What did you do TODAY to be healthier?

[huntermj]

Working on it crash. I took friday off and bought a new fishing pole. also did you know that one day a year you can fish with a shotgun in Vermont? really you can. Everything your taught not to do in hunter saftey courses, you can do on that day. I'm going to blast some fish, LOL. That aint right.

[Winnie]

Hitting the 4week no smoking. I've put on about 7lbs though. Crash what's your secret??

[crashdive123]

Hitting the 4week no smoking. I've put on about 7lbs though. Crash what's your secret??

Congrats on the smoking milestone!

[BENESSE]

WOOOHOOO WINNIE!!!!
A month already? That's wonderful! Congrats and stay strong.

[Rick]

You go girl!!! Good for you. It's difficult for sure. Food begins to taste better and you replace one activity for another. Gaining weight becomes easy to do (I know [sigh]).

[2dumb2kwit]

Hitting the 4week no smoking. I've put on about 7lbs though. Crash what's your secret??

Good for you!!!

[Winnie]

That's the trouble Rick, food tastes better, I have a raging appetite and I love my food! I could be turning into blubber woman.

[BENESSE]

That's the trouble Rick, food tastes better, I have a raging appetite and I love my food! I could be turning into blubber woman.

Winnie, I know this isn't a substitute for food but as an appetite suppressant...make a big jug of green tea (very lightly sweetened w/honey or stevia) and keep it visible so that you can have a glass any time you have hunger pangs. In time they will subside, guaranteed, and you might have a new habit of doing something healthy. Green Tea is a miracle all around and the caffeine will keep you going.

[crashdive123]

Water, water, water. Drink a lot - it helps.

[Winnie]

I suppose drinking lots of beer doesn't count then?
Oh well, tea and water it is then....

[BENESSE]

We just started drinking non-alcoholic beer at dinner Mon-Fri (instead of wine) and it's not bad. Not great but it tastes like something's going on. A really good spicy Virgin Mary can also fool you into thinking it's alcoholic. The spiciness distracts you and after 3, you don't feel tipsy.

[grrlscout]

This morning my master cylinder finally pooped out. So I was unable to (safely) drive to boot camp.

I was already awake and dressed out though. So I queued up one of the FitTV workout shows I have recorded on the DVR.

This morning's selection was a Bollywood workout. I did a lot of rhythmic shoulder shrugging, and felt (and I'm sure looked) pretty silly. But it was something.

I finished with some weights.

I think today is the one month anniversary of me not eating meat for breakfast or lunch. I can't say that I miss it, and packing my lunch has become much easier.

[Scoobywan]

The computer tells me it's been 38 days since I quit smoking... just got back from a trip to WV helping my mother-in-law pack up her house so she can come live with us. The long car drive sucked, I guess I used smoking as a means to stay awake, had to a lot more stopping this trip. Cleaning out her garage was horrible, I can almost tell you everyone on her block that smokes just from the smell when they drove by as I was shoveling garbage out of her garage. The wanting to eat everything in the house is finally going away, my temper is getting a bit worse, I realized I could run around with the kids a bit more before I needed a break, and realized not only how bad we must have smelled, but also how bad the kids ended up smelling because of us. My girls went to stay with their aunt who smokes, and when they got back everything they took with them smelled pretty bad. I even noticed that my Peterson field guides smelled of smoke when I flipped through them to look up a couple plants. So while the cravings might still come, they are manageable... and I look at the weight gain from the food cravings as a pretty good tradeoff, it's a lot easier to diet to lose a bit of weight than it is to end up going through chemo to lose a bit of cancer.

[BENESSE]

Atta boy Scooby!
Glad you stuck in there.

[crashdive123]

Woo Hoo! Congrats Scoobywan.

[huntermj]

I quit smoking 15 years ago. Yea it smells bad, But not dieing of cancer,,, priceless.

[Winnie]

GREAT JOB SCOOBY! I've noticed the smell too. I'm glad the appetite thing will ease off. I'll be day 28 on friday.

[Rick]

Good job, Scooby. No one on the planet is worse than a reformed smoker. I hate the smell of smoke today and am offended if I get a whiff of it. Go figure.

[rudyumans]

I tied my shoe laces this morning all by myself.

Actually, I am a pretty fanatic cyclist. I am one of those annoying people who are crazy enough to ride 100 miles on any given Saturday morning in 4.5 - 5 hours (I practiced a lot) My goal is to do it in 4. I also try to eat better lately. I stopped eating cereal in the morning. To much sugar, corn syrup, and other crap. I eat more fruit and cheese ( I am a cheesehead) in the morning now.

I stopped smoking about 12 years ago. One of the best things I did for myself. If you do smoke, smoke plain cigarettes without a filter. At least you don't get any glass fibers in your lungs on top of all the other bad stuff.

[grrlscout]

I love all you quitters!!

Though I've never been a smoker myself, I grew up in a smoking household, and at family gatherings I was always inundated with secondhand smoke.

I'm asthmatic, and imagine it probably has something to do with my environment growing.

So in addition to your own improved health, all those around you thank you too! Great job!