Veggie Bee

Have you planned your fitness for the day or already accomplished it?!! Don’t let the day get away from you without planning some type of exercise, even just 10 minutes…   I know when we’re really busy it’s easy to talk ourselves out of exercise, but you’re worth 10 minutes of exercise in your day!! Start problem-solving right now how to get in that 10 minutes today!

I ran 3 miles this morning and now it’s time for some jump rope and abs!

I’m also working on a post for super tasty salad dressing ideas. I’ll have that up by tomorrow, just in time to plan your salads for the weekend. 

What’s your fitness plan for the day?!

Welcome to Veggie Bee, a blog that will focus on practicing healthy living and developing the skills you need to be successful wherever you may be on the journey to a healthier life.

Veggie Bee is a guilt-free, positive-thinking zone, which means accepting where you are on your journey to living healthier. It means that getting and staying healthy is an ongoing learning process where we’ll focus on what’s going right as well as the challenges and obstacles you face as you practice healthy living.

So what does practicing healthy living really mean? 

• Making changes that work for you. You may simply be contemplating the idea of losing weight and changing your lifestyle. You may be ready to go, but have no idea where to start. Or you may be currently maintaining a healthy life. Together we’ll come up with strategies to help you start or maintain a healthy lifestyle and the nutritional and fitness behaviors that go along with it.
• Food versus products. With all the focus on components of our diets, from carbs to proteins, from trans-fats to omega-3’s, it’s easy to forget that there are whole foods out there that are naturally created for optimal health. Food that doesn’t have to be enriched, that doesn’t have ingredients that sound like a foreign language – just whole, natural food. Don’t worry, we’ll also talk about products that are created to help us live a healthy life conveniently!
• Moving. As in, being active and moving your body more. Walking, finding activities that you actually enjoy doing, or ones that you at least don’t hate.  It’s inevitable, healthy living includes exercise for those of us blessed to be able to do it.
• Eating, not dieting. Finding foods you enjoy and strategies that you can practice that will keep you healthy over the long term, not just as a temporary fix for weight loss.
• Reality checks. Using the tools of health management to measure your progress and allow you set goals for yourself based on the reality of where you are. For some of us, it takes practice to look at our health without bias, denial or guilt. Learning to detach your worth and worthiness from the number on a scale may take time, but it is necessary at times to maintain momentum in healthy behaviors.  Weighing yourself regularly, keeping records related to healthy behaviors, knowing your health-related numbers like body mass index (BMI), blood pressure and cholesterol are all healthy reality checks to ensure you’re on the right track.
• Accountability. This may mean finding a walking buddy, joining a community of support, finding a nutritionist or personal trainer or it may simply mean setting up goals that make you accountable to yourself. It also means finding a way that works for you to keep records related to what you eat and when you move.

You can be healthy and vibrant!! I hope my passion for whole foods and fitness can help you as you make positive changes in your life. It’s time to be fabulous ~ and positively healthy!