Weight Loss Max

We went out to eat last night.  I left with all good intentions of having a big healthy salad and a piece if fish.   When I got to the salad bar I was hungry and it looked good….  So, first I started by loading up on lettuce and broccoli and diet friendly stuff like that.  It looked very unappealing to me so I sprinkled some bacon on to jazz it up. Well, they had those fried onion stick things so I added some of them.  By the time I walked back to the table I had a salad that looked like a sundae.  I ate the whole thing.

While laying with eater’s remorse in bed last night I tried to tally up all the calories I consumed at dinner after being so careful all day.  Boy did I blow it.  I gave up counting after 600, too depressing.  Will try not to put myself in that situation again.  Going to a salad bar with all that yummy stuff hungry is not the best idea. 

I have my circuit session this morning.  They will be adding more machines.  Fun.  I did come to the realization that I ate the healthiest on the day I did the class.  I guess it put me in a healthier state of mind.

I know exercise is important, I just don’t like it.  Especially cardio, I hate to sweat.  However, I bit the bullet and I joined an exercise program.  They put me on “circuit training”.  They set a timer for two minutes and I move from one weight machine to the other amongst a class of 6.  That was ok but after the weights they took us back to the dreaded cardio area.  I told the instructor that I wasn’t a cardio fan and she told me I would be in a couple of weeks.(We will see about that).  I was put on a stationary bike for ten minutes and then had to do a three minute cool down.  I couldn’t cheat because the bike had a digital timer and the instructor kept coming to check on me.  I did it.  My legs felt like wet noodles afterwards, I was sweating and not very happy when the instructor tells me that I am going to work up to 30 minutes. I must have looked at her like she was nuts.

I did try to stay out of the kitchen last night.  Every time I needed to go in there for something I took myself right out afterwards.  I did realize I can’t get out of there all together because it is our family hub.  I sign all the school papers in there,  I give out night time medications to my kids and myself that I keep in the kitchen, and cleaning up from dinner alone keeps my in there for an extra hour.  I did give in to temptation and ate 2 one hundred calorie reeses snack mix packages.  I am not a saint yet.  Once I caught what I just let myself do I put myself to bed.

I spend much to much time in the kitchen.  It is sort of the center point in my house, so I pass through it with everything I need to do.  Last night I must have eyed a box of pop-tarts 5 times before I finally gave in and ate one,(New flavor, hot chocolate).  Which was followed by 3 handfuls of almonds which I took each time a passed through.  Not gonna reach my fitness goals like this.

Didn’t have the metabolic testing yet but I did find out my body has 7% more body fat then it should.  I am not in shock I know what I am doing wrong it is just a matter of implementing new strategies and actually sticking to them.

My goal for today is to spend as little time in the kitchen as possible.  Going to try to get most of my laundry washed this afternoon and fold it all in my bedroom tonight.

I didn’t have a very successful week-end in the dieting department.  Week-ends are really tough.  I know I have to get right back in the groove. Need to organize my meals ahead of time before the week-end hits and stick to what I should eat.  Going out didn’t help my cause because even though I had the will-power to order a salad I didn’t have the will-power to not swipe up my son’s last potato skin.

Today I have an appointment to go for metabolic testing to tell me what foods I burn more efficiently.  Sounds weird but it’s worth a try. 

I can’t decide if I am bored, hungry or both.  It is a beautiful day so I did take the dog out for a walk but now that I am back all I want to do is chomp on something. I am going to try and incorporate more soluble fiber and protein into my eating because it is supposed to fill you up and make you feel less hungry.  I need to find something that I feel like doing during down time at home that will keep my mind off food.  I can always do laundry but I think because I hate to do it I reward myself with a treat as I pass through the kitchen to the laundry room.

My goal is to try and pick my snacks and meals carefully in an effort to not feel hungry.

 Still can’t get myself in to a dieting mode.  I didn’t eat cookies but I ate to much at dinner which included three glasses of wine.  I also realized that I take in an extra 20 calories with every cup of coffee I drink because of the fat free half and half I pour in.

My goal for today is to monitor my calorie intake.  I am going to try eating 3 three hundred calorie meals and 2 one hundred calorie snacks. This will leave me 100 calories for one glass of wine.  I have to start paying attention to my coffee intake. Will skip the half and half, even though it is fat free it contains calories.

Last night my dog woke me up to go outside and while I was waiting for him to come back in I came to the realization that I had just downed 4 cookies from the bag that was laying on my counter.  Well, in order for my “plan” to work I am assuming that this is going to have to stop.  I also will stop finishing my kids snacks after school, it is sort of my way of clearing off the table.

Today’s goal is to eat at meal times and maybe a designated snack or two.  I know exercise is important but I hate it!!!  Waiting for the weather to get nice and I will start walking.

Like many of you I have packed on some extra pounds.  I have a million excuses why… they all sound reasonable even forgiveable but what it comes down to is it is time to change my life style choices in order to feel good.  I am not just refering to looking better I feel like a blob.  Eating junk makes you feel like junk, its just ashame that it has to taste so good.  However, an hour after I devour a cheese steak hoagie (fried onions and mayo included) I very rarely say boy am I glad I ate that. 

Today I am starting a diet.  I don’t want to really call it a diet because that word makes me want to go eat something that I love before it goes on the forbidden list.  So it will just be my “plan” and I will organize my plan as I go.  My goal is to feel energetic, have a healthy outlook and get this rear back in my favorite jeans. 

Obese and overweight people are 50 percent more likely to get asthma than those of normal weight, suggesting that weight loss could help reduce the number of asthma cases, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Asthma, an inflammatory disease usually triggered by an allergy, can cause wheezing, coughing and labored breathing that can be life-threatening. It affects about 7 percent of the U.S. adult population. Obesity and being overweight are far more prevalent, affecting about 65 percent of U.S. adults.

Both types of ailments are on the rise and a new study suggests the two may be linked.

“Overweight and obesity significantly increases the risk of developing asthma,” said Dr. E. Rand Sutherland of the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colorado, who wrote the study.

“If you can substantially reduce the amount of overweight or obese people, you might also get a reduction in the number of new cases of asthma,” Sutherland said in a telephone interview.

Sutherland and colleagues, writing in the April issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, said a significant reduction in the incidence of overweight or obese people could cut the number of new asthma cases in the United States by 250,000 per year.

In children, where the incidence of asthma is five times higher than in adults, the researchers suggested that even small weight reductions could have a big impact in reducing the number of new asthma diagnoses.

Sutherland said the study gives another reason to develop effective treatments for excess weight, which can cause diabetes, high blood pressure and certain cancers.

The researchers looked at seven studies on severe asthma involving 333,102 patients.

People in the studies either had a doctor’s diagnosis of asthma or were taking asthma medication.

They were considered normal weight if their body mass index — a measure of weight in kilograms divided by height in meters — was below 25. People with a BMI measurement of 25 to 29.9 were considered overweight and people with a BMI of 30 or above were considered obese.

The researchers said that obesity has been known to cause impairments in lung function, even among people who do not have asthma. As a result, some of the overweight and obese patients who said they had asthma may instead have been suffering from reduced lung volume and chest wall restriction associated with their weight, Sutherland said.

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