Friday, July 31, 2015
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Life!
Good Evening Family and Friends!
Life is always hectic but it all depends on how you come to terms with the challenges that makes your life hectic day and everyday. SO you are asking how do I deal with the challenges that might make my life hectic! It all depends on what the challenge is and or the circumstance that I might be facing that day. I find the best way to work through a hectic day is to find time to relax and or exercise. I feel better and my brain feels more free with the daily exercise.
One thing I have started doing with my weight loss program is to track my carb intake and this will actually show me how much I am truly eating with "carbs" fat, protein and calories. Then I track my exercise for walking. Since I cannot track my swimming but I know that is good exercise for me as it uses all your muscles and helps to slim down the back.
What do you all do track your food intake, exercise output, and what type of exercise do you find fits better into your lifestyle? Everyone is different and this helps us to keep us in balance with our friends and family. Life would be boring if we all were the same and did our work out the sames. For me I like challenging myself to walk faster, or swim more laps!
The sad part is how society treats those losing weight or changing themselves for the better. I read an article where this women worked to lose over 100 pounds and all the negative comments made on her post. Do you really believe that negativity is the most encouraging for those facing the injustice of losing weight! For me that would be the "H$$ to the No"! Why do you feel that being negative is a good way to make friends or offer encouragement!!! Each person is special in his or her own way and this helps us to grow and learn and find ways to help others with our knowledge!
I do hope you all enjoy reading my posts as I write for myself with hoping I am able to offer love and support to one person who is facing the same challenges!
God Speed!
Cheryl
Life is always hectic but it all depends on how you come to terms with the challenges that makes your life hectic day and everyday. SO you are asking how do I deal with the challenges that might make my life hectic! It all depends on what the challenge is and or the circumstance that I might be facing that day. I find the best way to work through a hectic day is to find time to relax and or exercise. I feel better and my brain feels more free with the daily exercise.
One thing I have started doing with my weight loss program is to track my carb intake and this will actually show me how much I am truly eating with "carbs" fat, protein and calories. Then I track my exercise for walking. Since I cannot track my swimming but I know that is good exercise for me as it uses all your muscles and helps to slim down the back.
What do you all do track your food intake, exercise output, and what type of exercise do you find fits better into your lifestyle? Everyone is different and this helps us to keep us in balance with our friends and family. Life would be boring if we all were the same and did our work out the sames. For me I like challenging myself to walk faster, or swim more laps!
The sad part is how society treats those losing weight or changing themselves for the better. I read an article where this women worked to lose over 100 pounds and all the negative comments made on her post. Do you really believe that negativity is the most encouraging for those facing the injustice of losing weight! For me that would be the "H$$ to the No"! Why do you feel that being negative is a good way to make friends or offer encouragement!!! Each person is special in his or her own way and this helps us to grow and learn and find ways to help others with our knowledge!
I do hope you all enjoy reading my posts as I write for myself with hoping I am able to offer love and support to one person who is facing the same challenges!
God Speed!
Cheryl
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Challenges
Good Evening!
It has been a while since I have written to you all. SO I thought I would drop a line to see how everyone is doing with life and the winning the battle over the injustice of losing weight! Tomorrow is the weigh day and I am must confess I am not looking forward to this day! Not because I have not been faithful to my food plan and following what I have been eating, just because I was not able to reach my goal last month! I will chug along and hopefully this time will show a different progress.
This past few days have been hard with all the heat and just being able to breath outside in the heat and this can cause you take a different path for eating as well. It has been challenging to stay away from my favorite food, but I did survive thus far!
The other day, I met some new providers and learned about the Emergency room via first hand! Oh yes, I had an asthma attack and was at work, thank you goodness you say! Yes for me that was a life saver, as I was not able to breath and ended up on oxygen, and of course being my normal self made all the nursing staff laugh! My boss was there and told the doctors "do not believe her" she is just saying that so she can go home! What you say "she would never do that right" tell a fiber diber to she could go home. No not me! However; I am fine but it does show you how life can throw you a curve ball and change the decisions you make in a minute!
Just remember you are in control and you are the one who will win over the injustice of weight loss! Remember to live for today and if you need live for the minute, or hour! It is not about winning and doing all in one day!
God Speed!
Cheryl
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Work and Life!
Hello my friends!
Hope this finds you all well and enjoying your evening with friends/family! It has been a while since I have written to you and mainly because I was not sure what topic I wanted to write about. SO I decided to write about work balance and life balance. How many spend multiple hours at work and then you do not take a break to free your mind; yes free your mind from the work flow and find time to enjoy the day. SO you sit at your desk and eat your breakfast, and then turn around and eat your lunch at the desk too!
The question becomes is this healthy and then do you eat choose to eat healthy food? OR do you eat something that is high in carbs, high in sugar, and high in calories. Yep, I know you are saying that is me and I do that everyday. SO when are you going to change this habit? I so understand your thought process, it is easier to eat at the desk and you feel like you are completing work and staying focused. The truth is "no" you are not working productively cause you are really stopping to eat the meal and then lift your arm to take a drink. It really is time to make a change and this change will offer the opportunity to rest the mind and at the same time get a mini walk in.
I need to follow my own advice with stepping away from my desk or a project to take a few minutes to enjoy the meal and or socialize with co-workers and this helps to build a good team spirit! :) Life is to short to work every hour of every day? I need to keep my self focused on track and this will help me to reach the final goal!
You all know that last week I wrote about the bagel calling my name, well just know I have won and that bagel was not eaten by me or even purchased by me!!!! Oh HECK YEAH; I moved on and moved passed the urge to eat that bagel! Well I digress about that topic so I do believe it is time to move on to something else.
Well one more week until weigh in say a prayer I meet a higher loss than 2 pounds, but I will be happy with a 2 pound weight loss! It is all about the loss!
God Speed!
Cheryl
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Forgiveness!
Good Evening!
Hope all is going well for everyone today. Here is some food for thought and for us to ponder on. What does forgiveness mean to you and how can this impact our ability to lose weight? For instance when we have a falling out or fight with a friend, co-worker, and or family. Most times we will offer up forgiveness and move on to the next phase of the friendship. SO we when offer up forgiveness do you feel better about the relationship with the person with whom you might have had a disagreement with? I know some are saying "yes" and some are saying "no" depending on the circumstance and or the reason for the disagreement.
SO if you are able to forgive another person are you able to forgive yourself? What you say "forgive" myself for what? For me the ability to forgive myself for overeating and for enjoying food packed with sugar and carbs! Yep you are correct the ability to forgive ourselves when we eat a piece of candy or eat a tasty toasted bagel "LOL" yep; I am still focused on eating that elusive bagel! Alas I digress, when we do not forgive ourselves we allow the indiscretion to keep us from moving onto the next level of enjoyment when we lose a pound or 3! You all know I am right cause when we carry this baggage we cannot move forward.
SO! you need to forgive yourself for eating that candy, bagel, french fry, cake or cookie, whatever it is that you felt the need to take a binge day on! It is not the end of the world as we know and allowing ourselves forgiveness, we can take the next step of winning the battle against the injustice of losing weight! Weigh in day is coming and staying on track is one challenge that I am facing each everyday for the next three weeks! I will overcome the urge to eat that "bagel" calling my name! But if I do fall off the wagon, then I will forgive myself and move on.
Godspeed to all and I hope you enjoy the reading! Remember to always to forgive yourself!
Cheryl
Monday, July 6, 2015
Daily Struggle!
Good Evening!
I hope you all had a great holiday weekend with
friends and family and found time to enjoy “fireworks” or offer your time to
help those in need, and to hug a “warrior” that fought for our freedom to make
choices. I had the opportunity to spend time with family prior to July 4th
and then with friends on July 4th and was able to enjoy the prepared
food for the day.
I bet you are asking yourself what did she eat and
did she fall off the wagon, which would place her back on the weight loss
train! Well to be totally honest; I only missed a by a few bites of food. The
ribs were wonderful and the chicken was to “die for” that is so true! I kept my
carbs down for the whole day so I could enjoy the feast for the 4th
of July! It can be hard to stay on track
but with taking the time to see what options we have then that helps to make
the decisions for the day and the ultimate end of what to eat vs. what not to
eat. SO I played it very smart on this day and saved all my carbs for the
party! It is still hard to everyday to say “no” to this food or that food. I have
some friends who are doing the “Weight Watchers” program and they count points
and for the meals they eat daily. I tried that program but with all the carbs
loaded in the food I was not able to
lose any weight. I wish them much
success in the food choices they make to meet the goals of the points they are
allowed to eat during the day and week! It is about finding the program that
works best for you and your lifestyle!
I know you are saying “yeah oh yeah” and what are
you doing to keep yourself on track with the goal(s) you might have set for yourself; well I am
working on staying on the right path to hopefully lose that 8 pounds or more in
the next three weeks when I present to the doctors’ office for weigh in! But
alas as time is moving forward so am I, and I was able to complete a 2.5 mile
walk this past weekend and I completed the walk in 45 minutes. Boy oh boy that
was a killer for me. Last week I did 7 days in row for walking and that was challenging,
and there was many times I wanted to “say no” I am not going. But I got in the car
drove to the park and completed the walk!
Dedication is the key to meeting and overcoming the daily struggles we
all face! I know you can do it and I
have that one day you will post the goal you have set and will share with me
the changes you are making. Any change is a positive!
God Speed!
Cheryl
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Daily Struggle!
Good Evening!
Well this weekend is a Holiday and many will be celebrating July 4th with "hot dogs, hamburgers, watermelon, and other delicious types of food containing high "carbs" sugar and other great tasting enticing sweetness! I know you are thinking the same thing I am thinking; how do we survive with all the good food that needs to be eaten. Well we will just need to take it one day at time to look past the carbs and how good they may taste! WHAT you say look past the good stuff!! Then you must ask yourself do I want to lose weight or stay the same or worst yet gain? For me I want to keep on the losing end of the injustice of losing weight!
I know how I have felt the last few times after eating a few carbs and then having carb overload and just not feeling myself! I did get to spend some time this week with loved ones and I stayed very true to my food plan with the exception of the last day with them....oh yes you are correct but I did not fall completely off the wagon; only slightly! I know you are asking yourself how can you only fall off slightly...well no "French Fries" that is how! LOL!!! On serious note I took care to make sure the food I was going to eat that day was included in my carb count for the day.
I have been able to enjoy walking outside this week, with my daughter and that was fun and exciting and she helped me to increase my stride to increase my target heart rate! OH YEAH it is the small things in life that make me happy! SO when I lose a pound or 2 I am excited as the scale is going down and not up! I did make a change in my outer appearance as well which is helping my inner soul to see the new me! I will keep changing on both the inside and outside and thus will be the winner once I have met the goal I set for myself! I am going to win this race and yes it is race! What you are saying a "race" against what! Well for starters a better eating habit, decreasing the chances of having heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure! Those are just few. For me less knee pain, and back pain with the decrease of weight!
I hope you all have wonderful and glorious July 4th with loved ones and please remember to thank a veteran who has served is serving and who have lost his/her loved one for our freedom!
God Speed!
Cheryl
Well this weekend is a Holiday and many will be celebrating July 4th with "hot dogs, hamburgers, watermelon, and other delicious types of food containing high "carbs" sugar and other great tasting enticing sweetness! I know you are thinking the same thing I am thinking; how do we survive with all the good food that needs to be eaten. Well we will just need to take it one day at time to look past the carbs and how good they may taste! WHAT you say look past the good stuff!! Then you must ask yourself do I want to lose weight or stay the same or worst yet gain? For me I want to keep on the losing end of the injustice of losing weight!
I know how I have felt the last few times after eating a few carbs and then having carb overload and just not feeling myself! I did get to spend some time this week with loved ones and I stayed very true to my food plan with the exception of the last day with them....oh yes you are correct but I did not fall completely off the wagon; only slightly! I know you are asking yourself how can you only fall off slightly...well no "French Fries" that is how! LOL!!! On serious note I took care to make sure the food I was going to eat that day was included in my carb count for the day.
I have been able to enjoy walking outside this week, with my daughter and that was fun and exciting and she helped me to increase my stride to increase my target heart rate! OH YEAH it is the small things in life that make me happy! SO when I lose a pound or 2 I am excited as the scale is going down and not up! I did make a change in my outer appearance as well which is helping my inner soul to see the new me! I will keep changing on both the inside and outside and thus will be the winner once I have met the goal I set for myself! I am going to win this race and yes it is race! What you are saying a "race" against what! Well for starters a better eating habit, decreasing the chances of having heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure! Those are just few. For me less knee pain, and back pain with the decrease of weight!
I hope you all have wonderful and glorious July 4th with loved ones and please remember to thank a veteran who has served is serving and who have lost his/her loved one for our freedom!
God Speed!
Cheryl
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