Are you familiar with the flylady system with babysteps to teach you new habits for keeping your home in order? I made babysteps in order to teach myself new eating habits simular to the flylady system. The members of my forum and readers of my website used this system along with me and all of us lost a minimum of 5 pounds in the 30 days!
The steps with a * are to be repeated everyday.
For example day one drink 1,5 liter of water day two drink 1,5 liter of water and eat 2 pieces of fruit. These steps are going to become your habit and doing these lil things daily will change your way of eating forever.
Day 7, 14, 21 and 28 are fasting days on those days you are only allowed to drink fresh fruit and veggie juices, water, veggie or chicken stock and herbal tea. I fast as a way to release the week and prepare for a new week mentally and spiritually, it also helps the body to release toxins (wich cause weight gain) and to heal. I fast with water only but that is not recommended when just start! (Read this for some more information and tips on how to start http://www.healingdaily.com/juicing-for-health/how-to-fast.htm) I fast on sundays but you can choose any day that works for you.
Day 1) Drink at least 1,5 liter water each day *
Day 2)eat 2 pieces of fruit *
Day 3)rub yourself from toe to shoulders with firming bodylotion *
Day 4)replace one snack with a healthy snack of choice *
Day 5)get up 15 minutes earlier and eat a healthy breakfast *
Day 6)prepare yourself for fasting tomorrow (light meals non-fat)
Day 7)fastingday
Day 8) make a control journal ( I use a a5 map with plastic cases inside to slip in ideas, recipes etc and some lined paper to journal)
Day 9)search the net and magazines for healthy snack ideas and put them in your controle journal
Day 10) weigh your dinner *
Day 11) go on and find some more recipes and ideas for your controle journal
Day 12) make a healthy filling lunch for example 2 slices of whole grain bread with some cheese (or lean meat if you eat meat) tomatoes, lettuce and on the side a nice cup of tomato or other veggiesoup*
Day 13) prepare for fasting (see day 7)
Day 14) fastingday
Day 15) go on and find some more recipes and ideas and file in your controle journal
Day 16)no more solids after 8 p.m. (get some different flavors of herbal tea to help when you feel a urge to eat)*
Day 17)build up a sweat for 20 minutes a day (doesn't matter how, go jogging, go to the gym, do jumpingjacks at home, just break a sweat!)*
Day 18)write away negative thoughts (seeing these horrible things our minds tells us on paper will soon help to shut up up the negative innervoice)*
Day 19)ask your partner to give you a nice massage (or splurge and get a proffesional massage)
Day 20)find inspiration for your contole journal. prepare for fasting
Day 21)fastingday
Day 22)find pamperingmissions for your controle journal. Make it a habit to pamper yourself at least once a day *
Day 23)walk around the corner on your break the fresh air will help you concentrate better at work, if you are a sahm take the kids to the nearest park for a quater of an hour. It will do you and them a world of good!*
Day 24)take 1000 mg of vitamin c daily (this will help the skin to stay firm while loosing weight)*Day 25)on the right track? Check here to see if your daily intake is what it should be (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/pyramids.html) and pls remember portion control!
Day 26)Try a new veggie!
Day 27)Yeah you have been moving for 20 minutes daily for 10 days now! Time to kick it up a notch and make it 40 minutes a day! * (prepare for fasting)
Day 28)fasting day
Day 29)find some new inspiration for your controle journal
Day 30)congratulations you've build a health routine for yourself! Keep up the good work!
Because this is a refresh course ;-) for me I decided to do more than one step at a time.
So far I drank 1,5 liter water today and it's only 1:30 pm. I was dreading fruit again (I think it's the antibiotics everytime I take them I loathe fruit) but I forced myself to eat some anyway. So I made a fruitsalad with peer, apple and banana and shared it with my lil man. It was fun eating it since lil man decided that he would pick wich fruit we would have in wich order before I knew it the plate was empy :-D
I had 2 slices of wholeweat bread toasted with aioli ( I am so addicted to this stuff poor dh I smell of garlic all day) and I am going to make some tosti's for me and the lil man now. Right on track not bad for a strayed weightloser (<---- is that a word lol)
Okay my coffeecup is empty, time to get moving again. (As you can see I am taking this blogging thing a bit more serious now 
Blessings!
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Well done on taking babysteps. It sounds like a fantastic idea! I am doing something similar with some ladies on a forum. We decided to have a year long life changing plan instead of being on a diet. I'm going to try and change something every week and stick to it.
I like the idea of fasting once a week and writing down the negative things. What do you do after? I'd burn it, or maybe tear them up while saying a positive affirmation. I'm glad you're taking blogging seriously, when I finished writing my little piece I'll come and check up on you, see how you're doing.
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