Healthy Habits

In order to keep us focused on creating and sustaining healthy habits, we're going to have a monthly healthy habit challenge and invite anyone who wants to set a personal healthy habit goal for the month to turn that in to Becky by September 5th.  I'll put the personal goals up along with the monthly challenge under the Healthy Habits tab.

At the end of the month, we'd love it if anyone who met their goal, or participated in their monthly challenge to share.

Speaking of sharing:  you may notice that I created a facebook group for those of us who often find ourselves on facebook and see it as an easy and (less intimidating than blogging) way to communicate, and give tips, advice, updates, encouragement etc. to each other.  I'll still put stuff up on the blog from time to time especially at the end of each month and anyone is still welcome to post to it, but feel free to post pictures, stories, thoughts etc. to the facebook group too.  It's a closed group, so only members are able to see it and all posts will automatically be sent to members in accordance with your facebook notification preferences.

So with all that being said, here's September's Healthy Habit Challenge:

Eat a Nutritious Breakfast (containing at least one serving of fruits or vegetables and 2 of the other 3 food groups (dairy, grains, meat or other protein).  (*Tip: for information on serving sizes, visit the "portion sizes" link under the "Links" tab at the top of the page).

http://www.womenshealthmag.com/nutrition/breakfast-recipes

Keep it low in fat by making good food choices like using egg whites, low fat dairy products, using beans or nuts for protein instead of high fat meats and filling up on fruits and veggies.  For some healthy breakfast ideas visit http://www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org/healthy-breakfast-ideas.

Track your progress on the special calendar you were emailed and let's see who can master the Healthy Breakfast Habit.