Introducing water! Bottled or tap, filtered or running in a stream water is one of the single best substances you can put into your body every day, all day. It has zero calories, quenches your thirst and fills you up. It's also necessary for all your biologic processes to stay up and running and it's lack has some unpleasant side effects. Like everything else you can actually drink too much water but that is in the extreme and I'm not advocating anything extreme as you navigate that preparation holiday diet toward your weight management strategy. I think the Greeks really had it right if they truly said, "Moderation is the key".
If you paid attention yesterday I recommended you MOVE. Did you? If you walked once around your kitchen can you do it twice today? If you walked once around the outside of your house can you do it twice today? Around the block? Up to the corner and back? Was it hard? Did it exhaust you? I doubt it so try to do it again today and a little more than what you did yesterday. At the end of moving give yourself a treat! Drink a glass of water, iced, or with lemon, straight up or however you like it best. Sip it, guzzle it, or chug it but pour a glass, grab a bottle and drink it down, even if you're not thirsty. If you are thirsty your body is already telling you that you don't have enough water on board so don't let it even get that far - drink some.
Now if we were into the weight management strategy portion of our diet, I'd recommend you drink 8 glasses (8 ounces each) of water a day but we're not even sure we're doing that yet so for now try just one glass instead of something else you'd choose. Replace a cup of cocoa, a diet soda, iced tea, punch, or a regular Coke with one glass of water. When you're well hydrated on a regular and ongoing basis your skin will look fabulous! Your kidneys will cheer and you'll feel better all over because you did something just for you. And it's here we actually can begin the Holiday Preparation diet for your weight management strategy starting January 1st relatively painlessly.
Tomorrow and the rest of this week, regardless of what else you put into your mouth do drink a glass of water every single day. If you already do this, bravo! Keep it up. If you don't and you think water is boring try chilling it or squeezing a lemon into it or pretending it's medicine and drink it by tablespoonfuls once an hour but work it in. Tomorrow and the rest of this week keep moving! You don't have to run a mile, track your speed, break a sweat or go past your coffee table in the family room. If you want you can just lap that 3 or 4 times but do it intentionally and do it one more time every day then reward yourself with water.
For all you overachievers out there if you're really wanting to get going here then do what you've already done plus one and add the water. If you like water, add two glasses. Do something you can do every day this upcoming week though, won't you? I want you to be wildly successful and I want you to feel really good because you took the time and energy to do just one or two little things just for you. By the way, if you get really hungry this week, eat whatever it is you think you should because you are not on a diet! Enjoy it, savor it, love the freedom to indulge but really give some thought to whether or not you want to lose weight. We can talk about your closet next time.
Keep moving and drinking! Cheers
HV13
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