Today is International No Diet Day!
Today is International No Diet Day, which declares a “day off” of weight and food obsession. A lot of people are affected by how much they weight and their eating habits, so take the day off and enjoy the way you look now. 
In my opinion, dieting should be something we do because we want to be healthy, not to be dangerously skinny.
I Know, It’s Been A While…
I know I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ve been battling a cold for the past week and this past weekend. Geez, being sick really takes a toll on your energy level, and all I wanted to do is rest and get better.
Right now I’m feeling way better than I did on Wednesday - I even had to stay home from work, and then I spent my weekend celebrating my 3 year anniversary with my boyfriend having dinner as I was sniffling away. I even went to the beach, counting on the fresh air to make me feel better, and it did help. So I’m now at this point - Monday morning and still blowing my nose and coughing, but feeling ok. I would hope this will all be gone by Wednesday, but we’ll see.
I’ve been reading all the emails I’ve been getting, and I know I’m really slow at getting back to you, I will get back to you, promise!
..and I am aware of the issues on this blog - I have a bunch of fixin’ to do too!
An Alternative Way of Doing Cardio: Rollerblading!
A new week means a fresh start in eating right and exercising for me. I had planned to go running but instead I decided to go rollerblading. The last time I went rollerblading was probably in the summer for only a few minutes. So today Glen and I went rollerblading around the park. We rollerbladed around the park for about half an hour, and I definitely could feel the burn in my legs. I was curious and I looked up online to see how many calories you could burn rollerblading and it’s between 600-800 an hour, but since we only went for half an hour, we probably burned 300-400 calories.
I really like working out outdoors rather than the gym, so I’m considering getting rid of the membership and just work out in the neighborhood gym, as well as outside and home. It’s one expense that I don’t have to worry about. You can still be fit without the gym, so I’m definitely going to find different ways to exercise.
Revisiting The Big Picture
It’s been a while since I’ve written regularly, and lately, I haven’t felt the healthiest and with relatives visiting for over a month, it really made me fall off track. Now that everything is back to normal, I can get back on track. I really do have healthy intentions and I sometimes feel like I’m hard on myself, but I guess that could be both a good and bad thing.
I never felt really bad about how I look, but I do feel self conscious at times, especially when I wear clothing. Truth is as I get older, I feel more conscious about what I look like because I am getting older. I hate making excuses for myself, and in reality, I just need to push myself more, while not being so hard on myself. Pushing myself to exercise as much as I can every week, staying away from fast junk food and just educating myself on being healthy and applying that I’ve learned.
I’ve thought a lot about why I started this blog, and I know that I wanted to start this blog because it would help me lose weight, but after a while, I realized that it is a lot more than that. This blog is helping me become more aware of living a healthy lifestyle. Sure, I provide information about health and fitness, but not so much how it affects me, and the emotions that affect my health. So from now on, I hope to incorporate that into my blog. Being totally healthy is not an easy journey, but it is definitely something that can be done.
Unhealthy Places You May Not Have Thought Of
A new obsession of mine is Digg, which is a place where users share interesting links on the web. I came across this one link about The Worst Places for Your Health, and some places I was never aware of until now. Not that I’m a germaphobe or anything, but its better to be safe than get sick from something you could have prevented.
1. Your toothbrush on your bathroom sink. Being that your toilet is most likely close by, and when you flush, toilet funk is propelled as far as 6 feet, one place being your sink and everything on it! A better place to put your toothbrush is in a closed cabinet.
2. The worst place to sit on a plane - the rear. Not the best place to sit if you’re prone to motion sickness. The better place to sit is near the middle or closest to the wing.
3. Putting your handbag on the kitchen counter. This is something I’m not surprised of, since most of us put our handbags all over the place, whether it be the floor in a restaurant, workplace or even dare I say…the floor of a public restroom! A study showed up to 10,000 bacteria per square inch on purse bottoms–and a third of the bags tested positive for fecal bacteria! A kitchen counter is definitely not a great place to put your bag.
4. Setting your veggies or fruit in the sink before washing. The kitchen sink holds even more germs than a toilet does - which I never was aware of…even if you drop the perfect piece of fruit, it’s better to toss it.
5. Putting your shoes in the closet. Shoes carry a bunch of allergens and contaminants. A better place is to put them near the door, or where my family puts our shoes, in the garage near the entrance to the inside of the house.
6. Your desk at work. A computer keyboard is a mecca of germs. After hearing about someone I know getting sty’s because he would rub his eyes at his desk, I knew that I didn’t want that to happen to me. I bought some anti bacterial wipes and an aircan duster and wipe down my desk after eating lunch at my desk.
Germs are everywhere, and I know we can’t avoid them, but preventing from getting sick, I’ll take that any day!
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