Week One - The Revival

Pounds lost: 0
Pounds to go: 40



Confessions


Well, I have regained everything I lost (not that it was much) at the beginning of the year! Ugh! So it's time to start over. And just in time for the holidays!




What Worked for Me


This is what I hope will work for me this week - to get my motivation back for walking. Maybe it will help some of you, too.

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ~Edward Stanley

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. ~Plato

After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile. ~English Saying

The best six doctors anywhere

And no one can deny it

Are sunshine, water, rest, and air

Exercise and diet.

These six will gladly you attend

If only you are willing

Your mind they'll ease

Your will they'll mend

And charge you not a shilling.

~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. ~George Macauley Trevelyan

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states. ~Carol Welch

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. ~Joey Adams

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. ~Soren Kierkegaard

Your body is built for walking. ~Gary Yanker

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. ~Joan Welsh

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ~Henry David Thoreau


A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White

Recipe



Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies


2 c. canned pumpkin
1 box spice cake mix
1/3 c. mini chocolate chips


Mix it all together, and place rounded tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 14-18 minutes. Delicious and low-fat!