80% diet and 20% exercise





Hello Everyone!
It has been a while since my last post and I had meant to post again a few weeks ago. Life has gotten a little crazy. All this healthcare and Obama Care/ Affordable Health Care Act rhetoric has gotten me thinking about this journey that I have been on. Health care is so expensive and I don’t see it getting any cheaper any time soon. I don’t know about you guys, but my goal is to stay healthy and not need to be on medications etc. One way to avoid that is to eat healthy and exercise. After all the best medicine is the food we eat and in the United States, we have been slowly killing ourselves with the foods we put in our bodies. Don’t we all just want to feel good and be healthy? I am currently trying to give up Diet Coke once and for all. No more caramel color and chemicals for me! If you have questions about what these things are, read my post from about a year ago. I can’t believe I let that stuff creep back into my life and my body. This is going to be very difficult, but I’m determined.
One of my hopes for this blog is that I have people who read this and are willing to walk through this journey with me. I hope some of you will be willing to do that. I’m going to work on posting more often and posting some tips that have worked for me. I want to preface this entire blog with this: I am not an expert. I am not a personal trainer, or a nutritionist. I am a woman who is on a journey to be the healthiest person I can be.
Here is one of my tips and wisdom that I can share with you about weight loss. There is a statistic I have read a few times that weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise. I find that to be very true. I started losing this weight without exercise. All I did was change my food lifestyle. Like I mentioned before, I went vegan. That may not be what you need to do. I know plenty of people who do well on a dietary lifestyle of lean meat and low carbohydrates. Just remember that it is a lifestyle. You are not going to start eating this way, just to go back to your old ways, once you lose the weight. You have to adopt this lifestyle and these habits for the rest of your life. You can treat yourself sometimes, just be careful. You don’t want that treat to become the habit that you worked so hard to break. I would suggest you don’t “treat” yourself with food for a long time.
That’s all I have for today. Please let me know what you think and share any wisdom you have in the comments.
Thanks!
Tara

Comments

joeutter said…
way 2 go! u r a great example, sis!
November 18, 2013 at 8:40 AM
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