I made a deal with myself and a friend that I was going to try really hard to be down 20 pounds from my heaviest by my birthday - Sept. 30. So I need to kick in the butt to do this! I have done pretty well about exercising - I think I've hit 5xweek almost every week and now the food thing has to start!
I was going to try to NOT go out to eat but that isn't going to fly. So I need to adapt what I eat and do better exercising. I was moderately good this weekend - I power walked Friday, Sunday and Monday - and ate o.k. - not great but not horrible. I really want to hit this goal. It has been so long since I've been so motivated.
I think going thru chemo, radiation and 9 surgeries, I kind of thought "what the hell" and ate whatever I wanted for 2 years just to be nice to myself. Now I realize - it wasn't that nice! And I've got about 40 pounds to take off. it's o.k. though. I can do this. I just need to stay strong and focused.
If anyone has any great tips out there that I might not already know - thanks in advance for sharing them.
No loss, no gain - I guess that is o.k. - I have been out for dinner the last 3 nights in a row, but I have to say i think I was alot more careful than usual and I have kicked my exercise routine - walking up a notch. I am doing some serious hills and challenging myself more. It must be working a little bit because usually I would have gained, eating out so much!
Now I need to get thru the Holiday weekend - we are having company Sat. and Sunday - it will be fun but I need to stay active -
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it." William Arthur Ward
Pretty good advice for dieter's I think. I'm feeling kind of proud of myself today - We went out for dinner last night to one of my favorite Italian restaurants and I didn't cave. I had a salad, a couple pieces of bread, and what is called there a Reasonable snack, which is chunks of sirloin grilled with fresh tomatoes and lettuce. Usually I have pasta or panzerotti so this was a victory -
I just told myself that the good stuff would still be there when I was at a good weight and then I could enjoy it without backsliding. I walked 3.6 miles yesterday (lots of hills) and I didn't want to undo it all.
Last night I cleaned my butt off - cleaned out the refridgerator, scrubbed our hard wood floors on my hands and knees and just generally worked for about 3 hours - DH was trying to convince me that because of this I didn't need to take my hour walk. I admit it was hard work but it wasn't aerobic - I did work up a sweat though. I had made stuffed green peppers with peppers from our garden and they were awesome, if I say so myself! It was the first time I've really cooked in a while, other than salads and stuff like that to go with something we grilled. That is going to be a goal of ours - to eat at home more and eat nutritionally when we can. I'm still not seeing the scale budge and that bums me out - maybe by Friday I'll see some progress -
I start the week with great intentions - Yesterday I tried to do damage control from overeating Fri. and Sat. - I ate sensibly and walked 3.6 with some major hills. I went home and made awesome fresh salsa and cut up tons of fruit for DH and me for this week. Then I got a call that a close friend of mine's daughter who was 24 died in her sleep. It is so sad. So there will be a wake and a funeral this week. We are also supposed to go out for dinner Wed. night. And this morning my boss brought in really good, huge bagels! I should have turned them down and ate my high fiber cereal and fruit like I had planned - but NO- I mowed one down. Now I need to just get back on track - and make adjustments -
"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." Benjamin Mays
I am so pumped! I lost a pound! Thank you Leslie Sansome - it was raining last night and I didn't feel like doing anything but I popped in the WATP 3 mile and did it- you would think it would be easy but I work up a sweat. It is the one with the purple tubies - and mine snapped on the first exercise! It was probably rotted from lack of use. Now, I need to take my Friday momentum and do well this weekend. DH and I are going to our cottage we have on the river tonight until Sun. A little mini vacation. He REALLY needs it, he's been stressed lately. And I think I know how to relax him -
"Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong
I'm not a huge Lance fan but I like this quote. I read yesterday that obesity and inactivity can contribute to Breast Cancer and recurrance. Since I am a survivor this is reason 999 to stay healthy and active and eat right. I walked my hour last night after work - and my foot was killing me and I got a blister from these dumb socks of mine but old Lance baby is right, the pain is gone and I got an hour of exercise in! I do have one big issue though - after I work out or walk I am starved! I like to go right when I get home and be back before DH gets home from work and then eat or do whatever and I seem like I eat huge portions. Last night I just had a salad and leftover goulash (which was tasty if I say so myself) but I ate 2 portions of it. It is kind of my downfall - I could eat pasta 7x a week - I've mostly switched to whole wheat and organic and try not to cook as much but you name it ...., spaghetti, pasta salad, frozen pasta, gnocchi..........., I feel like Forrest Gump talking about shrimp!
"Every day do some thing that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow."
I need to remember this one because sometimes it seems like we are doing all this for nothing when there aren't any immediate results! But it all adds up, at least health-wise and that is my main concern. (Of course if looking better and being able to fit in cute clothes happens too - COOL! I am trying so hard to conscious of what I eat and get some kind of exercise most days - sooner or later it has to pay off.
One way to be thin is to re-establish your purpose in life. Cyril Connolly
My purpose is to be healthy and happy. As I have said before, being overweight is stressful in itself - and therefore not very healthy!
My weekend was not too bad- a few too many cocktails on Saturday night but......., it was a full moon, what can I say? I tried to eat sensibly most of the time but weekends are definitely a challenge. I did manage to get some exercise in last night and my goal is to walk every break at work and an hour after work. -
I have done pretty well about exercising - I think I've hit 5xweek almost every week and now the food thing has to start!
And I've got about 40 pounds to take off. it's o.k. though. I can do this. I just need to stay strong and focused.
I guess that is o.k. - I have been out for dinner the last 3 nights in a row, but I have to say i think I was alot more careful than usual and I have kicked my exercise routine - walking up a notch. I am doing some serious hills and challenging myself more. It must be working a little bit because usually I would have gained, eating out so much! 
We went out for dinner last night to one of my favorite Italian restaurants and I didn't cave. I had a salad, a couple pieces of bread, and what is called there a Reasonable snack, which is chunks of sirloin grilled with fresh tomatoes and lettuce. Usually I have pasta or panzerotti so this was a victory - 
It was the first time I've really cooked in a while, other than salads and stuff like that to go with something we grilled. That is going to be a goal of ours - to eat at home more and eat nutritionally when we can. I'm still not seeing the scale budge and that bums me out - maybe by Friday I'll see some progress -
Yesterday I tried to do damage control from overeating Fri. and Sat. - I ate sensibly and walked 3.6 with some major hills. I went home and made awesome fresh salsa and cut up tons of fruit for DH and me for this week. Then I got a call that a close friend of mine's daughter who was 24 died in her sleep. It is so sad. So there will be a wake and a funeral this week. We are also supposed to go out for dinner Wed. night. And this morning my boss brought in really good, huge bagels!
but old Lance baby is right, the pain is gone and I got an hour of exercise in!
But it all adds up, at least health-wise and that is my main concern. (Of course if looking better and being able to fit in cute clothes happens too - COOL! 
My purpose is to be healthy and happy. As I have said before, being overweight is stressful in itself - and therefore not very healthy!