Wellness

We Want Your Comments! 

Share Your Experiences and Wellness Journey

Do you have a success story you want to share around weight loss, healthy eating, fitness or any other health improvement success you've made?

Please send a short summary along with any supplemental materials (ie. photos, etc.) to Julie Chobdee, MPH, Wellness Program Coordinator.

** Please indicate if you would like your summary posted on the UCR Wellness website.

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 Hi Julie,

Thought I would share my success story. I attended your Physical Wellness workshop some weeks ago. I used to grab breakfast at Starbucks and coffee almost everyday. It was my New York habit. Since your workshop, I am having all my meals at home and have not skipped breakfast-I have whole grain cereal with fruit and skim milk. I did not completely cut off caffeine or Starbucks but limit it only to Sundays (kind of my reward for being good for the week!). Saved about $5/day I was spending at Starbucks.

I think the key to consistency is to start slowly. I'm slowly adding in physical fitness.

Thanks, your workshops have been truly helpful to me as a new employee at UCR. I look forward to the Social Wellness one next week.

Regards,

 Zaid

 Zaid K. Ghori

Coordinator of International Marketing

International Education Programs

** In 4 weeks, Zaid's lost 7 lbs!

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Testimonial from Walking Fit participant:

I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know what kind of an impact something as simple as measuring ones steps can be.

Tomorrow will mark my one year anniversary with a pedometer.  It hasn't been completely easy...at first the pedometer I had kept "zeroing" out, and I didn't even dunk that one in the water!  I lost a lot of steps in those early weeks.

There were times when I forgot to wear the pedometer, or would have a dress on, preventing me from attaching the pedometer to something. 

Mostly, though, I wore that thing as I do today, measuring and walking and wondering just how far I could go.

When I first joined the walk(ing) fit program, I had no idea how many steps it took to go through my daily life.  I don't wear it (generally speaking) on the weekends, unless we are power walking (like at Disneyland!) and sometimes, when you are not feeling well, who wants to walk?!?

But having said all that, never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that one year later, I could say that I've been able to officially count over 2.5 million steps!  WOW!  I'm even in the top 10 for year and career (and, over the Summer, I was even in the top 10 for the quarter!)  This goes beyond anything I could have imagined. 

I battle with weight issues, and with diabetes, but thanks to the incentive of health, my numbers are better than when I started with the walking fit program.  I'm not at my ideal weight yet, and there are days that are better than others, but this kind of self-awareness, this self-acknowledgment that even I can do this...is as satisfying as anything else I've done for myself - health-wise.

My thanks to you and to the walking fit staff for setting our feet upon the path, every step does count!

Julia D. Ree, Library

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