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flylady
This post is a continuation of my month-long commitment to healthy movement.
I've done really well today. I started by weighing and taking my measurements. I'm going to bite the bullet and actually share my 'before' measurements, I think, in a friends-locked post infitfriends. I'll mostly be posting my health goals there, but I may start posting my “Ta da” lists here on my own blog.
Thanks to
satoribee, I've signed up at the Calorie Count website. I've monitored fat before, but I've always just kind of ignored calories. Well I started poking around that site, and I decided to log my info and see what it suggested. I'm not sure if my scale is 100% right, but today I also (re)started logging my food and exercise. Calorie Count keeps track of how much I'm taking in and burning, which I find really helpful. And logging food and seeing how healthy it is has already made me more accountable today.
I was pretty sad to see that they calculated my BMI at 30.5. Apparently someone my height, frame, and age should have a BMI between 20-25. This makes me “moderately overweight”. Well, that's better than the last time I figured my BMI, which I distinctly remembered used the word “obese”.
Also, my morning coffee apparently gives me about 160 calories. I finally did twenty minutes of real exercising, and I found out it only burned 101 calories. At least I've learned that I usually burn 1900 per day just by existing.
I also was classified as an 'Excessive Eater', which was no surprise. Food is a big emotional crutch for me. I need to figure out a way to work through that if a healthy lifestyle is ever going to become a reality. I can't just get sad and say “Screw it all, I can eat a few donuts if I feel like it.”
Today, on Day 1 of Moving in May, I did:
10 minutes stretching/warm up
12 push ups
12 crunches
12 leg lifts
12 squats
24 jumping jacks
5 minutes walking/stretching cool down
I was going to take a walk later too, but Lyz has invited us over to see her house. I've done well with my intake today, so I think that's a good start for exercising. We're going to grill out tomorrow, so I may have to do a bit more exercise tomorrow to offset my indulgence. Still, I felt pretty good after my work out, and I stayed active for another 30 or 45 minutes of house blessing.
Edit: Ironically enough, Josh just got home with donuts. Funny, Universe.
flyladyThis post is a continuation of my month-long commitment to healthy movement.
I've done really well today. I started by weighing and taking my measurements. I'm going to bite the bullet and actually share my 'before' measurements, I think, in a friends-locked post in
fitfriends. I'll mostly be posting my health goals there, but I may start posting my “Ta da” lists here on my own blog.Thanks to
satoribee, I've signed up at the Calorie Count website. I've monitored fat before, but I've always just kind of ignored calories. Well I started poking around that site, and I decided to log my info and see what it suggested. I'm not sure if my scale is 100% right, but today I also (re)started logging my food and exercise. Calorie Count keeps track of how much I'm taking in and burning, which I find really helpful. And logging food and seeing how healthy it is has already made me more accountable today.I was pretty sad to see that they calculated my BMI at 30.5. Apparently someone my height, frame, and age should have a BMI between 20-25. This makes me “moderately overweight”. Well, that's better than the last time I figured my BMI, which I distinctly remembered used the word “obese”.
Also, my morning coffee apparently gives me about 160 calories. I finally did twenty minutes of real exercising, and I found out it only burned 101 calories. At least I've learned that I usually burn 1900 per day just by existing.
I also was classified as an 'Excessive Eater', which was no surprise. Food is a big emotional crutch for me. I need to figure out a way to work through that if a healthy lifestyle is ever going to become a reality. I can't just get sad and say “Screw it all, I can eat a few donuts if I feel like it.”
Today, on Day 1 of Moving in May, I did:
10 minutes stretching/warm up
12 push ups
12 crunches
12 leg lifts
12 squats
24 jumping jacks
5 minutes walking/stretching cool down
I was going to take a walk later too, but Lyz has invited us over to see her house. I've done well with my intake today, so I think that's a good start for exercising. We're going to grill out tomorrow, so I may have to do a bit more exercise tomorrow to offset my indulgence. Still, I felt pretty good after my work out, and I stayed active for another 30 or 45 minutes of house blessing.
Edit: Ironically enough, Josh just got home with donuts. Funny, Universe.
- Current Mood:
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It insists that I'm severely obese, which is kind of hilarious since I'm sure my diet is actually much healthier than most people who are "normal weight". I just don't believe in weight as a good indicator of health. Fat people can be perfectly healthy. Thin people can be terribly unhealthy. I eat an amazingly healthy diet, and nobody who looked at me would ever think I was severely obese. A little pudgy maybe. But seriously, one year I tried to gain weight on purpose so I'd stay warm through the winter, so I started eating twice as much. But I'm a strict vegan. Eating twice as many vegetables caused me to LOSE weight. But, emotional eater that I am, eating tasty vegetables all the time meant I didn't get so depressed that winter, and so I learned that eating foods I like when I'm sad is a GOOD IDEA! :D
Regardless, I could definitely stand to exercise more, and I wouldn't be upset if a few pounds came off as a result.
I've started trying to think of creative ways to work 15 minutes of movement into my day. What ideas have you come up with?
At least when you 'pig out', you're eating healthy foods! When I do emotional eating, it's almost always Little Debbies if I have a sweet tooth or chips if I'm craving salty. One or both every day. I'm trying to replace those with better choices. I used to love popcorn, but my teeth don't allow it much anymore. I do love veggies with hummus or dip though!
As far as my ideas for movement, basically I plan to alternate days (depending on the weather, most likely) of work-outs like I did today (stretching/push ups/crunches/etc.) with the Couch to 5k plan. I'm also trying to bring back dancing time with the kids, and I plan to get back to my gardening. The garden work really perked me up, even if I wasn't feeling it when I started.
A lot of my process with food has been discovering that some foods make me feel good, and some foods make me feel gross. Sweets typically make me feel gross. Veggies make me feel great. If I'm craving salty, I'm more likely to pig out on Tofurky than chips because the Tofurky will give me energy whereas the chips will deplete it. One thing that's been really good for me about basing my diet on ethical rather than health principles, and then letting my body tell ME what's healthy for it, is that I've now got a diet primarily based on what my body needs instead of what a book or a doctor thinks a body should need, and I've gotten very good at listening to my body.
I grew up in a severely eating-disordered home, so a lot of my comforts and discomforts about eating are based on foods that were "safe" when I was little and foods that I've "reclaimed" because I wasn't allowed to eat them. I'm sure my disinclination toward sweets has a lot to do with the fact that they were ALWAYS used as bribes/threats, so it was a great advantage to me as a kid to not be interested in them. Vegetables, however, were ALWAYS safe foods...nobody ever harassed me for eating vegetables, I could eat them all I wanted and nobody ever bothered me about that. :)
I'm definitely going to have to think and meditate on this more. Thanks so much!
that's a good tool!
good luck
I need to lose 15lbs.
I still have to figure out what I am going to do to "move" more.
GOOD WORK --- keep it up.
I, however, am drinking a beer right now. ;)
Scott and I face a similar problem in that both of our jobs involve sitting at a computer all day which has that odd affect of making you exhausted without giving you any exercise in the slightest. I'm not gaining any weight, I don't think, but Scott is. We went dancing last night and trying to salsa and swing for any length of time was just . . . erg. Not good. My butt has become flabby and useless. Scott also doesn't have any rhythm, but that's another problem.
I've begun doing yoga in the middle of the museum when it's empty the last few weeks, just like you'd expect a crazy person to do. I wish the floor was less slick but what can you do. It's only slightly-more crazy than singing along to your mp3player when there's no one in the building.
I will run behind you and poke you with a pointy stick if you wish. I could use the stress-release anyway. ;)
Best Wishes on a Healthier You!! You are worth the effort!