Down another pound! Whew! I thought I was going to gain this week because I was up in the middle of the week. I am sore and tired today. Last night's biggest looser was killer! We ran a mile in the heat, lifted weights (really heavy weights), and did some core work.
This is the second time I've dropped weight and really worked hard doing so. There isn't one single easy solution. On Extreme Makeover: Weightloss Edition, one contestant said something like "I can never find a way to loose the weight." Like she was looking for the one magic solution that will instantly and easily take the weight off for her. I literally yelled at the screen "eat right and exercise!".
I think most people have the determination and want. What people don't have is the selfishness to do so. Yes, you need to be selfish. "No, we can't go out to eat." I'm going to exercise 5 days a week....the family will figure something out.
In order to get my five workouts a week, I look at the calendar every week and "marker in" (not "pencil in"). If something comes up (which it rarely does, because within one week I can be pretty accurate), I re-arrange and still get my workouts in. Many times I have to talk it through with my husband to get it right. I think women tend to put everyone else first, but I honestly think that their husbands/partners and children are more than happy to help her get what she needs. She just needs to verbalize her needs... partners and children are not mind readers. Communication! Both my husband I can get what we want/need when we communicate.
I have actually had to tell friends "no" to getting together or going out (sorry ladies), because I need to do this. Guess what....they understand and are completely fine with it! It takes some selfishness - or at least what we feel is selfishness - to get what you need.
If anyone feels like they need to make a similar change, just do it. Communicate with your partner, friends, and family to set up the schedule, and for goodness sake don't give up. There's not point in going through the pain if you're only going to quit anyway. I had one friend tell me that she stopped running because her legs hurt. Well, duh! It's going to hurt. I remember for an entire week I could barely walk down the steps. I may run 5 miles now, but the 2 weeks leading up to that were pure torture. The only way to make the pain stop is to work through it. Push yourself. Do stuff you've never thought you could do. I started 10 weeks ago, I couldn't run for 7 minutes straight at 5 mph. I now can do 3 miles at 6 mph. When I do intervals, I can run beyond 8 mph. You don't know what you can do until you try, and then you can push yourself beyond that.
Enough of that. How about eating? You can either count calories or do a program like Weight Watchers or NutriSystem. Whatever you do track your food. There are times when I could have eaten too much, and times that I could have eaten too little. Here's an example....if you're counting calories and need to eat 1500, eat them in five meals. So eat five 300 calorie meals. Through Weight Watchers I have breakfast, morning snack (usually a protein bar), lunch, afternoon snack (usually almonds, fruit and milk), and dinner. No food after 7:00pm. Tracking food is a PITA (pain in the a$$), I know. But it's one of those "commit" things.
I wish everyone a healthy happy July, and hope that everyone is getting whatever it is THEY want.
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