Thursday, February 19, 2009

Health & Wellness Challenge! Round One - Conscious Eating


Winter view from our window.




Activity 3 - I have found that I sleep much better when I don't eat anything after dinner, not to mention the fact that I eat less. Over the past year I have found that the best way that I can accomplish this is to brush my teeth immediately after finishing dinner. I know that it sounds strange because I could always eat something and then brush my teeth again, but I rarely do. It works for me.

Activity 5 -
I could not get onto the Prevention or the aolhealth site when I tried, so I opted for a Wellness Quiz: Test Your Health IQ that I found on abcnews.go.com. It focused on the truth about some common health myths. I pretty well, getting all 8 of the questions correct.

However, I then went to Spark People to take the Fast Food Showdown SparkPeople Nutrition Quiz. I stopped eating fast food about five years ago so I guess it isn't a surprise that I only got 4 of the 12 choices correct. Still, I hate to score a 33 on any quiz. I guess I should have stopped after the first quiz.

Activity 7 - Recently (when I had a lot of very ripe bananas) I read that you can cut them in half and freeze them for smoothies. On Monday when we were off, I decided to try making a smoothie for lunch. I found a recipe for a banana berry smoothie on Spark People that I made using soy milk and soy yogurt along with the frozen banana and berries. The frozen bananas worked really well. My husband had to admit that he enjoyed his smoothie even though it did have milk and yogurt from soy, not a cow.

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