…I took tape measurements this morning. What’s one day? I was super curious to see if any progress had been made as far as inches (or, lost inches *crossing fingers*) on the ole bod, especially considering I’ve been failing wildly in seeing any progress on the scale. I had a hard time waiting a whole month, but I think it was a good idea to do measurements monthly insead of weekly or even biweekly. And tomorrow, per the usual, I will post some pics. But, I just couldn’t wait until tomorrow to check my tape measurement results.
Let me say, I measured and remeasured because I thought that I was reading the tape measure incorrectly. Each time, I got the same measurement. So, here are the results (actuals posted on the Tape Measurements page here on my blog):
I lost 1/4 inch off my left arm, a smidge of the right arm, 1/2 inch off the thigh, 1/4 inch off my hips…and here’s the kicker…3/4 inch off my waist! Believe me, I doubted my measuring skills. But, it’s accurate. Wow. Makes me feel a whole lot better that I haven’t been successful on the scale. I am liking this. But, I am still hesitatant to kick the scale to the curb.
Tune in tomorrow to see pics (and see weigh-in results)!
Last July, I took a challenge offered through Michael Neill called “Creating the Impossible“. The rules of the challenge:
1. You must believe you have a less than 50% chance for success in the 30 days of the program.
2. You must be so passionate about what it is you want to create that you will be glad of any time you spend invested in creating it, regardless of how things turn out!
I decided that my Impossible Goal was to “lose 40 pounds in 30 days”. I didn’t declare my goal to anyone other than on the Creating the Impossible challenge forum and on my Creating the Impossible-specific Twitter account. I could not believe the response that I got from one of the non-challenge participants that I was following through the new Twitter account. She declared that “she could not follow me” because the goal was “setting [me] up for failure and [she] could not support me.” Clearly, she had not read the challenge pre-requisites and I had triggered something within her. I’m sure I triggered that with more people, but she was the only one to verbalize it.
What I had done was to not only challenge myself, but I was challenging the notion of what is “possible”. In those 30 days, I shifted my mind to what I believed it would take to lose 40 pounds in 30 days and I did those actions. I had to think about what I knew was effective for weight loss and my body and seek out new information to find more efficient ways of shedding weight that I would be willing to apply. Making up my mind to do those actions was most important in creating the environment for success even if it were highly impossible.
Fast forward through the 30 days and I lost 16 pounds! Sixteen pounds! I had never lost more than 11 pounds with any “sensible” plan, shedding 45% more weight in the same time frame. Yes, I didn’t achieve the “40 pounds in 30 days”, but what do you think that did to my psyche? What do you think that did to my knowledge of what was “possible”?
What I learned was that sometimes doing the “possible” and “sensible”, one can lose interest in the day-in-day-out choices and actions necessary to achieve a goal that requires more than a day’s worth of attention. I learned that I was capable of doing far greater than I allowed myself to believe. I learned that I am willing to do what it takes and apply those actions.
Many times, we are gung-ho in the onset of a new goal. We clean out the junk food from the cabinets and refrigerator. We sign up for a 2-year contract at the gym. We find an accountability partner to keep us on track. Yet, after 12 days of implementation, we find ourselves on the sofa when we wanted to be at the gym, going to Subway and buying the Meatball Marinara with extra cheese instead of the turkey on wheat–hold the cheese, and letting our accountability partner’s phone call go to voicemail.
Why is that? I believe it’s because that initial preparatory activity was exciting. It was swift. We were making huge changes all at once: We went ALL out!
In those 30 days in July of 2009, I went all out and shed 16 pounds of the 40 that I set as the impossible goal. Now, when I’m goal-setting, I use this experience to look for the “impossible”. I look for ways to “go all out” that are within my control.
I can choose too get up at 5:30 AM to bust out 30-45 minutes of exercise before I hop in the shower to prepare for work.
I can choose to repeat that again after work.
can choose to not go out to eat or choose to be wise about my food choices when I do.
I can choose to be the accountability partner that will call you on your “shit” or choose to be challenged by a mentor who has already been successful and give them permission to call me on my shit.
Where within your goal (weight loss, debt relief, time management) can you make a choice to do the impossible?
Up at 7am, worked out hard with Jillian, packed food, worked massage 9-5, jogged 40 minutes on the beach during a cancelled appointment, ran up the stairs huffing puffing and grunting…amused the massage front desk people. Went to birthday party. Didn’t eat or drink. Made friends, networked. EXHAUSTED. Up at 7am again, and it’s all ready 1130, godamnit. Night.
Jayson.
PS. Food perfect, life good, ONE MORE DAY TIL FIRST WEIGH IN! I’m SO excited, I’ve been working HARD!
I recently attended a fabulous weight loss seminar run by veteran Martha Beck coach, Brooke Castillo. She’s awesome! The program really got to the heart of the matter for me – so I’d like to give you a “taste” of what it’s about and perhaps start you on a road to recovery if your weight issue is related to eating when you are not physically hungry. If this is not your issue, stop reading and go do something more fun!
In short, the key concept to this weight loss program is: get in touch with, and honor your body! Listen to your body when it tells you it is hungry or full! Because if you only eat when you are physically hungry, and eat only to satisfaction, not fullness – your body will find its natural, thinner weight. Notice I did not say you can’t eat ice cream or even French Fries. I did not say you can only eat 100 calories per sitting. The only rule is, eat when you are physically hungry and stop when you are almost full. As we all know, if you eat more than your body needs as fuel – you gain weight. Duh, we all know this stuff– so why is it so hard to do it?
Generally, unless you have a medical condition (and I don’t mean obesity – which I classify as an outcome, not a cause of overeating) there is nothing in your body that compels you to overeat. However, your brain may compel you to overeat. By brain, I mean your thoughts – which trigger emotions! For many of us, in an effort to avoid experiencing or dealing with emotions, we overeat.
My personal example is that to avoid a project or a meeting that wasn’t going to be fun, I unconsciously stuffed myself with huge quantities of M&M’s. “Unconsciously” means that while I knew I what I was doing, it was as if I had no control over my impulses. And, because I was not actually hungry, there was no satiation point. My body was not asking for food, my brain was resisting a negative thought “I don’t want to do this anymore” that turned into an emotional hunger for comfort that I fed with M&M’s. How many M&M’s does it take to make a negative thought go away? Let me tell you, there aren’t enough in the universe.
While the M&M’s didn’t solve the underlying problem, eating so many created new ones: I didn’t feel well and my pants didn’t fit. So rather than deal with the real issue of changing my circumstances or reframing them, I focused on the new issue: my weight problem.
Nice story, but now what? Castillo suggests that you get back in touch with your body (your hunger) and your mind (your thoughts)! Because your body and your mind are here to serve you – if you learn to work with them, you really do have choices.
The first step of healing for me was to NOTICE what was going on: I had to become conscious. As you know, you can’t fix a problem if you don’t acknowledge that there is one.
Try becoming a scientist (not a critic) of your own behavior and listen for that small inner voice that tells you what is really going on with you. Here are a few questions you can ask yourself every time you turn to food for comfort or a distraction. For now, it may be enough just take note of your answers:
1) Am I physically hungry? (Clue: usually you will feel hunger in your stomach, not in your chest.)
2) If I am not physically hungry, but heading toward the candy jar, the vending machine, etc, what is going on? Is there a thought in my head that I am trying to avoid or that causes discomfort? What is that thought? E.g. my son really pissed me off, I hate this situation, my thighs are too fat or gosh, I’m bored, tired…etc, etc.
3) If and when you find the troubling thought, can you write it down and acknowledge it? Is there another way to deal with the real issue? If you’re bored, what could you do that’s less boring? If you are tired, can you take a nap? If you need comfort, is there some other nice thing you can do for yourself besides eating? Maybe take a bath or read a book? If it’s a really deep, scary, or chronic issue, can someone else help you? It’s okay if your answer to these questions is no, but ask yourself if food is what you really want. You will create the possibility of consciousness just by asking!
4) If you go ahead and eat the food when you aren’t hungry, see if you can eat it slowly, enjoy it, and taste every bite. If you are like I was, this step will be impossible during an emotional binge. In any case, don’t beat yourself up! It doesn’t do a darn thing to create long-term weight loss (and you know that’s true if you’ve been struggling with weight for years), so quit it.
5) Keep track of what you do and how it feels – in one of my next posts, I‘ll give you a brief overview of how to work through the thoughts and feelings.
That’s all for now: Step one: Be a scientist of your own behavior. I will tell you that it has worked for me. It was tough at first, but I haven’t binged on M&M’s for well over a week, and a few pounds have magically disappeared without changing my work outs!
If you want to dive in deeper, check out Martha Beck’s book, The Four Day Win . You can also get coaching - and check out Brooke Castillo’s site which has a ton of amazing resources including her terrific book, If I’m so Smart, Why Can’t I Lose Weight?
My last few posts have been on the negative side, which is un usual for me; I am usually a bubbly person, happy most of the time. Lately though I have been just so down lately and I think I know why.
I am scared of failing.
I am scared of doing it all again, putting in all of this time and effort and then gaining it all back. Losing weight is one thing, but maintaing it is a whole other beast.
Work today was brutal, although one of my coworkers said “you look skinner,” which was good. But that comment didn’t do much for me, I just rolled it off my sholders.
My mind is making me feel like I am going to fail again. I am so dissapointed in myself that I lost weight then gained it all back that it is so hard to see beyond that…
And I’ve been hungry for the past 3 hours or so. It’s not the end of the world, it’s not an emergency…but it’s really annoying! The good things about getting up early and exercising are that you have a longer day, and you have energy all day that just slowly fades instead of crashing into a food coma. The bad things are that the day lasts for what seems like FOREVER, and you run out of food hours before bedtime! Sigh…
Last night I had a dream about cleaning out an almost empty jar of Peanut Butter with my face. It was really funny. I stuck my head into a little jar of peanut butter and was scooping up the rest of the peanut butter, it was like I had a shrunken head because it fit inside this little tiny container!
I was kind of enjoying myself, and then I thought “Oh no! I’ve blown my calories for today!”
But then I thought “Oh wait, this is a dream, because it’s impossible for my head to be in this jar anyway…”
So then I thought, “Well, if it’s a dream, that means there’s no calories, so go for it!”
But then I thought, “No! I can’t do that, because then I’ll wake up and be all bingey, and want to overeat today! That’s baadd!”
Then I thought, “You know what…if I can’t have fun in my dreams, where can I have fun? Go for it, and see if it makes you crazy when you wake up! Okay? Okay!”
So, I went for it, and I went “yum, yum, yum! chomp, chomp chomp! lick lick lick!”, and I was filled with joy as my imaginary mouth filled with high calorie sugared fat! And when I woke up, I was very happy, and laughing! I had all the emotional joy of pigging out with none of the guilt!
I’m glad I loosened up…maybe I’ll have another dream like that tonight. Is it bad when you’re having food dreams? My body is trying to tell me I’m not eating enough to maintain my fatness…I wish my conscious brain could talk to my subconscious brain sometimes….this whole weight loss thing is rather intentional.
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I find myself spiralling into depression and the weight isn’t helping. The mornings are the best as I have lots of energy but as the day progresses and I keep eating I find myself getting sluggish. The nights are the worst, I can feel my heart rate climb and I become more and more angry with myself and everything/everyone else around me. Still can’t find that damn pedometer. As the previous commenter suggested – I have started to drink more water and other than the constant bathroom breaks, I havent seen any other change.
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I found a neat program online called Weight Mirror. I usually try not to get hung up on thinking about what I might look like but I couldn’t resist. You upload a before photo, preferably a full length with a neutral background. I usually do not have very good luck with these types of things but this was really easy and satisfying.
Here is a before and hopeful after. Before is about 190 ish and the after is about 160 ish. Inspiring.
Internet candy? Oh yah, there is something entertaining and sweet about checking out all the alternative dating sites. www.SugarDaddyForMe is just the right flavor to make me drool at the candy store.
I mean really – men lining up just to GIVE me money? Ummm, sign a girl up! So of course, in the interest of science, Social Science, I did sign up. Twice. WHAT? What’s your problem, you know this is some funny stuff!
First of all, I have to say THANK you photo approvers for making sure the pictures are actual face pics. No sunrises and no “Body part catalog” images - you know – (in case I want gender re-assignment surgery and need to find the perfect Replacement Part).
But, some of these men should really proof read. How am I supposed to believe you had the brains to earn lots of money when you write “I prefer a 4 start hotel”? Did you maybe mean “Four star”?
Now, what research project would be complete without thorough field work? I took one for the team and in the name of science, I have been allowing ridiculously rich men to wine and dine me. Oh, the humanity.
And oh, ewww, get your hands off me! Let’s start with the little teenagers posing as “Sugar Daddies”. Also, married men who “love my wife but flirting is fun”, guys who think a 401K is the number of cereal boxes it takes to build a dog house, or who think our first meal should be breakfast – in bed – six hours after the start of the date.
Of course the women in this site are no treasures either. Women who claim to have “Class” but I think I might be able to diagnose breast cancer from their picture or some of them should have said they have ass, because that is literally what they posted a picture of.
All in all, I recommend it for something different. Me? I love dating because I love meeting strangers. Strangers are like candy and i just can’t get enough even if I do get a Sugar Daddy or two.
Ok, maybe I’m nuts but I decided that I should add I ticker. Since I don’t know how to put it in the side here (I’m new to wordpress, I’ll get it though!) I figured I’d put it in here. Boy it looks really scary on that ticker.
I haven’t lost anything but i’m still trying. I’m not giving up. I’ve learned that water is my friend but you have to have your friend visit you more often if you want to see the benefits of having that friend!
Diettogo is a web site that offers prepared foods delivered to your home in dry ice to insure freshness. I myself have an issue with eating the right things and I am hoping this will help. When the food arrives I will post on that , as well as further updates on my status and things I have read or seen that I think people might enjoy or find useful.
Hopefully the food arrives early next week, I am ready to get started. Exercise bike is ready to go and the progress will be tracked. Current weight is 369lbs, thats a big number and there s a lot to do but I am confident I can by doing more and eating less.
Did you know that when eating out at a restaurant… alot of times you can order good choices that might not be on the menu?
Usually most places will have some type of chicken or fish dish with a carb & vegetables.
Chicken or fish are the best low-fat choices for protein… so…
Say you see a dish with chicken and pasta with some type of sauce. Or you see a fish dish, but it’s breaded and/or fried and the side is a baked potato with cheese and broccoli. Or you see a chicken dish with vegetables and they’ve been cooked in oil.
And, what if those are your best choices off the whole menu. Which one do you eat? Which one is the healthiet?
This is what I do when I see choices like that. Usually places that have choices like that… can also make the same combinations, but can prepare them a little healthier if you ask.
So what do you ask for? You always want to try to get your chicken or fish grilled or steamed, with no breading.
You can also get baked if it’s not baked in butter or any fatty sauce. Try to stay away from sauces if you can or get it on the side if you want, so you at least you have control over how much you eat.
For the baked potato you would want to get it plain with no cheese, sour cream, or butter. You can still have the broccoli on it, but ask if the broccoli can be steamed.
Anytime that there are choices of pasta, potato, fish, chicken or vegetables… you can always ask for everything plain with no sauce or butter and ask if they can steam or grill things rather than fry.
You’ll be surprised how often they can accommodate you if you just ask. Then you don’t have to be afraid of going out to dinner anymore!
Lost two days of work, two days of school and I still am not able to get over this god damn thing.
I feel a little on the H1N1 side, who knows if I have it and frankly who cares, guess I should of listened to everyone who told me to “get the shot,” but I have never been one to give into mass panic.
So here I sit again, home from work with a box of klenex, halls, and a cat for companions; everyone in my house hold are avoiding me and are treating me as if I have the plague, I am just waiting for some yellow tape to appear on my bedroom door saying “hazadars material do not enter.”
Should of got the shot, should of got the shot.
Oh well, so about this weight loss thing…..
I havn’t been too focused on my weight this past week, as the last time I could actually work out was for a bit on Tuesday. I have watched my calories as said before using the “loseit” program so hopefully when I weigh in on Monday I have not gained any weight that would rely suck balls…..
Well I have nothing else to say here, I wish I did, I wish I could go on a page and a half rant about nothing because bordom has taken its toll on me. I am sick of seeing the same four walls, and VERY SICK of TV…..with over 100 channels I swear to god there is never anything on the damn thing!
anyways, Janet’s peice of advice…..
GET THE SHOT, because the alternative sucks balls…………
I know that I need to drink water, not only to lose weight but to keep water weight off. I remember my mother telling me that I needed to drink 8 – 8oz glasses of water per day and then add another 8oz glass of water for every 10 pounds I need to lose.
As you’ve already read, I need to lose 90 pounds so I need to drink, in my mother’s eyes, 17 – 8oz glasses of water a day. WHAT?? How much??? Ok, I’m thinking I’ll pop if I drink THAT much water. Never mind going to the store, friend’s houses, and God forbid going to a football game.
Do I sound whiny? Yes, I am. I think water smells like dead worms. The best way for me to get it into my body is to drink it from a bottle. Who’s going to do that? I’ll give you a break and stop whining now. You don’t want to hear my whining, you want to hear how I’m doing, right?
Here goes…
If my scale is correct I’m at 8 pounds down. Yay Water! I may not like you, but I do think you are doing your job! However, on another note: Do not just eat 2 ounces of chicken for lunch and then not drink enough water between meals. You WILL get grumpy and there is a good chance that you will try to chew your loved ones’ arms, legs, or face off. After you do that, there’s a good chance you will overeat.
We all heard that you shouldn’t limit your calories while breastfeeding. But this is a very general guideline. Define “limit” in relation to the individual lifestyle. Are you eating a pack of cookies a day in addition to your regular foods? Should you limit that? What are your regular foods?
One of the ways nature ensures the breastfeeding mother will have sufficient stores of energy is the weight gain of pregnancy. Part of that weight gain were … fat stores! So, normally, if you gained the recommended amount of weight in pregnancy (or, like most of us, you gained more), it follows that you have some good stores of energy for milk production.
I personally believe that the first few months of lactation are indeed a time when calories should not be restricted. For many reasons: first of all, the mother is recovering from whatever type of birth she had, so she needs more calories and more protein. In addition to that, lactation is still being established, so the first 2 months are crucial in getting adequate nutrition to support lactation.
By the time your baby is 3 months, if the baby is thriving, and mom’s lactation is well-established (it should be– you’re probably building up your “frozen milk bank” by now), you can start thinking about avoiding overconsumption. Your ally is the fact that breastfeeding requires a lot of calories, each ounce of breastmilk has 20 calories, and, depending on several factors, you are producing anywhere from 15 to 40 oz in a day, maybe even more, especially if you have twins or a large size baby that is thriving, when baby is 6 to 12 months old. On the other hand, breastfeeding mothers have voracious appetites–prolactin stimulates appetite!
Why should you worry about weight loss at all? What kind of coquette or selfish mother would have her weight or appearance on her mind when she has a little infant in her arms? I will try to post over the course of the next days a few thoughts and facts, to answer the question “why lose weight?”
Port, porto, port wine, call it what you want, I have a weakness for it. For the unacquainted, porto is a fortified Portuguese-style wine. With a piece of dark chocolate (lately I have discovered dark chocolate with bits of sea salt), it is sublime. It takes my end-of-day edge off and honestly, the combination just makes me happy. Problem is, I am not sure where it fits in my new No-S lifestyle. I did a little research and found that a 4 ounce glass of porto contains 185 calories (versus 95 calories for a glass of red wine). Add to that my divine piece of sea salt dark chocolate (50 calories) and I find myself ingesting an extra 235 calories. My heavenly treat comes at a price. Do that twice a week and sha-bang, almost 500 calories of unadulterated pleasure. Hmpf. That kind of pisses me off. If I wasn’t trying to lose weight, it wouldn’t bother me much at all. I mean, I am sure once I reach my goal weight I will be able to handle this pleasure without regaining my weight, but if I am trying to lose, it might not be the winning combination.
I guess I just found a new “S” to avoid, actually it starts with “P” and ends with “O”, and I will miss it.
When I walk by food that I like I think “well should I, I mean It’s only one thing really, I’ll have plenty of time to make it up..” and so on. This is a cycle I need to break, to be firm in my belief that what I want is to be healthy, to lose weight. I need to aspire and be convicted to this cause. The central question to all this is how?
It’s true what is said about changing ones habits, that short-term just wont work. Changing the way one thinks is life long, it’s a matter of finding purpose and pleasure in what we do. Thinking I’ll eat less now to lose some weight will almost certainly fail in the long run, cause losing weight is short term, and once, or if, we accomplish our goal it’s all too easy to go back to the eating habits we had before. Instead we should focus on health and what that means for us and our quality of life.
When I walk past something I would like yes I still think about it but I make a decision to eat healthy and that’s what I end up eating. Does it matter if I don’t lose a lot of weight one week or the next, what if I don’t, will I be saddened by this and just give up my “weight loss”, or will I see the accomplishment of my goal, which is to get healthy week upon week. That’s the real mission we should have, to be healthy, and to treat weight loss as a by-product, not to be focused on but treated as a consequence to a healthy way of living.
Well I think I’ve been doing quite well but I noticed that my jeans have actually got tighter. It’s very odd because I would say that I’ve been following it better than I did last year.
I even went to Ikea yesterday and had meatballs which I didn’t finish! I was so proud as that would not have happened before. I think that… TMI coming, only highlight if you want to read I think it has something to do with this constipated feeling I’ve been having. I never feel completely empty, that’s wrong isn’t it?
Anyway I’m going to keep pressing on and will hopefully see some weight loss soon.
I’ve looked into a lot of diet plans over years because I thought thats what it would take to lose weight. Sure I would lose some weight, but in a few months or maybe even several months I would get off the plan and then it would all come back. Its taken me a long time to realize that its not about being skinny or looking a certain way. It’s about being healthy! I want to feel better than I do now. I want to walk up to my 3rd floor apartment without losing my breath. I want to run with my dog and my nieces and nephews without lagging behind too much. I want the people I love to stop worrying about me.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I didn’t wake up one day with this new mentality. I’d been very sick for several months and was experiencing a lot of pain that couldn’t really be explained. I went to a new doctor last Friday and found out that a lot of the problems I have relate to how overweight I am. I’ve had that hunch for a while, but it was swept away to the dark corners of my mind where I didn’t have to think about it.
As we’re nearing the end of the appointment, she looks me in the eye with this kind of direct, serious way and says, “Tell me what kind of healthy choices you are making in your life.” I knew she was referring to my weight and what I was doing to change it. She ran through some healthy advice about just taking time to think about what I’m doing when I’m eating and gave me a list of options that I’d probably heard a thousand times. I babbled a bit, making excuses. Her goal for me was to do just ten minutes of walking a day and loose 2 lbs/week.
I told my grandmother on the ride home and her first instinct was, “I guess we should eat more salads.” Not really a longer term fix, but probably the most common thought when people start thinking about loosing weight.
We went to the book store. I was thinking about buying a food journal or a new healthy cook book. As I was looking around, I realized I didn’t really want to get a cook book. Not for now anyways. Cooking is a hard thing at my house, there are usually only random things to eat. I may or may not have the ingredients for a delicious healthy meal. Getting a new cook books wasn’t going to fix my problems.
I decided to start smaller. If I make smaller changes at first I can work to make them habits. Several smaller changes over time will still help me get through my big weight loss goal! I decided to start with just journaling and walking ten minutes a day the first week. After all, if I see what I’m eating, I’ll already be more mindful or what I’m putting in my mouth and it would overall help me make healthier decisions.
I’ve done this in the past. I was on weight watchers for a while and I’ve tried making my own little journals, but I didn’t have the drive to finish what I was doing or I would lose the journal and get discouraged. After looking around the book store at the various journals they have there I decided none of them were really for me. They were either too complicated or too silly or didn’t track what I wanted to keep track of (or tracked things I didn’t care about.)
It’s REALLY important to customize all of this to your lifestyle! The more natural it feels to you, the more likely you’ll be to stick to it! I am online constantly doing research for my comics, games and novels. I’m constantly checking my Facebook or e-mail and keeping up with the little Facebook apps. When I sat down to think about how I was going to approach keeping track of everything, it only seemed natural to do it through my journals on Facebook. I’m not really shy about people knowing my weight or what I eat, so this seemed like a good decision for me. Plus, I’m always online.
I urge you to find something that works for you. Maybe you’re a little creative and can make your own journal customized to you, or with a little research from the book stores, there might already be one made for you. Whatever you pick, just make sure its functional for you. If you snack at work, you need something that will fit in your pocket, and not just your purse or backpack. Get something that will easily hold your pen too, so you never have to stop and look for one when you’re grabbing a quick bite on the go.
Depending on where you are in your Healthy Choices journey, you could be ready to keep a more detailed list information about what your eating. For now, I’m starting very simple.
I record the time I ate, what I ate. How I liked it or how I felt. Everything I swallow. Drinks, snacks, meals. When I cook, I even write how I made it sometimes if I really liked it. That way I can make it again another day. Even though it doesn’t add anything like calories or sugar, I keep track of how much water I drink as well to make sure I’m getting enough!
I write when I exercised, what I did, and for how long.
I keep track of when I take my medicine. (This is really only for me because I tend to forget.)
At the end of the day, I try to write how I felt over all that day. It seems a little silly, but its a good idea. I can see if I felt sluggish or bloated after certain types of food. It also helps me keep track of whether or not too much of one food is affecting my health. For instance too much milk can make me ill. If I eat fried food two days in a row I tend to get really sick. Stuff like that. It’s also a good way to see how much better I feel since I’ve started to make decisions about what I eat.
I ask any questions for the people who read it to discuss and put in my own observations about certain things I think are important or things I would like to try. One fun thing I decided to do is post a picture of someone I admire for their fitness. I paste in a little saying, like they’re addressing me personally and encouraging me toward my goals. Sometimes, I’ll draw the picture myself!
I try to walk at least ten minutes a day, like my doctor said. When we go to the store, we walk for ten minutes before shopping. I suggest doing this in the parking lot if you can. I’ve found that when Grams and I go inside, she’ll stop when we pass the jewelry, or stop when we pass home goods or plants and flowers. It’s easy for some people to get distracted when they see something pretty. Don’t let it interrupt your walking!
When I got so much support from my friends I decided to make this journey into a blog as well. So many people texted me and wrote that they too were trying to make healthier choices and we’ve decided to give each other support and encouragement. I wanted to put this here as well, so everyone can be a part of it! I encourage you to take the Challenge with me. Make Healthy Choices. Make Decisions in your life. Don’t let autonomy of the body take the choices away from your mind! Remember if you have a bad day or a bad week, just keep journaling. You’ll get back into the swing of things. Find encouragement when you need it! Your friends will be proud of you! You will be proud of you!
(Some of the following entries will have a “back date” at the top of the post. I was in Day 4 before making this blog, so its to show my past days. I didn’t just change the date because I want everything to still be in order.)
A big problem I have seen with gym goers, friends, family, and of course my clients is they hate working out. Well that is fine, because quite frankly I do not believe in working out. Neither should you.
Matter of fact, just quit working out all together. I tell my clients they do not come to me to workout, they come to me to do one thing, Train. I am a coach, a motivator, and my job is to train my clients to Perform.
You too should, quit working out and start TRAINING.
For what, well that is something you have to ask yourself, but it will be something that will motivate you to get up and work harder than you ever have. Here are a few examples of what to train for :
As a busy mom it is about having the strength and energy to for when you are juggling the schedule of work and keeping up with day to day tasks of a family.
For those dad’s it’s about not letting your teenage son kicked you a$# on the driveway basketball court every Saturday
For the energetic grandmother or grandfather it was about being able to enjoy the grand kids and not having to sit on the porch and just watch.
You have to find that reason to train, quit working out, have something to live for to love to desire.
It is about time YOU took care of YOU, and took the 90 minutes a week to help ensure your health, happiness, and well being.
Train to be the you that you dream to be from this day forward.
Gaining weight is worrying and sounds horrible for most young female adults just like me. Many said that a woman begins to gain weight when they reached 20, as the hormonal changes are happening. Some said that it was the effect of stress in work, having family and giving child birth. The flood news about acai berry fruit over the internet became snooping for me, as I’ve seen all good reviews particularly in health issues and even endorsed by my celebrity idols. Then I came up with my own research just to feed my burning curiosity on how true that said facts, I get educated and captivated by these things:
• Acai Berry can only be found in Amazon. These berries are an exceptionally significant constituent of food. As a matter of fact, these berries make up at least forty two percent of the populace nutritional diet regime.
• During harvest time, they are bent to rot at a high-speed rate as for the fact that berries have high fatty content. Acai can also utilize as fertilizer because it’s made up of eighty percent seeds.
• When the acai berry research completed, it was discovered that one hundred grams of the berry extract has: 44.2 grams of fiber, a massive 52.2 grams of carbohydrates, 8.1 grams of protein, and 32.5 grams of fat. Acai needs to be processed to make it safe for human consumption.
• Study has confirmed that Acai Berry does not give any side effects and products from this berry are safe for consumption. This extra-ordinary fruit has become popular because of the positive health results that it can give for human wellness.
• This superfruit is shaping up to be the one of the most compelling antioxidants. In addition, acai fruit started its appearance in North America as trendy juice bars and nutraceutical beverages.
• The ingredients of the fruit as mentioned above are all work together to produce the Acai Berry benefits. Improving immunity to illnesses is one of the great powers of Acai.
• Acai Berry can also boost energy levels and can increase metabolism. This berry can also help to maintain a healthy blood sugar level and to reduce bad cholesterol. The miracles of this fruit are also proven in increasing life expectancy and slow the ageing process.
• The most famous benefits of acai berry is healthy weigh loss. Some ingredient can burn calories that give quick weight loss. And can promote mental and physical wellness.
• Acai Berry has trend products such as for colon cleanse, dieting, etc, that are available in form of juice, capsule, dried pulp, gel, tablets. The only sure about this thing is that acai berry is undoubtedly effective if it’s used as a massive ingredient.
The above information about acai berry convinced me that it’s right to be hailed as superfood. However, recent studies have found that all Acai medical claims are contradictory. Well for me, no hesitation that the acai fruit are really helpful and can promote wellness, the only disputable fact is the trend of the products that continuing to expand. So be careful in choosing the real one! Acai Berry is not hoax or jokes, some few scammers are the only problem in trusting this miracle fruit!
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So I’ve decided to make the jump to wordpress because I like the overall layout and feel better.
I think with this new blog home comes a new mindset. At least thats how I’m looking at it.
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The excuses have mounted up and I’m upset that as I set back and look at the past few months, I have failed at my mission. I let life get in the way of what I was trying to accomplish and made excuses about how I was to busy or too tired. Of course I am to tired, I weigh 340lbs. Today I finally came to the realization that I need to do this. No more excuses. I don’t want to be the guy that fails. I don’t want to be the guy that keeps gaining weight and is miserable.
I went to a website that calculates how many calories I need to consume to maintain my weight of 340 pounds and my plan is to knock 1000 calories off of that. The calculator said I needed to consume 3500 calories to maintain my weight of 340lbs. I am going to try to limit my intake to 2500 calories a day. 3500 calories is 1lb and I figure if I cut out 1000 calories a day for 7 days a week, that is 7000 calories or 2lbs. This plus actually working out will having me losing weight. I know it’s going to be a lot of work on my part keeping track of the calories but I think I can handle it. There is a website I signed up for that I can access on my phone too that will aid in helping me keep track of all the different food I eat.
I have a good feeling about this. I know I will be sucessful. I just need to set my mind on it and know that I am making myself healthy in the long run. Thanks for all your support and prayers. Please keep me accountable. Nothing helps more than people asking about how I’m doing.
My weight loss of 1.1kg this week! BMI now 32.7.
I should explain that I have 2 ‘weigh-in’ days a week – Thursdays at my Weigh-Less class and on Sundays when my husband & I weigh-in on our good electronic scale.
The experts agree that a target of .5 to 1kg per week is achievable and safe healthwise. My own weekly goal is .5kg and this I can achieve quite easily.
The comment I hear all the time is, ‘Great stuff Eileen – but how are you doing it EXACTLY?’ I will try to be more specific about this in my posts but it MUST be borne in mind that there is no ‘one size fits all’ remedy when it comes to our own unique health issues. Your health professional will help you to determine – WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF YOUR OVERALL HEALTH STATUS – the balance of protein, carbs and fat you should be consuming.
What could you do RIGHT NOW to kick start your own journey to better health and vitality?
For me, the short answer was to ‘UP’ water, fruit, veg and wholegrains and ‘DOWN’ unhealthy trans and saturated fats. That’s it.
I will be writing later today about how I record my progress. The experts all agree that keeping a food diary is KEY and I will be telling you about an amazing little software application I have discovered. Inexpensive, simple to use and developed right here in South Africa.
‘See’ you later – I am off to find my favourite brand of lite ice tea before my son IT buys up all the stock!
So my first goal was a bit side swiped by three long 12 hour night shifts. Golly the overnights and lack of sleep really mess with my metabolism. That being said…
Jan 15th I was down 4.25 lbs
My goal being 5lbs so not too bad at all. During that goal time I went down 3 and then up 4 and then down another 4. These ups and downs are driving me crazy. Water weight I suppose. Oh well moving in the right direction!
My second goal was to be down 10 lbs from my new starting weight by Feb 1. I have 2 weeks and I should be able to do it. I am swimming 2-3 times per week, spinning 2 times per week, maybe a run or two in there as well. Go away weight.
I am trying a new vegan smoothie for breakfast that my friend Carly recommended. It is quite good, a bit sweet with the stevia content but I mixed in some frozen berries to cut the sweetness and it goes down well. We will see how it goes.
I have heard that some people have found it hard to lose the last 15 pounds. Well in my case, it’s the first 15. For years, I have tried to lose the first 15 pounds. I haven’t been successful. Why? Hell, I love to eat and I can get lazy when it comes to watching what I eat and working out consistently.
So I decided to start a blog that chronicled my weight loss. I’m sure this blog will drown in the sea of millions of other weight loss blogs out there. This blog may not be as funny as some or even that exciting. I don’t have that much to lose really. Just 15 pounds at the most.
That may not sound like much, but I’m only 4′11″ and I fluctuate from 128-130. According to the AMA, for my height, I should be in the range of 101-123. 101???!!!! Are you freaking kidding me? I’d look emaciated. I think 115 would be better.
So here I am. Let my blogging life begin! (Now if only I could attach a laptop to a treadmill, I’d be good to go!!!!)
I have known for a long time now that in order to lose weight that as well as very strictly watching what I eat and drink that I need to work out like a mad woman.
Historically I have hit the gym – I struggle with weight loss without a gym membership. As much as I need to do I hate cardio with a passion. I’m pretty good at making myself do stuff that I don’t want to do – taking my formula for my PKU is a perfect example – but cardio isn’t one of those things.
In the past I have had pretty good results with sticking to weights based training. After all, increasing your muscle mass is absolutely essential in increasing your resting metabolic rate, which is exactly what you want to do if you are looking to burn fat. However, while I have always changed my body shape I have never had great success in reducing my scale weight. Now this is a huge problem for me, because my scale weight bothers me, even if my clothes size is decreasing. I think its from my doctor being difficult over scale weight for years when I was growing up – I’ve always been heavier than I look, even now. So my trend is basically that even when my physical size gets smaller my weight is either steady or creeps up, and I don’t want to be so heavy.
If I’m going to reduce my scale weight as well as change my body shape I really need to find some kind of exercise that I enjoy. I have never been a runner – I have always wanted to be able to run, and I have always wanted to enjoy running, but even with a mega supportive sports by the time I’ve run say 150 or 200m my boobs are killing me, I’m bright red in the face and I sound and look like I’m about to have a heart attack. I’ve been like that as long as I can remember when it comes to running. I can swim, dance… pretty much do anything reasonably consistently except running. So I decided it was high time I found something that I would actually stick with that would get my heart pumping a bit.
I am intending to do a lot of pilates – pilates is excellent for toning and sculpting the body to look long and lean and if you do it consistently it helps with back pain too. But this week I’ve been trying my hand at body balance. Body balance is a mixture of tai chi for relaxation, yoga for flexibility and pilates for strength. Now I freely admit that I walked in to my first body balance class a few days ago thinking that it was going to be a nice and relaxing walk in the park. How wrong I was! Within ten minutes I felt quite warm, my heart rate was well and truly up and was sweating.I felt very challenged even when I was only performing the basic movements. By the end of the hour long session I was literally dripping with sweat (even with the air conditioning!), my heart rate was still up and my limbs were shaking from the workout. I seriously think I got more out of an hour of body balance than I do out of smashing it out on the cross trainer or treadmill.
I did another class today, and having done a workout yesterday incorporating my favourite piece of gym equipment (a bosu – I love doing lunges, push ups and squats on it) I found it really tough, but super satisfying. Again. I was dripping with sweat and my heart rate was just as high as it would be doing a cardio workout. I’m going to keep up doing body balance a couple of times and week and its going to be very, very interesting to see how it, along with diet and weight training, affects my scale weight as well as my shape.
All I know is – I can certainly feel my workout! I’m so sore and damn it feels good
The New You Total Food Replacement Diet is going fine, I am feeling totally fine, and really enjoying the total meal replacement foods. This week I have had to deal with some stressful things, and this would normally have me eating something nice, but I have so far been able to stay strong and stick to the New You Diet Products. I have had a couple of extra products but all in all I have been sticking to the programme. I am hoping that this will be worth it on Monday when I weigh in again.
My Menu Plan today is:-
Breakfast: Peanut Bar
Lunch: Mushroom Soup
Snack: Strawberry Wafer
Tea: Irish Stew
Supper: Hot choc
Staying positive and focused on my goal. Looking forward to dropping down a dress size, I am in size 12 jeans at the moment, and I know when I get back into my 10s I will feel a hell of a lot better about myself. When I get back into the 8s I think I will have to do a wee dance I will be soooo happy!!! lol
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Speaking of diets, which I was (two days ago; keep up, people), I am not bothering: I like food too much. I am overweight, yes, but I just don’t care that much anymore. In the past month I have twice read the same piece of wisdom: after a certain age, a woman must choose between her face and her figure. It means that skinny older women are wrinkled and haggard looking (look at poor Hannah Waterman and her huge weight loss; her figure is great but her face looks dreadful) and we chubby older women might waddle down the street and need to buy two seats on a plane, but we look like infants. I’ll plump for infantile any day: pass the chocolate.
Can you think of a more stereotypical post right after New Years or what????
Anywho…
I’ve gotten to my breaking point with my weight. I’m just done with being so heavy. So, going forward, no excuses, I’m losing this weight. I’m looking forward to the springtime when we have the pool under control so I can swim to exercise, but for now I’m going to plan on walking the dog every night for at least ten minutes. I’ll start slow, make sure I can stick with it. And I’m going to watch calories… and just make sure that I don’t let myself get stressed out. I’m pretty sure that was a major contributor to getting me here in the first place.
You know what else I’m turning a new leaf on? My finances. Yep, I’m resolving to pay off those darn credit cards! With diligence, I think I can do it within the next two years. Between the tax refund and Bill’s GI bill coming in, and my side business I’m setting up as a part time photographer, more details to come at www.shadesofkatephotography.com, and my online store selling crocheted items like baby blankets and hats, also more details to come at katereiber.etsy.com, I think I can pull it off.
And, to make things just a little more all over the darn place, I’m trying to get a handle on what I really want to do in life, and, surprising though it may be, I don’t think its insurance. I know, ground breaking. I’ve always really wanted to teach and I think I’d like to get back on track with that once the credit cards are starting to become less of an albatross. Ideally in the short term at least I’d love to teach community college at night and keep the insurance biz as my daytime gig. But, it’s going to take more school, which I’m going to have to do at night and budget in tuition. So, yeah, that idea is more treading water than the weight loss and the credit cards… but at least I have a goal, right? Especially if Bill is thinking of staying local with the CHP (by the way, still wouldn’t mind input on that!) I think I need to start thinking local too.
My love for Thai food constantly grows, but vegan Thai food is very hard to come by. In fact, I wouldn’t trust a Thai restaurant to say something is vegan because one of the most vital ingredients in all Thai food is fish sauce. So if you’re craving Thai I would recommend that you give up looking in any restaurant and resort to some good old fashioned home cooking.
Although fish sauce is a vital ingredient in almost every Thai dish you come accross, I think that each dish you make at home eliminating fish sauce is just as tasty if you use fresh ingredients and you find that craving completely satisfied.
Pomelo is one of my favourite South East Asian fruits, and you can find it in almost any Asian supermarket. I find myself feeling lucky most of the time with living in Asia and having access to countless fruits and vegetables that you just seem to not find anywhere else in the world other than in specialty supermarkets.
Pomelo Segments
Pomelo is sometimes referred to as a Chinese grapefruit, with it’s thick skin and pear-like shape. It tastes rather like a sweet, overly ripe grapefruit. It actually makes an absolutely perfect salad, pairing particularly well with chilies and soy sauce. Before you judge me, or turn your head away, I highly recommend you try this out for yourself, if you can get your hands on a pomelo that is!
Ingredients
Segments of 1/2 pomelo
4 shallots, sliced
1/2 tbsp crushed dried chillies
2 tbsp raw cane sugar
2 tbsp soy sauce
Juice of two limes
If you don’t have crushed dried chillies you can just as easily use those crushed chilli flakes or better still, use some fresh chillies finely chopped. Simply break the pomelo segments into bite-sized pieces, toss it together with the chillies, sugar, soy sauce and lime juice and let it stand for approximately 15 minutes, almost like marinading the pomelo in the dressing. Dish up and sprinkle some ground peanuts on top and you have a very simple, very tasty, pomelo salad.
finally got my calf muscle to work again LOL…. back for round two of wii active tonight at 8pm lol…. i really need to do a wight in tomorrow morning also try to do that on monday mornings so i can keep track of what my progress is LOL…. I’m also going to get out for a walk today its such a gorages day outside think we will take the dogs for a walk and give them some fresh air time……..
We finally saw “Up” last night and I’m having a hard time shaking it. Interesting how some movies make people feel so good and can make other people feel so sad.
It’s a delightfully cute movie in a lot of ways (SQUIRREL!) but, in pure Disney fashion, it really rips your heart right out of your body. I watched it with my usually stoic husband and he had as hard a time as I did, maybe even more so. We both sobbed in parts – it was so hard on me to see how deeply the movie affected him. I could not hold him long enough or tight enough to suit me.
My husband and I share a lot of dreams, and just like the movie, it seems like “life” always gets in the way. In our case “life” also means my infirmities. I feel like my weight and knee and tendon issues really hold us back from living a more adventurous life, or even a more “us” life. It crushed us both to watch Mr. Fredrickson lose his beloved Ellie. And I wondered if part of the reason my husband was so sad was the very real possibility that, due to my morbid obesity, I will pass on before he does, leaving him alone in a house that was built for both our dreams. It guts me to think that way.
I haven’t talked about weight loss much recently because I’ve really come to understand and believe that excess weight is a symptom of unhappiness rather than the other way around. Maybe it’s a chicken-and-egg thing where one would seem to naturally beget the other. If I were happier, I would be healthier. But if I were healthier, wouldn’t I also be happier? They must go hand-in-hand, right? Does one come before the other?
There are short-term dreams and ideals that I obviously want to lose weight and be healthier for – Hawaii, of course, is what first comes to mind. Not going through another “fat” summer, being more energetic in winter, etc. Feeling pretty and sexy and “normal.”
But, really, at the end of the day, it’s the long-term benefit I should really be focused on. To live as long and healthy and active life as I can with my beloved. To fulfill those pie-in-the-sky dreams we share. To float away in our house to Paradise Falls. TOGETHER. This is what I want. This is what I need. This is what I must do.
I am amazed at how much pride I have built up by doing only the things I am good at. In my world, I am at the pinnicle. People come to me for advice, council, and wisdom to help them deal with their struggles in life. I have realized recently that as I have become stronger in these areas, I have become less and less compassionate for their weaknesses. I started thinking, I can do it, so can they. Today at book camp I am continuing to struggle with the failure of working out. Josh asks, “Planks for one minute”, I do ten seconds. Josh asks, “Twenty pushups”, I do five. All through this I am noticing everyone around me have the ability to accomplish this feat at a greater level then I. My mentality- He is asking for twenty and I do five, so I am not really working out. I am failing, and getting nothing out of it. This is the point where I want to give up (no I am not giving up). I believe I am not doing it, I am not making the mark, and this makes the workout much harder.
Being at the bottom of the class is humbling…ok, too soft of a word, I feel humiliated. My pride has grown so much that it is difficult to take my place as a “have not” in this area. What I am learning is I have to stop comparing what others are able to do to what I am able to do. I am learning this goes both ways. This doesn’t mean as leaders we let those off the hook that are trying, just because they can’t right now. When I couldn’t do any pushups, Josh came over to me and lifted me just enough for me to be able to do the push ups, they were still hard but bareable. I was able to complete 10. It felt good to have a success, even if it was with a little help. It reminded me of a scripture:
Romans 15:1 We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak
Josh would never identify with my weakness and I don’t expect him to. He knows that if I keep going I will be able to do those push ups one day, so he would never provide me with the excuse that it’s ok if I can’t. That just feeds defeat. He is the trainer, and he needs to push me to failure so I can see my successes when I get them. WOW! The light bulb went on when I typed that.
The bottom line is that I am learning to judge myself more according to my potential and not my weaknesses. I have a head, torso, arms, and legs just like everyone in that room. The only difference is that they have been training longer then me. And so I should be doing that for others as well, bearing with them. Encouraging them, while also having compassion on them.
In the last week I have given up smoking and started a new diet. I am 38 years old and if I don’t quit smoking cigarettes now, I’m going to end up very old way before my day – especially with asthma. (Oh, that reminds me to take my medicine, which is kick ass and has virtually eliminated all of my asthma symptoms.) If I don’t start to lose weight now, I will very soon end up weighing 270 like I did 2 years ago. Of course, I want it all to happen now! Patience is not my strongest virtue.
I have to accept that this is not only what is best for me, but also that it’s what I want for myself. That will take some time, because in order to really feel that I need to see some changes. Until then, logic has to prevail and I have to just believe that I am doing the right thing.
I am shocked by how quickly I have gained back some of the weight that I lost previously. It took me a little over a year to lose 130 lbs. and I gained back at least 50 of it in 6 months. I don’t expect to lose weight overnight, but I figure either way 6 months is going to pass and this summer I could either weigh 50 lbs. less or 50 lbs. more. But, again, I want it to happen now.
What I need now is the Grace to live in the moment and to appreciate the small steps and stop focusing on the end result. I need to think about one week at a time, one day at a time – not 6 months from now. I need to be self-disciplined enough to follow my diet to the letter, not straying to sneak that piece of cheese or even just an extra Nutrisystem dessert. Oddly enough, my desire to eat is much stronger than my desire to smoke cigarettes. I can attest to my cravings and urges for food being more pressing than my urge to smoke. Why is that? I think that I have a psychological addiction to food – it comforts me, it gives me pleasure, it fills a void. So now I need to find something else to comfort me, to give me pleasure, and more importantly I need to fill that void with something productive and useful. So what do normal people do? What is a normal Saturday like for other people? How do thin people avoid eating all day long?
Back to work and back to the old routine. I’ve decided to return to Chuzzy’s 3 workouts and continue to work towards my goal. The break has been good. I can press 12kg without using my hip for 3 rungs of the ladder-5 sets. I just have to concentrate on the right side as I know it wants to move. Stress got to me before Christmas and I just couldn’t do it, but now this is fine.
My wrist feels better so I’ve slowly returned to 1 side TGU using 4kg and 8kg and just working on the first stage. This is where I am missing a watchful eye on form the most. I’m not sure if I am slipping back into bad habits as I didn’t really get a feel for correct form before we finished. However I can get up quite smoothly on both sides now.
The 16kg snatch ladders were a bit wobbly too. I managed 1,2,3 ladders (3 sets) but didn’t feel quite right so I used the 8kg , which was too light and then the 12kg to get a feel for snatching again. I finished with 100 12kg snatches, no setting down in sets of 5 each arm- the time felt ok too, but was not really clock watching. That felt good. I wasn’t sure I was still able to do this, but could probably do even more because I still had a little energy left and form was ok.
I like working on mine own for a bit. Chuzzy’s routine is good because work is busy at the moment so I don’t have time to plan my own. I’m going to add a fourth session with some heavy swings and 12kg presses because I like to do four sessions a week. All the knowledge I gained over the last block can now be applied at my own pace. I’m thinking about abs and lats as I work and stopping to make adjustments, trying to get it right. But don’t feel under pressure to get it right for the next session. I can take as long as I like and feel more relaxed as a consequence.
The door staff at the gym told me that Jennifer Aniston was in a feature about kettlebells in Look Magazine this week. I’ll have to get a copy. We had a discussion about safety and I have to agree with the concerns of the trainers there that people will hurt themselves if they just work from magazine articles. Publicity is good provided that people are encouraged to find good quality trainers to work with. I was tempted to go to a boot camp session this winter, just to try a different approach. However when I checked out the trainer who was running it I couldn’t find his name on the list of qualified trainers so I didn’t go.
One of my projects for this year is to “cultivate a habit of healthy eating and consistent exercise.”
As a part of that project, I am participating in a Healthy Lifestyle Class offered by my church. This class will include a nutrition component, a bible study component and an exercise component. During the class (3 months) and throughout this year, I am attempting to lose 30+ pounds to get me back to my pre-pregnancy weight of 10 years and 2 children ago.
I am excited about the possibilities (and the end result) of this project and I will be sharing more of my specific experiences (and maybe even some pictures) from this journey at a new blog called TIP THE SCALE.
If you or someone you know is attempting to lose weight and/or is a RELUCTANT EXERCISER (I admit that I am), I hope you’ll visit me there. I promise it won’t be a pitiful, whiny place. Instead, it will be an honest, positive look at something that will improve my health (and life) for the long term!
Welcome 2010! And welcome to all of you who have picked up the pen and paper committing to a healthier and happier lifestyle this year. How many pounds have you promised to lose this year? What have you promised to do differently than you’ve done before or stopped doing for whatever reason?
This is the time of the year when everything is new and fresh — a break with the old and the promise of what’s to come with the new. Of course, it’s also the time when most of us try to get rid of those extra pounds we accumulated from Thanksgiving on through Christmas, or have decided to just get rid of extra pounds we’ve been carrying for a long time. Either way, we find ourselves at a cross roads. What do we do now? We’re filled with excitement and anticipation of what’s to come, dismay over what we’re losing and the possible fear of failure.
The real issue though is not letting all of this sabotage what you’re about to do. You need to concentrate on the here and now. Be present. Live in the present and look toward the future. Take it one day at a time. Be resolute and stay the course. If you follow your plan then everything will work out as you desire. If you stray from the course and go back to your old ways then you’re not going to see any improvements and set yourself up for a big let down.
They say that most diet resolutions set at the beginning of the New Year fail within the first month. I forget the specific reasons why, but I can only think everyone is under some false assumptions about how they need to tackle the issues put in front of them. For myself, I really don’t have any resolutions since my diet this year is a continuation of what I’ve already been doing for four months already. I just need to be more resolute in following it and not straying from the path I’ve set out for myself. See, even I’m guilty of this. It’s easy to do, so don’t be fooled by it.
My situation as I’ve explained before has several dynamics at play. The first is financial — I’m not always able to purchase a decent amount of groceries at any given time so whenever I run low or short, inevitably there are other more pressing bills that get in the way of me being able to spend $100+ at a time on food. It’s much easier to just go out and spend $15 or so on a meal at a restaurant. That’s what happened over the past two-three weeks. I’ve literally been eating pretzels for breakfast and my snacks until yesterday when I finally went shopping.
The second deals with energy and the constant effort it takes to be diligent in preparing the food necessary to stay on the diet every day. It takes a good 30+ minutes each night to get things ready for the next day. I’m not used to doing this and still am not after four months, and to make matters worse, I don’t enjoy it either. The only thing that’s spurring me on is the need to lose the weight. It’s a consistent motivator.
Dinners are also a real issue. Oftentimes, the meat I’m going to prepare is frozen, and it takes about an hour for it to thaw. This means that dinner can begin to be prepared starting at 7 p.m. or so. It’s just a hassle to have to deal with. If I leave the meat I bought in the refrigerator, I don’t eat it quick enough so it spoils and goes bad.
Now, you’re probably saying these are all excuses, and you know what, you’re right — they are. But, for me, they’re real excuses and get in the way of what I’m trying to do. I can overcome them, it’s not going to take an intellectual to figure that out. It’s a question of whether I’m willing to do so or not. It’ll be a similar issue for you as well. Your pushes and pulls will be different, but the excuses will be there and just as powerful too.
What to do? Try to be bigger than the issues. Realize something greater is at stake and at play here. We must be successful at what we’re trying to do for whatever the reason — improved health, fitting in those clothes, becoming more appealing in the eyes of others, etc. You name it, that’s the end reason and goal that’s going to make it all worth the while. The rest will fall into place along the way. Sure, there’ll be stumbles, bumped knees and scraped elbows, but it’s all part of the experience.
Let’s experience it together. I’ll be right by your side arm in arm. We can do it together!
the crazy, out of control, sometimes a little psycho…me. This week has been a blur of bakery’s, photographers, venues, and caterers. I did NOT expect there being this much crap to plan a decent wedding. I am very excited don’t get me wrong but I’m a *tad* OCD when it comes to planning things so you can just imagine how it’s going. So far though we have decided on our first dance song which will be *drumroll please* – La vie en Rose by Loiu.s Arm.strong – such a pretty song. I am also planning a surprise salsa dance which should be a lot of fun All in all things are going ok.
In ttc news – we are making a pilgrimage to St. Augus.tine to see (and rub) the fertility statues. I am hoping that the spell lasts until Feb. when we try again. With the wedding planning going on we are debating on taking a longer break until after it’s over. I was thinking the other day that maybe it’s not working because we didn’t follow the song. You know, the song about “First comes love, then comes marriage, THEN comes the baby in the baby carriage.” You see what I’m saying – we’re missing the middle part. It’s like the underpants gnomes in south park! So anyway, still planning on Feb. trying but we might hold off for a while longer if that cycle doesn’t work so we can concentrate on our big (illegal) day.
Moving on. The weather here is worth mentioning – usually I don’t comment on things like the weather but it is cold as donkey balls here in florida! I mean almost a week with nights in the 20’s is insane and now I hear that it may actually snow here tomorrow. It hasn’t snowed in florida since ‘89. I was only 8 years old then but I remember my parents making such a fuss. I remember, not pretty white snow but, a big brown muddy mess everywhere…jeesh I hope that doesn’t happen again!
In quilting news, I am totally swamped! Well, not really but the few projects I do have going feel like they are taking forever and now with the other planning going on it’s cutting into my sewing time. Not to mention that I am also going to the gym because…ummm I’m NOT going to have two chins in pictures that I am paying boo-koo money for okay. Not happening. So now I’m getting a personal trainer. ALL of these things are cutting into time that I should be sewing and making samples for the shop – but it ain’t happenin’ folks. I am dog tired when I get home and the thought of having to go back and work some more after such a long day is so unappealing. Especially when my warm cozy bed is calling my name.
In weight-loss news, I, after much persuasion, have decided to register for my first 5K in Feb…yes THIS Feb. I am barely running 1 1/2 miles now and at only about 4.5 mph. But you gotta start somewhere right…so here I am. Starting somewhere. I weight in on my first day at the gym at about 12 in the afternoon (fully clothed and one bottle of water later) and had a starting weight of 190. Random thought – did anyone else catch BL last night? WTF is going on with Jillian? She was doing some crouching tiger hidden dragon shit on the treadmill next to the orange lady and then the next thing you know…that lady wouldn’t stop screaming! I have been a long time fan of this show but I must say – they are making it way too commercially. The promos are my favorite “here try this Brit.a water filtration system because it’s the only water you can drink if you want to lose weight.” And what is with the psycho-analysis that they are doing? Shouldn’t the contestants be talking to a therapist? Maybe I’m just nostalgic and wishing it was the way it used to be…when it was about losing weight – not promoting Zip.Lock and T.rident gum. Anyway enough of my ranting and raving…I gotta go check my pipes and make sure they are dripping….frieken weather.
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Obviously, each of us has friends who can eat anything they want from sweets to chips and coke and they have no problems with their figure. When you ask them what the secret of such a perfect thinness is, they answer that they have a good metabolism. You may ask yourself, why you don’t have the same good metabolism, why you have to quit eating at all to lose at least a kilo, whereas your friend is crunching a piece of toast covered with a thick layer of peanut butter. Sitting nearby you swallow an imaginary piece of toast carding your slow metabolism.
How does your metabolism work? There is a space within each cell of your body. This space is filled with a substance capable of burning calories you consume with every food intake. Metabolism can be divided into several types. One of them is a resting metabolism. A number of calories burnt during the day by your organism at rest. Revving up your resting metabolic rate is one of the secrets that can help you to lose weight and look better. The following 5 tips will give the idea on how to get thinner:
1. Eat less but more often. It makes your cells burn more calories and do this faster. Your appetite may grow, but that’s OK, as you eat less your metabolism works faster and that’s why you need to eat more often.
2. Eat food rich in proteins. This way you will multiply your resting metabolic rate up to several times. Proteins are built up by amino acids. It is much more difficult for organism to burn amino acids, which is why the process requires much energy and you body loses more calories. Moreover, proteins help to normalize insulin secretion in blood. The secretion of insulin is a very important factor influencing your resting metabolic rate.
3. Eat spicy food. Some people are deeply convinced that spicy meals can help you to boost your metabolic rate. For example, try hot pepper. It increases heart function and consequently your metabolism becomes 50 percent faster after you eat peppers. It is working faster more than 3 hours after food intake. One more effect of hot peppers is that they significantly reduce appetite and you feel full up about 2 hours after a meal.
4. Do not go on a diet. When you are on diet, you fell hungry most of the time. It forces your organism to slow down your metabolic rate, because you brain accepts a signal from your stomach and do its best to preserve as much energy and calories as possible. As you understand, it runs counter to your original aim.
5. Finally, take in vitamins. Normal metabolism cannot do without nutrients, needed for normal functioning of your body.
If you know how to speed up metabolism, this can assist you in getting rid of extra weight issues. But don’t hurry up – first read about how to speed up metabolism and how exactly the speed up metabolism technique works.
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It’s great to be independent, but when it comes to your health, choosing to do everything by yourself — without support or help — isn’t always a good idea. You’re not an island (and why would you want to be?). Other people can play a major role in your weight-loss success or your failure, and when it comes to your personal relationships with friends, family, or significant others, collaboration on your health is vital. Often, the people around you are contributing to or causing the problem, playing the role of disabler or enabler. When this happens, fight the urge to attack them. Instead, make them part of your solution…
The key is to communicate. You have to tell people how you feel and what you need. No one is a mind reader, so you have to tell those around you how best to support you. Asking for help might feel awkward or selfish at first, but the more you articulate your needs, the more powerful you will become. Practice saying what you want, in front of a mirror and be clear and concise. If you have fears or concerns, put them on the table for discussion. Open up a constructive dialogue that is calm and thoughtful and gets to the heart of your needs.
I can’t stress enough that no one gets anywhere in life without help. So if you want to work out and don’t feel you have time, ask the in-laws to watch the kids so you can fit in your yoga class. Or if you’re new to working out, ask a trainer to teach you about exercise. You have to be assertive and express your needs and wants, and ask for help to achieve a healthier life. So go on… you can do it!
OK, for the past year I have been working out and been trying to lose some weight. I was never overweight to begin with, I am 5′10″ and weighed 175. After a year of hitting the gym and eating healthier, I now weigh 160. Not only have I lost some weight, but I have gained some muscle as well. I am trying to see what else I can do to make myself more lean and cut.
Currently, I am going to the gym around 4-5 times a week for about 2 hours. I usually run or bike for about 30 minutes, then hit the weights. I alternate days, I workout upper body one day, lower body and abs the next day. I don’t lift a ton of weight, I lift enough that I can do 10-12 reps tops. Should I decrease the weight even more to do around 20-30 reps? And should I only do 1 set, instead of 3? I have read books and taken courses and everything says I should do this to get cut, but am not sure if it would work.
My diet is pretty simple. I don’t eat out much, maybe once or twice every two weeks. For breakfast I a bowl of cereal, lunch a can of tuna and piece of fruit, and for dinner usually some chicken. It gets very boring after a while but have stuck with it. Should I be eating more? I also try to eat lots of little healthy snacks in between so I’m not too hungry throughout the day. I usually get around 1500 calories a day.
Are there any other tips anyone has there? Please let me know. Also, feel free to comment or ask me anything as well.
So, this is hopefully the "before" photo. I am hoping the "after" is H-O-T!
So this will be the year I stop making New Year’s Resolutions and start keeping them! Today is the second day of 2010, and the first day of my resolution to kick my own butt into shape. For Christmas I got a Wii Fit Plus (which I L-O-V-E, love!) and I intend to make excellent use of it.
I will start off this blog by telling you a little bit about myself and my goal. First off, I am 36 years old, 5′2″ and 170 pounds! YUCK, huh? I have really let myself get incredibly out of shape and I am ashamed and embarrassed about that. I have one child, who is four (so that excuse no longer holds any water). I adore him and he is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I currently live in Arkansas, just outside of Memphis, Tennessee. I have determined that this place (the Mid-South) is the most unhealthy place I have ever lived. The food is fattening, there are no sidewalks in town on which to walk, and the parks are a joke. But, having said that, I can’t let these issues be an excuse. There are plenty of people in the area that are not morbidly obese, and I intend to be one of them! I am really scared that if I don’t do something about my weight and my habits that I won’t be around to see my son grow up and have his own family.
I love to cook and bake, and I am pretty good at it. Unfortunately for me I test my creations, though I try not to. I also love to read, watch movies, and listen to music. For the first two or so years here I was not at all familiar with the local music scene. Only recently have I found that there still is decent live music here in the “Birthplace of Rock n’ Roll” and this has led to my going out and dancing a few times (which makes me very happy). All through college I went dancing two to three times a week, which kept me in decent shape. I also used to kayak, hike, walk, and ride bike almost every day. Now I teach art at the junior high level and don’t do very much physical stuff at all.
As a mom with a job I don’t have much “me” time. My husband and I are separated currently, and so I don’t have the ability to really get out and exercise outside of my home. I had joined a gym last year, but unfortunately that caused me to be out of the home more than I could really afford, and the monthly membership was more than I could afford. Afterall, I am a teacher!
My resolution: lose 50 pounds and a minimum of three “dress” sizes. (Since I don’t often wear dresses… pants sizes are how I will measure) In order to measure this I will be taking photos of myself the second of every month. I would like to lose around ten pounds a month and be at my goal of 120 pounds before the summer. I do not know how achievable that goal is, but I figure, if I write it down here perhaps I will hold myself more accountable.
If you have a Wii Fit and want to compare workouts, goals, achievements, I would love to have workout buddies! We can share our personal stories and what we love and hate about the program. I would really like to find others who are trying to achieve weight loss using this game. They say that having people to workout with really helps. So, feel free to join me!
Hello, all! I got called in to work tonight, so I am a little late posting. Of course I had to fit in quality time with my hubby (recorded shows we needed to catch up on). He is pretty spectacular, I have to say. He cooked breakfast this morning and he is excellent to help out around the house if I have to work a lot! That’s a very nice thing to have- a true partner.
He is also often my partner in crime when it comes to food, since we both LOVE to cook and eat. We have to make a conscious effort not to get things we like. We don’t have many vices, really, other than each other and food. We aren’t big drinkers. I like Pinot Noir very occasionally. Neither of us were ever into drugs. I’ve certainly been around a lot of it with my tendency to go to hardcore rock concerts whenever I have the chance, and I did go to college. But I’ve never partaken myself. I don’t think I ever will. If you like it, that’s just one more necessity.
I’m more excited about ordering my supplies for classes now. Sometimes I think I’m filling my head with dreams. Other times, I think more people should dream. The fact that I have had to teach myself to daydream is astounding. Daydreaming instead of hard-copy planning is a new thing altogether. The fear daydreaming won’t yield results has made it less appealing before. Now, I think that is the only way anything concrete will happen. I’m staying open to new ideas, new ways of getting the career I really want, and new ways of being our little family of three musketeers. I’m hardly traditional, and this presents a challenge. Just because I gave birth, I will not allow the real me to die. I will not start wearing “momwear,” or not wearing my makeup that I heart, or trading the music I want to enjoy for Dora’s Greatest Hits. I will get censored versions when I can to play in my daughter’s presence, but other than that, no censoring will be happening at my house!
On some level, losing the weight I have used for a buffer will be strange. I didn’t have any trouble getting attention from men in my skinnier days. I’m not sure how to deal with male attention. I’m clearly not interested since my husband is smoking hot, but this problem is different. I realize we are all grownups now, and reality is reality. Men treat you differently if you say screw it and run out of your house in no decent clothing or makeup. Even if it is at a store, a restaurant, wherever, preferential treatment is much more likely if you look like you made some effort. Physically, being WAY overweight has been beneficial because I feel men ignore me. Well, not all of them, but for the most part… As long as that is happening, I don’t have to deal with it. I don’t have to make sure I’m not smiling at them too much or that I don’t say anything out of line. Proper etiquette with men has always been an issue because I relate to men so much better than I relate to women. The concept of “mixed company” is completely lost on me. I’m very blunt and matter-of-fact, and I refuse to respond to hints of any sort. I don’t want anyone to take care of me in any way. It makes me want to throw up a little… But I’m getting there.
Writing all this is scary as hell, but I’m doing it. It’s not a choice anymore; it feels like I must do it. It’s as if there is no option NOT to write. Writing has never felt so compulsory before.
Calorie count for January 1st was 1508! Weighing in on Monday. *crosses fingers*
For remaining fit and healthy, we all need to exercise regularly. Exercise not only makes us fit and healthy but it also makes us clear and light headed and enables us to view everything in a more positive way.
1. Contributes to fat loss
It is well proven from scientific research all over the world that physical exercise contributes to weight loss. If you burn more calories than you consume through nutrition, you’ll lose weight. When you exercise, you burn more calories than when you don’t. It’s really simple – the more you exercise, the more weight or fat you’ll lose.
2. Prevent disease
The chances of developing several various diseases have been proven to decrease when exercising. These diseases include heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and the stroke.
Around 4 out of 5 deaths caused by heart disease and cancer are linked to factors that include stress and lack of exercise. We all know that diabetes increases the chance for heart attacks and strokes. What this shows, is that many of the risk factors and diseases caused by not exercising are working in conjunction to damage your health. To prevent this from happening, start exercising.
3. Improving disease
Many severe and minor diseases can be improved or even healed through regular exercise. These even include the diseases listed above. By following a regular plan, you can also decrease HDL cholesterol levels, decrease triglyceride levels, and decrease your blood pressure as well.
Exercising on a regular basis will also reduce the risk of prostate cancer for men, breast and uterine cancer for women, and much more. All of this is scientifically proven which is why you should start exercising today.
4. Enhance your state of mind
Everyone knows from the many scientific studies that regular exercising will lead to an increased release of endorphins in the body. These chemicals will fight depression and make you feel happy. The body releases these endorphins only 12 minutes into the workout.
There is another chemical known as serotonin that is increased during and after a workout. The increased levels of serotonin in the central nervous system are associated with feelings of well being and decreased mental depression. The chemical can also help you sleep better at night.
5. Enhance your wellness
When you are in great shape and well fit, you’ll have more energy and you’ll notice that your overall mood is improved. You will have experienced that you can stretch beyond your own limits and you know that you can do more than you thought possible.
6. Persistence
Exercising regularly will give you more energy, which can help you be more productive at home and at work. Exercising can help give your new goals a sense of purpose and give you something to focus on and aim for. This can help you increase your persistence and prevent you from going off track while you aim for your goal.
7. Social capabilities
After a workout on a regular basis you can boost your self esteem. This can help you look better and you’ll be more comfortable as well. Exercise will also help you to become more active and meet new people, which will prevent you from feeling isolated and unsupported. Exercise will also increase your interests in sex, and can help you to improve your marriage or your partner relationship.
After knowing all of these tips and reasons to exercise, you shouldn’t hesitate to get out there and exercise. You can exercise at home or go out there and join a gym. There are several different ways that you can exercise; all you have to do is select a few that you like. Take a little bit of time out of your day and start exercising – you’ll feel better than ever before and your body will thank you.
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I mean really – men lining up just to GIVE me money? Ummm, sign a girl up! So of course, in the interest of science, Social Science, I did sign up. Twice. WHAT? What’s your problem, you know this is some funny stuff!
Did you know that when eating out at a restaurant… alot of times you can order good choices that might not be on the menu?
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All in all things are going ok.
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