Myfitnesspal challenge

I started this challenge on Monday Oct 17th.  It is a team challenge.  Minutes of working out counts as miles to walk around the world.  I tell you the  people that set up some of these challenges really put some work into them so if you sign up be ready to follow through on someones hard One of the things we had to do was a drum challenge.  Look this up on U-tube.  Before I knew it 30 min was up.

As you see you can improvise with things.  this is my workout area.  The pole is nit for pole dancing, it really helps hole our house up. Cant be moved so I kind of worked around it.  I will let you know how the challenge goes.  I did a couple more U-tubes.  There are a lot of workouts on U-tube you just have to look.  Let me know if you are also doing a group challenge and how it is going.  Also if you learn something new.

This challenge is really fun.  I tell you there is a lot of work that went into it.  Sometimes the creators of these challenges just need buddies with their own weight loss.  Remember to give them feed back and thank them for their hard work.

Step it up America Challenge

I joined this challenge thinking it would force me to walk more, get more steps in and just motivate me more.  Well I am not really excited about their website and it all proves how hard it is to set something like this up.  Maybe this is another thing that is wrong with diets.  We have expectations that the diet doesn't fulfill.  I need to say it here that I know no words on paper about a eating plan is going to suck the fat off your but.

If you want health your going to have to do the work.  I have asked it before, what art you willing to do to achieve the body you want.  I am going to try to add more pictures to my blog.
I am also going to pick some things from pintrest  to eat.

What you didn't eat

Why don't we get credit for the things we didn't eat.  In a way we do.  What happens when you don't eat cake??  Your teeth thank you to start with.  It doesn't always show up on the scale as a loss but it may save you from a gain.  As we make choices everyday as to what we eat and how we spend our days it's not always something that shows up on the scale.  The closer we get to our goals the cleaner we need to eat.  At one weight, skipping a meal or getting sick over the weekend may produce a loss but the closer you are to goal you realize how important it was to workout and strength train to maintain muscle.  The goal of chatthefat is to maintain maximum health.  The "skinny fat" is not a goal.  No one is going to raise a flag because you did a pass on something or made a good choice but when you put all those good things together you will be surprised at the questions.  When others ask you how you did you you can think of all those thinks you didn't eat and then your but will thank you along with your heart.  When people say you are deprived they forget there is a limit.  You need to deprive your body of the toxins sugar causes, the side effects of deep fried foods, simple carbs and the list goes on.  Remember the 80/20 rule so if you want something special please pick carefully.  You get 1 so are you going to waste it on something that rates a 5 on the 1-10 scale.
Here's to healthy eating

What is next in my life as a diet coach and New York Trip

So what is next?  You lost weight and you just have this new life with this healthier body that you are just so excited to share with the world.  Is there a next step or is this why people fall back into old habits.  We have all heard the side effect of the biggest loser diet and now have this huge fear that we will all fall into that trap, relax and lets research it.  As you know I love to test out these diets on myself and report what happens.

I keep coming beck to the 27 concepts.  I hat to talk to my mom the other day about my work and who I follow in the diet and cancer world.  I think I have to order the food revolution.  What is truly in our food?
In the beginning of October I got back to the 27 concepts.  Back to eating high nutrition, think before you eat, and really give it an honest effort to working out.  I did sign up for Fitfusion.  So far I have done 1.5 workouts.  I need to set some limits like, do 10 workouts or I can't renew the next month.  I was at the gym tonight and got those 2 miles done.

It is so easy to fall back into old habits.  I can think of a whole list of excuses and they are all true.
1.  Other people eat fast food for dinner and live.  It's fast and cheap.  Answer; some die
2.  I don't like water and diet soda is the same.  Wrong
3.  I don't have time.  Neither do I.
4.  I don't like veggies.  OK you got me here.  I love salads and other veggies.
5.  I have a family to cool for.  So you deprive your family nutrition.
6. I don't have time to learn about nutrition.  I have to watch Kim K. Learn to multi task or turn kim off! Your health is more important.
7. I'm at goal weight so I am done.  Health has no finish line.

I am doing a Instagram of some of the things I eat to keep up my health.  I do love salad and eat a salad almost everyday for lunch at work.  I will try to post more pictures.

We went to Boston and ate lobster as much as we could.  I never get lobster so when in boston eat the good stuff.  Here in WI I eat different items.  Person I was traveling with doesn't eat meat except seafood so plan was set.  How did we do it??  We ordered two sides or 1 main item and a side and split it.  Here are some of the things we ate.  I remained the same weight  due to our eating plan and a lot of walking.  There was no real reason to take a cab if we could walk.  We picked a hotel so we could walk and that was the plan.

80/20 rule

Pervention had an articular about this http://www.prevention.com/weight-loss/weight-loss-80-percent-diet-and-20-percent-exercise?cid=NL_EUSD_-_091216_WeightLossFraction_hd&utm_source=PVN07&utm_medium=email&smartcode=YN_0000161752_0001569508  This is one of my  27 rules I talked about and follow.  The important thing is that the 80% is high nutrition.  Make sure it's not just calories you are counting but nutrition.

Note to What diet next

So you all know I am following What diet next.  I sent her this note.


How are things going?  There is no good time to up your health.  I am doing good on my chatthefat diet.  No special diet just upping nutrition and getting those 2 miles in.  I am helping my parents move which takes time.  My biggest weapon is to make sure I have mix greens in the house and remembering I get a ice cream type once a week.  I am also doing a plank challenge.  Getting it done is hard but I am doing it.  I did join planet fitness to test it out.  It is cheap enough to not have to leave my old gym while I test it out for 2 months.  I could almost say I am testing out the WTF am I doing diet.  You know when you put frozen pizza in the oven planning to eat the whole thing yourself.  We all know we have done this.  I have to think WTF and how is this helping me reach my goal.  With your 12 diets  you are testing is it the diet or that you have a diet buddy to share your WTF  and this is to hard days.  There are times you look at thinks and you ask - Why am I doing this?  Other people are just happy being over weight.  How bad really is being over weight?  It is hard when you are feeling good that there is a dark side to poor eating habits.      Talk to you in a month.  I have to see what your Aug diet should be.

Question to Beyond Diet

I sent this question off to Isabel De Los Rios because I follow her and her husband and value their opinion.

Question about biggest loser articular.  So you are talking about metabolism.  Here is my main question to you about the regain.  I am facebook friends with Helen and she seams to be one of the winners that get it.  Here is my thought,
When you lose a large amount of weight 1 you lose some of the muscle that you needed to haul all that fat around with if you are not working out to maintain it.  How many of the contestants fell into the finish line thinking and regained that, I can eat that now because I am thin.  How many became nutrition deprived and kept eating till the body got what it needed.  (You have to eat a lot of ice cream before you get any nutrition out of it.  This would be one reason why in my class I lead I kept correcting a person when she called it mock mash potatoes.  I reminded her that it was cauliflower and she liked to eat it mashed.  It is the way you think.  I have been spreading the nutrition deprived word for the last 10 years.  People don't understand and just don't get it.  I blog chatthefat all about it.  So my question to you is it that something really changes in the body or is it that they are are feeling the side effects of eating calories instead of nutrition.
Next is on the show they are working out a lot.  when you reach the finish line and you just sit and relax and stop training for the next race you fall into the -don't use it and you will lose it mode.  If the body doesn't have a need for muscle it can be broken down and used for energy which gives the body a great place to store the calories you are eating.  Note I did not say the nutrition you are eating because the body uses nutrition to do things other that sitting on the couch.  Eating calories /nutrition is like becoming a calorie hoarder.   Your body has all these calories and doesn't want to part with any of them.  You need to build muscle to purge these useless calories.  If you eat nutrition then the body puts that to work right away to do things like transport oxygen and remove waste.  Last is please talk about this whole crap in the colon thing.  Do you ever notice poo doesn't move when you don't put good things in?  So why would you do a cleanse if you are going to just replace it with new crap?  Poo moves if you eat nutrition.  So to bring this to a close I would say the biggest losers people are nutrition deprived and just don't get it.  95-99% of people that lose weight are in this group.  The media tells you that they have the answer to stay in the 5-1% but they lye.  The only way to stay in the 1-5% is learn you must eat nutrition and there is no finish line.  The finish line is when you friends are at the doctor all the time and you are good once a year.  Friends complain about aches and pains and you go out and do things and enjoy your life.  Your friends make a big deal about walking to the mailbox and you do  PB in a 5K.  Please address my thought.  Thanks  Lynn