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January 19, 2006
Focus on the G“Od N BWS
The New Year and your ‘Get in Shape’ resolution
Strategies for keeping that New Year’s resolution
By ROD LAMBERT
Hyeal(h Educator
With the resent onset of the
vear 2000, many people have
made that famous New Years
Resolution, o get in shape.
Well, vou are not alone. As a
matter of fact, more than 50
percent of Americans make
that same resolution each year.
As we all know, making a New
Years Resolution is easy to
muake but, keeping it is the hard
part.
The New Year is a ume to
start all over and finally start a
weight loss program or a
healthy diet. But, that enthusi
asm for exercie tends 1o fade
come Februarv when vou real
ize that losing weight is a life
tume goal and not something
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you can accomplish in a few
weeks. [ you want be successtul
at this sk, you will have 10
change the way you think
about exercise.
Adjust Your Artitude
It vou have the incorrect
mind-set about fitness, youre
already setting younselt up for
failure. Many people think of
CXEITINE as:
Punishment for bad eating
An requirement
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Time consuming,
Impossible 0 maintain over
along peniod of ime
Boring
[fany of these sound familiar,
how long do vou think youll
stick with your program?
Nobody wants 0 do some
thing paintul, boring, or oblig
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atory. Betore vou throw your
selt into weight loss, throw out
your ;mitu&s about exercise
and figure out whether these
.l(ti(ll(?(;s are true or just lies
vouve been telling yourselt for
years. Then, try a different per
spective and look at exercise as:
A break from a stresstul
workday
A way to boost energy and
mood
The only ume youll have
younself all day
A chance to get totally physi
cal and let vour mind rest
A chance to reward vour
body working so hard tor you
all day
A way to improve your qual
ity of lite immediately
Exerase is not punishment, it
is fun. It exerase is not tun to
Dr. and Mrs. James and Lucille
Reeves from Chesapeake, Virginia
celebrated their 65th wedding
anniversary recently at the home
of thelr son and daughter in law
James and Brenda Reeves. Those
attending the celebration were
thelr daughter and son in law Bev
erly and Theopolis Lawton from
Virginia Beach, Virginia; grandchil
dren Gregory Reeves, Chesa
peake, Virginla; Daryl Reeves,
Augusta Georgla; and Dina and
Terrance Wilson, Atlanta, Georgia,
great nlece and nephew Kim and
Linwood Williams, Evans, Georgia,
great-grandchiidren Kirrah, Ter
race Jr. and Taylor Wiison, Atlanta,
Georgia.
you, then find a way 1o make it
fun. Do not over work yourself.
Work at your own pace. Exer
cise is what you make it. It is up
o vou to find a system that
works for you. If you can aftord
it, consult the advice of a pro
fessional.
If you can not afford it, you can
check the internet or contact, Rod
Lambert, the Health Educator
at the Beulah Grove Center
for Community Health at
706 724.4999 or rlam
bert@development-corp.org.
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