7 posts tagged “weightloss”

I just thought I'd mention that it has been over 2 1/2 months since we quit smoking and I am still very proud to say we have not started back up and don't want it. Oh on occasion it still feels like something is missing but in general I know I don't think about it every waking moment. I'm glad it hasn't been as hard as I anticipated.

About the weight and fitness level. I keep wanting to do the right thing with regard to physical activity. I hurt sometimes in my shoulder so I usually back off when that isn't good but in general I'm still trying to continue with my Nordic poles etc. I have upped the amount of food I eat, not so much watch every bite, but staying aware none the less. I don't think I could just stop considering how many calories I eat. I think about that far too much. I still fluctuate between 175 and 180 for weight. I can't seem to drop anymore but I also have not been as diligent with weight loss the last little while. I did sort of hope that all the extra work I've had to do with snow shoveling would help but no such luck.

So that's the scoop, such as it is. I did the real/age thing on Doctor Oz and Rozien's site. That puts me at somewhere around 40 instead of my actual age with my lifestyle etc. I guess that's not too bad, is it? At some point one has to ask the questions they need answers to with regard to what they expect for themselves and how they expect their lives to be in say 30 years or so. We should always be moderate with behavior. Indulgence is only fun if you are usually not indulging yourself. It's much nicer when it's truly an indulgence.

I'm not too great at titles. I just get ideas into my head and that's where I go.
Today I thought I'd just sort of update my blog with personal stuff for anyone who is curious about what I'm doing and how the weightloss is coming, or not.

I'm still hovering. I haven't gained anything. I go between 175 and 180. I finally splurged Friday night and that was a HUGE mistake. I got so sick and have realised I can't just eat whatever like I used to. I ate a piece of chocolate cake, a piece of fudge and a bite of a lemon bar. The whole next day I was in bed feeling like I would be better off dead. I know it was because of the sugar intake. I was SICK I tell you!

Today at 11 I am headed to Changes for Women. My neighbor asked me if I wanted to go with her. The only problem I see is that I want a unisex gym I can bring David to as well. He needs physical activity and to build stamina. I am determined to see how this gym thing works though so I can get David involved in a regimen that will build his confidence as well as help muscle aches etc. He is already hurting the way I do, having muscle probs. and joint probs. and with his condition it isn't going to get better so how can we help him maximize his body ability and keep him from having injury to the muscles and tendons?

The weather has been crappy. Snow and more snow and when it isn't snowing we are so cold I wish it were snowing instead. I hate winter. This winter there is but one good thing and that is that Michelle is coming for Christmas.

I know, I've looked at the posts, but here's the reality. I live in BFE Canada and we don't have a big name gym. We're lucky we have any kind of gym. I don't want to squawk but is that place just trying to inspire  members to join? Again it's not that it matters to me as I don't live anywhere close to it and I'm sure as hell not flying anywhere just to use a gym. The only reason I found them was because I was looking up weightloss posts and voila! There they were.

Here's what my day has in store for me and how I deal with my need to exercise:

Wake up 4:45, have a coffee with hubby, brush teeth and have breakfast, usually bran, fibre 1, oatmeal, get his lunch ready, kiss him and up until today I left the house for my walk with my urban poles. I walk hard for 30 minutes.
When I get home I turn the computer on, grab a cup of coffee and sit down to check email and do whatever else I might need to do prior to David getting up.  Once David is up I make beds, start laundry, get his breakfast after he's done with his shower or hair or whatever the bathroom time requires.
8:10 we go out of the house get in the car head for the school after a brief stop to pick up classmate J. Once they are dropped off I come home,  do crunches and stairs. I do 15 step ups to the second step and back down with each leg then go lie down doing 15 crunches then back for another shot at the stairs and then back to crunches. After I have completed this round I usually have my morning snack which consists of maybe a scoop of peanut butter and a pear or apple and if not that then I will have a half a pbj sandwich with unsweetened jam and natural peanut butter. I NEVER use more than a tblsp of pb and j. Ever. I also intermittently drink water as I pass through the kitchen I always try to grab a 8 ounce glass of it.
When this is done I usually go back to the computer and write here, I listen to podcasts, explore, basically I play and usually have a shower in one of these less regimented periods of time. After this it's time to pick David up for lunch.
Lunch is from 11:45-12:30 and usually consists of a sandwich of some sort, maybe meat like turkey, sometimes it's a half can of tuna and some lettuce or maybe it's just veggies. On occasion I will eat left overs from the night before, but only if it was fried rice which is hard to explain but it's not rice that's fried but veggies that are sort of in olive oil and it usually has half a pack of bacon with the fat cut off and drained for the rest, and when the veggies are cooked in the ginger and cayenne pepper the rice is added and it's done. OMG I'm hungry now! 
When I get home I fold laundry, vacuum, watch tv, maybe start prep work for dinner depending on what we are having and how many things have to be peeled, sliced, cut up etc. Ron usually arrives home at 2:45 and we talk briefly, he has a slurp of coffee, we have a quick snack of yogurt, maybe a granola bar, (quaker has some with 7 or less sugars) and we head out for walk #2 for my day. We get home just before David comes home from school with J's mom around 3:45-4:00. 
Now it's dinner prep time for instance a typical dinner would be spaghetti with meat sauce, lowfat because I use lean meat and drain it before adding the tomato sauce and seasonings, the pasta might also be whole grain though no one quite gets into it as much so just as likely it's regular pasta, we would also be having a salad, baby greens or something as well as a more traditional frozen veggie like corn or peas. David's fave is green beans, and of course we do have dressings with our salad. I make ranch dressing with no fat mayo, no fat sour cream, skim milk and uncle Dan's ranch dressing mix. We eat dinner typically around 5-5:30. After dinner we go over to Ron's parents to visit with them for an hour or so, usually home by 7:30. We now have just enough time to sit and watch a bit of tv, eat our bedtime snack and clean up the kitchen the rest of the way. Then it's headed to bed around 8:30 for teeth brush, snuggles and book on ipod  and sleep.

I don't know if this is normal. I don't even care if it is or not but I believe I do a lot of physical activity and yet I also enjoy my life. In other words it's balanced pretty well to suit me. I'd be curious to see what sorts of things others eat throughout the day and stuff. I love fruits and veggies so those are almost always on hand to munch. I have lost close to 50 pounds since the end of February so if this is what made it possible then I can continue doing it. It seems pretty responsible.

I always walk at first in the morning when Ron goes to work. I walk the second time when he comes home in the afternoon. He is with me then. This morning I decided I would change things up a bit and walk later on in the morning, doing my crunches first. Good thing I did.

Ron was getting ready to leave and I opened the front door. The cat went running out. Ron and I stood at the front door step saying good-bye like normal and then he went to his car. I yelled to watch out for bears. He got in, started it and began to pull out of the driveway. All of a sudden the cat turned tail and came running back in the house. Her tail was puffed up and I looked across the street to the playbush area and there was a big bear just ambling along, not a care in the world. Ron noticed it so he backed up and turned his headlights toward it.

This was the second bear I have seen since I started out my early morning walks, 7 weeks ago now I think. I had been a little scared off after running into the other one while I was out. Let's face it, at 6 in the morning there are not a lot of people out and about in a town of 10k.

When I ran into the first bear twice it kind of scared me. I sort of took a couple of days and went later on my walk. Soon enough I was back to my early morning walking. I have come to the conclusion I don't want to take those kind of chances though. I know it is unlikely the bears will come after me but I also know if one did I wouldn't stand a chance! I have no interest in being a long winters snack for any bear. Exercise be damned, I intend walking later. I think with my luck it might just be saving my life to wait. It would also appear that I may be making a good choice in changing up things. I can't seem to lose weight in my current state. Apparently, according to multiple sources, I need to change my routine up in order to get better weightloss results now. I hope this does it.

It has been a puzzlement, to me, how to choose a picture to feature on my profile. Oh, I can figure out the how of it, but the why of it is the struggle. Is anyone else as fickle as I? Finally, I settle on something and then my mood changes and I feel the need to change the photo. For now, you are stuck with a picture of yours truly. I don't know for how long, but for now.

I have had some feedback from other people about my blog. It seems to have no direction, no purpose. I didn't need anyone to tell me that! I knew it already. Still, I have wondered if it was necessary to have a specific point or if it was better for me for the blog to be a place I merely put down all thoughts and vent my daily frustrations? Another puzzlement! I guess I have wandered through my head enough to have come up with a bazillion different topics of interest here. I could go strictly with a weight loss/ fitness blog. I don't think that would cover my needs, but if it is preferrable, so be it. I will give it a little more time and see if clarity doesn't prevail, at long last, in the next few weeks.

For now, auf wiedersehen!

I still have not figured out what my blog should be, what it should represent, should it be completely who I am or more private? What is my purpose for writing here? What is the reason I participate here? I have yet to figure this out but it's coming. I promise.

On a personal note it is now 6 weeks since I quit smoking and suprisingly enough it feels no different today than it did 6 weeks ago. Well, other than the fact that I'm not so grumpy! I think everyone is happy about this change. I know David is.

I am still not losing any weight. I seem to go between 178 and 182. I don't know what makes my weight fluctuate so muchthough I assume it is water, but what prevents me from dropping below 180 and staying there is the thing that disturbs me most. I work hard everyday trying to lose weight. I eat around 1500 calories a day and exercise by morning poles, that means walking 30 minutes with my cross country ski poles, I then do a rotation of stair climbs and crunches. Late afternoon I do another 30 minute walk with poles. What is wrong with my routine? Why am I not losing weight?

I guess Christmas may not see me down to my target weight of 164. That makes me feel defeated even before I start!

We are doing so well and I am very proud of myself and of Ron. It has been so hard at times. Last week I really wanted to smoke. I almost let Ron buy some on our way to the airport. When I got to Michelle's and hers were on the table I wanted one SUPER bad. I talked myself and Ron out of having one. I only hope we continue to talk about it and not spontaneously get them without first talking to the other. I think it's why we are so successful to this point. Communication has been key.

My trip to the US was hard. It was the first time I have ever left Ron on purpose. It was the first time I ever left David with Ron alone and the first time I was not there for David's treatments. I didn't like it but it proved they can get by without me so in some ways that was success.

Now life is back on track and here we go again. Hopefully I can get back into my routine and not gain anything. I was so excited that I finally fit into a size 12! That has never happened in all my adulthood. What an amazing ego boost and incentive boost as well. I needed incentive. Some days it seems it's all for nothing. Other days it doesn't feel too bad.