The Friday Five for June 15, 2018

[spikesgirl58]

1. Do you think you have a health lifestyle?
2. What could you do to improve it?
3. Are you tempted to eat every time you are hungry or do you wait for the next meal?
4. When are you most tempted to snack?
5. Do you agree with the saying: "Eat your breakfast, share your lunch with a friend and give your dinner to your enemy" or do you think it matters?


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Comments

[lizzybuffy2008]

Thanks! I have a couple of advantages in that I really like to exercise (I have my days where I dread it, like everyone else, but am always glad I pushed through) and cooking is my passionate hobby. Also, for quite a while I have thought that a lot of the illnesses that we suffer from today are because of the crap we put in our bodies (along with the plastics we use and the pollution in the ground and air,) so I am pretty militant about where my food comes from. The not drinking soda thing is just because I did not grow up in a family that drank stuff all the time (my husband did,) so I just make water my drink of choice.

[spikesgirl58]

I used to be keen on it, too. I had a very physical job on top of it. Then I broke my back and two surgeries later, all I have open to me now is walking and swimming. My surgeon forbid me to return to the gym (I was a power lifter) or my old job. Sigh... so I walk and I swim.

I'm not militant, but I do prefer fresh (it's what I grew up with) and thankfully we live in a region of the US that produces most of what the country eats. Farmers market are year round, even nicer and we try to eat locally as much as possible.

Soda... well, I drank my share of it, then I realized that if I wanted to avoid diabetes (it runs in my family), that it was an easy way to cut sugar. Now I might have one or two a year. I prefer coffee before nine a.m. and then water the rest of the time.

Keep up the good work! :D

[lizzybuffy2008]

Oh, so sorry about your back, but at least you have the swimming and walking. I swim once a week and except for having to get up earlier to do it; love it. Coincidently, I went to a personal training day with my husband back when we lived in DC that this guy who used to have a column with the Post held. He was a former power lifter that coached and tried to recruit me to join his team...At the time, I was not so in love with being as muscular as I have the ability to be, so (hopefully graciously) declined.

[spikesgirl58]

Yeah, the back is the back. It works pretty well as long as I don't try to do anything I' not supposed to. Have a ten pound weight limit sucks, though.

Good for you. It's not all it's cracked up to be.