Healthy Weight Week focuses on health, wellness Published Jan. 16, 2008 By Kristina Conwill 14th Medical Operations Squadron COLUMBUS AFB, Miss. -- Healthy Weight Week, which falls from Sunday to Jan. 26, is a time to celebrate healthy lifestyles that last a lifetime and prevent eating and weight problems. Eat well, live actively and feel good about yourself and others. It's a welcome change from the dieting and binging that typically begin the New Year! Healthy Weight Week celebrates a healthy non-diet lifestyle for people of every size. It helps us move ahead to healthy habits we can live with the rest of our lives - sound habits that prevent eating and weight problems instead of intensifying them. Traditionally Americans begin a diet the first week in January and "blow" it the second week. Healthy Weight Week is a time to stop dieting for good and get on with living our lives in healthy ways, feeling good about ourselves and others. "We want to shift our national focus to health and wellness," says Frances Berg, whose organization Healthy Weight Network started Healthy Weight Week fifteen years ago. "Diets don't work. Neither do pills or potions. What works is to develop a healthy, normalized lifestyle that allows excess weight to come off naturally. This takes time, but it is the healthy and lasting way to deal with weight," says Berg. Join the Health and Wellness Center in celebrating Healthy Weight Week Wednesday at the Fitness Center from 7 to 9 a.m. and the Medical Clinic lobby from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The HAWC will also be in the Fitness Center on Thursday from 7 to 9 a.m. During these times staff will be available to answer questions or set up appointments. Blood pressure and body fat measurements will also be available. Call 434-2477 for more information.
