Every day is a new day to make your life healthier than the day before.  It doesn’t matter what happened yesterday, whether you ate that cookie calling your name or were just too tired to get off the couch and go for a walk, just decide that TODAY will be a new start.

Weight loss is a slow process – it never happens fast enough.  Unfortunately, it only happens one decision at a time, one day at a time.  Even weight loss surgery is not a magic eraser to make the excess weight disappear.  Weight loss will happen (if you make the right choices), one step at a time.

As aptly said by Confucius, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”  This is true of your weight loss journey as well.

One of my other favorite quotes, which reminds me to live in the present, is one that I cut out of a newspaper years ago.  I do not know the author, but the saying is, “There are two days in every week which we should not worry. One of these days is YESTERDAY, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.  Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.  Yesterday is gone. The other day we should not worry about is TOMORROW, with its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise.  Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control.  This leaves only one day, TODAY.”

Just as this is the first entry on our new WLShelp.com News blog, so can you choose to take one step TODAY to improve your health.