Thin Over 40 Journey

Journey Week 5

thinover40 | March 27, 2006 06:31

"Thin Over 40" Journey

March 27-April 2

Week 5 – Making the Most of Supplements
Thin Over 40 Journey Chat 3/23/06

Week 5 - Day 1 ExcerptToday’s Thin Thought: You don't get everything you need from the food you eat

I am so proud of you! Here we are, beginning our fifth week of the Thin Over 40 plan. This week we are going to be taking a look at the role of nutritional supplements and proper adrenal and thyroid functioning. For those of us over forty, maintaining a healthy weight and energy level can be more complicate than keeping your food intake down to a set number of calories per day. Over forty, we need to be strategic not only about what nutrients we get from food, but also about ways we can support our bodies through nutritional supplementation. The research is exciting and encouraging! Continue your daily assignments:

Drink lots of water
Bend, stretch, and move upon waking
Walk in the morning for at least 25 minutes
Keep track of what you put in your mouth
Watch your servings/portions
Watch your intake of unhealthy fats
Move more during the day
Chose a variety of whole foods over fragmented foods

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Journey Week 4

thinover40 | March 20, 2006 03:24

"Thin Over 40" Journey

Thin Over 40 Chat 3/16/06

March 20-26

Week 4 – Making the Most of Nutrition

Week 4 - Day 1 Excerpt
Today’s Thin Thought: What you eat affects how you feel.

Welcome to your fourth week of Thin Over 40! Each day you are taking the steps needed to anchor yourself to this healthy rejuvenating lifestyle. Now is not the time to think you've got this thing figured out. Now is not the time to pick and choose what you will or won't do. Now is not the time to slack off. Now is the time to recommit yourself to be Thin Over 40.

Continue your daily assignments:

Drink lots of waterBend, stretch, and move upon waking
Walk in the morning for at least 20 minutes
Keep track of what you put in your mouth
Watch your servings/portions
Watch your intake of unhealthy fats
Move more during the day

Setting The Day for Success

The Key Concept for this week is Food and Mood. What you eat really does affect how you feel. And part of the difference has to do with the way the foods you eat affect your metabolism. When you feel run down, sluggish, unenergetic, you tend to have a depressed mood. You don't feel good and your attitude reflects that.

Success in Action

I want you to take this week to record in your journal how you feel after each meal. Do you feel energized and refreshed after eating, or do you feel weighed down and lethargic? Do you experience cravings within an hour after you eat? Two hours after you eat? If you do experience write down the first food that comes to mind. What is it you are wanting? Is this a common desire?

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Journey Week 3

thinover40 | March 13, 2006 07:27

"Thin Over 40" Journey

March 6, 2006 Chat

March 13-19

Week 3 – Making the Most of Moving


Week 3 - Day 1 Excerpt

Welcome to your third week of Thin Over 40! Keep going. You are setting the stage for lifelong changes that will enhance your health, your outlook, and your life. You need to keep with it and continually remind yourself how important this is. You've come a long way so far and I want you to stay with your excellent progress! Continue to do the following:

Drink lots of water
Bend, stretch, and move upon waking
Walk in the morning for at least 20 minutes
Keep track of what you put in your mouth
Watch your servings/portions

Today’s Thin Thought: Exercise is not a dirty word. (More)

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Journey Week2

thinover40 | March 05, 2006 22:16

"Thin Over 40" Journey

March 6-12, 2006

Week 2 – Making the Most of Your Future


Week 2 - Day 1 ExcerptToday’s Thin Thought: Positive changes enhance your life.

Welcome to Week 2, of Thin Over 40! I applaud your continued commitment to achieve a healthy, vibrant, mature lifestyle. This week you will continue to do the following things:

Drink lots of water
Bend, stretch, and move upon waking
Walk in the morning for at least 15 minutes
Keep track of what you put in your mouth
Watch your servings

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TO40 Journey Goals

thinover40 | February 27, 2006 06:06

Member Wendy

My goals for the 12 weeks are to lose 20 pounds, to use the PTO and understand more about proportions of food and their individual values, to develop a consistent exercise pattern, stretch and read the book every morning and drink that water. I also want to utilize the discussion board and calendar and do as many chats as I can.

Member hopeful (Teri)

I have been praying about what my goals should be. I have been trying to do things my way for so long and not succeeded. I am really trying to seek God's will and direction.

My first goal seems to be to work very hard on the tapes that play in my head. This would include how I think and see myself, my attitude toward food, the constant comparing of myself to others, and taking on the attitudes of others (particularly my husband).

My second goal would be to blog each day during the week days. (I will try to do the week-ends but they usually are pretty crazy)

Third, I will exercise each day.

Fourth, read the message from TO40 book each day and the inspirational quotes.


Member administrator (Rich)

Until recently I have been going to the gym at least three times a week. I want to get back to going to the gym.

The days I am not at the gym I want to do at least do stretching and walk a mile.

Make sure I get plenty of water each day and consistently take supplements.

Keep my weight where it is at currently, but continue to work on belly. Need to reduce waist size.


Member beafarm (Dorothy)

Help keep me accountable. Here are my goals, short term.

1. lose 10% of my current weight=17 lbs.
2. lose it in 3 months time= March, April, May so June 1, 2006.
3. Start walking outside again no matter what the weather. Somehow I found time to do it last summer, but I can't seem to motivate myself to get it in now.
4. Journal every night
5. Start using the food journal again, everyday, no cheating.
6. Fast every Wed. for the safe return of my son from Iraq.
7. Continue drinking tons of water. No sodas, not even diet.


Member LaMarthe (Martha)

Lose 25 pounds
Read the Thin Over 40 chapter each day
Record my food daily
Stay in contact with journey members via discussion group, blog, and chat

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Week 1

thinover40 | February 27, 2006 05:21

"Thin Over 40" Journey

February 27-March 5, 2006

Week 1 – Making the Most of You


Week 1 - Day 1 ExcerptToday’s Thin Thought: Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Good morning! Congratulations on your decision to integrate the Thin Over 40 Plan into your life! Take a moment to say out loud today’s Thin Thought. Personalize it. Internalize it. Live it – love it – embrace it! Whatever you’ve tried in the past, whatever you have or haven’t done, don’t let that stop you. Commit to today, for the sake of today. Your goal is to look to the future, not be encumbered by the past.

During the next twelve weeks, you’ll be taking positive steps to increase your energy, reduce unwanted pounds, improve your vitality and longevity – through a life-enhancing plan instead of the bondage of restrictive dieting. The goal is to help you intentionally undergo a realistic, healthful, long-term lifestyle transformation. Now that you’re over 40, it’s time to readjust how you think about yourself and how you fuel your body. It’s time to re-examine the ways you deal with food. It’s time to fall in love with your body again (or for the first time) and appreciate how a healthy lifestyle can benefit you from this day forward, no matter your age.

Setting the Day for Success -

Let’s go over the 5 Success Essentials you’ll be working on over the next twelve weeks: Success Essential #1 – Intentional, healthy food and eating choices
Success Essential #2 – Increased physical movement
Success Essential #3 – Nutritional and hormonal support
Success Essential #4 – Restful, curative sleep
Success Essential #5 – Proper hydration

We’ll be adding onto each of these, but as a start, I want you to begin a couple right away.
Your daily assignments:

  • Drink lots of water
  • Bend, stretch, and move upon waking
  • Walk in the morning for at least 15 minutes

WEEK 1 Key Concept-AWARENESS

Throughout this week's lessons you will be taking inventory of the foods you eat, becoming familiar with healthy and unhealthy foods, and the foods that you have around you. PTO will be of some help with you. Be sure and use the journal.

Always remember that the Food Journal of PTO is to help you to become aware of what you are eating and to help you to change your eating habits. It is not to be used just for the purpose of counting calories. Don't put yourself into 'calorie counter bondage'.

SPECIAL REPORTS HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

The Whole-Person Approach to Weight Loss

Read this Special Report on the Whole-Person Approach.

Take a moment to think about the various diet programs you have been involved with in the past.

Do you see how they were missing some of the key components of the Whole-Person Concept?

Which aspect of your being: emotional, intellectual, physical, relational, and spiritual was not being helped in the diet programs of the past? How can the Membership Benefits of Thin for Life help you to grow in the area that was lacking in your diets?

Make a commitment to always consider the Whole-Person Approach to Weight Loss while you are on this journey.

Share Comments with others the most significant point you learned from doing this homework assignment-use the Discussion Board and Chat Room to share with other members.

SPIRITUAL GROWTH
Read a Proverb and Quote for each day of the week

In the Book of Proverbs there are words of wisdom. Each day make an effort to live according to the principles taught in the Proverb for the day. Also meditate on the quote for the day. Post your thoughts on the Discussion Board.

If Proverbs is not for you, find some other literature to read each day that will help you to grow spiritually. Improving and building up the spiritual aspect of your life is part of the Whole-Person Approach to Weight Loss. As you grow spiritually you will have more motivation to stay with your goal to lose weight.

PHOTO GALLERY

Add a 'Before' Photo to the Photo Gallery

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Thin for Life Weight Loss

thinover40 | February 19, 2006 06:22

At Thin for Life you won't find empty promises, shortcuts that don't work, or all the hype of other diet programs. That is because Thin for Life is not a diet. It is a weight loss program to help you learn to live a whole, authentic, balanced, healthy life, where you work at becoming the complete person who you were designed to be.

Thin for Life is for those who are serious about losing weight permanently. We provide a variety of membership benefits to help members to achieve their goal of losing weight permanently.

Using the Thin for Life Membership Benefits and taking 12 weeks to go through the Thin Over 40 Journey, there is no reason why anyone cannot lose weight and be able to keep it off.

To learn more about Thin for Life, go to www.thinforlife.info.

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Thin Over 40 Journey

thinover40 | February 19, 2006 06:02

We are starting a Thin Over 40 Journey on Monday, February 27, 2006.

We will be spending 12 weeks applying the principles found in Dr. Jantz's book titled, Thin Over 40. Don't let the title fool you, if you are not over 40 yet, the principles in the book are still helpful.

To fully participate in the Thin Over 40 Journey you need to become a Thin for Life Member. Learn all about the TO40 Journey and Thin for Life by going to www.thinforlife.info/journey.html.

Click here to order the book.

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Thin Over 40 Book

thinover40 | February 07, 2006 22:23

Thin Over 40
The Simple 12-Week Plan
for getting back the body you had...or building the body you've always wanted

Pick this book up, start the program,
and see the results. It's that simple.

Eliminate the bondage of restrictive dieting and the unrealistic exercise demands of other programs. If you're over forty, then this day-by-day positive-step approach for increasing your energy, reducing pounds, and improving vitality is for you—and so is the healthful, commonsense, long-term transformation.

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