Add some spice to the Get healthy club!

So, I have been missing hearing from everyone on the e-mails, but I understand that writing the meals down has become not as helpful as it was before, which is very much understandable. I haven't been doing so well with my meals and I know I have been less than inspirational with what I have been eating. lol
However, I have a new idea to get things going again, and making the get healthy club back to being loving, inspirational, and helpful again.
I am so glad to have a group of loved ones with the same goals in mind, and sometimes being healthy doesn't just come from watching our food and exercise actions, but from having knowledge of everything and how different foods and environments and how they affect us. Having the knowledge in itself can be just as inspirational to wanting to keep our body's free from the things that tire us and cause ailments.
So For this week, we are going to focus on gardening. In our e-mails I was thinking it would be fun to start writing essays, long or short, on different topics and ideas to add more wrinkles to our brains. : )
I sent out some info that Elisa gave me on what I can do to help my strawberries grow well. Having a garden is one key I believe to living healthily, because it takes time and effort, resulting in a desire to make it worth while, so we want to include the veggies and fruits in our meals which would result in us eating healthier and treating our bodies to the good natural things of the earth which were intended for us to consume in the first place. Also if we can learn to create gardens, we are not only learning and preparing to have earths of our own when we reach the godly state, but we are making it possible to spend less money on groceries at the store, therefore making a chain reaction of not going to the store as often and living more frugaly and within our means, creating less possibility to be tempted with the processed foods that the outside world thinks are more joy creating. It all works hand in hand. Keeping our lives simple allows us to have the more eternal joys than always wanting the temporary joys instead. : )
Wow was that inspirational or what? : ) jk

If you have more to add to that, then feel free!
I am looking forward to seeing your posts either on here, or the behealthy group on facebook, or in our daily/weekly e-mails! : )

February for Me!

Here are my February Habits I am creating:

Serving of fruit everyday

1 raw meal

eat every 3 hours

64+oz water

Yoga 3+ times weekly

Gym 3+ times weekly

I am also going to include 1 goal in each of these areas daily as well and will receive points for them, their chart will be separate from my physical one.

Mental: Read out of the Harvard Classics

Emotional: Donna Eden's Daily Energy Routine

Spiritual: Morning Scripture and Prayer

Excited to see everyone's goals for this month!!

I want to do...

THIS.


Anyone up for the challenge???

Before 01-07-09

 So here are my before pictures....I would almost like to say "eek eeewww gross!" but if you want to experience transformation you have to have something to transform right? So I will post pics again in 6 weeks for my halfway point and then again at 12 weeks!! 

I need to do my measurments, but here are my weight stats from mom's scale: 

Weight: 126 lbs

Fat  : 29.7 %

Water : 49%

Visceral Fat: 3 ( I think the worst number is 7)

Muscle: 84 lbs

Fitness level: 5 ( It is 1-9 so I am in the middle, not sure which way is better)

Bones: 4.6 lbs

Calorie need: 2295

Physical age: 25

These too will be posted again at 6 weeks and 12 weeks.....

Save Money - Eat At Home

As you all know this has been my biggest issue with losing weight and being healthy. I'm actually really grateful for this economic downturn (I'm ready for it to go back up though) because it has made us cinch up our belts a little bit and, for the most part, stop eating out. We have been consisting on mostly a fast food diet. I'm talking 3 meals a day. We were spending between $800 and $1000 a month on eating out and the occasional groceries. It was not healthy for us and I'm glad that we're kicking the habit. I've been able - so far - to cut our bill almost in half by buying groceries and cooking.

Here is a great article on eating at home, cooking and grocery shopping. All while saving money.

It is my goal to continue doing the grocery shopping and cooking so that we can eat healthy and save money. I am also looking into couponing to save even more. I have a friend who spends $50 a month on all her groceries, diapers, formula, toilet paper - EVERYTHING. How nice would that be? It seems like every time I go into the grocery store I spend at least $100. Yikes!

This is my beginning of the year, before picture.
My goals this year are to tone my waist area, and lose 15 more lbs. I lost 23 lbs. last year, so if I just do what I did before, hopefully it won't be to hard. My goals for this month, are: Get in the habit of :
Drinking 64 oz. water a day
Eating atleast 1 fruit per day
1 serving of veggies a day
2 servings of protien a day

Dr. appt. for moles, and physical.
Dentist appt.

and 30 min. of exercise, any that will raise my energy more than my normal routine. At the end of January I will post my goal points and goals for Feb.

Setting Goals

Since we're setting goals for the new year I thought it might be good to read up on setting fitness goals and how to achieve them. Seems like a lot of people set goals and then never get to them. I'm finding that setting small achievable goals makes all the difference. You set a goal to lose 5 pounds it feels like you can get there. But set a goal to lose 35? Whoa. Way big goal. You may or may not get there. Here is an article that's really good about setting achievable goals. And here is one about figuring out what kind of goal to set and how to get there.