Daily Archives: January 2, 2012

Yesterday I completed my 100 jumping jacks, 20 pushups, 50 situps and did 32 minutes of walking on the treadmill just for the health of it!  I did everything at once although you could have done things separately.  By that I mean you could have even done 20 jumping jacks at a time and do them throughout the day 5 times. Then do 15 minutes on the treadmill and 15 minutes more later etc.  People sometimes get into that all or nothing mindset and they don’t think of doing just small amounts throughout the day which is still beneficial. So if they can’t get it all in at once they don’t do anything. Doing small amounts throughout the day is better than doing nothing!

Today I am going to eat intuitively just for the health of it! 

Over the holiday I was eating just because it was time to eat or we were at another dinner or because it was there.  So I am not sure I felt hunger pangs since before Christmas .  So today I will check in with myself each hour and rate my hunger level on the scale from 1-10.  I will only eat at a 3 or 4.  3 for me is belly growl and 4 is feeling empty.  I will then ask myself what my body is hungry for and have that.  I will eat until I am just satisfied which is about a 6 on the scale.  So no counting calories or counting anything but honoring my hunger and fullness levels.

If there is a time I find myself wanting something to eat and I am not hungry I will need to figure out what it is that I truly want.  I may be tired, bored, procrastinating etc so I need to feed that emotion and not with food!

Have a healthy and happy day everyone!

What will you do “just for the health of it” today?