Week 48 of Health Happenings, and it's a beautiful, mild day for January in Canada. This past week I had the most exercise I've done in a single week since the very early stages of this journey.

The holiday food

New Year's Eve we ordered takeout from The Gavel, and it gave me flashbacks to the first Must See Monday where I ate food on camera. Same order: my favourite fish tacos, two kinds of wings (Cajun and Buffalo hot), coconut shrimp and more. There was also an ice cream cake.

The rest of the week was a lot of good food: steak with potatoes and cauliflower, salmon and Brussels sprouts, and tons of quinoa in all kinds of combinations.

Thirteen sessions

My normal goal is to exercise every day and get at least four walks or yogs in. This week I hit 13 exercise sessions. Some days were triple days: a walk, a yog and a weight workout. In total:

• 3 weight workouts
• 6 walks, almost one a day
• 4 yogs of 5K each

That's probably around 13 hours of exercise.

Diet still matters most

All that exercise helped protect me from the holiday food, but I've said it before: diet is the key, and exercise complements it. The scale came in at 185.4.

Since New Year's a lot of people have reached out about their resolutions and what's working for them. I'm loving these conversations. Keep them coming.

Joe is not a doctor or a dietitian. This is his personal journey. Talk to your healthcare provider before making big changes to your diet or exercise.