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Dear Readers, Thank You

We can train ourselves to pause for important things…sunsets, our health…

How important is your health?

Thank you if you clicked through for the first time, simply because you were unaware.

You know, there are those that have clicked through from Mid Life Celebration, saw Lane 8 as a diet & exercise blog, and bailed.

Regulars and newbies, any thoughts? Maybe you see something I don’t.

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Track Your Health Progress

We are visual people and need proof we can see. So track your progress.

Determine what metrics you want to track and a process that’s easy to execute.

In a simple folder, I use single sheets of 8.5 x 11 paper to log all 7 days cardio (run/walk), with a section to log gym (strength/core) workouts. There’s space for a few comments too.

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Play Games

Is it healthy not be too serious? To have fun too?

Exercise & dieting to lose weight, or maintain a healthy weight, can be painfully boring. Here’s how I play games to battle motivational fatigue:

  1. Remind myself how great I feel compared to when I wasn’t healthy
  2. Simply smile when people say you don’t need to worry about health
  3. Enter age-group competitions
  4. Create powerful mantras

Never get bored with the basics and tune out the prevailing societal, negative psycho babble.

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Plan Ahead

Often, to keep it simple, less is more…

Life is good. Life is crazy busy too. Here’s what I do to plan ahead for a healthy year. I start at year end with a calendar for the upcoming year:

  1. List all upcoming health checkups, routine or otherwise
  2. Brainstorm when they can be scheduled, looking at big picture
  3. Make the calls to schedule them
  4. Advise work & Family

This is step one. Simple, but not easy. Procrastination is the devil.

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