Healthy Weight Loss

[sylvie]

So i've worked hard at my health plan today, as i promised myself i would.

♥ portionning & measuring - i will start this up again
♥ SparkPeople - i will be faithful about calorie counting & fitness tracking again

they were both very useful tools for me, cept i tend to obsess numbers, i hope i'm strong enough to do this in a healthy mindset now and use them to my advantage.

♥ exercise - i have a good plan for attending the gym, exercise at home and fitting in exercise with various work shifts that i work. i will be faithful about following my train to run program and doing it in a healthy way.. i will also be faithful about stretching (something i'm horrible about doing lately).. i will also get my weights in twice a week.. and i will track my fitness minutes and set minutes goals each month.. (this month is 1800) - also i bookmarked some good videos for steps and weight lifting and exercises that target areas i want to work on for easy access for days i only have a few hours between work shifts..

♥ foodwise - i will cut back some on carbs (still eat them, but portionwise)
- i will eat more clean foods, organic when possible, no processed (except tuna, i love my damn tuna lol)
- i will be more faithful about food journalling in my book i carry.. it is a useful tool for me, and helps me think hard about what i put in my mouth..

♥ self-care - i will take at least 15 mins a day for 'me' time.. Whether to read, stop & breathe, practice gratitude or taking a bubble bath or pampering myself in some way.. Also breathing exercises, something i learned in a program i am in, that stretched parts of the body along with relaxed breathing and it helped so much, so definitely need to get that worked back in..

Just little ways to up my motivation, push myself a little harder and be more mindful with what goes in my mouth, and being good to myself..

Today has been an accomplished day and feeling good about this.

[Hollylane]

Originally Posted by deedarino

Lost another "chicken"!!! The best part is when the second number on the scale goes down :-)

I started my class and have been doing pretty good...yesterday the room was filled with about 10 athletic type men; usually I would be so intimidated I would leave but not this time! I got right on those weight machines, right in front of those dudes, right in front of that GIGANTIC mirror...LOL. Yeah, gonna have to work on that one.


What do you guys think of coconut milk? I found one by Silk that is very good. It has less sugar content than milk but it is cane sugar. Does this matter?


3.6 Turkeys lost.....(love this!)

I was at the gym with my trainer last week, feeling intimidated by all the big buff guys in there. One of them walked up to my trainer, interrupted our session/discussion, and asked where something was, and then tried to start a chat with my trainer about the training he was doing. I could tell Mark was getting annoyed, and I was just standing there being polite, but all of a sudden the hair went up on the back of my neck, and I looked right(up) at that 300 pound, fully muscled guy and said:

"Hey, Brittany over there can help you with your questions. This is my trainer, and you are interrupting the time I have paid for."

I was so PROUD. Mark was grinning like a loon. I swear that guy was pouting as he stalked off looking more than a little like the shape and size of a silverback gorilla.


Congrats on the lose of 3.6 turkeys! That is AMAZING!

I am totally jazzed about the hike tomorrow. The more I hike, the more I want to hike. I even posted a duplicate hike to one I had been on the wait list for, in the hopes that some of the other people on the wait list would join the duplicate hike this Sunday, and I got a group together of 12 people. This one will be an 8 mile hike at the same park as tomorrow's hike, but on a different trail.

I did some lifting, squats, and walking during lunch today, and had plain tuna on a bed of greens. I found some great protein bars that are low carb enough for me, but with enough calories to support my energy levels on my hikes. They actually taste frigging good too...BONUS!

I hope you are all having a wonderful evening

[Thinker]

Originally Posted by Hollylane

but all of a sudden the hair went up on the back of my neck, and I looked right(up) at that 300 pound, fully muscled guy and said:

"Hey, Brittany over there can help you with your questions. This is my trainer, and you are interrupting the time I have paid for."

Right. On. !!! I love when entitled asses get snapped off like that!!!

[Kelt]

Hey healthy peeps!

I thought I'd stop in and let you all know I'm not dead. I did stumble across something this afternoon that I think some of you might find of interest.

I know a lot of you are trying a lot of different things but the core principle in this thread is healthy weight loss. I also know that some of the folks in here are diabetic and therefore probably familiar with glycemic index and glycemic load. It has also informed an awful lot of my food choices over the last year and a half or so.

Granted I never did an exhaustive search, but I had difficulty getting comprehensive reliable information about what those numbers were for a lot of foods. Today I stumbled across what I've been looking for all along. It's been up and running for about five months now and it's from the University of Sydney in Australia. It has a really good G.I. and GL database and it searchable. Since this is the place where a lot of the research has been coming out of I think it's a pretty good bet as a reference.

Anyway here's the link and I hope some of you find it as useful as I do.

University of Sydney - GI foods advanced search

Bon appétit

[Gentle Tiger]

I have nothing to add. I'm just stalking you healthy people.

[starryeyes]

I worked out today, ate lots of protien and only ate a small piece of birthday cake! Yaya. Feels good

[sylvie]

Good Morning Healthies.. ♥

Just got home from work, eating my morning snack now..
Then, going to go to the Gym since i don't go back to work 'til 4pm..

For breakfast:
1 shredded wheat, with 1/2 cup skim milk
1/2 medium banana
1 small yogurt

For snack:
1/2 cup of green grapes

At the gym, i will do:
30 mins treadmill, altering between 1 min jog, 1 min walk
20 mins elliptical
Some weights for lower body (glutes, seated leg press, hip abuctors)
Some Ab crunches & squats
plus walking to & from the Gym (25 mins walk each way)

For lunch:
1/2 whole wheat pita
2 oz. chicken breast
lettuce, chopped tomatoes, red onion
1 Tbsp crumbled feta cheese

For snack:
8-10 almonds & 1/2 green apple

For dinner tonight:
1/2 stuffed pepper
nice garden salad on the side
1/3 lemon , no dressing

Mr Mtn & i made some delicious stuffed peppers on Monday night, and dined together.. ♥ Love Our cooking adventures, and they were soooo yummy!! And taste even better the next day ..

Have a wonderful day all!

[JustJo]

Good morning healthies

Thank you so much for that GI resource Kelt...that's super helpful. I try to eat low glycemic index foods because I know it helps tremendously with the diabetes....so thank you, thank you!

It was weigh and measure day at Curves this morning and I don't have anything as dramatic as last month's 10 inch loss to report.

However, considering that I did it a few days late last month, a day early this month, traveled for work for a week (including lots of meals in restaurants or catered in), Easter candy in the house, and insane stress over my mother....I'm actually quite happy.

Normally, I'd be gaining weight like mad at a time like this....and instead I lost 2.5 pounds and about an inch (half from my waist and the rest off my thighs).

I'll take it!