I have been soooooo sick this past week. It feels to me like I have really just been sick this year!!!! I remember extreme highs and then lows when it comes to my immune system. Times when I felt so fit, so strong and then times like this last week when my body is just so weak. I hope and pray that a balance will come to me. A happy medium of strong immunity and vitality, fitness and health!
Some good news: I am finally past 68 and one teeny tiny step down to 67.4 kg!!!!
It truly feels like a victory after sitting at 68.whatever .whatever .whatever for the last 4 weeks.
I’m hoping to resume exercising this week. Maybe just 30 minutes yoga every second day – have to start somewhere. I am still on anti-biotics for the next 5 days after a nasty bacterial infection. So, will have to see how it goes. Anti-biotics in general really makes me feel even more sick.
I just know that if I can get into an exercise routine again and build my fitness up again that I will definitely be able to go into my second stretch of quest for health, fitness and weight loss that will hopefully come with it.
Again, just to reiterate, I am not on a diet and won’t be going on one. I don’t believe that starving the body is the right option. But instead I believe that eating healthy sustainable foods loaded with protein and essential vitamins and minerals along with the right amount of exercise is really the solution to weigh problems. Always ask yourself, how did I get here in the first place. Reflect back on your past and see and feel how you got to where you are emotionally and physically. Once you understand this, you can focus on the road ahead and be strong, because you know exactly what it is that you need to fix. Whether they are serious emotional behaviours causing you to overeat or simply bad habits that you’ve been too lazy to address. Face it head on, because your true strength in the road ahead lies therein!
It was weigh-in time this morning. Weigh-in is important as it gives you an indication of the bigger picture, where you’ve been where you are and where you’re going!
I must be honest though, for the past month I have been sitting at 68 kg!
This concerns me and there is obviously a part of me that feels like I’m failing and that I’m just never going to get there. I think it’s a normal thing to feel a little bit like that. Then there’s the realist part of me which is saying that I have just not exercised enough, with work commitments, social functions and balancing life in general, I have honestly not been exercising as much as I did when I started out on this quest.
I’m realising that I need to up my game back to what it was, I must find a way to make more time so that I have time to exercise every day. I am still very committed to my Yoga classes, but that is just 30 minutes and 30 minutes + - 3 times a day is just not enough for someone that needs to lose a bit of weight, if I was just maintaining my weight, it seems I could get by on that, but I have officially another 9kg to go!!!!
So, I’ve had a look to see what the world out there says about how to keep weight loss resolutions. I know where I am failing on my part, but maybe I’m missing something:
Each New Year's day thousands of people make weight loss resolutions. This is amongst the top resolutions made each new year and 2011 has been no different. The New Year's Eve parties are over, the holiday shopping and eating are done and you've decided it's time to shed a few kilo’s and created a resolution.
The first week you were right on track, eating healthy foods, drinking your water and you even dusted off the treadmill. The second week went well also but you skipped a day of exercising - no big deal. The third week you were starting to grab a potato chip or maybe you were craving some french fries or chocolate. Now your into the fourth week and you are losing all motivation, have forgotten about your resolution or you just don't think you are losing weight fast enough.
If this sounds familiar, don't panic. This is a common phenomenon that happens to many people. But just because this happens to many people, don't give up hope on your weight loss resolution. Tips from to experts to keep you on track and help you reach your goal to lose weight.
Tip 1: Break your bigger weight loss goal into smaller goals. This way you can see progress as you go and keep your motivation to reaching your resolution. These goals can be in terms of losing pounds or inches, dress sizes or even habits changed.
Tip 2: Write it down and post it anywhere and everywhere. Perhaps when you made your New Year's resolution you wrote them down. Nows the time to write it down again in big bold letters that you will see each day. Repetition is the key to helping keep your resolve going. Read these notes each and every day to remind yourself of your resolution to lose weight
Tip 3: Reward yourself along the way. Remember you don’t have to reach your weight loss goals overnight. So as you lose a few pounds or inches, or even if you had a successful week eating healthy and exercising, give yourself a pat on the back and buy something new. STAY AWAY from rewarding yourself with food. You don’t want to get in the habit of treating yourself with the wrong foods as this may lead to unwanted pounds or slowing down your goal.
Tip 4: Track how you are doing. In addition to re-writing your weight loss goal, tracking your progress is another way to stay constantly reminded of your resolution. So grab a pen and paper and track your progress weekly. Your tracking tool doesn’t have to be anything fancy, but if you want something more electronic, use this weight loss tracking chart.
Tip 5: Try again and again and again. Like the old saying goes, if at first you don't succeed......try again! Don't beat yourself up if you stopped your diet or exercise routine. Just make a new resolution and start again. January 1st is not the only day to make goals and resolution. So if it's May and you want to get back on track, start over again - make your resolution - and start losing weight.
Tip 6: Don't let guilt get in the way. If you are starting to have major cravings or you slipped and ate something you shouldn't have, don't let your guilt stop you from reaching your resolution. Just chalk it up to a bad day and get right back on track
REMEMBER you are making a lifestyle change and experts say that it takes about 21 days for a new change to become a habit and 6 months for it to become part of your personality. Your healthy eating and exercising are now becoming a habit. Keep it up and in a short time it will be part of your lifestyle and personality.
Sometimes life happens and everything is just so hectic.
One thing to remember is to not let yourself go! To not stop focussing on eating healthy and exercising moderately when possible inbetween.
So I just haven't had time to post, but have been doing all the right stuff inbetween work and social life. So just for my own records I'm posting my Weigh-in chart.
I was a bit disappointed last week when I didn't lose more than .2 kg! Shocker for me and then this week as well, I lost but not that much! After pondering over this some what I realised that it is such a good thing after all. I am still losing, I am not exercising as much as I should, so I can’t expect miracles and I won’t be having any stretch marks, how awesome is that.
