Healthy Weight @ MindSay

I have been on a diet for a hot minute and I have finally started losing weight. Well it isn't so much a diet than a change in my eating habits. Myclette's husband's scare really jolted me out of my complacency. Now before that I had started to go back to healthy eating but it was half-hearted...at first. Well, that halfway business is over and I have really put more emphasis on controlling my weight and really getting healthier. It has paid off, more so the last couple of weeks. I have visibly lost pounds and inches and it feels really nice but I have been thinking about that new diet program Alli
It is supposed to promote faster healthy weight loss so I think I might find out more about it and maybe hit up one of their online chat deals to see what people are thinking about it and fairing with it.
Has anyone else tried it yet? I'll let you know what I decide.....

so here at school they like to be healthy... they have healthy programs and they emphasis healthy things...

so there is this 6 weeks turkey burn thing where you track your calories and exercise...so i'm doing it. i have no self-control, so i decided to do this cause...well they have prizes!!! lol... i'm eating healthy and playing tennis about 3 times a week and jogging/running 2wice a week...that's as good as it gets, but hey, at least i'm doing something right???

i've written down my weight at the beginning of the week, and hoping after all this is done i'll drop 20 lbs... anything more than 5 is good...

i tend to naturally lose weight during the winter holidays, so i hope this goes well...

 

Howdy, Howdy all! I am gonna share my healthy living weight loss plan in case anyone wants to join me. I am gonna post a pic of myself before and after. I aint gonna post it today because I have been under the weather for the past few days and chile I look like a Hot Mess!

 

All right then ya'll, I need to get into gear. High, high gear at that. Now as you all know (those of you who drop by Paganista-ville) know that I am forever evolving. Now I had started a healthy living plan many many moons ago and have re-placed some bad habits with better ones. Now I still have a very very long way to go. I feel like I will be successful if I focus and implement my Cold Turkey plan vigorously. Now Cold Turkey replaces my gradual plan. I just have to face it and realize that there are just some things I cannot do by half-measures. Now I aint gonna post how much I weigh but I reckon ya'll know that I am um, more than a handful of Chocolate Goddess. I will say that while I wanna lose weight I really wanna live healthier daily. Now I already walk damn near everywhere (unless I take the bus) and I don't smoke. I am a social drinker and I have decided to put the smack down on my alcohol consumption.

 

Okay, now like I said you shall never know my weigh but in the interest of building trust and maybe helping someone who may need to see a full figured person putting their stuff all out there. So consider my stuff all out there. I am going to lose 100 pounds by the time I am finished. I have only lost 30 pounds since one visit to a doctor revealed that I am borderline diabetic (this was a few years ago btw). Well I was told that I needed to lose 20 pounds immediately or there could be some serious consequences and repercussions. So I lost 30 just to make sure that I wouldn’t be losing a foot or some other such body part. The thing is, is that I shouldn’t have to hear that I might face a life threatening issue in order for me to want to live a healthy happier life.

 

Okay for those who are gonna do this with me, I am gonna try to post a wellness post daily so that you can either offer encouragement to me and anyone else or offer some advice for us all that might be helpful. Now this ain’t  joke folks. I would really love it if folks would join with me but if you don’t I will understand ( I will secretly cry about though so come and join me-what do ya say?).

 

*First thing we will do is set a serious cut off time for munching. And that time is 8:00pm DAILY! No ifs, ands or buts people.

*Second thing is a mandatory amount of H2O! That’s right! At least 2 liters of water per day. Now this is not an easy adjustment but you will feel the benefits immediately. How about we do it together like this. One Big glass of water First thing in the morning. It will cleanse the system and wake you up like nobody’s business. Throughout the day you should have a giant glass in the place of your soda, or carbonated goody but baddy. And then with dinner another giant glass of agua. And last but not least right before bed time another giant glass. The good thing about is that you will feel so full that not eating after 8pm may become that much easier. I like to squeeze the juice of an actual lemon into the water ( none of that stuff from a bottle) this helps remove toxins from the body and who wouldn’t want that, right?

*Third thing is to get the body moving. Now in a previous post I said something about exercising. An easy way to do this is to put in a feisty CD and dance your nalgas (butt) off for 30 minutes straight. Not only is good for your heart but it feels less like a workout and more like your own little concert you give for a theater full of fans! Right Now I am alternating between the Dreamgirls Soundtrack and Christina Aguilera's new double CD! They are both fantastic ya'll! Sometimes I do Jars of Clay (A Christian Rock Band that is outrageously great!) LOL. I know it sounds corny but it works.

That’s all for now and um if I get brave enough I may offer my own stats for your consideration and will definitely post my progress as I make it. Oh well, please join me if you like. Hey maybe I will create a blog specifically for the purposes of weight loss and healthy eating and living…we’ll see.

 

How about some poetry….here goes….

I Believe I Could Kneel

I believe I could kneel
in so many quiet places
where the pale sponge of moss
would surely reach above
my hips as I sank down and down
as the deer must in their beds
kneeling once, then once again
to lower themselves front and back
before closing their glistening eyes.

 

I think I am the kind of person
down on one knee and shifting my weight
my whole life long
but capable of sinking far, and deep,
to the bottom of something
that might replace the religion I discarded
or make me really live in this body
or waste my life.

 

I would like to live my way into being
someone who stands back up
and runs toward that holy forest.—Nancy Pagh

 

 

Goddess Bless

So I finally got to weigh myself today. 164lbs. Not as bad as I thought it would be, but that's still about 16lbs more than I weighed when I left for college. While I'd love to be back down to 120 by August, I don't think that's very realistic so the weight I was before is what I'm shooting for. I guess now is the part where I ask for dieting advice. I want to be healthy about it this time instead of just not eating (except for one meal) like I did my freshman year of high school. I don't buy my own food anymore because I can't afford it, so pretty much I have to ask my parents what to get. Also, I have to be as discrete about it as possible. Both of my parents will make fun of me if they find out that I'm trying to lose weight. They've done it twice before already. I know that its about eating the right things and exercise, but as far as food, goes, what's worked for some of you guys?

No, not my sanity. That went many moons ago.

 

But the weight!! So, after my "when are you due?" moment three two weeks ago, I joined Weight Watchers and vowed that it would never happen to me again. Of course, my parents deciding to stage an 'intervention' that same night didn't exactly make me feel super-confident. I've put on about 12 kilograms (26 pounds) in the past 18 months from working in an office environment and not being on my feet 12 hours a day. It's just crept on and while I'm hardly obese, I haven't been comfortable in my clothes. I'm used to being a certain size and look.

 

So back to my weight watchers experience - all good so far. Over two weeks, I've lost 2.2 kilograms (almost 5 pounds) and I'm feeling great. All I've done is change my snacks to healthy ones and watch my 'points'. The first couple of days I found it challenging to keep to 19 points 'cos I'm a snacker and it usually adds up during the day. But I've got a handle on it.

 

The other thing I've realised is that one 'bad day' does not mean the rest of the week is a waste. I had a big night of drinking on Saturday night and technically went WAAY over my points. I just got back onto the wagon on Sunday and still lost almost a kilogram in the week. So, allow yourself the bad days as long as they are fewer than the good days!

 

This loss has all been without much exercise so, this week I've decided to add some planned exercise and some incidental stuff to my routine. Started with walking to a friend's place on Tuesday night - about 1.5 kilometres either way and parking my car really far away from the terminal at the airport yesterday. Okay, that was only because there was no other parking, but it was a good thing. If I've lost 2.2 kgs without exercise, just imagine the difference with exercise. And yes, Dave, I know that weight is not the only indicator and when I exercise I'll probably put on muscle etc. But still.

 

But I'm feeling good, confident and completely believe that it's possible to lose 10 more kilograms and get back to my weight of a year ago.

 

In other news - no phone call. So he sucks.