Weeks Five through Eight did not vary enough from the previous four weeks for me to have much to say worth sharing. In this final report I will focus on what I learned through setting out this personal challenge. Again, a reminder of my goals: eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories, walk atContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge Final Report”
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Eight-Week Challenge: Week Two
Week Two: not much difference from Week One. Again, a reminder of my goals: eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories, walk at least 5,000 steps per day, spend one day a week reading the backlog of magazines sitting on the end table, and write at least 500 words per day for at leastContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Week Two”
Eight-Week Challenge: Preparation 2
Get More Exercise My second 2017 eight-week challenge goal is Walk at least 5,000 steps per day. Yeah. That’s only half the distance I should be walking each day. But it’s a lot more than I’ve been walking recently. You know, in winter it was just too cold to go outside to walk. Driving to a mall might tempt meContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Preparation 2”
Eight-Week Challenge: Preparation 1
Make Better Food Choices My first 2017 eight-week challenge goal is eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories. I was doing so well last year. I had adopted Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s recommendations in his book, Eat to Live, and was benefiting from not only the promised weight loss (with the more important reduction inContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Preparation 1”