Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.
This is my blog on choosing a healthy lifestyle!

Sunday, February 21, 2010

SLAP, me again!!!

Sounds like a plan, once more. How many times do we start and stop trying to do well with weight loss or just good habits. We all have days, months and even extended periods of not doing well. By doing this our consequence is usually weight gain or damage to our body from the choices we can make. Choose again to do well. I recently read an article by Stephanie Pearson about a guy, Dan Buettner who has written the book, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest. According to his book, we have a lot more control over our lifespan than we once thought. "Genes dictate as little as 10 percent of our life expectancy."
Some thoughts from his book:
Get really good at yoga, flexibility is the key:
Move naturally
Eat until you are 80% full
Eat plant-based foods
Have a purpose
Participate in a spiritual community
Downshift to relieve stress
I am back on track to get my life habits back to a healthy goal.
wt:135#...hoping to get to at least 130 in the next few weeks and increase my walking and yoga.