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your BMI? A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered to be in the “normal”

range. Don’t let your’s creep up this holiday season. Check it out at www.lonestartnow.com. Just click

the BMI button on the home page.To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.

Pay Attention to Portion Size. It’s the easiest way to begin controlling the amount you eat.

The secret is moderation—not denial.If

you’re

standing

in the buf-

fet line, look for

positive substitutions

(such as more veggies)

rather than high-fat, fried, or

heavy cream-based dishes. Think

“positive choice!”

Get moving. Did you know that taking the stairs for a total of just 2 minutes, five days a week gives you the

same calorie-burning results as a 20-minute walk? And,

you’ll burn 100 to 140 calories. Look for ways to get

your body in motion.

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7 Mind the Christmas cookies. Eating just 3 Christmas

cookies a day can

add one to one and a half

pounds a week.

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Add more protein

and save as many as 200 calories a day. The more protein you

eat earlier in the day, the fewer calories you tend to consume during the day. Try a hard-boiled egg or

part-skim mozzarella cheese stick.

Sit up straight to eat and hold in your abdominal muscles, and you’ll eat 10 percent less. (Builds great abs, too.)

Sugar! The average American

eats about 150 lbs. of sugar a year. One Candy

Cane = 8 teaspoons of sugar. You’ll need to walk 17 min-

utes to burn off this “sugar on a stick.”

Life itself is the proper binge.

Aim for what you genuinely desire, not

just what you think is possible. Step

by step, little by little does the

trick.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are

doomed if you don’t try.

If you really want to do something you’ll find a way. If you don’t you’ll find an excuse.

The “average” holiday meal totals about 3,000 calories and 229 grams of fat, and that’s without seconds. You’ll need to walk

29.15 miles, or 58,300 steps, assuming you cover one mile in 2,000 steps, to walk that meal off. That’s not your leisurely

stroll-around -the -block.

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Begin to think of yourself as

becoming the person you want

to be.

It’s easier to act one’s way into better feeling than feel one’s way into better actions.

Don’t dig your grave with your own knife

and fork.

I think I just ate my willpower.

Opportunity knocks, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Following these few simple steps now, will give you a healthy head start in the New Year Year.

©LoneStartNow

Did you know

adults gain two hours of life

expectancy for each hour of moderate

physical activity?

Whether you think that you can o r that y o u c a n ’t , y o u are u

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Here Come The Holidays —Again!

10 Tips to Get You Through the Holidays

Let’s celebrate this season remembering, in part, that we can all make modest and meaningful changes in our daily wellness behaviors. Let’s make 2016 “The Year of Health.”

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