Help Live a Healthier Lifestyle

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* Kick the negative thinking and replace it with positive thoughts. It will be constant for now and will soon become a "good" habit. You are what you think and thinking positive thoughts helps create that reality. You are worth it!
* Try to find some "me" time for yourself. Even if it's only 15 mins/day to start out with.
* Take a yoga, spinning, step, dance class at your local gym. Don't have a gym? Can't afford one? Go for daily fast walks. See if your cable has a free exercise channel.
* Eat a well balanced, healthy diet. It's not meant to lose weight (but you will most likely anyway) but to be healthy.
* Limit alcohol and caffeine intake. Have some though if you have them now. Everything in moderation.
* Yes, go see a counselor.
* Surrond yourself with positive, goal oriented people.
* Visit your friends, talk with them on the phone, get together with them when you can.
* Treat yourself to an occasional massage, pedicure, flowers from the store, cheap magazine subscription etc.
* Laugh when you can: at yourself, at life, watch a funny movie or the comedy channel. (I swear that helps me with a lot!)
* If church is something you do, then go.
* Commit to taking care of yourself.
* Remember to be happy, laugh and love a little every day!
* Love yourself, believe you deserve good thins.
* Treat your body with love and respect: eat right, exercise and pamper yourself when you can (it can be done on the cheap...believe me.)
* Have/find a good support system.
* Believe in yourself. Believe you CAN DO ANYTHING!
Good luck, take care and hang in there. I wish you the best. :)

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Hi,

I have found a lot of great advice on taking control of my own health at www.mercola.com. There is a lot of research there along with Dr. Mercola's opinion. Also, diet can make a huge difference in how you feel. Removing or greatly reducing your intake of these items will help you feel better: refined sugar, alcohol, gluten and caffeine. I've completely removed refined sugar and gluten from my diet. I drink tea instead of coffee now, and I rarely have a glass of wine. I sleep so much better. I have more energy and I feel better. I hope this helps.

I found this website www.sparkpeople.com and I've only been using it for 3 weeks know and I like it. I track my daily food intake, water drinking, and exercise. There is so much information and support on this site and its FREE. I wanted to start my healthier lifestyle and loose 10 lbs. You might want to check it out.

I have similar issues, and am currently reading Women, Food, and God by Geneen Roth. I HIGHLY reccamend it! it's not only for women, and it's not God in the sense of the pariarchal christain god. it's about connecting with the Divinity in each of us. check out this book, I'm sure it would go great with counseling. good luck to you!

I have found that just getting up and doing something about my problems - like seeing a therapist, taking a yoga class, working out and eating healthy makes me feel like a weight is lifted off my heart because I did something to nurture myself. There have been many times I had to repeat "I am a BELOVED daughter of God/ The Universe (whatever works for you)" to myself to keep me going on my workout or the drive to therapy - often in tears - but I keep telling myself that until I start to FEEL it.
I grew up resenting being a girl for cultural and family reasons as well as the fact that I was repeatedly molested and thought if I was a boy it wouldn't have happened. I was tall and clumsy, awkward and had big feet along with a thousand other imperfections I beat myself up for in the mirror. I felt no one would ever love me and if they knew about my past they would be repulsed and reject me. So, I hated my body forthe usual things women obsess over like my weight, thighs, boobs etc. felt really betrayed by it on top of hating it for what had happened to it.
Then one day it hit me that my body was a gift and it was doing a good job of getting me around, I am not deformed, crippled or sickly so why did I hate it so much? What was so bad, so terrible? Why wasn't I taking care of it? I was mistreating the biggest gift the Universe bestows on us.
Now that I have 2 amazing children, I love my body. My thighs are fat, I've got big feet - but look at my babies that my body nurtured and protected for 9 months each!
Not bad after all.
Get a therapist - it will really change your life.

Great question. I have 2 things that are helping me tremendously. I'm reading a book right now called Beyond Positive Thinking by Dr. Robert Anthony (you could pick up for a couple bucks on half.com)
I love it. It's so practical and it really shows how we've been sabotaging ourselves and gives tips on what to do to improve our self image. A mental coach once said that "your self image will win out over will power every time"! That's huge.
The other thing I found was www.facebook.com/wellnesscorner
This is run by an amazing lady. She knows so much! and she has really great recipes. She is a great resource and answers questions, etc.
Good luck and good job!
C.

Greetings Heather,
I want to first tell you abit about myself so you will understand why I feel as I do. I was raised by an abusive set of parents, physically, sexually and mentally. They were not very healthy in many areas of thier lives. That said--- my siblings and I all agreed that we were going to be better in at least one area than our parnets. All of us have done it in spite of what we were told about our chances. I am blessed with 5 children and didn't have to repeat any of the things my folks did becasue I knew my children were worth more than that. Yes, I have the so called tapes in my head but it has not stopped me from being the woman I was meant to be. I had an Aunt and Uncle that stepped in firmly and with love and literally took me by the neck at about 15taught me things I'd never heard of like modesty, repeling people with my language,that I had survived my family then I could survive anyone or thing else.They have always been there and until I started telling them what was going on the family secrets had been well kept. They never judged nor did anything but love us kids. So I was truley blessed and watched over.
I gave up along time ago blameing my parents for stuff. What a wasted effort. I did have my children ask my father about his actions once and why my children were the only ones that knew him... His answer was great-- Becasue your mother forgave me even when I didn't deserve it. Do we have a relationship now? no. Do I need a Norman Rockwell family? no. What I have to do is accept that not all that I was taught and saw was good and that I am in charge of what I say and do not another person. ME why give someone that I don't need to, power over me when they are not in the room/ in my life. So let go of the blame and just accept responsibility for yourself and let the rest go-- some people do not have the skills to be parents and some are great to watch from afar and learn from. I am one of those that has raised many foster children and the reward is when one comes back (we are close to several) and they tell me that the foundation I set and the boundries I taught gave them courage when they needed it. I have one who is a riot she says I could picture you and dad sitting there reading either westerns or scriptures and no matter who came in with us you'd start saying we're getting to the best part come join us. and when I was in a bad place I could see you. I have one that said she knew she'd be able to love becasue I had told her I had and it wasn't going to bethat hard once you are ready..she has 4 children that are a treasure.
So find a way to hug and love the child that was hurt, call her by name. Then relaease her and become day by day the woman that you want to become.
I am one that believes in you.

Hi Heather,
Check out this website. It gives you so many ideas (daily) on how to take care of you and your family.

www.FlyLady.net

I love it!
Lucy B.

www.sparkpeople.com is a great site that I just started. Free and comprehensive. Has tools about dealing with emotional eating, nutrition, exercise, etc.
www.realage.com
I have some similar isues and it is really hard to "change your mind". Right now I am working on just changing habits a little at a time.
You are worth it. For yourself, and for those around you. You can't take care of others unless you take care of yourself.

Blessings,
M.