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HEALTHYGRACE

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I can! I will!

I am Sarah and I want to be healthy! Welcome to my Spark page!
I am looking to lose weight, gain health and love myself for who I am. I love to sew, embroider, take photographs, read, blog, bake and make paper crafts. I hope to add exercising to this list!

History
I joined SparkPeople what seems a long time ago but I am back to it. I even persuaded my older brother to use it :) I have spent about 4.5 years being overweight and unhappy�disheartened by people�s insensitive remarks I allowed myself to eat my way out of any depression. I was physically inactive and spent a lot of my time commuting to work and back.

My Progress So Far

I joined a gym at 77.2 kg heavy on 28th June 2011 and now I am 76.4 kg as of 14 January 2012.

In 2011, I had dropped weight till 74.5 kgs but put some of that weight back on while recovering from a knee problem.
In 2012, I am trying to be consistent and believe that I can really do this.

I have already achieved some things that I never thought I could do:
* Do dumb-bell chest press with 3 kg weights in each hand 18 January 2012
* Burn over 650 calories 17 January 2012
* Burn 400 calories in 25 minutes on the Elliptical 17 January 2012
* Use the elliptical at Level 10 for more than 15 minutes 14 January 2012

My Plans

I'm a ovo-vegetarian and I also like dairy. I've never liked the taste of meat and I don't think I will be eating meat anytime now. Here's my eating plan for this year:

My Nutrition Plan
I am trying to make the following changes to my diet:
* Eating a boiled egg everyday 6 Days a week - To increase my protein intake and as a recovery for my gymming :)
* Having a bowl of oats, boiled veggies or fruit and yoghurt instead of eating Chocolate cereal for breakfast - To get more veggies in and to stay full longer
* Avoiding most processed food except for toast or my daily granola bar
* Eating more protein to meet my daily requirements of protein
* Drinking atleast 2 litres of water a day
* Eating my evening snack instead of waiting to feel hungry and then bingeing when I get home from work
* Tracking my food everyday and trying to track calories - To consume between 1300 to 1500 calories per day.
* Avoiding huge quantities of chocolate :)

My Fitness Plan

As of 18 January 2012

Monday,Wednesday and Friday - Strength Training and 35 minutes cardio (usually elliptical and spin bike)
Burn minimum of 550 calories

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday - Cardio with 55 to 60 minutes of cardio
Burn minimum of 650 calories

Strength Training:
* Dumb-bell Chest Press
* Leg Extensions on Machine
* Calf Raise on Step
* Cable Tricep Pushdowns
* Dumb-bell bicep curls
* Standing Knee Lifts
* Standing Sideways Leg Lifts
* Lat Pulldown on Machine

My weight loss goals for 2012:

January 31st 75.6
February 29th 73.8
March 31st 72
April 30th 70.2
May 31st 68.4
June 30th 66.6
July 31st 64.8
August 31st 63
September 30th 61.2

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My Ticker:

current weight: 166.0

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12/13/2010: Just a quick catch up!
12/1/2010: December Goals
11/28/2010: Trying out smoothies for breakfast!!

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Member Since: 6/24/2009

SparkPoints: 2,200

Fitness Minutes: 2,550

My Goals:
Ultimate goal is to lose 37 pounds (16kg) by December 31, 2011�but for now I want to lose 18 pounds (8kg) by around August 31, 2010.

My small but BIG for me goals starting today:
1)To pray more
2)To workout on the elliptical machine -6 times a week for atleast 15 mins.
3)To release my work-related stress by doing zumba every work day for atleast 15 minutes.
4)To be happy that I am alive- no more dissatisfaction!!
5)To be more active on Spark People and to make new friends.

My Program:
#Ellipticals machine in the morning -6 days a week.
#zumba videos in the evening- 5 times a week.
#Drinking at least 2 liters of water everyday at work.
#Watching what I eat- concentrating on more protein, less carbs and less sugar.
#Snacking Healthy and not sabotaging my own attempts!

Personal Information:
My name is Sarah and I'm from Madras, India. I am a technical writer.My hobbies include photography, baking, watching movies, blogging and reading.

Other Information:
I blog and rant at:
http://deepfriedbheja.wordpress.com
My craft's blog is at:
http://goodgrace.wordpress.com

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SHELLE13
7/16/2012 5:10:29 PM

Happy Belated Birthday, Done Girl!

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JIBBIE49
7/14/2012 5:27:19 PM

Happy BELATED Birthday, DONE GIRL

The Cancer girl can be the "LITTLE RED HEN" and do all the work as she has perseverance, but she needs to learn to delegate her work to others. She can get very angry when she does it all and they benefit. She gets along with Scorpio (who must control any relationship he is in but Cancer just lets him THINK he does with her, and with Pisces the Dreamer as she can make dreams come true, Virgo, Capricorn, and Leo the Lion, as she can make him the KING and be his supportive Queen.

Sun in Cancer: You live though your emotions and feelings and can't be reasoned with when you're upset. It's hard for you to separate your feelings from your thoughts. You're mothering, sustaining and nurturing, with a strong attachment to your mother and your home. You have a highly developed protective and defensive instinct about material and domestic security. You feel complete when you're able to lavish protectiveness on your family and you'll do whatever is necessary to establish and maintain that security. You tend to retreat inside yourself when you feel threatened in any way. You're often at the mercy of your moods, which are subject to change due to the atmosphere around you, which you absorb without realizing it. You need to control the tendency to moodiness, intolerance and excessive emotions. You suffer from emotional insecurity until you center yourself beyond your ego/ personality. Everything you do is latent and hidden: no issue is clear or direct, not action is forthright or direct. You are extremely intuitive and psychic and your first instincts are usually right. You're extraordinarily sensitive and fear ridicule. When you're hurt, you may behave in a nonsensical manner and, at times, you can be extremely childish and stubborn. You seek sympathy from others and don't realize how self-centered and selfish you can be. You appear gentle and tranquil, but your inner thoughts are difficult to understand, even for you. You're well intentioned, but emotionally vacillating. You have a deep sense of responsibility to others. Physically, slow energy flow can make you lazy and you'll have poor circulation later in life. Due to your powerful imagination, all thoughts of illness may manifest as illness. You'll suffer from ulcers and digestive problems if you don't discuss things that worry you. You must be first with those you love or you're unhappy, and you keep a tenacious hold on loved ones. You're concerned about what others think of you and can have a great deal of personal vanity about your appearance. You can be quite egotistical and won't joke about yourself. You're neat and clean and dislike any activity that creates a mess. You seek to avoid any type of discomfort at all costs. You're diplomatic, have an excellent memory and love to roam. You seldom fail to achieve your goals even if you have to be manipulative. At times, you may shun responsibility but can be punctual, exact, and efficient as required. You're a master of passive resistance and hate being told what to do or how to do it. You tend to live in "the good old days." As a parent, you're warm and loving, but can be smothering and refuse to let your child grow up. Your effort to keep your family together may actually drive them apart. As a child, you're tender, sweet, loving, helpful, extremely affectionate and easily hurt. It's better to discipline a Cancer child by appealing to the home-loving instinct. Sensationalism can hurt your sex life. You need to add reason and discrimination to your life and cultivate courage to say "Yes" and "No" at appropriate times.
KEYWORDS: protectively, sensitively, emotionally
KEY PHRASE: I feel.

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HEALTH4LYFE
7/13/2012 8:57:00 AM