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Are you struggling to manage your weight? Read on to see if my knowledge, successes and failures can help you. Please comment and pass along to anyone who you think could benefit from this Blog. Be Healthy!



Tuesday, October 30, 2012

"Priority Change" is a Priority

Today, I have a different view.  I have something that I want.  I want it more than TV, more than a little extra money, more than .... anything else right now.  Literally!  That is what makes it a priority.

Control my eating...Thank you to Subway's BOGO free.  Flat bread, egg whites and jack cheese for breakfast, and a 6" Tuscan Chicken, Baked Lay's and a vitamin water for lunch.  Dinner? Good choices, good choices!  I will be working, so I will have to choose admist all of the usual temptations.

215.0

Monday, October 29, 2012

Good Day for Success!

Can you literally give me a good reason why today cannot be a great day for success?  A day for Health? 

List reasons why this is not the case for you.  Tell me or just yourself exactly why.  Don't just shrug and give up.  Tell me why?  Maybe its valid.  With those exact reasons, look at balance and priority.  If you want to be healthier but something is in the way, what can you do about it.  You probably don't have to overhaul your life to find some time to prioritize your health.  Ask yourself if you really want it?  Then prove it!  Do something healthy today.

If there is no good reason and your priorities are balanced, then make a change...today.  Why not?  216.4

Friday, October 26, 2012

Reunion Fail

I did not meet my goal.

Now what?  Well, I don't quit.  I don't cower.  I don't, not try.  I care.  I make an effort.  I make a new goal.

If I don't care, who will?
If I don't try, who else can?
If I live afraid of failing, my health will?
I must, I must I will!

Thursday, October 25, 2012

An Epiphany

The game isn't to win.  It's not to lose.  If health will someday be lost, why not hold on to as much health as you can as long as you can.  The goal is to keep playing!  How can you stay in the game longer! - eat better, - exercise, - sleep, - wellness visits?  Devise your game plan and then use it!

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Today's a Good Day!

It really is a good day!  Lots of reasons for that...if your not sure, put on a new pair of glasses and look again.  The goodness is there.  You just might be focused on the wrong thing.  That focus might be one of your issues with weight management.

Focus, proirity, resolve, whatever the term, find it.  It helps tremendously.  This week is has been going well.  The trick is now to stack one good day on another.  I don't want to end up on a roller coaster.  Just want to keep going down. 

For me, I need to FOCUS on what I am eating and what I am eating.  I need to choose to take time to make food and meal prep a PRIORITY.  And I need to be RESOLVED, to follow through with my own intentions.  214.2

Monday, October 22, 2012

Can't Give Up, Might Give In?

This semester continues to exhaust me.  I simply don't have enough time to get the priorities done that I would like to get done.  Hmmm?  Can that statement be true?  If they are priorities, by definition wouldn't I find time to get them done?

My life is complex...not really.  In fact, if I let it be, it would probably be simple.  Fact, I do have to work a certain amount.  The jobs I have have deliniated schedules, most of which I cannot get a sub for.  The duties of those jobs have strict timelines and help me not to otherwise procrastinate, more. 

The truth is that I have little free time.  In between jobs but not at home, I literally have only 10 hrs to work on stuff during the week.  So far, it has been difficult to make this time productive with the 1 or 2 hr gaps I have.  After that, I only have 14 hrs per week at home not asleep.

I wish I was exaggerating.  Those are the times that I prepare for the next shift or class or study for myself. 24 hrs during the entire 7 day week.  No time for friends, no time for family, no time to think of what is next, only what I am doing then.  No time for me, for health, for eating right, for exercise.

I have good intentions, but I can't, don't want to get up for church on Sunday.  I don't want to go for a walk.  I know the long term results.  I shouldn't be here right now, but I am.  I have to finish the semester out.  I need to give up on changing for now.  It is only frustrating me.  Weight is up 216.2

Monday, October 15, 2012

Could I Possibly be Assymptomatic

Sticking with the overwhelming theme in my head, heart disease usually presents itself with signs and symptoms that something is wrong.  For my doctor friend who passes recently, he exercised everyday and have a massive heart attack...evidently with no warning signs.

Granted there are no guarantees, as suggested by the crazy aunt who smoked and lived to 90 that we all seem to have, that is why we must educate ourselves about our risk.  Invest 10 minutes in your health and go to the Life Check page on the American Heart Association website.  Take their survey and see if you have any risk.  Take care.

212.4

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Life is Delicate! Are you Sure your Body is Handling it Well?

Just heard that someone at the gym I work at died from a heart attack this week.  He was 71, old but not to the age of the expected life expectancy.  He was a doctor, a learned man.  He came to exercise everyday. And now, he's gone.  He didn't have any signs that things were going bad.  He should have known what to look for.  Yet, it took him!

What do you know about your heart health?  What I know is CVD (cardiovascular disease) is the #1 killer!

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Rough Patch

The past couple of days have been  tough.  Real busy, not much sleep.  Don't want to plan.  Eating out.  Hard making good choices.  Not even enough time for full sentenc...

Must slow everything down.  Did pack a lunch today! That's already a victory.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Its Too Hard to be Too Hungry

Teaching yourself that being hungry is ok.  In fact, it might be necessary for our body's to relearn appropriate protion sizing and timing of meals.  However, their is a dark side to this concept.

If you allow yourself to become too hungry or, maybe more specifically, allow your blood sugar to drop too low, it can be really difficult to control your caloric intake.  Last night, I didn't get my last meal eaten at the normal time.  That automatically meant that the time period would be pushed back to another 90 minutes.  By then, I was pretty hungry.  I had a meal with me, a good meal that I was looking forward to. The problem was that meal came and went, and I did not feel satisfied.  I wanted more; more sweet, more indulgence, more something.

Luckily, I couldn't come up with a plan for that indulgence on the way home so no harm no foul.  Weight was the same 211.0.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Trying Not to Want More

It can be tempting at times to be dissatified with paltry success.  I only lost .4 lbs yesterday, so I need to do more.  Or, it felt like it should have been more.  That type of mindset has a positive root perhaps, but can be damaging in the long run.  If I am wanting bigger losses or more victories, I might be compromising the validity of my techniques.

We are not on the Biggest Loser! You have a job.  I have a family.  We need balance.  If our excitement for results changes the way we are eating or exercising to a point that we are being unhealthy or cutting corners, then we will not have lasting health.

Be patient, be smart! 211.0

Monday, October 8, 2012

Consistency Helps

Sometimes we make a calendar and sometimes the calendar makes us.  When changing or improving your habits, it sure does help to know what to expect.

Maybe our schedule doesn't have to be so out of control?  Maybe we can prioritize and improve the amount of time that we leave for oursleves.  Either way, it makes a big difference for the body if you sleep clock is consistent.  Same can be said about eating or at least the planning of your meals.

Weekends, weekdays it shouldn't matter.

When my son was younger, maybe around 4, and my ex and I were already divorced, the role of a part-time father was every other weekend due mostly to my schedule.  My son's refernce to that time table didn't click.  It wasn't yesterday and last time was too vague.

The resultant term was "lasterday".  Perfect, the last time that we did something was lasterday.  Hopefully, the last time you exercised or logged your food was sooner than lasterday.  Consistency will build momentum. Love you G!

Up a little, but feeling good. 211.4

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Feeling Better

I can already tell the difference.  It has only been a couple of days since I have revamped my diet.  Revamp is the wrong term, I really just got back to what I know to do.

So far, it hasn't been difficult.  Said no to a couple of small tempations, allowed myself to be hungry, and it feels good to make healthy choices.  But it has only been a couple of days!

212.8

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Here We Go Again, On My Own!

I can do it!  I need to do it!

One change...no fast food.  It worked really well in the first half of the year.  Hopefully that will keep me planning and focused!  I feel good about changing.  I like the challenge and love the reward of eating better.  It doesn't have to feel like losing a loved one.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

It's Hard Out Here for a Blimp!

Play on words from the Theme to the film Hustle and Flow.  It is hard to management your weight when you have tendencies to be overweight.  Mostly it is a habit issue for me.  Things get tough and I can get right back into my comfort zone: fast food, junk food, and sedentary leisure time.

This semester is busier then it needs to be.  The result is poor planning for the day's food and lack of time for exercise.  When I do have time, it is a deserved break.

I saw this coming.  I knew that I would struggle!  Now the question is what will I do about it. 

It might be easy to suggest that I self fulfilled the prophecy of having a bad semester.  Maybe.  Maybe I allowed myself the need to be rewarded.  But I really don't think so.  I think that I am smarter about who I am now and understand what my struggles with weight management are.  I think that I am still trying, but not consistently.

I think that this semester will be about survival.  While that doesn't sound very positive, I need to have SMART goals, including "R" - realistic goals.  Successshould not be undermined by trying to accomplish the unaccomplishable.  Why bang my head against the wall?

Instead, I will try to slowly get back to 200, but have the main goal of not gaining.  I am currently behind at work and it will not let up until December and holiday eating :(

No excuses, but I will be sensible about what I ask of myself.  215.4  I have wanted to be under 200 for my birthday for 17 or so years.  I am not sure that is attainable at this point, but I don't want to go backwards.

Truth be known, I am dissappointed in my efforts.  However, today is a new day with a new chance for healthy living.  I plan on living today healthy.  I will get good sleep and have the same plan tomorrow!