Healthy You Challenge Check In

This week I have joined the Healthy You Challenge!! I have never joined a group like this before but something tells me that it's going to be good support, and lots of motivation for me and I hope to be of good support to others as well :)

This past Saturday (my weigh in days) I lost 3 lbs. which is a good loss although I was hoping for a much bigger number but I have to remember that losing the weight slowly is the most healthiest and best way to lose it. Sometimes I get impatient with the numbers on the scale but I teaching myself that I can't just focus on what the scale tells me , that I also have to focus on doing what is good for me which is :

*Eating Healthy
*Excercising
*Drinking plenty of water
*Self-Positive talk
*Taking my multi-vitamin & Herbs

This is a new week and so far I have done very well with keeping within my weight watcher points, and not only doing that but also eating my healthiest. The one thing I have learned about weight watchers is you can eat anything you want and still lose the weight as long as you stay within the points of the program (at least I can) but this year I have not only committed to losing at least 100 lbs. but I have also committed to eating my healthiest!! I was never really big on eating "healthy" until I decided to embark on this journey. I used to hate eating "healthy" , but now I can't get enough of it :) This is a total lifestyle change for me and in the begining it was one big struggle after another , but now it's become a habit for life :)

Excercise has been my downfall , BUT NO MORE!!!!

Excercise is my downfall :( I have to really motivate myself in order to do any type of excercise. When I am steadily losing weight , which I have been for the past three weeks I think to myself "Why do I need to excercise because the weight is coming off" , but I do know in my true heart of hearts that I need to excercise and move. I am doing resistance band excercises which is for toning purposes because I have heard some horror stories about people who drop big amounts of weight all of a sudden have a problem with extra skin after they lose all the weight, and I sure don't want that happening after all the hard work. My doctor has assured me that more in likely I won't have that problem because I have really good muscle tone, and because I am still pretty young and my skin is still elastic and such , but I don't want to take any chances and he had introduced me to the resistance band and how to excercise with one for toning, I do that 3-4 times a week , but with my schedule it's sometimes hard to fit it in but I know I need too. I love yoga and it's still pretty new to me but I am learning and really liking it, I have only been doing that for the past week and a half and so far so good.

I have decided that I need to make some committments on excercise and here they are:

* I WILL do my resistance toning excercises 3-4 days per week and make no excuses about it. I will learn how to fit it in no matter how busy I am :)

* I WILL start walking around my neighborhood after I get off work every day :)

* I WILL learn more about yoga and it's benefits and work it into my routine :)

I will do these things because I know I have to in order to help my weight loss , and getting healthy is not just about eating the right things , it's also about excercising my body and getting the benefits from it!!!