Resolute

[docwebster]

Perhaps a better subject for this would have been Tired. You'll understand why in just a moment or three, I think.

Genties and ladlemen, I am tired.

I am tired of looking like a beachball with legs. I am tired of wheezing for breath when I do something so simple as schlep a particularly full basket of laundry upstairs. I am tired of so simple an activity as feeding my cats in the morning being cause for immense back pain.

Here and now I'm swearing to the lot of yez I am going to get myself in a physical condition where I *don't* move around like an asthmatic pregnant heifer. So help me Ghu, it ends. Not here and now, because unless some kind soul among yez has a magic wand handy, this will take time.

But the journey of a thousand miles, and all that.

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I'm here for ya!!

[hellodali.livejournal.com]

I don't know how much you keep up whith my LJ, but I have been posting alot about my changes and weight loss. I hit the 50 pound mark last week. I am still very huge, I needed to lose 170, but hey only 120 left to go. There are several posts in my LJ where I detail what it is I am doing to lose the weight. But I can tell you straight out that the biggest things you can do is STOP eating fast foods and junk foods. I think you will find that 99.999% of the fat and calories and cholesterol in the modern american diet comes from these two things. This is NOT the food humans were built to eat and it's absolutly killing everyone. Also, I don't know how much Food Network you watch, but I watch alot. It helps to inspire me to be more creative when I cook, which I do ALOT more of now that I have to prepare everything I eat. So I try to make everything I eat the best it can possibly be. Here are a few pointers that have worked for me.

- Don't count calories, count fat and carbs. I have no idea how many calories I eat daily. But I eat around 20 grams of fat and 150 carbs.

- Replace butter with butter spray, there are a couple of brands to choose from. It is very low fat, even light margerine has 7 grams. Replace sugar with either nutra sweet or spenda, i prefer splenda, it's made with surgar and doesn't have any aftertaste.

- Read the labels on everything before you buy it. It takes you longer to shop, but you will learn alot and after a while and you MUST go by the portion size listed on the box. If you find you are not getting enough to eat and are starving all the time, add another fresh vegtable to you mean. We usually have a salad at every meal and usually soup too, but you have to read the label on the soup.

- Make everything as fresh as possible. We do the bulk of our shopping at the farmers market. Eat fruit everyday.

- Fry nothing. I bake and grill and sautee (in cooking spray) everything.

- Try not to cut any corners on quality, since you are already depriving yourself of stuff you like/love. You deserve the best of what you can have now.

- Time is going to pass anyway. You can either do something or not, but next year will get here. If you had started last year you would be done by now. :) Think about the things that you want to do but can't now. Stuff you used to love to do that you will be able to do again. For me it's hiking and camping and biking. I used to love to do that stuff and haven't been able to for well over a decade. I'm sick of it. I want my life to be complete with all my interests. :)

- take vitamins daily, don't wanna miss out on anything you need.


....Doctors say that 2 pounds a week is the proper amount to not screw up you motabolism. It's slow, but that's just they way it is. I average about 2 pounds a week. It works, it's easy, but you have to really want to make the change. If you really want it, it's not that hard. If you want to or need to, feel free to talk to me about it. I'll help you out all I can. You can do it, anybody can. My diet is logical. It's less a diet and more a lifestyle change and it works, it really really does. :)

Re: I'm here for ya!!

[hellodali.livejournal.com]

...also I'd like to add, I know you are a fellow fan of Iron Chef. I bought an Iron Chef apron and wear it when I cook, it helps!! :) Get out there and CREATE I tell you!! :)

Re: I'm here for ya!!

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

take vitamins daily, don't wanna miss out on anything you need.

That might be one of the most important things you said. It's very easy when dieting (especially if you're doing anything "extreme") to miss out on important vitamins or minerals. And just taking a multivitamin isn't necessarily enough -- Last major diet I was on, I was having major problems with painful leg cramps waking me up in the middle of the night. Turns out I wasn't getting enough Potassium; so in addition to the daily multivitamin, I was taking additional potassium supplements (after a while, I was taking four or five different vitamin/mineral pills a day, just to make sure I wasn't missing anything or in response to side-effects I was discovering along the way)...

I'm fighting an urge to sing The Charles Atlas Song at you...