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Daily Fit Tip: One step at a time

Daily Fit Tip

Have you ever started a project and immediately felt overwhelmed? Use this trick to prevent being overwhelmed by weight-loss.

Week in Review: September 1 to September 7

If you missed our daily postings this past week, we invite you to take some time to catch up on our prior week's news and gear up for a new week of healthy living information and inspiration.

Have you changed-up your fitness routine lately? I used to squeeze in my daily walk whenever I had time. But now that we're walking to school every day, it just makes sence to keep on walking after drop-off. No more excuses! As always, if you need inspiration, you can find it in our daily posts. Here's a few from this week:

Have a great week everyone!

Daily Fit Tip: Get an annual physical

Healthy Habits, Daily Fit Tip, Diet & Weight Loss

That physical you keep telling yourself you're going to get? Hasn't happened yet, has it? Despite the new year's resolutions we make to be healthier, and hopefully happier, we can't seem to make it to the doctor. Considering physicals these days are relatively quick and painless compared to the trips to the doctor we made as children wherein all we looked forward to was the possibility of a lollipop, it would seem like a no brainer to just make the appointment and go.

The primary excuse I hear (and give myself) for not going is that most of the time they turn up nothing, which stirs up the complaint that they're a waste of time. While that is one perspective, I'd rather be told that absolutely nothing was wrong than receive bad news. If anything, a physical resulting in a clean bill of health should be a reward for hard work of eating healthfully, exercising and striving for well being.

Yes, there are those times when a physical turns up something less than savory that can lead to other tests and possibly procedures. Wouldn't logic dictate that surfacing the issue allows as much time as possible to remedy the situation? Getting a physical every year at the same time can greatly reduce the possibility of something amiss going unchecked and untreated.

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