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Friday, May 24, 2013

I have been trying to walk on my treadmill more. Today I did 5K before my circuit training. I felt pretty powerful. I was able to get 90,000 steps in this week. It made up for my poor showing of only 30,000 steps last week. I think I used a stationary bike, which is not tracked as steps (thus the name stationary) and ST DVDs.

I am hoping that mixing up my exercise will bump up my weight loss.
But I am prepared for this to take a long time. I gained in less than one week, and am ok with it taking one month to lose it. I am looking to build muscles.

Muscles a natural girdle. Who needs Spanx, when you have obliques and transverse abdominal muscles to pull everything in.

Have a great holiday weekend.

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My Motivation for Today

Thursday, May 23, 2013

I did much better with eating yesterday and easily stayed in range. I got in 120 plus minutes of intentional exercise plus power walking. I am feeling better. My weight is still up. I don't understand how eating cake for two days, can do this.

Now I did not eat a whole cake, I ate on piece of cake at two meals for two days.
So that is maybe 2000 calores. How does 2000 calories equal 1 pound. Oh it is because the 3500 calorie per pound is wrong, and scientists have known that for years. Each pound lost is much more than 3500. For me eating an extra 1000 calories per day, while doing less exercise probably accounted for the amount necessary to gain one pound per day.

That is a scary though. So I am now on day 7 of my no cheesecake no cake streak. I think I will make it a no cake streak.

I am a work in progress.

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Yesterday I did better with eating and stayed in range. I learned a truth, you can't eat when you are exercising. So more exercise minutes left less time for evening snacking. That is really helpful. The other eye opener is how many calories you really burn when exercising.

Is that cake worth 90 minutes on the treadmill, probably not.

So today I am working on portion control and making good choices. Day 6 of my no cheesecake streak (last week was a Jewish Holiday that focused on dairy and of course cheesecake)

I am a work in progress.

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My Motivation for Today

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

My thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by the Tornado in Oklahoma

I am on day 5 of the no cheesecake streak. In the end I did not have strawberries yesterday, but ended up overeating. I am making good food choices, but I think my portions need to be adjusted. I am still up, and I think now it may be sodium.

So I am bumping up my exercise, and I will try to drink more water, and see what happens.

I am a work in progress.

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Today is day 4 of my no cheesecake streak. I think this is funny, because I only eat cheesecake once a year. I almost never make it, and rarely buy it. There are still 2 cakes in my refrigerator, which I meant to throw out last night, but forgot. My son asked me for the strawberry cheesecake, when I told him that I threw it out he reminded me that there was 1/3 a cake left. But after my DH and I had a snack, it was almost gone, and I knew it had to go away.

So I have no cheesecake cravings. I do crave strawberries and I think I will have some later today.

Have a sparked day.

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