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What is Healthy Weight Week?
Jan 18-24
The16th annual Healthy Weight Week is a time to celebrate healthy living habits that last a lifetime and prevent eating and weight problems, rather than intensifying them, as diets do.
Traditionally many Americans begin a diet the first week in January and "blow" it the second week. Healthy Weight Week, the third week, is a time to stop dieting for good and help people normalize their lives. It’s a welcome antidote to the dieting and bingeing that typically begin the New Year!
Healthy Weight Week promotes healthy non-diet lifestyles for children and adults of every size. It helps them move ahead to healthy habits they can live with long term – sound, reasonable habits that allow them to live well and get on with their lives. Eat well, live actively, and feel good about yourself and others.
Healthy Living Guidelines (by Francie M. Berg)
Enjoy Living Actively
- Be active your way, every day
- Move for the sheer joy and power of it; moving feels good.
- Enjoy the benefits – improve health; increase energy, strength, endurance, bone mass and resistance to illness; sleep better; relieve stress.
- Take time to care for yourself – add years to your life and life to your years.
- Fitness not weight is the key to longevity
- Be creative – enjoy movement throughout the day.
Enjoy Eating Well
- Take pleasure in eating; think of food as a friend – taste, savor, enjoy, celebrate
- Normalize eating with a stable, diet free lifestyle
- Eat at regular times, typically three meals and one or two snacks to satisfy hunger
- Meet your body’s nutrient and energy needs; enjoy all five food groups – grains, fruits, vegetables, meat and alternates, milk and dairy.
- Enjoy variety – learn to like new foods.
Respect Yourself and Others
- Celebrate and enjoy your unique self.
- Relax and relieve stress in your life.
- Take time for yourself every day.
- Accept your appearance, size and shape.
- Think critically of media messages that portray unrealistic standards or suggest happiness is based on appearance.
- Beauty, health and strength come in all sizes.
- Make lifestyle changes gradually, one step at a time, small changes you can live with.
- Take what works for you, leave the rest.
- Focus on the big picture of health and well-being.
Article and information taken from:
www.healthyweightnetwork.com
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