It isn't any real secret that I have been attempting to loose weight for several years now. I started going to the gym 4 1/2 years ago. At first I thought I could just loose the weight by excercising and basically continuing to eat what I wanted, and at first it was working. I wasn't too worried about loosing a lot of weight, because I felt pretty good about myself. It was slowly coming off, and people would often tell me how good I was looking. Well, the weightloss ended. I have been the same weight for over 3 years. This summer I started going to the gym on Saturdays too. It was working a little, but I felt like I was spending my whole summer not to mention my life at the gym. It was not what I wanted to do. I ended up taking the month of August off completely. Once school started again, I started back at the gym, but after only a month I got that flu and a nasty cough too. I missed another month at the gym. Blast! I gained weight! It was a major step back.
For Christmas my family got a Wii and a Wii Fit game. It takes your weight and measures your BMI. Lets just say that I really hate it when the I am the only one in the family that the stupid game says, in a really irritating cheerful type manner, "That's overweight." I use to have a goal of 150 lbs, but I have since found out that I need to be more like 125. Things are starting to look grim. So I decided to try changing my eating habbits. The first thing I did was to go to the MyPyramid.gov web page and determined how many calories I eat on a regular basis. I found that truly I wasn't eating that many calories to begin with, but they weren't the right kind of calories to be eating. So I decided to get a little more serious about the type of calories I eat.
I have been eating a lot more fruits and I am trying to eat more vegetables. I even decided to try the Biggest Looser cookbooks to help out. That's when I found out that my recipes were not all that bad for me. They are basically the same recipes in the cookbooks only they use no fat cheese, egg whites and extra lean meats. I have been trying them out on my family. I think that for the most part the recipes are tasty, but my children have a difference of opinion. Most of them won't even try the new foods. They look yucky, or smell funny, or they just aren't what they want. It is really irritating. I keep thinking that they will come around, but I am gettin tired of putting all of the work into making something only to have them turn their noses up. It is also very difficult to find NO fat cheese and Dale has a small problem with throwing out the egg yokes. It is turning out to be a lot more difficult to change our eating habits than I thought it would be.
My main problem is me. Since I started eating more fruits and vegetables, I find it easier to not eat the candy in the candy dish a school (easier, but it's still difficult). My greatest challenge is for baked goods especially homemade cookies and brownies. I crave them all of the time. If they are sitting around in my house I find myself eating them. It gets so tiresome. I have like zero self control. When I wanted to stop drinking Diet Coke because of the caffine, that was easy, but I live to eat. I don't eat to live. I will continue to go the the gym. It makes me feel good about myself, and I will continue to try to hold back on the foods that are bad for me. I'll keep fighting the good fight, but if any of you have good advice for me, let me know. It would be greatly appriciated.
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My advice, eat the brownie and be fat and happy. :) Not much help am I? LOL You are tiny anyway! Just remember that the blasted Wii fit was made by tiny little people in Japan that weigh 85 lbs.
Amen Jen! ;)
Mommasita? Do you realize that if you were to weigh 125 lbs, you would be my weight? I don't think it's supposed to be like that...I wouldn't know what to think. You really do look great! Everytime I go home I always think that to myself.
Keep making the awesome concoctions. That was probably my favorite part about going home last time - eating all those weird recipes...that ARE tasty! The sibs will get over it.
Keep it up momma. I love you!
First of all, you look amazing. Second of all, that damn Wii fit is a bunch of (%$&%$$^! I hate it also. Something I learned from my trainer and doctor is that BMI doesn't take into account bone density, different body composition, etc. They've been disputing that for a few years now. If you weighed 125 you'd be 5pounds less than Alex and he's 3 or 4 inches smaller than you. The number one thing to remember is that you feel good about yourself. You work out more than 3/4 of the population, I think you're safe. They never put enough emphasis on that, and it pisses me off. My doctor and the nutritionist I had put me onto a book called "Intuitive Eating" and it's about the only book I've ever read about food intake that actually makes sense. It focuses on how you feel. I sugest you check it out! It might help. You look fabulous and don't worry too much about it. It's not worth the pound here or there that you lose and then gain right back in the end. :)
We're 40 (OK close enough) now baby! The weight just doesn't come off like it used to. I've decided that eating healthy is much easier if I stay off the scale. The minute I get on the scale and my weight is the same I tend to say "srew eating yucky good for my stuff cuz it's not making a difference". Just eat and do what makes you feel happy about yourself.
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