This blog is my accountability to myself for the choices I make daily. Today I started off on the wrong foot so to say. I got up out of bed. I over slept by about a half hour. Thanks to my dogs not wanting to get up either. Well I did my usuall morning chores within about a 1/2 hours. Got the fires going (as I heat my house by wood and that is it) it was cold in the house. I put the coffee on and fed the dogs. Than poured myself a large cup of coffee with one tsp of splenda in it. Than instead of heating up just one oatmeal blueberry muffin (home made) I heated up 2 with some becel on them. I felt defeated already. Now I put it in my day to chat with my mom everyday. This came as I sat down in the front room with my coffee and muffins. I stayed on the phone with her for about an hour. After hanging up from her I instantly dialed my girlfriend who is going thru a divorce; and chatted with her for about another hour and a half. This brought me to noon. I have yet to get out of the chair so feeling lazy now and not defeated I had to make a decision. As I went to the fridge to see what I could make for lunch I saw some left over salad so I made a good choice and ate it for lunch. I also boiled up 3 sausages and ate them plain with a some dijon mustard to dip. At this point because I recognized my good choice I chose again to do my 20 minute Jillian Micheals workout video. I felt good about it but am sitting again blogging. I plan to get up and do 15 minutes on the elipitcal about 5pm. This should help my activity level. I have been doing well with choices for supper. I am using a cookbook that is diabetic focused and I am now menu planning which is good for eating habits. The food I make for supper looks great, tastes great and is healthy for me.
So my journey back to healthy has started with a single footstep. This is menu planning from a cook book which has healthy recipes.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Today is really the first day of the rest of my life. I am now ready for a healthy life. It took about 20 years to get to this point in my life and I am hoping it will take only 20 monthes to get back to being healthy. I know that I will never be able to turn back the clock to my younger days but I sure can take my 20/20 hindsight to look ahead to a better life.
I am so sick of all the diet and nutritional information that contradicts each other. Dieting I feel means I have to deny myself foods. Nutritional information means I will feel guilty about denying myself some of these foods. Nothing is the same or consistent. I have learned that consistencey is the key to most things in life for success at anything. If you are consistently going to work and consistently working at your best, your job will be a success. If you are consistent with your children you will have successfully raised your children to be good in society. It is with consistency that I reach for the bag of chips or sweets to enjoy the flavour they bring to me, the pleasure. It will be with consistency that I will blog everyday to take responsiblity of my actions and than hopefully feel better about making the right actions.
I need to be accountable for my actions and in so doing this I will blog about my actions.
Diets don't work. Exercise alone does not work. Accountablity works. Having to be honest with yourself is one of the hardest things to do. I find I will make excuses for myself. I am not like anorexics because instead of seeing myself as fat or overweight I see myself as having curves and not looking TOO bad. I still don't look healthy. Worse than that I have a hard time moving. My knees hurt, my hands hurt, and my cardio abililty sucks.
I will be mentioning different products that I will be using but by no means am I endorsing these products. It is only telling my story with what I am using and what works for me and not necessarily for you.
I am so sick of all the diet and nutritional information that contradicts each other. Dieting I feel means I have to deny myself foods. Nutritional information means I will feel guilty about denying myself some of these foods. Nothing is the same or consistent. I have learned that consistencey is the key to most things in life for success at anything. If you are consistently going to work and consistently working at your best, your job will be a success. If you are consistent with your children you will have successfully raised your children to be good in society. It is with consistency that I reach for the bag of chips or sweets to enjoy the flavour they bring to me, the pleasure. It will be with consistency that I will blog everyday to take responsiblity of my actions and than hopefully feel better about making the right actions.
I need to be accountable for my actions and in so doing this I will blog about my actions.
Diets don't work. Exercise alone does not work. Accountablity works. Having to be honest with yourself is one of the hardest things to do. I find I will make excuses for myself. I am not like anorexics because instead of seeing myself as fat or overweight I see myself as having curves and not looking TOO bad. I still don't look healthy. Worse than that I have a hard time moving. My knees hurt, my hands hurt, and my cardio abililty sucks.
I will be mentioning different products that I will be using but by no means am I endorsing these products. It is only telling my story with what I am using and what works for me and not necessarily for you.
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