If you've stumbled across this site from someone's graphic or link, I recommend you hop on over to WalkerTracker.com and join the community there. Get yourself a good pedometer (I love my Omron HJ-112) and keep on walking.
Thanks for your time with us!
Kim & RoseyGrape
]]>Our Time here at The Walking Challenge has come to a close, but we'd like to point you towards WalkerTracker.com and encourage you to join there and keep on walking.
Happy Walking!
I'm having some problems with the blog set up on this site, and had to disable comments, but I couldn't rebuild the site, so now the comments are THERE but don't WORK. LOL. Sorry about that.
But anyway, HEY! Are you still out there, walking?
**The Walking Challenge is now Closed**
please feel free to get involved over at WalkerTracker.com for encouragement and a walking community.
]]>August Banner:
And for those who did join in and weren't able to reach their goal this month but DID walk, August's "I walked!" award!!
Here's the URL:
http://www.myheartnow.com/content/index.jsp
:-)
Kim
But here they are, late but not TOO late! *blush*
And for those who did join in and weren't able to reach their goal this month but DID walk, June's "I walked!" award!!
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July Banner:
And for those who did join in and weren't able to reach their goal this month but DID walk, July's "I walked!" award!!
I guess I better get to work!
]]>I found a neat resource today, for anyone trying to make better healthy eating choices -- NutritionData.com
This nutrition data site analyzes your favorite packaged and other foods ...
but then, under that, there's a pull-down that says 'Better Choices" for that category.
SO I went and calculated my WW points for the 2 T. of M&Ms I plan to eat (LOL) and then saw this "better choices" thing ...
The idea is that you log everything, for now, get a feel for how you're eating, and then you start making better choices - they have a magic rating system for both how *filling* the food is, and how *nutritious* ... I don't agree that all of their choices are better - sugar free jello? But then again, I *am* comparing it to the M&M's I'm about to eat. LOL!
Anyway it's very interesting, and it would be nice if we could keep moving up the 'better choice' scale until we were eating pretty healthy, eh?
Here's a link to the M&M's analysis, and you can see the choices pull down under the pretty graphs: Nutritional Data for Peanut Butter M&Ms
And a link to their "Better Choices" concept: Better Choices Diet
Kinda Nifty. :)
]]>If you've stumbled across this site from someone's graphic or link, I recommend you hop on over to WalkerTracker.com and join the community there. Get yourself a good pedometer (I love my Omron HJ-112) and keep on walking.
Thanks for your time with us!
Kim & RoseyGrape
]]>The "goal reached" awards are now monthly, so you can make a little virtual trophy wall:
And for those who did join in and weren't able to reach their goal, there are "I walked!" awards!!
Sorry to be so slow on getting the actual list of walkers done. I haven't forgotten.
:)
Kim
If you've stumbled across this site from someone's graphic or link, I recommend you hop on over to WalkerTracker.com and join the community there. Get yourself a good pedometer (I love my Omron HJ-112) and keep on walking.
Thanks for your time with us!
Kim & RoseyGrape
]]>Here's the walking list with the updates as of Saturday I received in response to the Check-In email:
Last week's walker update:
It's never too late to join us!! To sign up for the April challenge, either drop me an email or post a comment ...
:-D
Kim
Today is a day to take off from walking, take off from working, and reflect.
Imagine waking up, heavy hearted, remembering as sleep fades from your mind that a cherished loved one, a teacher and a friend, has died. And because a holiday was coming, there wasn't time for ceremony and good-byes. And so as you wake you realize the task before you that day is to take care of those final things, the details, of saying good-bye. All the hopes and dreams you had, big ones and small ones, have been swept away as last week turned from wonderful to ugly in just a few short days, and now all you're left with is a bleak future and the task of an honorable good-bye to the dead.
So you and a friend meet, heavy hearted, in the early morning hours ...
... and discover that, beyond all hope, beyond all understanding, your friend is NOT dead, even though He was certainly so. He wasn't just saved from the brink of death, but was raised by the hand of God with all authority over death, and all the hopes and dreams you'd had when He was alive are even more hopeful and joyful, because you realize He is, beyond a doubt, who He said He was!
He, who loved you when He was living, who set your heart and mind on the things of God, who taught you of true love and true repentance, has overcome sin and evil and even death itself. He has triumphed over everything that we once needed to fear from life, and offers eternal hope to all who believe and come to Him in faith, repenting of their sins and confessing Him as Lord.
Praise God for the gift of His Son, who willingly became a sacrifice for our sins, an atonement for all that separates us from our Holy God. Praise God, who raised Christ from the dead, to set Him in His rightful place in Heaven, our Lord and our Savior.
Rejoice, today, for our Redeemer lives!
You can find this wonderful Truth in your Bible in Luke 24
]]>Drop me a comment or email, let me know how you're doing on your walking goal!
I know a few people have emailed/commented wanting to join the walk! Yes, you can join! I will get your name added to the list later this weekend, I apologize for my delays. I'll add you when I update goals, here, tonight!
For now I'm off to enjoy the weekend with extended family who are visiting!
Squeeze in a walk with your families, for fun!
Kim
]]>You can.
Step by step, day by day, when you make the choice to get up and walk, you will see a difference in your health.
I started using my walking DVD's at the beginning of January. When I first started, I could hardly do the 1 mile walks. It was discouraging, but I kept at it, and it was not long before the 1 miles were easy and I could move on to the more challenging 2 mile walks. Now I can do 3 and even the 4 mile walks without too much difficulty.
You can do it too. Don't give up because it seems hopeless. Don't give up because you get winded just doing half a mile. The heart and lungs need to be challenged a bit to start improving. When you are huffing and puffing, that's really when you are making progress.
Keep walking. Don't give up. And if you haven't started yet, make today the day when you put one foot in front of the other and begin your journey.
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