It’s been a while…

It’s been a while since I have posted here. 

I feel terrible because It’s been a while that I have exercised.  I could blame it on my doctor who told me to stop exercising until I came back to see him in April.  But he did not tell me to eat pints of Ice cream, or to eat a box of vanilla wafers or to eat after midnight when I should be sleeping.

So I am getting it together once again.  Tomorrow at 5:45 I will be up at 6:00 I will be exercising  mostly stretches to get my flexibility back. At the end of the day   Goal for this week.  Work out everyday and post after each work out and restart my food diary.

And stick to it.

Not motivated.

Stress is not a very good motivator.   My father in law is in the hospital which means worrying that he is okay. Helping my stepdaughter deal with everything and being there to support my husband during this time. 

But I had to go to work so I worried about he although he sounded fine.  Father in law is in stable condition.  I just don’t deal with stress that well but I muddle through the daily stuff with no problem.

Some people workout to get rid of stress.  I sit still, in front of the television looking for something to get my mind off subject.

Some people do not eat because of stress.  I eat. I have been keeping control but popcorn and bbq potato chip really is not a good dinner.

Some people oversleep to because of stress.  I stay awake. I have to be at work early.  8 am so that means I must be at the bus stop by 6:30 to get to work by 8.

So tomorrow I will try to do what others do to get rid of the stress , I will workout, eat vegetable and go to sleep before 10:00.   Lets see what happens.

Stressed eating.

We had a bit of a family emergency this morning. 

Breakfast:  Smart one sandwich cookies, cream of wheat cereal , large cappuccino.

Snack 2 brown sugar pop tarts

Lunch 3  hot pepper and cheese sausage on 2 slices of 15 grain bread with yellow mustard.  1 teapot of hot tea with sugar

Snack 1 bottle of coke

Dinner last of the hot pepper and cheese sausage with a salad and half bottle of light ranch dressing.

Snack Carmel popcorn mixed the hot butter popcorn and more coke to drink

I have had worst stressed eating days but this is really not the way I wanted to eat today.

Maybe tomorrow will be better.

New Idea!

Friday I had a simple breakfast.  Toast with jelly and coffee.

Lunch a salad. Not one with cheese and fries and meat.  As simple salad of green leafy greens, tomatoes, cheese and 1 hard boiled egg.  The dressing was a light dressing.

Dinner was Applebees!

Today breakfast was simple.  Hot tea, 1 slice of bread toasted with no sugar strawberry jam.

Lunch 1 can of coke, salad with light dressing and an orange.

Dinner was Denny’s

Okay the dinners must change but my plan is to have a simple breakfast and lunch.  Dinner will not always be at a resturant but they will be sensible dinners at home.

Tomorrow before we leave the house i will cook my dinner in the slow cooker and it will be done when we get home.   This way the excuse that it will take to long to make dinner will be eliminated and  no more going out.   Well not every night anyway.

Keep moving!

Look what I made

Why do I alway want to make some sweet when I am trying to continue to lose weight.  But I had a bag of Macintosh apples and they really wanted to be in a pie.  So I could not help myself.  Looks as good as it taste!

The numbers. . . . . . . . pathway to life?

 I woke up sneezing but I don’t think its allergy or a cold I just think I am stressed a bit more than usual.

 My knee is in pain so I took 2 IB and now I need to exercise.  Usually I just bail out with some lame excuse but today I am actually going to do the Yoga on Wii Fit.  I figure in the morning it should be slow stretches and core strengthens exercises. 

 So every morning starting today I will do the yoga poses.  Please note not starting Monday, not starting next month. Starting today, that is my new motto if there is something I want to do the start date is the same day I decide I need to do something.

Today planned menu:

Breakfast:  Grits with butter and an apple with hot tea to drink.

Lunch: 15 grain bread with turkey breast lunch meat and a salad

Dinner: Whole grain spaghetti with Meat and mushroom in the Marina sauce. (Made by me!)

This is my plan if it changes because sometimes they do I will let you know.

 I was watching some special hosted by Dr OZ.  He was saying the numbers don’t lie.  Your waist measurement should be half your total height measurement.  I am 5 feet 9 inches tall.  So my waist measurement should be 34.5 but my waist measurement is 42.5. 

According to him, if my weight continues to go up and my waist measurement increases I can possibly have heart problems, beginning stages of diabetes and I am on the pathway to death.   I am getting off the pathway to death!   I, now I am going to focus on reducing my waist and once I get to the number he thinks is right I will see what my weight is then. 

 I am hoping thinking in this way will enable me to stick with my exercise routine and meal management.  I will check the waist measurement every 2 week and attempt not to become obsessive about the thing.  I do have a tape measure in my purse.  I am a seamstress after all.

Lets see if changes in  my numbers will put me on the pathway to a healthier life.

I have  appointments set up January 26th  and I will have blood work done so I am checking all the numbers that indicate my pathway now and compare them again in 6 months.

I am starting on a new pathway now.

December 28, 2009

Goal not achieved! 

This should be depressing me to death. It is not!  The reason it is not is because I kept with it, the exercises, until last week.   This is an amazing achievement at best.  Usually I give up long before now.

After the first week of exercising my knee gave completely out on me.  I woke up and could not walk at all.  Fortunately it was a saturday so there was no need to call off from work.  However if it was a work day I would have had no choice but to call off. 

Sunday would I could walk without crawling like a toddler so I venture out to the store and bought some Icy hot and an ace bandage.  This is not a cure I know but the earliest appointment I could get with my PCP is January 12th.  So I took the appointment and continue to treat with the Icy Hot.

Daily I would attempt exercises but when walking is the challenge then I can assure you squats and the like are just not possible.  So I would do all the exercises I could that did not involved the knee to be full engaged in the attempt.

I did manage to lose 5 lbs which is better than nothing lost,  I did not achieve my goal so no road trip for me. 

My cousin was in town this week for the holidays so I got to sit and talk with her for hours.   

I am going to continue my exercises but not on the WII .  I will just try different things everyday until I do achieve my goal. 

I will find some flexibility exercises to do for the rest of this week.  Anybody have any website suggestions.  Thanks for your help

Monday December 7, 2009 Happy?

I am still on tract with my Wii 30 day challenge. I did miss my workout on Saturday. But I was so active my feet hurt by the end of the day. I missed weighing myself on Friday because the anxiety of gaining weight has returned.

I know there have been times that I have overeaten but I also know that my idea of overeating now and what it was before is not the same.

In my mind, I daydream of my workout. I look slim and fit, with the determination of a athlete, sweating and breathing properly. I look like the fitness teacher of a class. After the work out I feel energetic and ready to start the day.

In reality I am and not slim or fit my determination is to just make it to the end of the workout and when it’s over I am sweating, barely breathing and drinking water like I have been in the desert all day. I sit down exhausted and wonder if I will be able to make it through the day. After a hot shower I am downing 2 extra strength pain relievers just to make it through the day. Wondering how did I ever get this out of shape?

I have always said that I do not feel any different from when I graduated but something definitely has changed. Looking back on my fitness level when I first entered high school exercise was a way of life. I loved working out and really enjoying running and jumping. I should have been on the track team but my doctor would not clear me for that because of the problems that I had with my knees. He said the training would have crippled me. Regardless I ran every where and when my knees would hurt I walked every where. It did not matter that I would walk for 2 hours I enjoyed it and I had my walkman so I was fine.

Now walking to the store that is down the street makes me rethink if I really need that item from the store or not. Which do I prefer? The fitness of my high school days or me right now?

 I love me right now but want to be fit! I want to enjoy the workout and not fear a walk down the street.

 I will endure the pain a little more and work with the determination of someone who wants to be fit and healthy. This will make me happy.

Tuesday December 1, 2009

I was not sure how to start my workout last night so I just did the Wii fit walk run for 20 minutes.  20 minutes is a long time when you are out of shape.   I tried to concentrate on the screen and imagine that I was actually in the little animated city running the marathon.

 

I almost tripped on the little dog that was running in front of me.  I started yelling at it to get out of the way. I quicken my pace and ran past it which was a silly thing to do because it just ran in front of me again when I slowed my pace.  Finally I just dealt with the little mutt.

 

It’s a good thing that I thought ahead and had a glass of water close by because I need a refill but it was close to the end of the run so I just stuck it out. 

 

I was very happy when I was done.  2 reasons, I did not excuse my way out of doing the exercise and 2 I completed the time I set for myself.    One step toward my goal!

 

This morning I had Cheerios for breakfast.  This is my favorite breakfast!  It is now 11:16 and my snack was 8 ginger snaps (one of my vices) and a red delicious apple.  And I will be lunching at 12:30 with Susan. Probably I will eat a salad or soup and sandwich.  Tonight’s dinner is baked chicken legs with salad.   Another step toward my goal.

 

Keep those words of encouragement coming. 

 

 

Monday November 30, 2009

 I have made several resolutions during the year all of them regarding getting rid of this extra weight that I am carrying around with me.

I saw a commercial this weekend where and man had a cast iron old claw foot bathtub in the middle of the sidewalk. He started asking people to help him carry it. Several people attempted but to help but the results were the same it was just too heavy to carry. He then explain that the tub weight 200 lbs and he recently lost 200 lbs and has kept it off.

So then I thought about the amount of weight that I am carrying a round. It’s not 200 lbs but there are timeS when it feel like I am carrying an extra person.

Starting today I will be doing an aggressive exercise program. Right now I am in my little office planning what I am going to do when I get home.

Goal to get rid of 8 lbs, which is about the weight of a newborn. Since I will never give birth there is no reason to keep the weight on me.

How will I achieve this goal;

Write down everything that I eat.

Track calories and fat grams

Make sure to have 5 serving of fresh fruit or vegetables each day.

Exercise 4 times a week

This will be completed by 12/30/2009

My reward for achieving this.

A road trip to see my cousin in Elkhart, IN January 1, 2010.

words of encouragement always appreciated.