Ever Feel Like This?

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----Feel Like A Blimp? The Best Advice to Offer----

Drink a big glass of water

Sometimes you feel like this because you are bloated from too much salt, water flushes your system

Evaluate why you feel like a blimp

Did you eat too much? Haven't gotten any exercise? Have a salt overload? Feel guilty?

Do something about it

Make a plan to get some exercise, take a hot bath, or take some time for yourself to reflect

Journal your feelings

Writing will unlock some of you deeper feelings. Don't think just write, walk away for a few hours, read what you wrote within the next 24 hours

So, how do you feel now? I don't need to tell you how to score the questions but if you are borderline or on the bad side of four or more questions it may be time for you to make some changes. Remember you can be proud at whatever size and shape you are but you need to be healthy!

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Can You Be Overweight And Healthy?

by: Jaime Carroll


First let's recount what the doctor's view as overweight; 20 pounds over the "ideal" body chart we see when we go to the doctors. For me, that means I can't weight more than 165 pounds, at 5'8''. So as I sit here and think back to when I weighed 165 I recall that I was a size 12. Ahhhhhhh…… a size 12, wouldn't it be nice! Realistic? Maybe, with lot's of "if's" attached to it.

So I sit here at a size 18/20 and wonder am I a healthy person? I searched through numerous sites; diet, health, exercise, obesity, food, and I find yeah, I'm pretty healthy. Scroll through the questions below and begin to evaluate where you're at. Some of the sites that I visited offered some basic quizzes to evaluate your health. That is where the questions originated from.


• 1. Can you walk up a flight of stairs briskly and not be winded? Hell ya! Give me three flights!
• 2. How often do you exercise? At least three times a week.
• 3. Do you make healthy eating choices? Yes, I make sure I choose from all of the food groups, eat vegetables every day, eat red meat once a week, and always ask to see the dessert tray when I am out to dinner.
• 4. How's your blood pressure? About 130-140/70-80, pretty damn good if you ask me!
• 5. How's Your Cholesterol? I don't have the numbers, but I get it checked once a year and was told last year that my "bad" cholesterol was LOW!
• 6. What's your family's health history? My grandmother died at a young age (67), although she smoked like a chimney, didn't eat right, and got no exercise. The rest of my family is going strong. Great-gram is 5' tall and about 160 pounds and still kickin' it at age 90! Go Gram!
• 7. Do you smoke? No. NO. No. But, I did in college for three years. Don't tell my mom!
• 8. Do you drink? Yes, faithfully! Just kidding. Yes probably about two drinks per week on average. PS: This is still proven to help you more than hurt you. One drink a day is said to keep the blood moving in your body to help avoid clots.
• 9. Are you emotionally healthy? (happy) Yes, I am a firm believer in people that are depressed or unbalanced are more apt to experience health problems. A laugh a day keeps the doctor away. And I love to smile. Did you know it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile. I tell my students that all the time!
• 10. Are you comfortable at your weight? I LOVE this question!!! Flat out, NO, I'm not. I need to loose about 40 pounds and then I could be more comfortable in my clothes, in all the activities I like to enjoy, and with my body.