Nutrion, Strength and HealthWelcome to MyWeightGraph.com. This is purely informational site designed to educate the reader about ways to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, body, and lifestyle.
MyWeightGraph.com features nutritional information, tips about gym equipment, the best home gym equipment, strength training, aerobics and cardio training, and tips for altering your lifestyle and extending your life.
Stop kidding yourself – surgery, wonder pills, and wishful thinking will only get you so far to achieving the body image of yourself that is locked in your dreams. Americans today have a long road to physical fitness and the only way to get there is through healthy eating and getting regular exercise.
The biggest step to take when changing your lifestyle habits is, ironically, to take small steps. You will fail to change your bad habits if you try to change all of them at once. The best way to begin changing is to change one eating habit and one sedentary habit each week. Slowly changing behaviors is what turns them into good habits.
For instance – consult a nutrition site or book and choose a behavior that seems manageable to you – such as drinking the suggested amount of 2 liters of water per day. At lunch, don’t choose Coke or Sprite, choose water. Yes, adjusting hydration strategies is a good idea, but there is no technology that can replace the benefits of plain old water – at least 8 cups a day. Myth or no, 8 cups a day of water can only increase your body’s good health.
Also, try parking farther away from your work and walking. Or use the stairs instead of the elevator. You might be pleasantly surprised how much healthier you will feel just beginning these two behaviors and sticking to them.
After the first small steps, begin to add more steps. Develop a meal plan with menus to make shopping faster and easier. There are plenty of books (to borrow or buy) and Web sites available (most free of charge) – it’s up to you to find one you can work with, or consult a professional nutritionist if you don’t want to think about your own lifestyle.
Buy a temporary or trial gym membership and a few sessions with a personal trainer. A personal trainer will help you identify your personal fitness goals and the best way to get there. Once you are familiar with the workouts and machines best suited to your fitness goals, you can even begin building your own home gym. Or get a more permanent gym membership if going to the gym is what motivates you.
The most valuable lessons you can learn about yourself in this scenario are self-discipline and what motivates you to live a more healthy life. A lot of the physical fitness and nutrition battle is mental and discovering positive, healthy ways to reinforce your new way of thinking will pay off when it comes to changing your new good behavior into new good habits!
Other helpful sites with information about nutrition, health and fitness:
USDA Personal Eating Plan - http://www.mypyramid.gov/
Fitness Learning Center - http://www.americanfitness.net/fitnessequipmentlearningcenter.html
Government information on food and human nutrition for consumers - http://www.nutrition.gov/
Fitness Equipment - http://www.americanfitness.net
The World’s Healthiest Foods - http://whfoods.org/
Yoga - http://www.bewellyoga.com
Dietary info from the United States Department of Agriculture - http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=4&tax_level=1&tax_subject=256
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