One Quick Thing...

Just a quick note to all my friends here on the "weight loss circuit", I am having a Valentine giveaway on my art blog and I hope you will come by. Hope to see you there!

Just a quick tip

I mentioned in my last post something about motivation. Here is another thing I noticed this week. I think this applies to everyone, not just me. If you are home during the day, make it a point to dress as if you have something to do. For me, this means putting on jeans and good athletic shoes. One day this week, it was really cold and I put on stretchy comfy yoga pants and knee socks and house shoes. I realized after sitting on the couch and drawing all day, that I would have been more motivated if I were dressed differently. If you want to be motivated to work out, put on your work out gear while you are doing your daily chores and soon you will be making strides on the treadmill or hopping and bopping to your favorite exercise video. It works, try it!

Well, that's it for today. Have a good one and stay motivated!

Quick Update

Just a quick update to say how much better I feel without the flours and sugars. I have spent the past two weeks learning what foods work best for my hubby and me. Lost 5 pounds just while doing research. Since it is the day of the "Big Game" I wanted to fix something different for us to eat. We had pinto beans and made from scratch hush puppies. It was quite yummy and not difficult to fix.

I am going to try to get in a bit more exercise this week, and go into this week with actual weight loss in mind.

Once again, I must say...the No Flour, No Sugar plan is easy, easy, easy.

Have a great week, and stay motivated and positive!

It's too easy to work...but?

Just one quick post, I have been doing the No Flour, No Sugar program for one week and I am back down to 172 pounds. This is my lowest since October. All I have done is avoid anything that has any type of sugar (you regular dieters know all the culprits) and anything that has flour or any type of flour ingredient in it. I have been watching portion size also. The premise is that, as we know, sugar has no nutritional value and is therefore, empty calories. Well it seems that refined flour of any kind (wheat, rice flour, soy flour, oat flour...) is the same on the G.I. (glycemic index) as table sugar. That's a good enough reason for me.

Have a great Sunday, be thankful and grateful and tell you family you love them.

Take care.

I like this book

At the risk of sounding like I try everything that is written, I thought I would use this book as a guideline for ridding my diet of sugar and flour. I have been thinking of doing this for some time and I like Dr. Gott's take on it.

It is actually quite simple, remove anything with any kind of flour or any kind of sugar from your diet. Combine that with portion control, moderate exercise and other healthy choices and you are bound to feel better.

That's my take on things for today. Take care.

It's a warming trend...

We are taking part in the current "cold snap". It has warmed up to 7 degrees. If you are like me, you want to reach for the comfort food during the winter. I have done this several times lately and the scales are up 2 pounds.

I know that I am an emotion eater. I snack mindlessly when I'm bored or when I reading. I learned to eat while I read by reading the back of the cereal box on the kitchen table. I'm not saying that if Mom had put away the box after pouring our cereal, I would not be overweight...I'm just pointing out how easily unhealthy habits can be started and how early they start.

When I stayed with my grandmother as a child, if I was bothered by something, she gave me money to go get fudge Popsicles at the little store at the corner of our street. Then she had a nervous breakdown and they sent me (at seven years old) to stay with her. Both of my unmarried uncles lived with her and worked out of town and I guess I was supposed to call someone if Gram had a "spell". All I know is that by the time I went back home to my mom at age twelve, I was at least 30 pounds overweight. Short version of this story is I was an overweight child, and it really wasn't my fault, but that's how I learned to be an emotional eater.

On another subject, my hubby has been having pretty bad stomach and back pain for several months now and I finally got him to the doctor. Then off for x-rays and ultrasound. They called yesterday to say we need to set up an appointment for a surgeon, as he has gallstones and a hiatal hernia.

He is not going to agree to surgery without looking into all other alternatives. I could insist that he have the surgery, and he probably will, but any real life input would be appreciated here. I had a boss that almost died when his bile duct got blocked with a stone, but I can't remember enough of the specifics to be able to use this as a reason to convince hubs to have the surgery.

That's it for now, remember to check my other blog this week, as I will be putting up some new art soon. Take care and stay warm.

The first full week of the new year...

First off, I want to say Hello to all my bloggie friends. Hello and thanks for hanging in there and keeping up with me even when I don't have a loss of "poundage".

I got my second issue of Fitness magazine this week, haven't had a chance to read it completely, though. Does anyone want to confess up to sending it to me? I want to think that it is being sent by a well meaning friend, that chooses to remain anonymous, but I would have preferred getting a card saying it was sent by a friend, then not knowing. On the other hand, the paranoid (admit, it you have one, too) portion of my psyche thinks it was sent by a person that has gotten disgusted with me for not losing my weight, or for never changing the habits that she knows is causing my size to stay the same. Well, if that is who sent it...B-O-O, H-O-O.

(Sorry new readers, don't get scared, I'm not really a mean girl...I just vent sometimes. ) Speaking of not losing my weight, I haven't gained any either. If fact, I have been wearing the same size clothing for about five years now. I know that the size that I currently wear, is to cover a butt that is at least 3 sizes too big. I wear about a size 14/16 pants and would look smashing if I were wearing a size 12.

I've been told that a size 12 is considered plus sized in the modeling industry. Can you believe that? Yikes, wonder what those folks really think of us real sized women? I bet they think we are dirty and stinky and slobs. No, seriously, that's what some folks think of people that aren't slim. I have a friend, my age, that is very well-off. She has tried having a personal trainer, gone to spas, had wraps and lots of things, but she just pretty much stays the same size. Other than slightly elevated cholesterol levels, she seems to be fairly healthy. She is about 100 pounds over what would be considered the best weight for her. She is a computer/techno geek type, that doesn't put a lot into her clothing budget, although she can afford to. She thinks if a person doesn't like her because of how she looks, they aren't worth knowing.

You would not believe how she is treated when people don't know how wealthy she is. They treat her like she is repulsive to them. If they do find out that she could buy them and their boss several times over, then they treat her like a queen. Sad state of affairs.

Long way around to remind us to treat people with respect. If we aren't in the same group as a certain person, or we don't like the way they dress, that doesn't mean we have to hang out with them, but it certainly would not hurt to be nice.

Well, that's it for today. Take care, try to read labels, eat healthy and exercise your mind and your body. I care about you.