Celebrating healthy weight month Published Jan. 4, 2007 POPE AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. -- Healthy Weight Month 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 Month 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 Liz Mumm, Health Educator, Health and Wellness Center. "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," said Ms. Mumm. Healthy Weight Month will be featured during the libraries open house in January. The first session will include Health and Wellness speakers, the dietician or the exercise physiologist, Jan. 24 from 5 to 7pm. Everyone is invited to attend. Topics will include but are not limited to: Nutrition and Fitness Resources available at the library, losing weight after 50, losing weight before 50, and losing weight before and after a baby. There will be story time and a fitness activity for the children Jan.25 at the library from 10:30 am to noon. For more information contact the library or the health and wellness center. (Courtesy of the Pope Library)