10.25.2007  BY ELASTIC WAIST

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Victoria Moran has got the tips, tricks, and suggestions to help us all start living a better life, starting today. This isn't the dress rehearsal, yo! Add your questions and tell Victoria how much you really, really like her in the comments.

When you gotta work for a living, it's easy to end up feeling like we're walking in a worn path from work to home and back again. How can we get the most out of our days?

Promise yourself that every 24-hour period will get a little sparkle: lunch at a different restaurant, an hour at a coffee place with a book you’ve been dying to read, skipping the gym for once and climbing a rock wall instead.

For those of us who haven't yet read Fit From Within, what are the top three things we should keep in mind everyday?

1. Get over dieting—really, truly over it. Instead, think in terms of treating yourself well with what you eat. If you had a 5-year-old, how would you feed her? Lots of junk food? Of course not. Never a treat on a special occasion? Not that either. Treat yourself as if you loved yourself that much.

2. Eat three meals a day. This is controversial with a lot of experts expounding the benefits of grazing, but the problem with overeating isn’t starting, it’s stopping. If you only start three times, you only have to stop three times. And the world is set up for breakfast, lunch, and dinner—be part of it.

3. Keep it in the day. All you have to do is treat yourself well and avoid eating for a fix from the time the alarm rings till the time you go to bed. That’s it. This is not how you’ll look at the wedding or the class reunion. It’s just making a point to eat as well as you know how today (and get some exercise while you’re at it). The rest of your life will take care of itself.



2 Comments

Marianne said:

Thank you for this - I really needed this kind of reminder today.

Lori W. said:

I'm rereading Victoria Moran's book, Fit from Within. It is an awesome book and she had me with her suggestion of eating out for the few couple of weeks starting a new program. (It makes sense the way she suggests it.) But it's not just practical advice -- it's thinking about our insides and how we see ourselves and ways to accomplish that.

I want to read more about stopping our own scripts of self-loathing and see what we do as something good for a change. We're not superwomen but we're not nobodies either (that is just all wrong grammatically I think and probably Exhibit A for what I just said, sigh).

Thanks Victoria for your great books!

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