Well today is September 9, 2015 and this is the start of my blog that I am going to do each day. That's right EVERY SINGLE DAY I will post a blog post about what I am doing and how I am doing in my journey through weight loss. Not a topic that most talk about really, but something that is hitting home for me. I find myself getting tired all the time, and just feeling not right. I have had my cholesterol checked, blood pressure, sodium, thyroid, and even an EKG to check my heart and breathing tests. Everything is coming back normal and the way it should be. So that only leaves the fact that I am about 60-70 pounds OVER WEIGHT.
*drops head with long sigh* I had always been about 125-135 when I was in high school. No matter what I ate or what I did. It didn't matter I was never over that. Well then I found out on May 5, 2004 that I was 8 weeks pregnant. My son was born on December 31, 2004. He was a 42 week baby, and I didn't get to have him naturally. My bones did not give enough and my body just wouldn't do what it needed to do so that I could have him the natural way. I had to have a C-Section at 5:50 in the morning with him on the last day of the year.
While that is by far the absolute BEST day of my life. But that was also the start of my problems with weight loss and weight gain. I was 125 pounds on the day that I found out that I was eight weeks pregnant. I was 230 pounds the day that I gave birth to my nearly nine pound son. And only just in the last few months have I gotten down from that. I was all elated at one point that I was actually 198 pounds. I was under 200, which I had never been since the birth of my boy. I was happy as a lark as they say. But then I checked my weight yesterday and I am back up to 210. Not the 230 that I was when he was born. But it still depressed me that I was back over 200 after all. That hit me really hard.
I have been doing LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of research online about different things that I can do to help me start to lose it again, and keep losing it but at a healthy rate.
Not to sound like I am being rude, but those that would want to comment on this, before you do, you need to get this. And I know it is in all caps but I just want my point across. I WILL NOT EVER BE TAKING ANY KIND OF A DIET PILL TO HELP ME LOSE WEIGHT AT ALL IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM.
I know that it isn't the case for some. But I just feel that if you use a pill that makes you not want to eat ONLY when you are taking it, if you don't make that lifestyle change to do so then you aren't going to keep it off. Garcinia Gambogia for example. Some say it works. Some say it doesn't. To be honest the one time that I tried that I was constipated a lot. Didn't like that much at all. But if you have to take a pill to lose weight in the first place, my way of thinking is that if you don't make the changes to your life and how you think then when you stop taking that pill. You will end up gaining it all back because you aren't changing what and how you eat. If you don't do that there is no way that you can ever hope to lose weight and then keep it off when you stop taking the pill that you helped you lose it. None. So I am DETERMINED to do it the right way and change my lifestyle and how I eat to keep the weight off and maintain a healthy weight and keep it there.
I will be eating of course WAY more protein and veggies than anything. I guess it is a good thing that I like most veggies that are out there. There are a few I don't like, but that can be worked around and who knows. With the way and style of cooking I want to adopt, maybe I will be able to work those I don't like into my diet. Ya never know.
Okay. Here are the steps that I have been taking recently on how to really get a mind set on the changes that I am going to have to make in my daily routine and my life as a whole to not only lose weight but just be healthy.
1. Know my numbers at start and know my numbers when I reach my goal. This is important for a few reasons I think. I don't really put much stock in my BMI number though. That says that my healthy weight should be between 110 and 115 pounds. If I get bellow 125 I look sick and anorexic. That isn't good. But for the 130 that I want to reach it says I am obese. I know I am not but it says I am so I just don't put much stock in that. But now your recommended intake to lose, maintain or gain weight I do follow. Especially with activity levels. What most don't get and I have gotten is that if you don't eat enough calories in a day to get the energy you need to keep up with the level of activity that you want to have. It won't happen at all. You can't eat say 1500 calories a day and the go out and do a 3 hour work out. You are going to do more harm to your body than good that way. I also watch my heart rate while at rest and when I am doing things. I don't want to over do it, but I don't want to do too little either.
2. As much as people say it is a pain, and it can be, counting counting counting COUNTING everything. Whether it is from the amount of sugar per serving and the serving sizes to the calories or cholesterol. It doesn't matter what it is you kinda gotta know what the numbers are of the stuff you eat and keep track of it to a point. But that goes in with the life changes. If you drink 5 glasses of Mt Dew (using this cause it is in front of me. One thing I will never give up on totally) out of a 2 liter bottle, you are drinking 850 calories right there. Then add in a 750 calorie dinner, along with the 300 calorie lunch and say 500 calories of snacking. If 5 glasses of Mt Dew is 850, that is not so far fetched ya know. So that would be a grand total of: 2400 Calories that you ate. And that is not counting the sugar, or starch or anything else that is in the foods that would turn straight to fats the second you eat them. If your goal to lose weight is 2000, and you only lost 250 calories for that day. You are 150 calories over. You won't lose weight, but over time you would still gain weight becasue you are not at your goal. But but but but but but but but but BUT there is a way and I will talk about that in a different blog that you can continue to eat and eat and eat and eat as much as 3000 in a day, and still maintain your goal of 2000.
3. Eating foods from other countries. If you really look into it and you do the work that it takes, there are lots of 'super foods' that are in different countries that are really good, and they can help you lose weight. Like Konnyaku. There are lots of videos on youtube and other information you can get about it online. And it comes in many different ways. But it is a jelly like food that can be cooked in a noddle formed, seasoned with the rest of the stuff you make and helps keep you full, full of fiber which you need and no calories or anything. It is actually really awesome and you can't tell that they are jelly like before they are cooked when you make them. I have tried them in with the tofu for miso soup and they are wonderful. And Miso is actually good for you too. A lot of the Japanese foods, the traditional, not over processed foods are really good for you. Because aside from the sumo wrestlers, not many Japanese people are really that big, unless they eat all the unhealthy stuff that you can get at any restaurant there just like here.
4. Portion sizes. Smaller meals, more often has been clinically proven to help someone lose weight no matter the country. Couple that with something that is extra good for you that makes you feel full without feeling like you committed some huge crime. Perfect right.
5. Commitment. You have to commit yourself to not only doing these things or it will never work. You can't stop what you are doing now for three days, lose a few pounds and think 'Oh I can treat myself to some chocolate' and then you eat like 10 pieces and go a few days with no moving around. Yeah that weight is gonna come right back. No doubt about it. If you are going to do this, and you are committed to doing this like I am right now. You will be able to do it and thrive I am sure of it. This is to help you out with a few things that I learn over the course of this. As well as things I know now and anything that helps me or doesn't help me.
Tomorrow I will do a series of blogs that will highlight where I am now, where I want to go, and a few things that I want to get to help me out. Like a Fitbit watch that will keep track of not only my heart rate but calories burned for the different thing that I am going to be doing. :D
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