THIRTYTONORMAL

Sugar in the morning …

2011
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I’m still not back on track completely.  I do great and then I choose to eat a cookie, or two, or three.  And then I’m back to eating protein and vegetables and fruit.  And then I choose to eat another cookie.  (Yes, you would think the cookies would be gone after a couple of days of this, but they aren’t)  Then Mac brings home this HUGE (I mean Costco-size) bag of candy, most of which, fortunately I don’t like (Reese’s and Almond Joys and yucky stuff like that).  Unfortunately, there were also Milky Ways which are my favorite candy right now because I can’t get them in Canada.  So I decided we needed to set them aside.  There were only 8 mini ones in the whole gigantic bag of candy, so I felt pretty safe putting them aside.  Of course now they aren’t a problem because I’ve already eaten all of them.

Not a good plan, Siobhan, not a good plan at all.  :(

And thankfully there were only 8 because it limited my liability which I realize now I totally would not have been able to limit on my own.

I’ll be back on my regular routine tomorrow.  Unfortunately it’s only for a week as I head back down south the following week to close on both houses and get the new house ready to rent.   The plan for this (a much better one than the one above) is to have an excellent week (eat well and exercise daily basically) which can then carry me onto the following weeks.

I really have no choice … I can’t continue like this and think I’m not going to gain weight.  I’ve been lucky so far … exercising just barely enough and eating just well enough often enough that I’ve minimized the weight gain, but I know I’m pushing it and I need to stop.

Plus this sugar diet is giving me headaches and aches and pains not to mention a nasty sinus infection … I’d forgotten how awful I actually feel when I have refined sugar products too often.  That alone makes me long for some fresh vegetables and plain protein.

So no more sugar in the morning for me …

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I will walk 500 miles …

2011
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eventually.  :)   (I couldn’t embed the song, but here’s the URL.)

So for Mother’s Day I got a FitBit which has been lots of fun.  It measures your activity level as well as your steps (and calories burned).  And it’s gotten me moving because I always want to get those 10,000 steps a day.  So far (I got it Wednesday) it’s been a success … I’ve gotten over 10,000 steps a day and over 5 miles a day, as well as burning about 2500 calories a day.

I have come to several realizations.  If you only have 30 minutes to exercise, 30 Day Shred is a LOT better to do than walking for 30 minutes.  And walking 4 miles at the cabin (with those hills) burns twice the calories that walking 4 miles on flat land burns.

It also evaluates your sleep efficiency … despite getting woken up 8 to 9 times a night (by Mac’s snoring) I have a 95% sleep efficiency which I think is great.

And, best of all, it’s making me park farther away to try to get in those extra steps. And so far the extra exercise has not increased my appetite.

I’ve also been confronted with the fact that just walking (at least at the speed I walk) doesn’t burn a lot of calories, even if you walk for miles and miles.  So I’m trying to walk faster and it’s not easy for me … not sure why.  I listen to fast paced music, but my body just seems to like the stride it likes.  One more comfort zone I need to push myself beyond.

The only thing I don’t care for is their food entry … they seem to not have a lot of foods, so I’m entering in SparkPeople and then transferring the total over to the fitbit website (which is free).  Not sure how long I’ll enter food … we all know how much I dislike doing it … but for now I’d like to see what calories in versus calories burned in relation to the types of foods I eat means for me.

Now I just need to get my bike so I can add that in also.  :)

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socks

2011
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I wore two pair today and did MUCH better with the C25K.

The reason I’m sticking with it is that I really need something that pushes me cardiovascular-wise.  30 DS is great for strength and does also have cardiovascular exercise in it, but C25K is much harder for me.

Which is why I seldom get past week one … which is okay.  It’s so true that sticking with it means you do get better at it.  I found that out with 30 DS … when I started it I couldn’t do the 2 minutes of cardio at all and now it’s not a problem.

Plus my legs are sore which means I’m using muscles I haven’t used for a while.

So today was 30 DS along with walking 1.5 miles, then C25K for two miles.  I do want to keep up with 30 DS because I can definitely tell the difference in my arms.  (I walked the initial 1.5 miles because I was walking to a meeting, then went a different way home to get in the C25K.)

Still doing the intuitive eating, that is eating only when hungry and eating to nourish my body which means lean protein, fresh fruits and vegetables, occasionally a whole grain.  Still trying to monitor my serving sizes … I’m such a “if it’s on the plate and I’m only kind of full then I’ll eat it” person which means I need to put less on my plate than I think I’ll eat (because I can always eat more if I’m hungry).

Since I’ve been doing this, I’ve been thinking about how many times I allow outside forces to determine how much I eat.  Whether it is somebody else dishing up (eating at someone’s house or at a restaurant), or being told via some diet information how much is a serving.  Because seriously a serving for me isn’t always the same size depending on what else I’ve had to eat that day or if I’ve exercised or not, or whatever.  So how could there be a standard serving for EVERYBODY if there’s not even one for just me?  (and the same thing has to apply to calories also).  Because if I eat until I am pleasantly satisfied, then that’s my serving size, regardless.

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