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Category: Lifelong Health

How Your Friends Make It Easy to be Healthy: Boot Camp & More

Five-a-Day, Water Instead of Pop, and Don’t Slip Back

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Time for fruits and vegetables

This is a diary of the healthy lifestyle goals that my son, Chris, and I are making together each month.

September was a whirlwind of activity, as we prepared for the premiere of Loserville the Film.  Chris was involved in promotion of the movie that he starred in, and we booked our trips and packed for Hollywood to attend the premiere on September 29th.  Also, at the beginning of the Month, my husband and I traveled to his niece’s wedding.   Chris and I kept to our previous goals, but did not make new goals until October. 

In October, my new goal was to eat five fruits and vegetables a day.  Chris’ goal was to reinforce all of his previous goals because he was slipping back on various things, such as drinking pop and eating burgers and greasy foods.  So he added the goal of drinking water instead of pop. Continue Reading

How Your Friends Make It Easy to be Healthy: Progress Report

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Walk in the Woods – Pinned from ArchitectureArtDesigns

Finding an Exercise Plan That Works, and a Progress Report

This is a diary of the healthy lifestyle goals that my son, Chris, and I are making together each month.

In August, Chris’ goal was to go to the gym five days a week and to run every other day, whether at the gym or not.  My goal was to get a half-hour of aerobic exercise five days a week, with stretching and weights on the other two days.  We had worked on similar goals in July, but wanted to do better.  We felt that some days get too busy and interfere with exercise, so we wanted to find a way to make it work every day.

This journal entry has two parts:  our August exercise results, and a report on the progress we’ve made since we started making goals in March.  Continue Reading

How to Exercise the Lazy Way? Just Walk!

Walking-Benefits-03fe28adFrom “Natural Awakenings” article – Just Walk: 22 Minutes a Day Boosts Well-being

The following is adapted from a Natural Awakenings magazine article, which can be read in its entirety by clicking the link above.

If the only exercise you do is walking, you still reap the physical and mental benefits listed below.

All you need to do is walk for 22 minutes a day, which comes out to approximately three hours a week! Continue Reading

How Your Friends Make It Easy to be Healthy: Daily Exercise

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From biologyofexercise.com

July:  Sustaining Daily Exercise

This is a diary of the healthy lifestyle goals that my son, Chris, and I are making together each month.  In July, Chris wanted to get from one to two hours of exercise five days a week, and I wanted to get a half-hour of aerobic exercise five days a week with stretching and weights on the other two days. Continue Reading

How Your Friends Make It Easy to be Healthy: Exercise

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The pool where I usually swim

June:  Creating an Exercise Program

This is my health diary.  It began in March, when my son, Chris, and I shared with each other what we would give up for Lent.  We missed the beginning, since Easter was earlier this year, so we only had the month of March left.  I gave up drinking wine every day and Chris cut down on eating pizza.  We were happy that we improved our diets by doing this, so in April  I cut down on sweets and Chris stopped drinking soda pop.  In May, Chris cut down on chips and I added a fruit or vegetable to each meal.  This month, we began to make exercise goals. Continue Reading