Evaluating your progress - Part 2

Getting my body back - Day 35

Plan ahead

With all the other responsibilities you have to pay attention to, life could become a bit hectic at times. When your schedule is packed, you may tend to neglect some of the essential steps required to gain the results you're looking for.

Last week, I've been busy working, and found myself munching here and there on cookies. Now, I know myself, once I start, a little at a time, if I don't put myself in check, a little at a time could turn into a lot at a time. Recognizing your weakness is the first step to creating change.

What do I do, then?

Instead of waiting for when I'm hungry to prepare something to eat, I've set up some new strategies to follow:

1) Make sure I've made a salad early in the day so I could just grab it out of the fridge. If I don't have the time to stop what I'm doing to prepare something, I've already taken the time, when I was not busy, to prepare for that moment.

2) Make sure I have other easy nutritious choices available at my finger tips, like an apple or peeled carrots.

Whatever weaknesses you've uncovered in your evaluation process, make plans to address them. Stop them right in their tracks before things get out of hand.

Fuelling words: I fuel my body with nutritional food giving me the extra energy I need and promote a healthy lifestyle.

Routine: Warm-ups, stretches, aerobics, toning and strength exercises, cool down.

Visualization - keeping focus on my goal; healthy, strong and my ideal body weight and shape.

Deep breathing - relaxes the muscles and sends oxygen to the muscles where exercising alone would not reach.

Changing Inside Out Now! Getting my body back - Day 22

Taking your 'nutritional' value to the next level

Now that you've developed your writing skills (your talent), you need to find avenues to use them. Not just for your own benefit but for the enrichment of others, as well.

Using our previous example on Day 21, let's consider some places where you could use your developed ability.

1) Your local community.
- you could write for the local newspaper, covering events in your local community
- volunteer your skills for non-profit organizations within your area
- resumes for people looking for work

2) The internet - there are many sites and businesses looking for good writers for content to their websites or blogs, not just locally but also globally.

3) Your personal experiences - using your take on life can be beneficial to someone who's going through the same problem.

I've used the example of writing. But what about other talents? Take the same principles, apply them and improvise.

Think about where in your local area you could use your skills. Who are the best candidates. What about the internet? It's a vast place with many people with a variety of needs across the globe.

Brainstorm and explore new areas for use of your skills and make a difference in the world.

As I journal these insights and continue to pursue my ideal weight, it may give support and a road map to someone else who's decided to take this journey.

Fuelling words: I use my experience to challenge another to keep on keeping on until they reach their final destiny.

Routine: Warm-ups, stretches, aerobics, toning and strength exercises, cool down.

Visualization - keeping focus on my goal; healthy, strong and my ideal body weight and shape.

Deep breathing - relaxes the muscles and sends oxygen to the muscles where exercising alone would not reach.

Changing Inside Out Now! Getting my body back - Day 20

How to determine your 'nutritional' value

Your 'nutritional' value is determined by the value you add to someone's life; your fertile ground, promoting growth and enhancing another individual's life.

Your talents and abilities are potential seeds containing 'nutritional' value. When you develop them, they can be used to create and/or encourage change.

What unique talent or ability do you have? Let's consider the nutritional value of Vitamins.

Vitamin C:

Helps wounds heal: Do you enjoy counselling friends or family that are hurting emotionally? Or perhaps, you have a passion for caring for those who are physically injured.

Promote strong teeth and bones: Are you a good coach or could you be a good mentor to someone who has potential for greatness but needs to be kept accountable until they have built the strength needed to achieve their goal?

Vitamin A:

Promote growth and repair body tissue: Are you passionate about helping others move up from the place they currently are to grow and develop their talents? Do you enjoy helping people who have lost their way, made a mess of their lives and need to get back on track?

Healthy eyes: What about people who have lost their vision and cannot see the positive events in their lives? You may be the one to show them the way.

There are many ways our talents, our 'nutritional' value, once we've determined where we fit in, can make a difference. So many have begun doing so, why not you?

Fuelling words: I inspire myself that I can be an inspiration to others.

Routine: Warm-ups, stretches, aerobics, toning and strength exercises, cool down.

Visualization - keeping focus on my goal; healthy, strong and my ideal body weight and shape.

Deep breathing - relaxes the muscles and sends oxygen to the muscles where exercising alone would not reach.

Changing Inside Out Now! Getting my body back - Day 18

What’s your nutritional value?

Every fruit provides different nutritional values and benefits.

Citrus fruits and strawberries are rich in Vitamin C, and help wounds heal, strengthen blood vessels, build connective tissue, healthy gums, skin, and promote strong teeth and bones.

Carrots are rich in Vitamin A and promote growth and repair of body tissue, healthy eyes, good night vision and a strong immune system.

Our differences and variations in talents provide a wide array of ‘nutritional’ values and benefits for us and others to sustain our well-being and well rounded life.

Teachers at varied levels and fields educate our society, bringing awareness to many different aspects of our world.

Specialized doctors study in depth specific parts of the human body. A brain surgeon’s ‘nutritional’ value is rich in the knowledge of all aspects of the brain and its wiring. His benefit to society provides resolution for brain injuries, abnormalities and dysfunctions.

A paediatrician’s ‘nutritional’ value is rich in the knowledge of children’s illnesses and is beneficial to all parents as a place to go when their children are ill.

Businesses, with unique ideas, provide us with a variety of services and products to choose from making us a very rounded society.

What’s your ‘nutritional’ value/contribution? It may be to inspire, to care for the sick, to be active in your community addressing its core needs, sing songs bringing joy to your listeners, or dance adding to the ‘nutritional’ needs of others in some way or another.

Whatever the ‘nutritional’ benefit, know that you can make a valuable contribution to the health and wellness of society.

Fuelling words: I focus on achieving my goal so I can be an example to my children.

Routine: Warm-ups, stretches, aerobics, toning and strength exercises, cool down.

Visualization - keeping focus on my goal; healthy, strong and my ideal body weight and shape.

Deep breathing - relaxes the muscles and sends oxygen to the muscles where exercising alone would not reach.