9/30/2011 CONTINUING ON THE JOURNEY
Decided to start writing down EVERYTHING I eat to keep my calorie count exact. That hopefully will tell me if I am able to take off excess weight with the amount of activity in my life - which isn't a whole lot. I intend to do something everyday to improve that. At the end of the day I will add the exact food I ate today. What a cross this has been throughout my life. I still have hope that there is a chance to correct this to have the best life I can. I am going back to re-read Sean Anderson's blog "The Daily Diary of a Winning Loser" where he wrote daily what his search involved. He doesn't write daily there anymore but what he DID write still applies. We'll see how it helps my journey day to day.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Another Step In the Right Direction
9/17/11 FEELING GOOD ABOUT FOOD CHOICES
Calorie wise I stayed under 1500 which I am setting as my new goal. Was aiming at 1200 and din't make it under that. Will see if that can cause some pounds to come off. It has let me LIVE while walking toward my goal, so I hope 1500 daily will not be too high. Even with eating out one evening over the weekend. Didn't weigh this morning because my scale was not available, I was at my nephew's and celebrating his wife's birthday. Had a lot of fruit & vegetables today. Will see what happened with my weight loss.
Calorie wise I stayed under 1500 which I am setting as my new goal. Was aiming at 1200 and din't make it under that. Will see if that can cause some pounds to come off. It has let me LIVE while walking toward my goal, so I hope 1500 daily will not be too high. Even with eating out one evening over the weekend. Didn't weigh this morning because my scale was not available, I was at my nephew's and celebrating his wife's birthday. Had a lot of fruit & vegetables today. Will see what happened with my weight loss.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
9/14/11 SO FAR - SO GOOD
9/14/11 Didn't get done what I thought I would today outside of good food choices. THAT deserves much appreciation by me for me. Just need to make it through the night continuing good food choices. These are my hard hours. Will have to be super vigilant for the rest of my life. Hope to be ready for the treadmill and exercise soon to increase my stamina and overall health. The things needing doing around the house will wait till I get those two elements in place. Food, exercise and regular living maintenance chores - - getting to those extra jobs (like painting the woodwork) after all that is in place. On to success.
PERCEIVING FAILURE
9/14/11 WT: 271.4 FEELING LIKE A FAILURE
The numbers on the scale we are told over and over, to not let them affect us. Today I can't believe that I'm back in the 70's. Well, I can believe it because my food choices have been poor and seem consistently to start that way each day after 3:00 P.M. Today I will be more vigilant and also get some movement into my day. Just read ~
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Henry Ford
Today is the day I do that and I am choosing Wednesday to be my weigh in day. Once a week after this, not every day. Although it helps me squelch or at least be aware of the behavior that is causing the consequence, the down side of that is not worth it. For now anyway, I am weighing once a week.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
To The Grindstone
September 8, 2011
WT: 267.2
Not only does every step, every day counts...... but every hour. Jillian Michaels said to set a clock for every hour through the day. Stop and think each hour about what you are doing - if you are happy about what you are doing, fine. If not, site correction is needed. Sounds like a good idea. Hourly check to see if I am in line with what I want. Sure am aiming at getting into the "50's" and down from there. Once I break out of the 60's will set my next goal.
WT: 267.2
Not only does every step, every day counts...... but every hour. Jillian Michaels said to set a clock for every hour through the day. Stop and think each hour about what you are doing - if you are happy about what you are doing, fine. If not, site correction is needed. Sounds like a good idea. Hourly check to see if I am in line with what I want. Sure am aiming at getting into the "50's" and down from there. Once I break out of the 60's will set my next goal.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Back to Super Serious Mode
September 7, 2011 TOO LONG PLAYING - TIME TO BE SERIOUS
Been gone too long from a daily accounting. The journey was too filled with looking back at accomplishments. Time to look ahead. Have to remember we are only as good as our very last ballgame, and what we are willing to do NOW. Baby steps, baby steps, baby steps - will lead to a quantum leap. DAILY activity counts a lot. Have so often figured "this one time won't count" and it counts a lot! It could open the door to throwing in the towel completely. If not quite that bad, because it seems I come down on myself over and over because of my weight, it can lead to other "just this time"-s. I undo any good I might have done with calorie control All that emphasis by me on my weight, has had the opposite effect of what I wanted to accomplish! Lose weight and keep it off. I keep turning to things I LOVE the taste of, even though I'm not hungry. The "super control" of eating what I know I SHOULD not be eating, undoes any calorie control I did over days before. Guess I have to look at exactly what is it I REALLY want to accomplish. Is it to make myself feel happy? I have been wanting to eat all day today... partly a little hunger but even in between I want something good to eat! Maybe I need to make sure I make a good meal every day because otherwise it adds up and I find it too hard to resist those "ATTACKS" that seem to happen at least once a week. Perhaps if I got enough glucose in every day, this would level that out. THAT and starting to move more. There are people that feel they HAVE to move to feel good. Once I START moving I know I feel better, and can keep at it daily. TWO important social phone calls a week. Need to have at least ONE social engagement per week. This will eliminate stress and depression. You can put your heart back in your hands!
I CAN DO THIS!
Been gone too long from a daily accounting. The journey was too filled with looking back at accomplishments. Time to look ahead. Have to remember we are only as good as our very last ballgame, and what we are willing to do NOW. Baby steps, baby steps, baby steps - will lead to a quantum leap. DAILY activity counts a lot. Have so often figured "this one time won't count" and it counts a lot! It could open the door to throwing in the towel completely. If not quite that bad, because it seems I come down on myself over and over because of my weight, it can lead to other "just this time"-s. I undo any good I might have done with calorie control All that emphasis by me on my weight, has had the opposite effect of what I wanted to accomplish! Lose weight and keep it off. I keep turning to things I LOVE the taste of, even though I'm not hungry. The "super control" of eating what I know I SHOULD not be eating, undoes any calorie control I did over days before. Guess I have to look at exactly what is it I REALLY want to accomplish. Is it to make myself feel happy? I have been wanting to eat all day today... partly a little hunger but even in between I want something good to eat! Maybe I need to make sure I make a good meal every day because otherwise it adds up and I find it too hard to resist those "ATTACKS" that seem to happen at least once a week. Perhaps if I got enough glucose in every day, this would level that out. THAT and starting to move more. There are people that feel they HAVE to move to feel good. Once I START moving I know I feel better, and can keep at it daily. TWO important social phone calls a week. Need to have at least ONE social engagement per week. This will eliminate stress and depression. You can put your heart back in your hands!
I CAN DO THIS!
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