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Post by chapf on Feb 20, 2013 12:59:16 GMT -5
juniemoon, give tai chi another try!  It relaxes me. 
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Post by ladyoz on Feb 20, 2013 19:58:43 GMT -5
Wow, fiercelier!  rihannsu, the Fitbit makes me feel exhausted just reading about it. LOL. But I liked what you wrote about how it just isn't that simple to cut calories. My sister lost a bunch of weight with Weight Watchers and her metabolism totally got screwed up. She gained it all back and then some and it defeated her. That is why I am trying just to eat more healthy food and exercise faithfully if moderately. She is older than myself and going into retirement very overweight and with some health problems. I want to do a bit better by myself and so my goal is to change habits, not pants. I did OK this week. I got in my 5x of exercise, yay! I am not sure whether I am going to continue the tai chi, though. I felt very clumsy and lost in last week's class. Fortunately it is just a free workplace offering so no big deal either way. I did OK on my healthy eating, which is my main initiative. I have been eating nice salads, and I incorporated some spinach into migas (good). I've also been doing the breakfast smoothies a couple of times a week. The best thing I made was a really nice salad with shredded carrots, chopped celery, and peanuts! Yum. Very satisfying and good. I agree with everyone else that it's time of year when reality sets in. .... this will probably be the longest WORD post I've done in a long time (if ever) I also have had the highs and l o w s experienced by your sister with gaining back all her hard fought weight loss ... it almost defeated me too -- however with the help of a nutritionist, a few personal realizations and refocusing ... I am now more in control of my weightloss/fitness/health journey. A year ago I took control of my yoyo dieting situation -- I decided that I would OWN it. It wasn't easy or fast by any means and honestly the camaraderie and humour I have found in the ATOP Shaping Up has been so important to me. I lost 9.35K (converter says 20.6lbs), after slowly changing little habits of a lifetime and finding a "fitness" regime that I liked and would allow into my lifestyle without any excuses. Keeping up my lifestyle changes meant that the weight I lost, stayed off.I do have a lot more I could lose, so this year I responded to dear jablea's prod and rejoined the group. I'm not on a diet but have revisited the basic healthy eating principals again - I also have accelerated the substitution of a veggie/fruit juicing meal to approx 3 times a week - usually mid-day, as my energy level goes way up after drinking. I have in this Shape Up Round lost another .6 kilo (over the last 2 weeks) - Total this round = 3.1K (converter says 6.82 lbs). juniemoon IMO the change of lifestyle you have initiated is going to be so amazing for you in the long term . . . . I honestly believe that your mind and body health will reflect this over the next year ...  --- one further ADAM observation: I have seen comments on twitter and blogs about how SKINNY Adam is .... I don't see him as this at all ... I see a lean and glowingly healthy and happy person - and a large part of this is because of his healthy eating habits. |
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Post by stampsgal on Feb 20, 2013 20:15:43 GMT -5
Great to hear the motivation in the last posts!
I was away on the long weekend in Canada and so lots of family feasting, andlnot always lean stuff being served. I managed to eat respectfully but NOT perfectly! And my weight did not change. I walked dogs with family for one hour plus, in the am.... and in the pm. It was not hard exercise but enough to cause me to break a sweat going up and down the hilly paths on the golf course. Of course in Canada, the golf cart paths were cleared as two feet of snow was on the whole course!!!
Keep up the good work everyone!
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Post by stardust on Feb 20, 2013 22:38:08 GMT -5
Well, it's Wednesday again. I did manage to lose 0.5 lbs but it is a real struggle. I just don't feel like cooking. I'm bored, bored, bored! Think I need to make some changes.
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Post by Jablea on Feb 21, 2013 9:50:24 GMT -5
Well last week was emotional for me, I was mad and upset and it shows. I'm up another one and almost back to where I started. I was actually down over the weekend, as I was the week before. But Mondays and Tuesdays are killers.
'fore I forget, momtomany, thanks for your 7 minute exercise set. I'm thinking of incorporating some type of set every hour to get my heart rate up as well as getting my dufuss off of the office chair in front of the computer. I work from home which is both good and bad.
On the subject of weight rebound. This year was the first time it happened to me. I had a health scare, couldn't sleep, couldn't eat and lost 10 pounds over about a 2 week period and I was going yeah, let's stay at this weight. Everything turned out fine and what do you know? I felt like celebrating and here three months later I'm still paying for that celebration.
Time to do better.
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Post by Jablea on Feb 21, 2013 9:55:03 GMT -5
Thursday - The Clock
Oh how menacing as it ticks off the years. Time to turn it to friend from foe.
Pick your time, schedule your life. Well that's what I'm going to try and do during working hours. It's almost 5 till the hour and that for me seems to be a natural break period. So at 7:55 I will exercise for 5 minutes. The same at 8:55 and on thru the day.
What's your schedule?
ETA: back from my 5 minutes. I'll have to tell you what fun I had excising with my closet and an empty paper towel cardboard roll.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2013 13:45:03 GMT -5
ladyoz, your post was so encouraging to me! Thank you! I like eating these fresh, whole things so much more than what I was eating before, I already don't want to go back. Of course I also like my lattes and my cheese enchiladas too ...  Your story is a big inspiration to me -- 20 pounds, wow, that's amazing! There are some other life changes I want to make ... I think all part and parcel of the same thing, realizing that time is not infinite and that sometimes NOT making a choice is making a choice ... to let your health or other parts of your life go downhill, to just surrender. I don't want to do that. Thanks for the encouragement about tai chi, chapf! I blew it off yesterday but I think I'll go to the makeup class tomorrow and give it another shot. P.S. Jablea, my bunny works out with an empty cardboard tube but I never thought of doing it myself. :D
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Post by chapf on Feb 21, 2013 19:09:29 GMT -5
Thursday - The Clock I'll have to tell you what fun I had excising with my closet and an empty paper towel cardboard roll.   |
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Post by Jablea on Feb 21, 2013 23:59:50 GMT -5
Friday - Carrots
My kid used to like the ones with the green tops still on so he could go around saying "What's up, Doc?" Now he's got braces so I guess I'm going to have to start cooking them. I know, I'll throw some in with my sweet potato tomorrow, I haven't given you that recipe yet.
So carrots, pretty much completely edible including the tops. Leftovers go to my rabbits (I'll have to give them card board tubes ala juniemoon). I've got to do a better job this year of growing them in the garden. I haven't liked the taste of my home grown ones, maybe I'll have to start dipping them in humus. I'll try them out in a smoothie tomorrow too.
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Post by chapf on Feb 22, 2013 1:53:39 GMT -5
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