03/30/2009 22:38
Still 155
Ok, I'm still at 155, but I've had some emotional highs and lows and some weird experimenting going on, and it's been awesome. I feel good and I'm eating REALLY healthy. I've just started sucking down green smoothies because I've been researching raw vegan foods...partly regarding weight loss (I consume WAY less fat on raw food than when I sautee everything in olive oil - which is what I do without fail!) partly, just trying to get as much nutrition as I can from the food I eat, partly to get my mind out of the "food to smother emotions" track.
These smoothies are made with TONS of raw greens like Kale, Mustard greens, Collard greens, beet greens, spinach etc and Various veggies like beets, carrots and cucumbers etc and LOADS of fruit - whatever I can get my hands on. and a few nuts, and some flax seed for omega 3's. It's not so much a calorie saver as I probably add as much calories through fruit sugar as I did when I was guzzling olive oil via my cooked food, but I am eating a much more HUGE variety of foods each day than I ever did before, and none of it is processed. No tofu, no bread or pasta, no pre-packaged nothing. At least, not with my smooties. Sometimes I go out to eat and I order cooked food, or I eat a piece of chocolat or something. I'm not 100% raw, and don't know if I want or should be.
My next new experiment has been to exercise every week day for 30 minutes before work. No excuses, no backing out or sleeping in. My rule is that I can do whatever I want to work out. Jog, lift weights, row, hula hoop, walk with weights, aerobics, dance, yoga, whatever. So I switch it up every morning, and I am now addicted. I even work out on weekends - just not as early, and just for fun. No pressure if I don't want to, but so far for the last month, I've wanted to.
Also, I have been working on some motivational tapes and some "power of intention" work. Stuff like Tony Robbins "personal power II", some NLP and EFT stuff. It's pretty new for me, but I like it and it feels good.
Oh yeah...I have discovered that I DO like yoga (I thought I HATED it but I took a class at my gym and it was FABulous) and I just worked out, for the first time, to Yoga Booty Ballet and it was way more fun than I thought it would be. It was the Caberet/Burlesque version. I am eager to try the other stuff,and I also have a Strippercise video and a Core Rhythms video I'll be playing with soon. I think these green smoothies are really reving me up.
My next step is to actually controll my calorie intake. In spite of my working out a half hour to an hour a day, and eating healthy, I am still maintaining. I figure that my average calorie count is around 1200 calories, and while statistics and norms and all that crap say that less than 1200 is starvation, I don't think they had me in mind. So, I'll cut to 1000 calories (that's a TON of veggies and fruit) and see where I get! I think it'll be pretty easy. I'll let ya'll know.