POE Fittness Challenge

The year I lost the 90 pounds, I had an weight watchers diet instructor that was much like myself, she was short and tiny, and listening to how she over came her problems, seemed to resonate with many problems I'd had through the years also. She never babied, was never competitive, never "pushed" you, or forgot to answer an question. We didn't back in those days give out "stars", and sample diet bars by picking an number in the class, or had "rewards" of any kind, but the losing of weight. If someone didnt' lose that week we went over with them..why.. and how they could of changed their week, She was the first one to tell me to never "compete" with another person, our bodies are as individual as we are. Back in those days I lost my weight eating most everything they tell you these days to stay away from...such as... we were required to eat "liver" once an week. Fish five times a week. No one was pampered, no one was treated aggressively...like they had to pass some test. I found out it was "normal" to once in an while not lose, and how to deal with and lot of situations that come up daily. You know I've had amoung my many diets been told three times that my family "sabatoges" my weight loss efforts by the very things they do...esp my husband. In some ways my primary doctor is that way now...to some extent sent me out the door to fail. Here are some things I would suggest for you people to be aware of dieting...from my personal expereinces...tread mills..if your exceedingly heavy,  go slow on them, in fact, I'd leave them out, I literally pounded my heel bones into the ground with the one I was on, just from the weight coming down on my heels, my feet still bother me...go to bikes first, esp the lateral ones. Dancing is one of the most fun and desirable excerises for people out there...don' t do it until your ready to drop though.  Question rather the huge amounts of water are the best for you, it caused me to wash out the potassium in my body..and that causes severe leg cramping,  I beleive it's honestly true to stick to tuna or chicken and only eat beef once an week for one meal, preferably dinner steak....if your an "Sweets" person learn to get it from sauteed onions and steamed carrots and pineapple chunks. When your regiume seems like its strenous to you...your going to most likely gain back the weight there after. Out of sheer "exahustion" you'll drop the diet. Some of the longest lived people I know, simply took an leasurely walk daily...if even that, but they always walked ussually during the week an couple of times. My latest weight watchers leader, as I was getting ready to leave the place, as I'm gaining now on thier diet for the calories allowed... left me with this parting message....when you get to age 50 and over, think of the big meal you had as an younger person...salad with an roll, meat/potato and veggies, and an drink of wine maybe,,,and one dessert. Well, due to your age, that's about what you can eat all day long now, make the dessert fruit and have your morning toast (roll) with it, eat your salad for lunch (low cal dressing) with the wine and keep your main dinner meal as ussual, stick to more chicken...you can maintain your weight probably on that alone if you don't excerise much..take your vitamins/minerals daily. I guess she understood that I am short..short people can not begin to keep up with taller and bigger people. I find I always lose if I "journal"..until I get off the journaling for some reason (stress or losing my daily regiuem) and toss the whole works aside for some reason or another. My previous weight watcher leaders spent more time getting us back on "diet"....then any other counseling she did weekly. There is an temendous amount of forgive and "get back on" with dieting ..if your an normal dieter. I feel like at times I can help others easier then I can help myself. When your like me now "the diet" never goes away..its the way you live, and its hard to live up to it also. My other family members are thin, and they break every rule, I have no idea how they are getting away with it..maybe the pay back comes later on in life...but again, thier sheer size helps them in ways also. I think after I had my son and never lost the weight I should of done something about it back then "medically", as most people lose after birthing, and like on birth control pills...which I had to stop taking also for another medthod of birth control,  I gained another 50 pounds afterwards. Had I found the problem then..I would not of had the problems now. That makes 100  pounds I gained from dealing with issues around or involving "sex" and hormone changes. Yet I have to find an doctor that would believe this is an health issue over just simply over-eating to much food, which in part it is also. If I could lose 100 pounds now, I'd be about where I need to be for old age. My one counselor told me one time to get an divorce...and have an "life" for an change. I beleive that she feels others dump-load all thier crap off on me to resolve. But anyway, I am the one sticks things in my mouth, even if some of it don't metabolise very well....so I knwo I'll pay for that and always have. Good luck to you.     

That's because she was never an "cow" to begin with maybe?...just an overweight person. but talking of cows, those ads for the California cows are just plain "cute"...our whole city did an art exhibit one year downtown on "cows" and then took them to the Childrens' hospital and actioned them off as an fund raiser. They were life sized cows at that, made out of paper mache' and painted.as to the "Ads" I think I like the one where the cows are out in the field and there's an earthquake beginning, and she's saying..OH..hold on!..Oh yea!...like she's getting an "foot message"..and the quake ends, and she says, "never last long very long you know"....all those cow ads were made very cleverly. They always end with saying "California Cows" 

Good luck on your nordic trainer, if you ever get tired of him. most ALL my neighbors are out there pounding pavement every morning. We got the local High School track team comes through, an woman pushes an double bike carriage with wee babies, and about four little kids on bikes, four or five others come with their dogs down the street, three teenagers, my neighbor across the street with her hubby, my other neighbor up in years walks slowly but she's out for her daily walk, been doing it the entire 30 some years we've lived here,  I use to join them for about an mile walk an day... and hope my feet get enough strength back in them I can do it again...I need it. My high school PE teacher just lives down the street from us, she's also into the city genealogy/Histprical library. Plus I have an grade school about one block away from me also. It is an 1/4 mile walk to catch an bus here, so we need to stay in shape. I feel that alone is important.

I'm up looking at POE pictures tonight while everyone sleeps, I worked so hard today...my freezer went out apparently last night, much of the food was cold but thawed out, today was July 4th..Holiday you know. My feet were so swelled and I was in such pain earlier tonight, my eyes were "tearing" laying down. I wasn't crying myself, but my body was I think. Sure enough, in the middle of the fireworks, here's comes the Reverand with his family, asks me how I'm doing, he knows I don't lie to him, I told him I was "working" at it tonight, but I was giving out quickly,.... he grabbed my hand and I felt the strength of Gilbraltar coming through him to me. He has been an amazing man ever since I first met him. He is an neighbor also. We went to the same High School, he's an couple of years younger. I got to meet his lovely wife and kids tonight...he told me all about them here an while back. In the meantime, I'm cooking the food that is thawed out to refreeze it. I have five loaves of bread dough unthawed making "Fry Bread" with Marion Berry jam...so it was good for an change to see the whole gang here earlier...to help eat it. As I told Nate tonight, I am so overwhelmed at times, I can't afford to throw the food out the door, so I cook it, and yet I can't eat it either with my diet. so he grabbed another 1/4 leg of BBQ chicken, with baked beans, says..but it tastes good to me!..I said..yea, that's the problem at times...we had up in the sky type fireworks going off behind my house tonight. It was like an first row seat. Not to mention the ones we were setting off, the one's the neighbors were setting off and two more people down the street with up in the air type also. I bought another freezer early this morning, and by tomarrow morning I should beable to transfer everything we have in packed in coolers with ice over it...as I keep cooking. Two hours of laying down was like heaven tonight. I can still barely walk, but the foot tissue isn't painful to the touch,  I hope (pray)the swelling goes down slowly. Craig, you do your best but don't push yourself to the xtreme. You would understand if you had the charley horses that I have, and they do make me "cry" now and then from locked-up muscles. It's not good to be an grandmother crying like that in front of her grandkids. Not good for anyone to be crying if it can be avoided. While the kids were picnicking with teh Baseball coach, I took much of July 4th decorations down, so I don't have that to do tomarrow,  thye all pitche din an helpe dme pick up the food, an dthe mess of the it all, with the fireworks. Brought my animals in, they are secodn on thlsit of whom I can't fake it with, Beel came over an laid her head on me and gently licked up around my my forehead and Baily was lickinf my knees, as if she thought it would make me feel better. So...I think I go for now and serenly look at some of the pictures here in POE and let the "peacefulness" of that consume me...in the quiet of the night.    

Well, I got some dieting help, on July 4th I woke up to my freezer having gone out, amid the people, (17 total). I had coolers sitting all over with food unthawing. This gem of an holiday cost me somewhere in the $800 range by the time I got an replacement freezer and food for it, threw out the other food, bought the holiday food and fireworks. $560 for an small small chest type freezer and food to fill it.It should be paid off some 10 years from now...maybe. I am not any longer but an month or so at the most ahead of myself in my pantry. I try to start winter being 6 months ahead, at least into the next growing season. I don't know if I can do it this time or not though.

I just found a new ice cream by Häagen-Dazs. It's called Five because it only has five ingredients, all natural. I bought the ginger flavour, and it is WONDERFUL!

Now you know why I'm not able to tell you I've lost no weight this week.