So you asked me how the going? I will tell you. It's going okay. Eating healthy is tough. Most of the time I do cook at home which makes it a lot easier. When you're faced with choices we have to be very aware of the things that pop into our heads. What I'm talking about is when you go to a Mexican restaurant and the chips are set on the table. We have three choices, 1. Don't eat any 2. In a few and be done with it.or 3. Push aside your goals and tell yourself you will start again on Monday.
I get this the other day when we went out to eat and chose option 2. As I ate some of the chips I really tasted the chips for both flavor and food value. Food value I define as calories divided by nutrition. Chips themselves have low nutrition and are high in calories but they also break the rule of no deep-fried. As I ate a couple of chips I thought about; how fresh was the oil they fried them in, what flavor was I looking for, and what did I like the most, the chips or the Salsa? The answer to this question is that I liked the flavor of the salsa. Then I rated the salsa on a scale of 1 to 10 and placed it at about a seven. This all took the fun out of pigging out on chips.
Another thing that has changed is my ice cream addiction. I have done the side effect test on ice cream and every time I eat things like ice cream and pizza I get a weight-loss setback. So what I am testing out for you is to reduce the quantity and the frequency of these two items. So far the desire of success is stronger than the desire for these two items.
I did do my first Facebook live talking about the topic the side effect. I was making biscotti cookies and I think it turned out pretty good. I want to do these weekly because more than that would put too much pressure on me as far as time goes.
A little about me is that I work full-time 40+ hours at a desk job. I have signed up at planet fitness as my gym to work out at. They have a machine that looks like a cross between a runner and an elliptical. I think I did take a picture of it so I can post it. I tried to do a few blog posts when I can and I like to use Dragon as a dictation software. I am a horrible speller and this is the reason for Dragon. Technology is a great tool and I will try to give you a recap on the items I use.
Dragon does a pretty good job on most words and if I miss a few things I'm sorry. I also have a fitbit surge and their body fat scale. I will be usingThese two items as tools. I like the scale because not only does it track your weight but it also tracks your body fat. I can go back and compare at the weight I am at today to what I might have been a year ago and how the body fat percentage changes. We all know it's not all about the scale but a scale is a great tool especially one that syncs to a tracker. My surge tracksAnd logs steps, activity time, stairs and a few other items. I am using my fitness pal to log my food. I'm giving myself one day of forgiveness in case the food items are too complicated. What I mean by this is when you go to a party and you eat things you're unfamiliar with. I never want you to be afraid of different foods but I do want you to make your best choices.
So to bring this to a close I am doing well and down a couple of pounds of the first week. No matter what way you are starting at do not compare yourself to someone else. I will say I am at 35% body fat and feel I want to track the changes in body fat more so than weight. I am 5 foot tall and in the 135 weight range so things I have doing may be a little stricter than what you're doing.
Also going on in my life is that I do genealogy, and in taking a couple of online classes over the next six weeks. The reason this is important is that these are sitdown activities. You need to balance these activities with other sitdown activities or you will start to feel the side effects of too much computering. I will post to kick off for 2017 the first week of January. I didn't join self magazine's 2017 challenge. We all want to win a trip to someplace warm so that's when I did. I will also keep you updated on this challenge.
With all these things going on sometimes life gets confusing and we overload ourselves. And by become MIA please don't get mad and be patient because I will be back. When a stress factor comes off we really need to break it apart and look at each component and how to handle it the best. Sometimes less computer work or things we do for fun get pushed aside. I will try not to do this to you but please remember blogging takes time.
I do contact a couple other bloggers and weight-loss people to see how they're doing in 2017. I was following what diet next and from fat to that and plan on contacting them during the year. Other people I follow are fit2fat2fit, Jillian's podcast, Ben Greenfield, the food Revolution, the truth of cancer, in any other research I can find. I do download audiobooks from the local library. The workouts I will be including would be as follows; Jillian michael's that I own, a kettle bell workout series that I have to get the name of ( I think it is Kettelbelle kickboxing), youtube, and any other workout I come across. January will include the workouts from self magazines challenge. Have a great day and I will post again when I find something interesting to post about Lynn
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