I really looking forward to this show. I've been thinking about it a lot since I watched it on my DVR last Thursday. I could not believe that 62 years old man. He really amazed me. 31 lbs lost in 1 week?? I would be at my dream goal by next week if I could lose that much. How I wish it was that easy for me LOL!
I watched carefully on what exercises they did on this show and I remember Bob telling them to raise the incline to 5 when they started walking on the treadmill. Then they had to raise it to 10! I thought to myself, I'm gonna try that when I go to the Y on Friday. So I hopped on the treadmill and raise it to 5. I felt it was too easy for me. I wasn't getting a sweat or burning feeling like I was working out. So I raise it to 6, then 7, then 7.5. I stopped there. I was really working a sweat now and I checked my heart rate. It was between 170 to 180 the entire time I was walking for 30 minutes. Wow I felt like I had a really good workout. I could really keep going without feeling like I have to stop. I don't think I can do 10 yet. But I'm going to get there. I don't want to overwork myself when I don't have a personal trainer watching me and making sure I don't injure myself. At least these people on the show had their trainer to check on them.
I also noticed the trainers making them do exercises that focus on their cores. The part where u had to hold yourself up by your arms and toes to strengthen your core. That's hard. I know it is because I tried it when I was in yoga class and I didn't even last 2 minutes. It's definitely a core thing. I need to work on that again.
I've been interested in the Winsor Pilates program and I ordered a DVD from amazon.com for a cheap price to try it out. I don't want to spend a whole lot of money for something I don't know if it will work or not. So I'll let you know how that goes.
The scale is going down to 141. I haven't seen that number for quite some time. I hope it keeps going down and get me back to that goal of 139 which was last April. I can't believe how long it takes me go back to that. I'm determined to get there and I know I will.
I have to pat myself on my back for overcoming temptations twice at McDonalds. The only time I ever go to McDonald is for an Egg McMuffin when I am traveling in the air or on the road. It's a treat to myself that I allow myself to have. Sometimes I have their $1.00 sundae and share it with my daughter.
Last week, I was stuck with my friend and the 5 kids. I would ride in the minivan with her all day while we would do these errands to drop off the kids at sport, school, and shopping. At the end of the day, we're so tired and no time to cook dinner together, we chose to go to McDonalds. I'm really glad to see that McDonald have the classic grilled chicken which is healthier than a quarter pounder. I was soooo craving for that pounder but I just ignore it and chose the chicken. By checking my weight the next day and see that it stayed the same helped me to stay committed on choosing healthier food when we're out.
My friend chose a double cheeseburger and a McChicken sandwich. She thought my sandwich looked really good and I asked her why not order that instead? She wished she did. I realized at that moment that sometimes we order with our stomach instead of our head. We have to learn to control our choices by using our head, not our stomach. I also realized that it was a bad habit of mine and I need to practice using my head more. So I decided to make this post to remind myself whenever I come back here to reread my posts. :) I hope it helps you too.
Wow, I see several changes on here since I've been here the last time. Time to get back in the blogging mode.
I'm going to make September my month to get back on track because I am not going out of town at all this month and there is no major holiday that will interfere with my diet and fitness plan. October will be a different story. I will be going out of town 3 or 4 times in a month.
I recently met up with some friends I haven't seen in a while. I was shocked when I saw my husband's friend. When he left his wife, he was weighing almost 300 lbs. He was honest and said he actually weighed 280 lbs. I did remember him gaining more and more weight since he married this girl.
A year later after he left her, he weighs 205 lbs! He looks great! I asked him what's his secret and what did he do? He told me that he followed The Abs Diet plan by eating more proteins, etc. So I've been looking into that plan. I requested the book online at my library and it's on hold for now. It has been checked out at every library branch in Orlando. So that tells me this book must be good if so many people want it. Once I get the book, I will try it out and see if it helps me.
My husband's friend looks really good and he got a really nice pretty girlfriend now. He looks so much happier now and he got a new job with a good salary. Things are going really well for him. I see a big difference in him after he left his wife. They were not very happy together and had a lot of problems.
On the other hand, my friend who had the hysterotomy is struggling to lose weight big time. I didn't know how important our ovaries are for us to lose weight and protect our heart. The estrogen hormones are what protected us from gaining weight, protecting our heart, bones, and brain. She had gained 40 lbs since the surgery and she's struggling to find ways to lose the weight off. I feel bad since this is all new information for me. I'm 40 lbs less than her and we were weighing the same before she had her surgery. She is going through early menopause at the age of 29 and she gets these hot flashes all the time. The positive thing is she is no longer in pain and has more energy than before. She is able to do more things with her children which she enjoy doing now. We're just worried about her gaining this weight so fast that we don't want to know what will happen in the long run if it continues this way.
She also had a cochlear implant in July to help her hear for the first time. I don't usually mention often that I am deaf and I wear a hearing aid but that is me. My friend has been severly deaf all her life and never heard a sound before in her life. She is hearing everything for the first time since she had the implant. She never knew that water makes sound, your footsteps is noisy, even the keyboard! We were comparing what we can or can't hear with my hearing aid and her implant. It's almost the same and it's cool to ask each other, do you hear that? What's that sound? Etc. It's a whole new world for her now. So there are some good and bad things happening at the same time with her.
As for me, I wanted to get back in track with exercising last week, but for some reason, I woke up one morning with a really stiff neck. I tried to turn my head and the next thing I know, I felt a crack in the back of my neck. It hurted so bad that it hurts to turn my head sideways. The pain would go all the way down to my backbone. I was constantly getting tinnitus ringing in my head that gave me a headache. I have my hearing aid off most of the time because the ringing would come back each time I turn it on. It's driving me nuts. I finally took some advil over the weekend and it has lessen the pain but the ringing is still there. I'm hoping it will go away soon before I go insane.
Well it's time for me to get my butt moving out of this chair and off the computer. I'm barely burning any calories just sitting here all day and I hope everyone is well. I will comment on when I can.
Since I started to subscribe to Fitness magazine, I've been following their advices and suggestions on exercise but I didn't pay too much attention to the food. This month magazine came out with drop a jean size in 4 weeks. I started following their calorie plan for 2 days and I lost 2 lbs in 2 days. This is the first time I've realized that calories are important. It's easy for me to follow when I have my own food but when we go out to eat, it's hard to figure out the calories especially local restuarants that don't provide nutritional information. I'm going to continue to follow this plan and see how much I can lose. I got 1 and a half lb left to get rid of my vacation weight gain. Hope everyone having a great summer and going down the scale.
I'm so sorry to be away for such a long time. I never thought that I would be away that long. July was a very busy and emotional month for me with my grandmother passing and vacation at the same time. I flew up to Jersey for a few days for my grandmother's funeral and then came back to Florida. A week later, I was on a road trip to visit my parents for 2 weeks. I haven't been near a computer much and I didn' t have time to blog or read any blogs at all. You guys were all in my thoughts and kept wondering what everyone was up to. I even saw the Singing Bee show one night with my mom and was trying to see if I could find agentinaction. Now I need to go back to her blog and find out what happened. I have so much catching up to do here and I will try my best to comment to every one of you.
I didn't eat healthy much at all in the month of July, but one thing I did eat was soy yogurt everyday. I noticed that my skin was cleared up by eating soy yogurt everyday and I feel so much better physically, even though I had so much junk food and red meat. I only gained 4 lbs during my trip and already lost 1 today. So I am back on track to healthy eating. I won't be able to go to the YMCA since my membership expired last month and we will go to renew it this week after my husband gets out of work. I was thinking to myself this morning that I'm in the mood to do some Gilad workouts today while my daughter takes her nap. I like hearing his aerobic voice with the fun music. It will get me motivated into exercising again.
I hope everyone is having a great summer and now I'm off to reading your blogs. I may also post some articles later. See You Real Soon!
I had a wonderful day yesterday with my friends, my hubby, and my daughter at a park in the evening. We were home during the day watching the hot dog eating contest in Coney Island, NY. I was just waiting to see anyone have a heart attack eating 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes. But I allowed myself one cheeseburger at dinner since Shelleys was having ribs on her 4th of July. The cheeseburger was soo good and I'm glad to have one. I haven't had one in months. I shared a small ice cream with my daughter. Overall, it was a great evening.
On my way home last night, I got a text message from my brother that my grandmother went in cardiac arrest. 30 minutes after that, she passed away. I've been up late at night talking to my mom on the phone and making arrangement to go north for the funeral this weekend. It's strange because last week, I told my husband that I hope grandma doesn't pass away on the 4th of July. I just had a gut feeling that it was going to happen that day. I knew because my mom said that my grandmother refuses to eat anything at the hospital and she would just sleep all day. That tells me that she has given up on herself. But I've known that she has given up on herself for a long time since my grandfather passed away when I was 11 years old. My grandmother had a hard time being without him and she was really lonely, even though she had 10 children, 14 grandchildren, and 1 great grandchild around her all the time. I guess it's true how your husband or wife is like another half of yourself. I'm worried about my mom right now since I know she had a really bad month with moving out of her house plus grandma at the hospital at the same time. So I'll be away for a few days and be back next week.
Hope everyone had a happy and safe 4th of July yesterday.
I was thinking yesterday that maybe I was eating just too much and that could be why I was not losing any weight. So I decided to cut back yesterday on my eating and really think about what I am putting in my mouth. I was happy to see it went back down to 140, just a pound shy of 139. I'm going to try harder to watch my eating habits. I have been playing around with treats too much lately and I don't count calories or points. I'm terrible at keeping track of those things. That's why I avoid going to diet programs because I don't usually stick with it. I'm trying to intake more fruits and veggies. I eat too much starch and carbs, but not enough fruits and veggies to balance out all that carb I'm eating.
My fitness is going fine with weight lifting, running and yoga stretches at night. My husband and I did go to the YMCA last Saturday which is the first time I ever worked out with him and workout on a Saturday at the Y. My husband wants to go back and exercise more hopefully by Friday. Just taking it step by step with him.
We were also playing around with the RealAge test from Dr. Oz and I had to change a few things on my test since I lost some weight and workout more often. My real age is now 25.4 when it was 30.6 2 years ago. The test is really interesting and gave me some insights on improving my real age.
I had 2 doctors appointments yesterday for my husband and his blood pressure was really high at 188/100 and doctor gave him some new mediciations to bring down his blood pressure. Now he is very drowsy and less anxious about things. He was driving me crazy about his blood pressure going up so high.
Tomorrow is the 4th of July. I love 4th of July. It's one of my favorite holiday of the year. We will get together with 2 close friends of ours and we're going to have a small BBQ to chat and then go to Epcot to watch the fireworks. I went to Lake Eola last year in downtown Orlando to see the fireworks and it was really lousy. People were smoking, cussing and drunk all over the place. I told my hubby that this place is not family friendly for our 2 year old daughter and we're not going there again.
I hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July tomorrow and appericate the freedom we have in our country. The freedom to be able to lose weight and change ourselves to be a better person.
So today is the last day of June and I feel like I had another month that I accomplished nothing in weight loss. It's still the same. I'm not giving up yet though but I had to sit down and think about what is preventing me from going into the 130's. I was doing very well in April before I started all of my traveling and I believe I was watching more of what I was eating than I am now. I was more in routine with my exercise and I haven't exercise as much. I seem to find it hard to focus on weight loss during the summer.
My husband's blood pressure has been skyrocketed lately and the doctor is encouraging him to exercise. So he told me last night that he wants to go to the YMCA today and I told him sure. Let's see if he actually goes. He hates to exercise in the gym but he doesn't have much of a choice because it's too hot outside for him to exercise. He's on medication that he needs to stay out of the sun. I'm hoping he would go, so I can get more of my weight training in.
I'm sorry I've been really quiet lately but I'm trying to get back into blogging here more often as well. I just been really busy more than usual and friends has been constantly instant messaging me more than usual. Alot of distraction lately and it's time for me to get back to work. I hope you all are having a great weekend.
The cheeseburger was soo good and I'm glad to have one. I haven't had one in months. I shared a small ice cream with my daughter. Overall, it was a great evening.