Category Archives: Diet/Exercise

Day 1 – I’m hungry!!!!

I really want to do this challenge. It is very hard because I am the greatest about making goals and then abandoning them along the way. After entering data into Spark people, I decided with Spark people’s help that 10 pounds in 4 weeks may be a little unrealistic. I made the goal 10 pounds by October 15. I believe that will make the challenge a 6 week challenge instead of a 4 week challenge.

I reread the article to make sure I understood every thing correctly. Much dismayed to discover that the last sentence in the article reads “The only thing that is important is that your daily calories add up to about 1300 calories. Yikes!!! I most be dedicated and record my food intake – the hardest part for me.

I think that I was on track on Wednesday until after lunch. I ate a Kashi granola bar to beat the 3:00 hunger attach. The real down fall came when my dear husband suggested going out to eat Vietnamese food for dinner. I was starving and I ordered fried wontons. They were so good with sweet and sour sauce. I know major mistake. I also split a noodle bowl with my husband. I had a hard time deciding how many calories were in the noodle bowl that I did not enter it on Spark People.

Well, then it was really down hill after that. At bible study, a friend had small chocolate pieces. Did I resist? NO!!!! I figured I messed up so badly that I could eat a night snack and try again tomorrow.

The other day I received my September 2010 “Health” magazine. There is always an article that I have to flip over to first and read right away. Well this month the article was titled “Walk off Every Bulge.” I am thinking I sure would like to walk off every bulge. To make this more interesting the article (in smaller print) says “Get toned from top to bottom and ditch a quick 10 pounds with this amazing walking-based workout.

I am thinking – a new month – a new challenge – maybe I can do this???

Here is the plan:

1. Walk 1 mile in less the 15 minutes.
2. 1 minute of forward lunges.
3. Walking burst – 1 minute walk/1 minute run for 1 mile.
4. Full push-ups for 1 minute.
5. Toe-touch squats for 1 minute.
6. Elbow-knee touch for 1 minute.
7. Walk/run/skip – do each for 1 minute for 1 mile.
8. Side-T pose – 30 seconds each side.
9. Tabletop dips for 1 minute.

I am thinking – I can do this. Good by bulges. Actually, I did try skipping. That is harder than I thought. In my mind, I saw myself just floating over the ground – going fast – no trouble breathing. I must have been dreaming that I was 10 years old instead of a 49 year old woman. It was more like huffing and puffing at a very slow pace. (I was trying to do it on a treadmill – very hard.) However, with some practice I think I can do it.

Now for the hard part. The “Diet” part. Any one who looks at my sparkpage knows how bad I am about eating and keeping track of food. So hard for me.

Anyway, The plan is to each 300 calories for breakfast, 400 calories for lunch, 500 calories for supper with one 100 calorie snack. ( I might have to add another 100 calorie snack)

After reading the “diet” plan, I thought – this is familiar. A while back I purchased a book called “The Supermarket Diet.” This book pretty much uses the diet plan described above. So I am off to read this diet plan so I can put my new challenge in place.

The cabinets that I painted last night involved moving the refrigerator.  As I was moving the refrigerator back into place, I began to notice I was a bit hungry.  I was hot and sweaty and eating something cold entered my mind.  Then I remembered that I have some white chocolate raspberry ice cream in the refrigerator.  I was lost.  The more I thought about the ice cream the more I wanted some.  I pulled a small bowl out of the cabinet and proceeded to fill my bowl.  As I am dipping out the ice cream, I begin to think that I might as well eat up the ice cream.  There is only a small bit left in the container.  The ice cream is in my bowl.  But, I am trying to lose some weight.  I know I exercised today.  All that effort is in this huge bowl of ice cream.  I know that eating this much ice cream is not good for me.  I know it is way more than half a cup.  I dip my spoon back into my bowl and put some of the ice cream back.  Way to go.  A small skirmish fought and won.

Today’s battle is even harder.  My husband wants to eat out at Casa Ole for lunch.  I love chips and salsa.  More on this battle later.

Today I ran for 20 minutes at a speed of 5 with a 5 minute warm up and cool down. Total of 315 calories burned and a distance of 2.23 miles.

Many will say big deal! But it is a big deal because the whole time I was thinking why did I chose a pace where I actually had to jog? I am not going to make it! I need Jillian to be here to yell at me not to give up. It was so hard mentally to keep on going. It was great when I only had 5 minutes to go. I knew then that I could do it. So for today I am going to say “Yea me!!!”

Seven in the morning. It sure is dark outside. Lucky for me that I have a treadmill to workout on. Tomorrow I am to go to friends house to exercise. Tomorrow I hope that no cars run over us. Time to quit procrastinating – treadmill here I come.

Okay, it is already January 5 and I am ready to start my fitness resolutions.  The candy and all the other holiday sweets are gone.  I can now get down to business – the business of losing weight.  I mean eating healthier.  My husband bought us a very nice treadmill for us to reach our fitness goals.  Today, I started exercising in our excercise room.  We have outfitted our home gym with this new treadmill, elliptical trainer, and our WII fit.  Now we have committed to using all this stuff.  Before I started exercising, I looked out the window.  A cardinal  was sitting in a tree. This tree has no leaves and this cardinal gave a spot of color.  I thought it was beautiful.  It gave me the encouragement I needed this morning to start on my weight loss resolution – I mean eating healthy resolution.