Start your day off right… Waking up with gusto!

A healthy lifestyle starts every morning first thing. Here are some tips to help get your day started off on the right foot…

1. Drink 8oz of water first thing – Over night you become dehydrated, drinking first thing will help fight fatigue.  I like to keep a bottle of water bed side so that it is room temperature and ready right when I get up.
2. Get out of bed – Avoid hitting the snooze and lying in bed, killing time in bed is bad for motivation.
3. Move – Stretch then jump rope or do jumping jacks for a minute, doesn’t have to be a lot just enough to get the blood flowing. You will be more alert and ready to take on anything.
4. Eat breakfast – I know you have heard this a thousand times and there is a reason… Breakfast is important, eat a wholesome high protein, high fiber breakfast.
5. Set goals for the day – Set small goals to be completed that day, this keeps you moving forward and on the right track.  Goals can be little things like eating a salad for lunch or not spending money on eating out for the day.
6. Avoid rushing – nothing will stress you out more than rushing to get out the door in the morning, give yourself plenty of time to get ready… “to be early is to be on time and to be on time is to be late”
7. Listen to music that excites you – Either on the way to work or in the shower music can set your mood for the whole day.
8. Be a courteous driver – on your commute allow other drivers the right way wave and smile. This will lead to less stress for you and you just made their day!
9. Enjoy some fresh air – Have some free time? Rather than watching the news spend it on the deck getting some fresh morning air.  Coworkers will fill you in on the new at work so don’t worry.
10. Kiss everyone in the family before you leave – even the dog!

Back in the Swing with Weight Watchers

I re-joined weight watchers on June 10th.  I did weight watchers on line program a few years ago and lost about 70lbs, but started thinking that I could track on my own and didn’t need to “waste” my money on paying for the program.  Yeah, doing it on my own didn’t work out so well I gained all the weight I lost back plus some. So here I am to give it another go…

This time around I am going to the meetings, I find them cheesy but Miss HuskyHiker enjoies them and we are on this adventure together so I am going for her…  I have lost 6.4lbs so far and Miss HuskyHiker is not far behind.

Weight Watchers is a way of calorie counting that gives food a “point” value based on calories, fat, and fiber.  You get les points as you loose weight and you can earn extra points if you exercise.  They keep saying at the meetings that it is not a diet, just a training program to get you eating right.  I guess that is true and a good way to look at it…   So Weigh-in Wednesdays will be back with a vengeance…

Week 32

Start Weight: 298 lbs
Current Weight: 297.4
Last Weight: 299.6
Total Change: -0.6