Let’s Get Healthy Together Week 12 (With Help from the Heart and Stroke Foundation)

This post is written as part of a journey inspired by the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s My Healthy Weight Action Plan, an online tool geared towards helping you live a healthier life. Feel free to get caught up on previous posts: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11

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Here are the stats to show my progress in my “Get Healthy Challenge”:

Start Weight: 190 pounds	Starting BMI: 28.9
End of Week 1: 185 pounds	End of Week 1 BMI: 28.1
End of Week 4: 179 pounds	End of Week 4 BMI: 27.2
End of Week 8: 175 pounds	End of Week 8 BMI: 26.6
End of Week 11: 175 pounds	End of Week 11 BMI: 26.6

My goal is to reach a normal BMI which would be 24.9 (the top of what is considered a “normal” BMI) at 164 pounds and from there, I plan to reassess.

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After gaining two pounds on my vacation, I am so excited to announce that this week, I lost those two pounds! Phew – good riddance and now, let us move forward.

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Heart and Stroke “My Healthy Weight Action Plan” Update:

This week, I spent some time surfing through the FREE online Heart and Stroke Foundation My Healthy Weight Action Plan Tool in the Resource section. I focussed on the recipes and meal plan section. The recipes are broken down into different categories: breakfast, soups and dinners (fish, meat and poultry). I hope that over time a larger variety of recipes will be featured.

I love the meal plan ideas as they cover a variety of daily calorie intakes and different kinds of diets (higher carb and higher protein). The daily meal plan ideas provide you with a great guide as to how much food you should be consuming based on your caloric intake. It also gives you ideas for healthy meal ideas.

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Here is the story about a salad that I wanted to share with you from my vacation last week.

I tried to order healthy salads for my lunches and dinners while I was on vacation so that I could ensure to keep up my vegetable intake and to stay clear from the other options on restaurant menus that are nowhere near as healthy for me. I was floored at one restaurant that they had two salads on their menu that were topped with fries! Yes, you read that right. The salad that was filled with healthy greens and a grilled chicken breast was also topped with fries! Yikes. I ordered that salad because it was my healthiest option, but I asked for them to omit the fries. Ok, I’m not perfect, my hubby ordered an appetizer plate that had some fried food on it, I may have sampled a few items from that plate, but at least I held back on the fries on my salad, right?!

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This Week’s Challenges:

• As much as I have fully embraced this new way of living, I am still having quite the challenge with suppressing my cravings.

This Week’s Smiles:

• I drank my water every day. I discovered a new delicious water from my friend over at Just Us Girls

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• I had two amazing workouts: one at home with my son doing Zumba and Dance Central on the Xbox Kinnect and the other was going out line dancing with some girls (what a blast and such great exercise!).

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Here are the Blog Hops if you are interested in checking them out:

Some of my friends who are also trying to be healthier and are blogging about it are:

• Adventures in Miscellany
• Canadian Coupon Mom
• Kat’s Confessions
• Little Miss Kate
• My Little Review Corner
• Pampered Patty
• Sober Julie
• Whispered Inspirations

Ok, your turn. Tell me about a healthy meal that you made this week!

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