Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 179.2-pounds.
It's Better Than Last Year.
OK... This is better than last years 181.2 pounds.
I am scratching my head. I went back over my food logs for the past week and did some calculating for calories that I consumed.
The reason I am scratching my head is, I can't figure out why I don't weigh more than I do now.
During Christmas, and some of the days following it, I blew way past my daily allotment of 1,500 calories. Most of those calories was because I went overboard with the Christmas treats. I Had more than one serving of pie, ice cream, cookies, and chocolate candy. Oink...
Phew, I really should be more than the 180-pound target. I am not.
I am grateful for that.
Hmmm, why then am I not heavier? It goes back to the patterns of food consumption that I have adapted up until now.
On most days, I eat around the 1,500 calories.
On most days, I eat more green foods, and small chunks of meat proteins (around 3-4 ounces), with protein powder.
On most days, I don't entitle myself to a dessert.
On most days, if I have to have something sweet, I will eat fruit of some kind.
On all the days, I record what I eat.
On all the days, I make a running tally of the calories I consume. Most of these calorie counts are best guess estimates for what it is that I am consuming, since I am not able to measure everything.
On most days, I try to quit eating anything well before I have to go to bed. (Around 5 hours or more.)
On most days, I quit eating when I am at the 1,500 calories. I quit even if it's around the middle of the day. Then I tough it out with the hunger pains.
There's more to what I do. You do get the idea, I hope. I have built certain patterns that I follow.
Don't be naive, and believe that I follow every detail perfectly. I don't. Sometimes I forget to do something, then I have to back track. Some times, I can't wait out the hunger, then I eat something.
I am just like you. I fight the daily rituals and patterns. Yet, I've done just enough to get me this far. I've done just enough that I am able to at the very least maintain.
I am not striving to lose massive amounts of weight rapidly. I am not striving to develop a lifestyle that is difficult to maintain. If my weight losing program were too complicated then the day would come when I finally abandoned it.
Although I have explained to many people what I do, and had complaints it's too complicated.
Go figure...
What Would Make It Easier For You?
This is my last post for the year of 2008. I am hoping to go to visit someone up in Wisconsin, my cousin, doesn't have a computer.
As I am completing this, I am thinking, "Does anyone read this that struggles?" Is there someone, who is over weight, and tossed in the towel?"
What can I share? I believe you're going to have to be honest with yourself. I mean it. I was honest with myself. I knew I was in trouble with my weight. I didn't say like some people that this was OK. I wanted a solution for this mass of weight that was clinging to me.
Honestly, I had given up hope. Yet, again I wasn't in denial. You can't be either. If you are weighing yourself, you have to be honest about it. Is this the weight you should be at?
It might provoke an emotional response in you as well. You might become a little bit distressed. I sure did. I really became distressed when I was trying to button some pants that I was given the year before. I had to suck in my stomach real tight. Then I had to look at the bulge of fat hanging over the belt. It wasn't pretty.
I had to look at a weight that was at least 70-pounds over what was normal. I didn't look good, and I didn't feel good.
I had no choice but to face the ugly truth. What is the truth for you? Do you even care?
Let's just say, you have no answers. Let's just say, you know in your heart-of-hearts you couldn't do half what I did and maintain those habits.
If it's any comfort to you, I built these habits one step at a time. I wasn't weighing myself everyday initially. I wasn't writing everything down initially.
I did take a big leap. I literally started eating "Lean Cuisines" that were only about 250 to 300 calories a meal. I got results from that.
I progressed from that point. The same might be true for you. There is an old saying, "Rome wasn't built in a day."
Something great may not necessarily appear without great effort.
Those habits and efforts have to be worked into. Right now I am trying to learn the guitar. I have this fantasy that when I am 80 years old I will be up on the stage with 80 year old woman down below rocking-and-rolling then pulling their bras off to throw them on the stage. Argh...
It's not easy for me to play the guitar. I have no prior understanding of musical theory. I have no prior experience playing anything musical. It's been a real challenge for me.
I am much better than I was two years ago. Yet, I am no where near the expertise of a more experienced player. My playing has been more hit and miss too.
My point is this; I have to learn the guitar one step at a time. The same goes for anything we attempt. It's learning to do it one step at a time.
This year is almost over. Many people will be putting together those New Years Resolutions. The news networks will have their bubble headed blonds smiling and announcing this person here has their New Years Resolutions. Do you have your New Years Resolutions?
Of course everyone seems to think 2009 will be a new beginning. Yeah this the year things will be different.
Oh nonsense, I used to be into that New Years Resolution stuff. It's hype. Most people never stick to their resolutions. Most people never stick to their weight loss programs.
Why? Because it's a lot easier to write those resolutions on paper, and talk about them, than it is to implement them.
Most people start out trying to do too much, too soon. Don't be so gullible to believe that you can make a jump start with your exercise, and diet then stick to it forever. Most people make their programs much, much too complicated.
My program is real simple: Cut down the food portions. Eat, but eat less than you used to eat.
Keep in mind you are going to stumble. I have, everyone does. The trick is; you have to get back at it.
Don't strive for perfection with your weight loss. Don't strive for perfection with your exercise program. They both have to be programs that you can maintain.
Remember, a little bit more everyday, goes a long way towards the end results. This was true for me.
Number counter when I completed this post: 8443
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
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