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28 April 2015
At last Thursday's TOPS meeting, I had a gain for the third week in a row. Enough is enough!
My eating has improved somewhat, but there is a lot of room for improvement. Also, because of my pain issues, I've gotten hardly any exercise to speak of. I did, however, challenge myself to drive to Asheville last Friday (Driving has been painful too) and renewed my annual pass at the Biltmore Estate. Used my walker and got a great workout, because I had to walk up and downhill to get to where I wanted to go. Spent a few hours there taking photos. Shot just over 200. Driving home was more painful than going, because of all I had done.
Shopping for groceries takes a lot out of me, and I've put it off more than once because I was hurting too badly. I have food to eat at home, but I've been eating out quite a bit lately. That needs to stop -- not only because all the sodium and fat in restaurant food but also to help my food budget. This weekend the Saturday Market reopens for the season, and I'll be shopping for fresh produce, free range antibiotic-free chicken and more. Plus I'll be getting exercise pushing my walker up and down Main Street.
I have most of the month of May to get my healthier eating plan going before my next doctor's appointment. I'm hoping to be able to go off of one of my more toxic meds. It would really help my case, if I could take off some weight by then.
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22 April 2015
Getting mentally and physically set up for success to begin again to work on regaining my health and losing weight, the baking of homemade shortbread was not a part of the equation, but it is one of the things I did yesterday.
My plan was to divide it almost in half, leaving only a couple pieces for myself to savor. One half was going to my hairdresser as a birthday treat(which it did, and I was going to take the other half to the office where I volunteer. When I learned that hardly anyone was going to be in the office, I left it at home. And, you guessed it, by noon today I had consumed it all. Okay, I got that out of my system now.
It's a beautiful day here in SC, but I'm still home and in my nightgown at 4:30 in the afternoon. It's not that I've been lounging around. I've been productive. But it's not how I planned to spend the day.
In my defense, I did things that needed to be done and have been thinking about and setting myself up so that when I do go out to run errands, I don't do it haphazardly. I have errands in at least three different directions and, thankfully, I only need to in one direction (and back) today. The rest will be well-organized and can be divided up between tomorrow and Friday.
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21 April 2015
This past weekend I attended the TOPS SRD (state recognition days) for all of South Carolina. I was fortunate that it took place in my own city so that I didn't have to travel far or incur the cost of a hotel room.
The meeting which awarded and recognized top weight loss achievers past and present was most inspirational to me, and I am ready to commit to improving my health and losing excess pounds. I have already taken some steps in the right direction by changing up the layout of my kitchen, putting some countertop appliances in storage and bringing out ones I should be using, like a kitchen scale and my recently-purchased NutriBullet Pro.
When making my chapter's badges for the convention, I learned how to use my portable laminating machine, and now I am in the process of designing some charts that I will laminate and put on my fridge. Then I can use a dry erase marker for the check marks and clean them off at the end of each week. I will also start logging my food and exercise and will try to plan a week's worth of meals in advance so that I am not tempted to eat out or pick up fast food.
I realize that I have been going up and down the same 5-6 pounds, and it's time to make a plan and then get and stay on track. I have been so undisciplined all my life, and at 67 years old, change is hard. Yet, I know it can be done for as I witnessed this past weekend, lots of people have done it and succeeded.
Don't know if I have mentioned this before in my F.S. journal, but I have quite a few physical problems and mobility issues. There was a woman at the convention in a wheelchair who had lost at least 60 pounds this past year. I thought to myself, "If she can do it, so can I!"
I don't want to keep starting over. I want to get it right this time around and then keep going until I meet my goals. Starting with small goals and then will add new ones. One step at a time. One meal at a time. One day at a time.
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26 January 2015
I have been working on cutting out photos, phrases, words and numbers from various sources and plan to put them together into a vision board for myself that I will also use in an upcoming presentation to my TOPS chapter. Just the process has made me think about my goals and feel more positive.
Then this morning I got another idea. I miss coloring and doing art with my granddaughters that moved out of state. I decided that I would take some 4 x 6 blank index cards, crayons, colored pencils and/or markers and creative my own mini motivational posters. I might even tape one to my dashboard to help me avoid drive-thru fast food places!
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25 January 2015
I ate very well this past week. I avoided bread, only had Diet Coke twice (once while out to eat), and had very little sugar. I went to TOPS Thursday night, and the scale showed a 4.5 lb. loss (which doesn't match with the numbers here).
I've also noticed that I have hardly any cravings, my pain level is far less than usual, I haven't had much bloating or gas, and I'm sleeping better. I'm hoping to keep up this momentum and feel like I finally have my head in the right place to see it through with very little cheating (an occasional treat).
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