Make a Change Monday - Week 6

Happy Monday!  What a crazy, busy, wonderful weekend I had.  I left Thursday evening to go to the Transformed women's retreat with 24 ladies from my church.  What an amazing time we had!  There is no way to sum up everything from the weekend here, but I promise there will be bits and pieces shared throughout the rest of this year from what I learned.  We got back Saturday evening.  Sunday morning was church and then off for a 2 hour drive to Evansville to celebrate my nephew's fourth birthday.  We got home late last night and today has been spent playing catch up after leaving hubby and the boys home alone all weekend!  If you follow me on Facebook you know that I am benched from the gym or exercise due to a back injury for the next two weeks.  I am really trying to not let that get the best of me!

Now off to our small change for the week!

Before the close of 2014, I signed up for a 52 week challenge that was based on making one small change per week to become a happier and healthier person. This is hosted by a "new to me" site I have been following called the Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans. Click here to go to their challenge page, and check out their site for some other awesome stuff while you are there. This challenge is based off of the book "52 Small Changes: One Year to a Happier, Healthier You" written by Brett Blumenthal.

This week's small change will be SUPER easy for me.  The change for week 6 us ti take a multi-vitamin everyday.  While it would be great to think that eating healthier, we would get all of  our nutrients in our food, but unfortunately that is difficult to do in today's world eating.  The book recommends taking a multi-vitamin that does not exceed the upper limit (UL) of the daily-recommended intakes (DRI) of vitamins and minerals.  The author states that too much of certain nutrients can be detrimental.  There are so many different products on the market, so take time studying to find the right multi-vitamin for you.  Here is the one I take (and this is right for ME, but find what works for YOU):

Now if you already take a multi-vitamin everyday, the extra credit for the week is to start taking a probiotic everyday to help aid in digestion and help with the healthy bacteria in our intestines.  Here is the probiotic I take (and again this is right for ME, but find what works for YOU):

So here is a summary of our weekly changes so far:

Week 1 - Drink half of your body weight in ounces everyday.

Week 2 - Get 7-8 hours of GOOD sleep each night.

Week 3 - Implement regular and routine activity into your lifestyle.

Week 4 - Keep a food journal.

Week 5 - Develop an optimistic outlook.

Week 6 - Take a multi-vitamin.

By making one small change each week this year, we will be making huge steps towards becoming happier and healthier!

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Sending you all love and healthy wishes!

Keep Losing,
Kari