Healthy Living - January 20-26: Healthy Weight Week

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January 20-26: Healthy Weight Week

How you can celebrate Health at Any Size

Personal activities

Resolve to stop dieting, stop focusing on weight, stop weight-obsessive thoughts. Decide it’s time to get on with living your life to the fullest and forget "waiting to be thin."

Rediscover normal eating — eating at regular times, typically three meals and snacks to satisfy hunger. Respond to your body’s internal signals of hunger and fullness — eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re full. Notice how much better you feel!

Live actively in your own way each day. Focus on the pleasure of movement and its health and energy benefits, not calories burned. Don’t overdo it, or you won’t continue. Find a comfortable level at activities you enjoy and keep it up all year.

Take 10-15 minutes in your busy day, each day, to relax and relieve stress. Use a relaxation technique, or just empty your mind and let your body go limp. Taking 30-second relaxation breaks will help, too.

Use positive self talk to increase respect, trust, esteem, and acceptance of yourself.

Respect people of all sizes, appreciate their diversity. Challenge size prejudice. Reassure others that health, beauty and strength come in all sizes.

Eat well, live actively, feel good about yourself and others. Everyone qualifies!

Educational activities

Sponsor and publicize events focusing on healthy lifestyle choices.

Sponsor a physical activity event.

Write articles for newspapers, shoppers, professional newsletters and health publications about Healthy Weight Week, being healthy at any size, and how to make healthy choices in today’s world. See website www.healthyweight.net

Write letters to the editor.

Promote Healthy Weight Week to your Internet contacts on list servs, chat groups, and address lists.

Exhibits at health fairs, libraries, malls, fitness centers, and on college campuses.

Programs at schools and organizations. Involve others in health-related activities.

Posters on bulletin boards; handouts in health centers and public places.

Radio and television: ask talk show hosts to focus on healthy lifestyle during the week, weight loss quackery on Tuesday, women’s weight issues on Thursday. Speak up.