How many times have you asked what is 1 OZ of cheese? No matter what program you are on you need to know this answer.
I just had a thought. So now I have 2 choices, 1 to act on this or just say oh that wont work, that's stupid, how can that help.
So here's the thought. Take your note book and start a section and call it "what does".
First weigh out 1 oz of cheese and take a picture of it. What is the easiest way you can duplicate that amount? Will you always weigh it?, measure it?, or compare it to the size of something else.
Now take your picture and put it in your note book with the amount of calories next to it. You can add comments like how you felt after eating it, what it went good with, anything that you find helpful that you want to remember.
If you had a picture of a pc of pie with the total calories next to a piece and then figure the calories for a big pc. and then a really big pc, and last that whole pie. If it helps put next to it how many hours it takes for you to burn it off.
I was talking to someone the other day and said I want a person to read my book and then reread it until they learn it. I want you to learn it and live it.
I thought about what the person said and asked how can I help make this happen? First I can give you projects to do. Cut out pictures of what you eat and paste them in your notebook with the calorie counts.
You need to include all the things you would normally eat. I want you to look at how you are spending your calories.
Get some play money and say every $1= a calorie. If you want to keep your calories at 1500 calories then every time you eat something you take the bills from one pile and it goes to the spent pile. If you want extra calories for that day you can earn them by working out. After you work out you can make that transfer.
You can do this with a simple piece of paper and a pen. You are not allowed extended credit. You have a credit problem and no one should give you credit. If you steal credit by going over your balance then you must pay the price. It is like going to jail. You must say I made the choice and only I can change.
Every day you start over with a new account. You can track how many days per month you stayed on budget. Put a star on the calendar. At the end of the month you can look back and say, I am looking better and the scale is going down because I am working hard and I earned it. If you go over budget mark that on the calender and at the end of the month when you ask and say "It's not working I need to do something else. Well guess what, you are already doing something else and it's not working. Reread the list of 27 concepts. learn then and live them.
Ask yourself, If I buy a new DVD will it make me fit and healthy? No it will only collect dust. Workout equipment is only equipment. You need to move your body on it or with it.
I have set a goal of Nothing new until I use the stuff I now own. You will find out that it does work when you use it.
Have a happy day.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Working out
Why do you need to work out? The short of working is: you need to burn calories to burn fat. The bigger the stronger the muscle the more calories it takes to move the body. What is more important strength training or cardo? They go hand and hand. I need to go work out. Do you need the latest greatest DVD?? No you need to just do it. As stupid as that sounds. No DVD sitting on your TV will make you strong if it collects dust on your TV. If you dust it for 2 min that's not enough. It takes 12 min to get your heart going. If you have it, do it.
A day out
It's spring time and it's time to do things and get things done. Why is spring the time many people go on diets or make changes in their lives? Spring is the beginning of life in nature, there is new growth all over. We as people want to grow too, we want to break out of the shell of winter.
How do we do this? Why do we want to do this and how did we get so buried in our habits?
I will first say it may not be your fault but the outcome will be. You have the ability to make change. First I want you to grab a notebook and write down everything you have tried and then go back and check off if it worked or was a waste of time. I will be doing this with you. Believing the product advertisers, no doesn't work. tracking everything I ate, worked. Setting goals high, EX: working out 6 days a week, worked for a week or two. Walking with dear husband and dog after dinner, worked well. Telling myself that it is OK to eat sugar for food because my calories are low for the day, worked for a day. All hell broke out after that.
Asking 2 questions, What did I eat yesterday and what am I going to eat tomorrow? The question is not what do I plan to eat tomorrow but what am I. What is the difference? All of us plan and plan well but then there is pie or cake or snacks or something that causes a bing of some sort.
If you go out to your favorite restaurant and have always had desert because it is your favorite why do you think it will be different this time? This brings us to today.
I have to tell you that I went to a all day seminar that included lunch and I feel great today. I had some oats and fruit in the morning with a big glass of water and a cup of coffee. I was off to learn about gardening. I was so excited. I learned about lawn care and was ready to move on to the next class when someone said something about a snack. I had to really think of why I would need a snack. I had a good breakfast I wasn't really hungry and lunch was after the next class. I came to the conclusion that you may need a snack but I don't. Time for next class. Learned about composting.
Really good class and now time for lunch. What were they going to have? There were a few choices and as I was talking to someone in line about weight watchers and her return to it, I stated to her that it's how you think as much as what you eat. I said that we could look at the other people that had already gone through the line and we would know what our choices would be before we get to the point of having to make the choices.
So I noticed there was a form of salad and soup and pie and a roll. I soon found out it was 7 layer salad and and pasta salad, it was serve yourself. I was so excited to see there were many people in front of me that took all the good stuff off the top of the 7 layer salad and left the lettuce, peas and small amount of dressing and topping was mixed in. I grabbed it up. It was like a pot of gold. I took lots of that unwanted lettuce. Next was soup. That was a no brainier, veggie or cream of something. I was talking to the WW person in line and stated to her that when it comes to things like pie you have to ask "how will it make me feel tomorrow?" I did a pass on the pie. I had so much salad and soup that I had enough to eat and finished at the same time as the pie people I was sitting with. As for that roll, I asked how will that make me feel and do I really want it? No I didn't really want it. Remember I am in the 120s and why is that important to know? If I was in the 160's and trying to lose, the amount of food I ate might have been to little and 1/2 a roll could of gave me the extra calories to keep me full for a little longer. Remember that a 160 pound person burns more calories than a 120 pound person just breathing. If this would of been a hands on workshop where we were moving around a lot I would of needed more calories but we were sitting in chairs. 3:00 came rolling around and it was off to learn about Gus's garden. Was I hungry? no, not really. Could I eat something? Oh ya I can always eat. I was still feeling good from lunch and didn't need anything. I don't know what it is about the eye stomach thing. The eyes think the stomach always needs to eat.
So the last class was really good and we were ready to go home.
Now when you ask me how was my day? I am going to tell you how much I learned, how I am going to use all this new information to improve our garden. How things have changed. At one time what we had for lunch would of been the main review of the day and what we learned second.
How do we do this? Why do we want to do this and how did we get so buried in our habits?
I will first say it may not be your fault but the outcome will be. You have the ability to make change. First I want you to grab a notebook and write down everything you have tried and then go back and check off if it worked or was a waste of time. I will be doing this with you. Believing the product advertisers, no doesn't work. tracking everything I ate, worked. Setting goals high, EX: working out 6 days a week, worked for a week or two. Walking with dear husband and dog after dinner, worked well. Telling myself that it is OK to eat sugar for food because my calories are low for the day, worked for a day. All hell broke out after that.
Asking 2 questions, What did I eat yesterday and what am I going to eat tomorrow? The question is not what do I plan to eat tomorrow but what am I. What is the difference? All of us plan and plan well but then there is pie or cake or snacks or something that causes a bing of some sort.
If you go out to your favorite restaurant and have always had desert because it is your favorite why do you think it will be different this time? This brings us to today.
I have to tell you that I went to a all day seminar that included lunch and I feel great today. I had some oats and fruit in the morning with a big glass of water and a cup of coffee. I was off to learn about gardening. I was so excited. I learned about lawn care and was ready to move on to the next class when someone said something about a snack. I had to really think of why I would need a snack. I had a good breakfast I wasn't really hungry and lunch was after the next class. I came to the conclusion that you may need a snack but I don't. Time for next class. Learned about composting.
Really good class and now time for lunch. What were they going to have? There were a few choices and as I was talking to someone in line about weight watchers and her return to it, I stated to her that it's how you think as much as what you eat. I said that we could look at the other people that had already gone through the line and we would know what our choices would be before we get to the point of having to make the choices.
So I noticed there was a form of salad and soup and pie and a roll. I soon found out it was 7 layer salad and and pasta salad, it was serve yourself. I was so excited to see there were many people in front of me that took all the good stuff off the top of the 7 layer salad and left the lettuce, peas and small amount of dressing and topping was mixed in. I grabbed it up. It was like a pot of gold. I took lots of that unwanted lettuce. Next was soup. That was a no brainier, veggie or cream of something. I was talking to the WW person in line and stated to her that when it comes to things like pie you have to ask "how will it make me feel tomorrow?" I did a pass on the pie. I had so much salad and soup that I had enough to eat and finished at the same time as the pie people I was sitting with. As for that roll, I asked how will that make me feel and do I really want it? No I didn't really want it. Remember I am in the 120s and why is that important to know? If I was in the 160's and trying to lose, the amount of food I ate might have been to little and 1/2 a roll could of gave me the extra calories to keep me full for a little longer. Remember that a 160 pound person burns more calories than a 120 pound person just breathing. If this would of been a hands on workshop where we were moving around a lot I would of needed more calories but we were sitting in chairs. 3:00 came rolling around and it was off to learn about Gus's garden. Was I hungry? no, not really. Could I eat something? Oh ya I can always eat. I was still feeling good from lunch and didn't need anything. I don't know what it is about the eye stomach thing. The eyes think the stomach always needs to eat.
So the last class was really good and we were ready to go home.
Now when you ask me how was my day? I am going to tell you how much I learned, how I am going to use all this new information to improve our garden. How things have changed. At one time what we had for lunch would of been the main review of the day and what we learned second.
Friday, March 5, 2010
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