Besides eating, exercising, drinking water what other healthy habits have you adopted in the last 6 months to a year?

Have you quit smoking? Have you started taking vitamins? Have you started relaxation exercises, started a hobby, spent more time with family and friends. Maybe you've discovered a renewal in religion....

There is so much to a healthy life than food, exercise and water. What have you adopted for yourself?

For me, it is a rediscover of God and his power in my life. No sermons, I am just learning and can't stand the sermons myself. I have also learned to spend more down time with me, and with my family. Those are relaxing, taking care of me things.

When a busy time, like now happens, we need those additional things to keep us focused.
What new healthy habits have you given yourself?

Have a super Tuesday.

Cathy J

I'll try again, I don't know what happened to the first post.

This summer I went back to the church of my upbringing (I truly feel as if I have gone home). I go to church almost everyday. because of this I don't sleep my day away like I did.

I've developed a daily routine - with a get up time and a go to bed time.

I'm cooking more - rather than hubby.

I'm writing.

I'm cleaning and de-cluttering.

I've returned to my musical roots - tried out for a paying choir, sing in the church choir, and working on getting back to the piano and guitar.

lmj

I started taking multivitamin but found that it bothered my stomach to take it every day so I only take it occasionally...I figure even taking it now and then is better than nothing.

I bought a fish oil supplement to try to get Omega-3 fatty acids since I don't eat fish. Have not built the habit of taking it daily yet.

I got involved in FLYLady. Learning to establish routines and create a control journal have helped me manage my home better, though I certainly am not as regular in keeping up with it as I would like to be. Learning to manage my home better, and keeping a cleaner home, reduces my stress considerably, reduces the incidence of depression from feeling hopeless about my surroundings and leads to a sense of accomplishment, which brings me peace.

I got involved in FLYChatting with CT members. As state above, I have problems keeping up with doing the cleaning regularly, so having an occasional FLYChat gives me a way to clean and declutter and also have fun with friends. Walking into my kitchen this morning to pack my lunch and finding clean counters, clean stovetop and an empty sink put a smile on my face and an indescribable joy in my heart.

Well for me it has been staying with Yoga on a weekly basis, cooking a lot more so we can eat in, thinking ahead more with food and when we travel what I can do to prepare.

Most of all I just feel good most days. This past year has been a BIG one, but has only brought wonderful people closer to me.

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So, for the next three years, what are you going to give up? What are you going to choose not to do so that you have time to give yourself good health? Do you need to change jobs? Give up committees? Resign posts? Who do you need to learn to say no to, and when?

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I gave up most of my TV watching. I used to spend 2-3 hours per day watching TV. Now I watch about an hour per day. The other hour or two I am more active with household chores and errands.

I've started to declutter and organize my home.

I've taken up running.

I've re-learned that I need to eat at home more often than I have been if I want the weight to come off.

These are the ones that I can come up with off the top of my head.

Laura

I am pretty focused on my food and exercise. I have to be or the weight creeps back. I am like that.
The difference now is that I am doing more exercise with friends. Tomorrow I am going to a 75 minute step class with a friend. I am more out there about my healhty cooking and have shared with others. I want to form more and more friendships around my healhty lifestyle.

I cook. Yes, it's about the food, but it's also soothing and comforting to me. It's a stress reliever to cook--doesn't matter if it's chopping up vegetables to make a salad or creating a fancy cake for a friend's birthday. Just getting in the kitchen and creating something with my own two hands has given me a sense of empowerment. I CAN control what goes in me, I can make it taste wonderful, and I can make incredible things out of raw ingredients.

There aren't a lot of packaged foods that make it back to the house anymore: tortillas, pitas, cereal, whole-grain crackers are about it.

I shop local stores for local goods. While it's about food, it's also about health. . .there's very little between me & what I eat, and I trust the people I buy from.

D

I have adapted a stress free enviroment..My friends and I have finally resloved a matter that has been going on for almost a year..
Wow..What a difference. I don't feel angry and stress anymore.. I feel that I can focus on myself and other things that are more important.

I saw the dietician in the past 6 months and have been implimenting her recommendations.

But mostly, it feels like I am just barely maintaining the relationships and hobbies I have now. I feel like a LOT of my mental energy is consummed with weight loss/maintaining. We all know that it consumes a lot of my computer time!

I was sort of relieved to read that I'm not alone in this obsession.

Skinny Daily, November 29, 2003
Take a Load Off

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If you don’t make the time to lose weight, it’s not going to happen. You have to make exercise and eating right a top priority in your life, if not THE priority, for the time it takes to remove the excess weight and form habits to keep it off. We’re talking about a 3-year commitment.

So, for the next three years, what are you going to give up? What are you going to choose not to do so that you have time to give yourself good health? Do you need to change jobs? Give up committees? Resign posts? Who do you need to learn to say no to, and when?

Don’t try to steal the time from your sleep, from grooming. But could the house be less pristine and still livable? Can the kids do a few fewer after-school activities? Can your significant other or your children or your co-workers take on some of your duties for awhile?

Make a plan. Write it out. Throw off the weight of the world to give yourself room to get well.

Wondering what I did? Quit my job. Quit three clubs. Scaled way back on activism. Scaled way back on social lunches and dinners and drinks. Stopped cooking so darned much.

Know what? I haven’t lost a friend over it. My world hasn’t crumbled. My family is relieved. No family member goes unfed.

You have to make time to take time. And you have to take time to maintain your body, or suffer the consequences of your own oppression.

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I have banished more perfectionist/all-or-none thinking from my life with each passing week.

I have been taking vitamin supplements much more often if not as consistently as I would like.

Peg

Part of yesterday's homework was that I would post the homework more often to keep on track, so here goes...

I have become more aware of the little things that sabatoge my weight loss - a bite here and there, sitting when I could be doing something, etc. I catch myself more often and it's making a difference.

Mel

I've started a daily relaxation time. I also take an afternoon play break, instead of a coffee break (I work at home and have my two kids here with me). I'm getting back into photography and painting. And lastly, my whole family has reduced the chemicals in our lives as we become more organic.

alli

I've rediscovered my old passion for music and joined our community band. I started playing again a few months after I started my commitment to healthy eating. It felt like another way to nurture myself and my spirit.

I also take multivitamins daily now (as does everyone in the family) and we have eliminated almost all artificial ingredients and chemicals in our foods.