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I’m still around, still plugging away.  Eating low-fat was a good start but I feel like I should work on getting rid of the junk.  And I keep reading about whole food, and real food and “healthy” fats and wonder how to successfully incorporate this into my life.  I realized a big part of the problem is taking the whole, real food with the healthy fats and adding in the processed crap I shouldn’t be eating.  No, that’s not balanced.  So, I’m going to make the effort to put more real food in and cut out sugar and flour and see how that goes.  Eek!  And hah, I’m not saying I will be perfect and never, ever eat those things again.  I think the key is simply to try and eliminate them so that on that rare occasion when one does indulge or whatever, it’s just that - rare.  I’m going to re-read “In Defense of Food” and I have “The Omega Diet” on the way which talks about the Mediterranean way of eating.  I love reading about nutrition which is probably why I am constantly re-thinking what I am doing.  I just have to remember: progress, not perfection.

I really kicked up the exercise today.  I did Susan Powter’s Yoga Step DVD and Circuit Training Upper Body.  Yeah!  Same plan tomorrow but Lower Body.  I’m gonna alternate with those for a while I think.  I’m feelin’ good! 

Susan Powter just kicked my ass!  (Have you seen her lately, by the way? She STILL has a smoking hot body.  Smoking hot.  I have watched too much Rock of Love! haha)  So I did her Yoga Step DVD today, trying to get the yoga and the cardio all in one.  I love the workout but was fully pooped by the end.  Mini exercise goal: be able to do the whole thing without dying or modifying.  I have a lot of her DVDs tho.  I should create some sort of schedule to utilize them all.

I’ve been watching this new show called Diet Tribe.  It’s pretty interesting really.  I like that the women don’t get sequestered from the world while they try to lose weight and that their goal (30 pounds in 90 days) is not completely outlandish.  Last week they visited a therapist who asked them about excuses they make and how to fight those.  One woman was sort of puzzled about how this could be productive, but then this week she said she has never tried to lose weight before.  Ah, that explains it.  She’s not familiar with the dance then.  I am trying out the strategy myself, talking myself through some of my famous excuses BEFORE I am in the moment is really helpful I think.

I had one of those days where I felt hungrier than usual.  I am not a big believer in being hungry to lose weight.  So I tried I try to just go with it without going crazy and keep it to my low fat foods.  I even managed to slip in another 30 minutes on the Wii while I watched Diet Tribe.  I don’t think our bodies are machines, some days we’re hungrier than others for whatever reasons.  As Susan Powter taught me - “when you’re hungry, eat!”  I thought about my eating a lot today as this is my weekly grocery shopping day.  I spend the morning planning my menu and making my list before hitting the store.  I originally got to my ideal weight (albeit only needing to lose 16 pounds to get there at that time) by eating this way.  Over the years I have learned so much about nutrition that I sort of got into a really ridiculous all or nothing mindset when it came to “healthy” food.  Sure, I’d love to say that I eat only whole grains, lean proteins and vegetables and abstain from all of the uglies.  But the reality is that I can’t do that.  I’ve tried.  And I have tended to be either trying to eat like that or chucking it all and hitting the drive thru.  So, this time I am striving for a realistic happy medium.  So that means the peppermint patties, you know not as a meal or not a bag at a time.  But two or three of the little ones when I am craving chocolate.  That means non-fat frozen yogurt.  Baked Lays.  No, they’re certainly not gold star foods but dammit, they get me thru a craving sometimes.  This is better than I was doing and perhaps someday I’ll move to an even healthier diet.  But priority #1 right now is to get the weight off. And I’m OK with that.  I feel like I have more to say but it’s late and I am sleepy so I’ll leave it for tomorrow . . .

I thought I would want/need to write more but it’s been a very good week.  I did yoga 2/7 and 30 min Wii free step 5/7.  I am not terribly worried about the yoga because while I enjoy it and think it has certain benefits, I don’t think it’s much of an impact in the weight loss area.  Still I’d like to squeeze in a little more.  Eating has come amazingly easy.  I was a hardcore low-fat, Stop the Insanity follower back in the nineties.  And I’ve fallen back into step quite easily.  I even bought a bag of York peppermint patties and popped a candy every time I had a chocolate craving.  CANDY!  And still lost two pounds.  I can do this!

Well, I had actually planned to do MORE than I did today which was about 45 minutes of yoga and 30 minutes of free step on the Wii.  But I’ll take it.  I think I should start every day with yoga.  It feels really good to get everything all stretched out first thing in the day.

I had some oatmeal for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch.  Trust me, I’d have more but we desperately need groceries and it was bitterly cold and wet outside today and my husband went off to work with my heavy coat in his truck.  So no, I did not get to the grocery store.  I’m not sure what I am whipping up for dinner.  Something involving pasta, broccoli and chicken, maybe I’ll throw in some peas or carrots.  Or both!  I should probably then plan a menu and make a shopping list for the week so I am prepared tomorrow.

Food Log

Exercise Log

Well.  I had this long post written about how I came to be here and what my plan is.  But then it was eaten.  I clicked publish and “poof” it was gone.  So, hi.  I’m me and need to lose 60-ish pounds.  Have a plan, gonna start tomorrow.  I guess I’ll just write about it as I go.

*note to self* Hit save from now on before hitting publish.