exercise

Monday, April 01, 2013

The first of April. I like looking at the calendar there stretches a whole month to do all my exercises and eat healthy. I went to my gym this morning and did the elliptical for thirty-five minutes. I then did a bout 25 or 30 minutes of weight lifting. This morning was for my abs, arms and legs. I think I am going to up my weight routine and do them four times a week. That will give me two days on my abs, arms and legs and two days on my chest, back and shoulders.
That always worked out good and I feel so strong and healthy. I feel like I have not been giving 100 percent to my exercise or food. I have a nice long month ahead of me and on May the 1st I want to feel good that I have done what I should .

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eight months

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Wow I can't believe it eight months with no processed sugar. I feel wonderful. I am so relaxed and calm. I am thinking clearly. I make wise choices. If I get a little antsy and want to change things or not sure what I am doing is right it does not take me long to touch base with my sparkers and they usually are so encouraging and seem to say the right thing and I get back on track. I am having no cravings for sweets what so ever. I guess if you don't eat them you don't want them. We were in a store and people were wild over grabbing candy for Easter. Sugar is very additive and they were acting like they were needing their fix of candy. I use to be right in the mix. I am so glad if I do some grabbing its going to be fruit. The more I study the effects of sugar on the body the happier I am with the choices I have made. I have learned all kind of neat recipes for sweets with just dates, nuts, coconuts, peanut butter, dried fruits, etc. Its amazing how banana ice cream taste. I mean just a frozen banana whipped up by itself or fruit, nuts added and honey and cocoa for a chocolate syrup. We can be healthy if we really want to be and I do. Happy Easter everyone and thanks for all the encouragement.

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The pine trees know it is Easter.

Friday, March 29, 2013

The pine trees know it is Easter. About two weeks before Easter little shoots begin to sprout and then by Easter the little shoots branch out and form crosses. I am looking out the window and I am already seeing some crosses but by Sunday there should be a tree full. I think this is so neat and I look forward to it each year. We may not acknowledge but nature knows.
Ever who celebrates Easter be blessed.

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why do I want to sabotage myself?

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

I am having a battle with myself. I am eating 1500 calories a day. I walk every day. I do weights twice a week and I do my elliptical at least three times a week. I keep wanting to have diet mentality. I do not weigh and I do not know how much I have lost in eight months. I keep thinking I am losing about five pounds a month and that is too slow. I want to lose 10 pounds a month. I have lost 100 pounds a couple of times in 10 months but I never learned how to maintain. I would put the weight back on. I feel like I need to eat 1200 or 1300 hundred calories so maybe I will lose faster. I know that I feel bad, am cranky, nervous at that low calorie. I feel great at 1500 calories and am getting more fruits and vegetables. I feel like time is running out and I need to lose the weight faster but yet everything in me says keep doing the way you are doing and one day you will be to a healthy weight. It really does not matter if it takes years and years because what am I going to change with my eating? Nothing! Maybe some more fruits and vegetables but that is it. I have always dieted and then got off the diet and gained it back.
Now I know I will eat the way I am eating for the rest of my life. I just wish I could lose this mentality of wanting to "diet" the way I use to do. I see the results of that way of life and I don't like it. It has been a struggle lately. I got off of all processed sugar and that is a big blessing. I eat fruit and my sweet of choice is two dates a day. I will some days eat an apple, banana and two dates. I went through a spell a couple of weeks ago that I got it in my head I needed to cut out the fruit. It was too much sugar. Well I was a cranky old bear and I was wanting to overeat.
My husband asked what was I doing different and I told him about the fruit. He advised me to go back to the way I was eating and see how that was. I did and sure enough I settled right down and did not want to overeat and I was a lot calmer. I really am thinking I am trying to mess up what I have achieved in the last eight months. I wonder why I want to mess up what is working. I have done that so many times. I hope blogging about this will let me see what I am doing and stop trying to fix something that is working.

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seven months

Saturday, March 02, 2013

I am so proud. It has been seven months since I have had processed sugar.
I feel so good. I have more energy. I exercise on the elliptical three times a week and do weights two times a week and I do a lot of walking also. I have dropped from a 4x to a 1x.
I have been eating healthy . Its getting easier and easier to make wise choices on what I am going to eat. I look forward to good food that has taste not some artificial, card board, with a list of ingredients a mile long. I don't drink anything but water and unsweet teas.

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