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Yvonne McCoy on October 27th, 2009

Don’t think so?
Women’s Health quoted a poll of over 6,000 people, conducted by the Institute for Medicine and Public Health that we spend an average of 56hrs a week sitting! That’s 1/3 of our time. Add another 50+ hrs for sleeping and you have only 60 hours left to be active and have a [...]

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Yvonne McCoy on September 27th, 2009

14-Day Super Highway Plan Results
The results are in…
I thought it only fair to share the results of my 14-Day Super Highway Plan. Here are the goals and what I learned:
1. Lose lbs 6 – I lost 3.75lbs which is in the healthy 1 to 2 lbs a week range. Remember this is the net loss [...]

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Yvonne McCoy on September 20th, 2009

Day 7 of 14 Day Plan
Scored  6
I won’t bore you with details. I’m going to weigh tomorrow.
I do know several things:
1. I look and feel rested. Getting a more sleep and exercise must have helped.

2. My face is breaking out. This seems to happen whenever I start to lose weight faster. It might be [...]

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Yvonne McCoy on September 19th, 2009

Day 6 of 14 Day Plan
Scored a 6.
Glad the week is over. With the weekend coming, I have more time to make some headway on some of my actions. I also have more time for distractions!
Just as important as what I am consistently doing, is what I have not done.  I am going to focus [...]

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Yvonne McCoy on September 17th, 2009

Day 5 of 14 Day Plan

Scored a 7.
I think there must be a full moon. Clients were changing times. I was trying to keep on schedule and a couple of things fell through the cracks or were reorganized.  I had 2 hectic days, back to back! So I guess I should be glad I scored [...]

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Yvonne McCoy on September 15th, 2009

Day 3 of 14 Day Plan

Yesterday was better. Scored a 7.
I found a site that might be helpful to increasing your exercise:                               http://walking.about.com/cs/howtoloseweight/a/calcalculators.htm
I always walk farther when I am using my pedometer.
A pedometer can be tricky if you have a mushy middle. It will jiggle and count steps incorrectly. You have two options: 1) Keep [...]

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Yvonne McCoy on September 13th, 2009

Day 1 of 14- Day Super Highway Plan
Today is day 1 of my 14 day Super Highway Plan. The purpose of this plan is to increase my weight loss accountability by tracking health actions.  I have listed my 4 Goals & 10 Actions below. If I do each thing, I will score a point for [...]

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