it’s watching TV, catching up at the computer, or wherever you normally wind down.  In your food diary write down EVERYTHING that you put into your body throughout the day.  Don’t cheat!:)
  2. Eliminating unhealthy choices – As you look over your list of food and beverages for the day, circle the items you know were not healthy choices.  Then put a line through each unhealthy item telling yourself  ”my body doesn’t need that”.  Each evening when you write your list, you will begin to notice less unhealthy foods and beverages showing up, until almost everything on your list is a healthy nourishing choice.  Keep your food diary until you are at your target weight, or  until you are consciously choosing all  heathly foods throughout your day.

You Are Not Alone

We will be doing this together.  I, too, am starting my food diary today, Dec. 21, 2009.  Today I took my measurements, which you can also do when you are ready.  My next post will  have my starting measurements and directions for you to measure yourself (or have a friend do it for you).  I will also be posting a before picture of myself and encourage you to have one to help track your results.  Wear something that shows your size and not cover yourself with a large shirt, so that you can really see the difference over the next few months. 

Start With One Small Step Today

Life is much easier when you take one step at a time.  Start today with your food diary.  Sign up for  your daily StayHealthyTips.