What is that noise?
Yesterday as I was sitting at my desk, I heard a strange noise. I thought it was the dog. It was in fact my stomach growling! Because I eat every 3-5 hears to keep from getting overly hungry, I haven’t heard or felt that sensation is quite a long time. It surprised me.
Made me remember
It made me remember when I first started losing weight for the last time; I didn’t know when I was hungry. I would eat if I was happy, sad or if I had a headache. There was transitional eating – I don’t know what I should be working on, so I’ll get something to eat. Then there was what I called the Chocolate Crisis.
How do you know if you are really hungry? Eating regularly every 4 hours can help. If you are hungry an hour after you ate a good meal, you have to ask yourself am I really hungry. I had to set my watch for 3.5 hours when I first started doing this. Be able to know the difference between hunger and a learned craving. You can enjoy a movie without junk food.
So what can you do to recognize hunger? What healthy choice will you make today? Let me know.
Tags: chocolate, craving, eating, hunger, lose weight
Are you a station wagon or a sports car?
If you think of yourself as a utilitarian station wagon, you may be happy putting economy or regular fuel in your tank. If you see yourself as a beautiful, sleek sports car, you want to put high-octane fuel in your car and take time to take care of it. So which are you?
Really?
I hope you didn’t say station wagon. We are all beautiful and unique sports models. We want the best food and care we can afford. So what is your optimal blend of fuel? How many calories do you need a day to support a high-energy healthy body? What is your mix of good fats, protein and carbs? Every time you make a food selection, make sure that it is a building block to good health.
What healthy choices will you make today? Let me know?
Enjoy your life now!
Yesterday I was busy making progress on a project that seemed stalled. I was so excited as each email and phone call came in bringing me new information. Before I realized it, it was dinnertime. I wasn’t hungry. I had not even thought about food. I didn’t have time for boredom or emotional eating. I was ecstatic with what I was doing right then!
I had less time to eat.
My daughter told me the other day, she was going to volunteer so she could get out and have less time to eat. She’s a smart young woman. It made me think of things I had done in the past to help with night eating. The most successful was teeth whitening. Who wants to eat when your teeth feel and look so good? I started it again this week. (Drugstore.com has a sale on GO SMILE Advanced Formula B1, $28.99 reduced from $89.00. Best of all – no trays.) Polishing my nails worked but not as well. Going to bed earlier is a great one because it works for your beauty rest as well as your eating. What enjoyable activity can you add to your life that will give you less time to eat?
What healthy choice will you make today? Let me know.
Tags: activity, eating, healthy, lose weight, time
This time of year
January is the time of year when we get ourselves psyched up for change. Quotes do this for me quickly. They seem to capture what I am looking for. And they make me feel like others share those same feelings. A good quote is as true for health as it is for any other facet of your life.
Here they are
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Napoleon Hill
“All great achievements require time.” Maya Angelou
“Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” Robert H. Schuller
The difference between try and triumph is a little Umph! Unknown
Do you have a quote that keeps you going? What healthy choice will you make today? Let me know.
Fast food
I spent Saturday riding around with my family looking for houses to buy. Needless to say, I didn’t plan my food very well. So we ended up at a fast food chain for a pit stop and lunch. I haven’t been in one for a long time. The first item I saw on the menu was over 1,000 calories! Thank you Philadelphia for now having a law that calories have to be listed at chain restaurants.
What to do?
Ideally, I should have planned better or picked a better restaurant. But I didn’t. So what then? The first thing I did was to stop looking at the combo meals. The French fries and soda were definitely not worth the calories. I ordered off the $1.00 menu. You can also check out the kid’s menu. The portions are smaller. And sometimes you can put together a much healthier meal. In my case, I cut calories from 670 calories for adult version to 340 calories for the Jr. version. I could of done better, if I had gone on line before and decided which fast food places have better choices for me or planned what is the best to order in each place.
If nothing else, it reinforced that I do not want to spend possibly a full day of calories on this type of food. What healthy choice will you make today? Let me know.
Tags: cut calories, eating, Fast food, planning
It never feels good.
When you are stuck or on a plateau, do you beat yourself up? You shouldn’t. It is part of the process of change. It is really just a pause in the journey.
Think of it this way..
a) You are adjusting to the new ways. You are in the push –pull of your new habits. Luckily, they are balancing out. This is way, way better than putting the weight back on.
b) You are practicing maintenance. If you have a couple of plateaus before you reach your goal, maintenance will be easy.
c) This is a great time to focus on other parts of your life. You know the part that has nothing to do with weight loss.
What healthy choice will you make today? Let me know?
Tags: healthy, maintenance, plateau, process
Goals for 2010
Everyone is talking about them. I’d like to talk to you about the way to keep on course during 2010 and the rest of your life. Who are you and what is your life theme? Some call it your life mission. I call it your life theme. It is the tune that keeps trying to bubble up to the surface since you were a girl. It’s easy to set the course and get started. It’s rewarding to continue on the journey. Whether it is weight, family or wealth, it will make you wiggle and giggle. Listen at 1:00 on Tuesday at 1:00pm.
Today is the best time to get started.
Because you are busy, BlogTalk Radio may be another tool you can use to help you make healthy lifestyle changes. There are lots of shows to pick from. You can download these shows and listen at your convenience. Here is the link for my I’m Ready 4 Me! BlogTalk Radio Show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/imready4me. My next show is January 19 at 1:00.
Check it out. What healthy choice will you make today? Let me know.
Tags: BlogTalk Radio, changes, goals, healthy, lifestyle
Makes healthy easier
When you are trying to make changes, it is easier to hang out with people that have those habits. I have a girlfriend that that likes to dance. This is a habit I want to cultivate. So I told her, I would go whenever she goes. She is always actively looking for opportunities but now she knows she has a partner in crime. I go because I said I would and each time I have more fun.
Other ways this works
This works well when you are eating out with others. Watch what they order. It might surprise you. My healthy friend orders appetizers instead a main course for dinner. Then pace yourself with the person that eats the slowest. Notice what healthy people bring for snacks. This is a great way to try new things and pick up a new habit you like. Can you think of other ways to use this strategy?
So whom are you going to copy? What healthy choice will you make today? Let me know.
Soup, Salad, New Recipes
If you had family or friends over during the holiday, you probably have leftovers. The easiest way to use them is in soups or salads. The good news is that both of these add vegetables, fiber and water. This makes these very healthy choices. It is also a chance to try new recipes like turkey chili or a stir fry.
Or Freezer
Don’t forget about your freezer. This is an easy way to have measured portions on hand for those times when you don’t want to cook. Soups freeze easily. And don’t forget you can freeze desserts too. Freeze those last pieces of cake in individual sizes. Then when you want a little something, you don’t have to buy anything.
Soup, salad, a new recipe or freezer are all good health strategies for leftovers. What healthy choice will you make today? Let me know.
Getting healthy in 2010 is a process
As I look back on ’09, I am reminded that it happened with every decision. The total of our decisions is what got us where we are for good or bad. Every decision we make now is part of the process of getting healthy.
It can take time.
What we fail to realize is that we grow healthier with every lesson we learn, not just with every pound we drop. It took us years to get here. It may have happened slowly. The goal is to have more good minutes, hours and days than bad. As the good and better out number the bad, the healthiness aspect in our life grows. So take it 1 decision at a time.
Have fun and know you will be healthier this time next year. What healthy choices will you make today or in 2010? Let me know?
