I ventured out to one of those big name bookstores this afternoon in search of cheap calendars. They’re only discounting calendars 50% so far, I’ll keep waiting until they go down to a dollar in a week or so.
In addition to deep discounts, the bookstore had set up all new displays of diet books, along with yoga CDs and assorted apparatus to help everyone get started on those 2010 New Year’s resolutions.
Every year its the same. Everyone hops on the diet wagon in January, and before the month is over, most people fall off. Diets simply don’t work, especially in the cold of winter. I encourage my clients to dump the diet mentality and to focus on bigger and better things instead. When we focus on taking better care of ourselves, unnecessary weight drops away as a happy side effect, slowly and surely. Making sustainable lifestyle changes are the secret to dumping the overfocus on dieting.
This winter, instead of dieting, why not focus on real food grown close by that you cook from scratch? Where to find that real food? It’s not as hard as you think. Websites like Local Harvest can help you find farmer’s markets and CSAs that are open year round all across the country. Simply plug in your zip code into their site and you’ll learn about all the farms, CSAs and farmer’s markets in your area.
Here in Westchester County, the number of winter farmer’s markets have grown considerably. Community Markets are running winter markets in Mount Kisco, Briarcliff, Mamaroneck and Katonah weekly on Saturdays from January until May. Westchester Department of Parks is hosting an indoor farmer’s market at the County Center in White Plains once a month.
I’ll be at the Westchester County Center Indoor Farmer’s Markets on January 3, February 7th and March 14th with Slow Food Westchester. We’ll be helping kids and their parents write letters to their Congressional representatives about school lunch reform, part of Slow Food USA’s campaign, Time for Lunch
