Hello, do you know me?
If you don’t you should.
I’m a pound of fat, and I’m the happiest pound of fat that you would ever want to meet. Want to know why? It’s because no one ever wants to lose me; I’m Only One Pound, just a pound. Everyone wants to lose three pounds, five pounds or fifteen pounds, but never only one, so I just stick around and happily keep you fat. Then I add to myself ever so slyly so that you never seem to notice it, that is until I’ve grown to ten, twenty or even more pounds in weight.
Yes, it’s fun being Only One Pound of fat, left to do as I please. So, when you weigh in, keep right on saying “Oh, I only lost one pound.” (as if that were such a terrible thing!) For you see, if you do this you’ll encourage others to keep me around because they will think I’m not worth losing. And I love being around you - your arms, your legs, your chin, your hips and every part of you. Happy Days!!
After all, I’m Only One Pound of fat!!!
WOW I can't believe I have't blogged since Oct 7th. I kept thinking I would blog tomorrow. I hate when I do that.
So not a lot has been happening. I made a trip to CA and did better than I expected to at eating. I'm only getting to the gym about twice a week so I need to pick it up. I've been slacking on my Gazelle too. I was doing really well at counting calories and then slipped up and here it's been almost two weeks since I logged calories and food. So I guess you can see I have slacked off a bit in all areas but I'm headed right back to it.
So, I would really like to take a few more pounds off by the end of the month since I will be heading to Lodi to visit Cathy and we are soooooo bad for each other. We have planned on working on our eating and exercise while we are together but we always seem to enjoy ourselves with food and eating out. This time I'm hoping we can help each other in our goal to eat less and move more.
Watch out Cathy, here I come!!
Good luck ladies on the final run in October.
Hi girls!! Not such a bad week. I have made it to my 179 mark and vow never to see the 180's again! I have actually started counting calories. I HATE IT!! What a pain in the butt! I made a stew today and had to look up all the ingredients. I hate the fact that if all your eating is a salad you still have to figure out how many calories in the ingredients. I guess that is really the only way you know what your eating. I just always figured veggies were free but they actually have calories. Dang. With the healthy eating I have been able to keep my cravings in check. Marty has been keeping his food in his own plate and not offering me potato chips and ice cream. He even said my Salmon dinner last night was really good.
My Gazelle is together. I tried it out for a whole 10 minutes last night but plan on watching a little tv tonight while working out. I tried it in socks and the grid on the foot pads hurt my foot so I'll have to wear shoes.
So I plan on getting really good at counting calories and making good food choices.
Drinking my 80oz's of water.
Riding my Gazelle daily
Think positive thoughts (what you say to yourself matters)
Do some tapping (EFT) each day. (explained below)
At my last class at the YMCA a Psychologist came and talked to us about having our mind chatter be of good thoughts and showed us a technique for relaxation and stress relief. It is called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) It is a series of finger tapping on different points on your face and hands and some focusing. They use it on men with PTSD from the war. If you think you want me to post process here let me know and I will.
Do have a great week everyone. Off to dinner.
Hi Ladies - FINALLY SOME PROGRESS
I'm starting October 3 pounds down. Yippy!! I know I will get to the 170's this month. I'm feeling much better about how I'm dealing with food. This last week I have done a lot of pondering about when and why and what I eat. I noticed my husband keeps putting stuff on my plate and I do the same to him. We are actually trying to be caring and giving and taking care of each other but in fact that is not at all what we are doing. I finally had to blow up at him and he realized how he was hindering my efforts. It's ok if I take something out of his plate and eat it but he better not put it on my plate. haha Anyway I think he is finally on board. His M&M's are stored in his truck not the pantry anymore. My new diet with the YMCA is working well for me. I am journaling what I eat but not counting calories yet. It is all journaling and about spreading your protein out throughout the day, limiting your grains to 2 cups a day and eating lots of Veggies and fruits. You also have a snack between breakfast and dinner and bed so you are eating about every 2 hours. It seems to be keeping my cravings at bay. The exercise part isn't going as well. I went to the Dr yesterday about the foot pain I have had for 2 months since I rammed my foot into a cement ledge. I have inflammation and a neuroma in the joint of my third toe. Started Prednisone today for a week. Dr. says it may make me irritable and hungry. Just what I already am. She put a pad on my orthodic with a cut out for my third toe to give my toe more room and not have to bend as much as the other toes. I go back in a month if it's not gone. Anyway walking is irritating to it so I will be doing more of the elliptical and my new Gazelle. Also doing weights at the gym and want to start a stretching class.
So my goals are:
Keep up with a minimum of 80oz's of water a day.
Stay with the diet guidelines
Continue logging food intake
Start counting calories
Exercise minimum 3 days a week
I tried a recipe for Ranch dressing that is good.
For amounts use the amounts for the package dressing mix
Instead of the buttermilk or mayo use cottage cheese (light of course)
That is all it is, powder dressing mix and cottage cheese blended and blended and blended until smooth and creamy.
I added about 1/4 milk to make it runnier for salad.
A bottle of light Ranch is more than 1100 calories
A bottle of this is around 400 calories.
Next time I want to try yogurt instead of cottage cheese.
I had a birthday yesterday and feel like this will be a good year for me. I am going to be nicer to me and my body. I am going to love me more.
Have a wonderful week girls. Would love to hear from you.
