Every Day, Just Do It!

Posted Friday, November 20, 2009, at 1:44 PM

I'm not a nutritionist or a personal trainer but I know what has worked for me. With the Holidays looming and New Year's resolutions right around the corner now is as good a time as any to begin. Begin taking charge of your health, your moods, your eating, your activity, your life. Why wait? Start with a 15 minute walk everyday at the same time. Set it like an appointment. Vow not to miss it. Set a goal. "Today I will walk for 15 minutes." Then do it. Daily exercise improves not only your physical health but your mental health as well. Winter is coming and sunshiny days are numbered. Join the YMCA. They have amazing fitness classes that anyone can do. Walk at the Mall when it's too cold to walk outside. Park far away from your destination and shop the perimeter of the grocery store. Cut back or eliminate sugar, white flour and salt. Instead of meat & potatoes for dinner substitute salad or fruit for the potatoes. Eat less red meat and more chicken & fish.

I have given birth 6 times. I am 40 years old and not long ago a friend of mine said to me, "Leah you were just meant to be chunky." NOT...I started with boot camp at the Y and now am an avid kettlebell enthusiast. I melted inches off my 4' 10" frame and dropped pants sizes. I have tight biceps and triceps and endurance to spare. I did it. I do it everyday. If you love your family then use them as your motivation. Good luck. If you do something for 21 days straight it becomes a habit. Start today and don't stop.

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Very good thoughts, thanks for the reminder and motivation, some of us seem to need it more than others to climb out of our own hole!

-- Posted by backintown on Tue, Nov 24, 2009, at 12:00 PM

I started "Couch to 5k" with the older kids and the dog this summer. Then I lost one kid, then the other, kept going with the dog for a while then the rain came and I have not been back out there. It shows. I will start up again. It's a very nice program -- working up from sedentary to real endurance, and loss of inches, too.

-- Posted by lakewriter51340 on Mon, Nov 23, 2009, at 12:56 PM

21 days, eh?

I will admit, I am one that always says that I will do it, starting tomorrow. And, maybe tomorrow I will :)

-- Posted by AimeeClark on Sun, Nov 22, 2009, at 1:11 AM

Hey - Is anyone out there?

Leah Cauthron

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Anything at all. I was raised on the same farm on which my dad was born. My parents still live there today. I graduated from Eastwood High in 1987 and from Eastern Wyoming College with a degree in Criminal Justice in 1989. I married Randy 19 long years ago and we have 6 children ranging in age from 3 to 18 years old. I have worked numerous jobs from detassling as a teenager, a legal secretary in California, church secretary in Iowa to a daycare provider now. I love being outside and hate doing women stuff inside. I would rather mow the lawn than do dishes or change the tire on my van than sort socks. I am patriotic, opinionated and sometimes loud. I am also a great mom, good friend and I love to laugh - I did marry Randy. I believe in common sense versus reading a book by some "expert". I don't pretend to have all the answers but I am willing to ask the questions that others are afraid to ask and sometimes to my detriment say the things that others only think about saying. I try to avoid confrontation but sometimes it finds me and almost all the time it is necessary to stimulate communication.

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