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01 April 2010
It doesn't happen overnight. Learning how to be healthy based on science instead of family history, diet guru books, or the menu at that new popular restaurant. Old habits are the hardest for me to break out of because food was such a huge part of our family life. It was the way we demonstrated most of the love and warmth in our home growing up. I still nurture myself each time I eat a piece of cheesecake.
I grew up in a southern cooking household where redeye gravy and homemade biscuits were common. My father owned a bar-b-q restaurant and meat (mostly beef & pork) was on the menu every meal. All vegetables were smothered in bacon grease and boiled until tasteless. Salads were rabbit food. My mother's idea of a seafood dinner was a tuna fish sandwich. I never saw a fresh piece of fruit until a vendor sent my Dad a fruit basket for Christmas when I was in high school. I was the only one in the family who would eat the fruit. I liked it!
Over the last 30 years, I've tried every popular diet only to gain back all the lost weight, plus some. My efforts were always well intentioned but ultimately unsuccessful. For example, each diet negatively impacted my muscle mass which I learned this week is so important to buringn fat effectively. Deprivation diets caused me to be even more overweight than before. So I gave up and ate everything I wanted (even stuff I didn't) and developed a nasty couch potato - TV routine because I was tired all the time. It wasn't long before I didn't have the strength to get up off the couch much any more!
My learning journey has been a long one. I've been reading the Dr. Oz book, 'You on a Diet' for at least 3 years. Well actually a month or so because it sat on the shelf ignored for the first year or so. Watching his TV show has taught me a lot. I've gone back to reading the book and it doesn't seem like such a mountain anymore to eat healthy. Truth be told, the food tastes a lot better without all the corn syrup, salt, fat chemicals, and cardboard processed ingredients.
So here is my goal this year. I want to establish a healthy eating and exercise routine for a lifetime. I want my choices to be effective because they are based on science, not hype for yet another new diet book. I want it to be second nature to reach for fresh fruit instead of cookies and to walk daily to manage stress instead of reaching for cookies. As an older woman, I want to increase my muscle mass to power a healthy longevity.
This week a major breakthrough happened when my husband agreed to modify his steak and potato and soda eating habit because it was hurting my health......not just his. We are adopting the 'waist' management advised by Dr. Oz.....a woman's waist should be no larger than 32" and a man's should be no larger than 35". We have a long journey there.
Lonnie and I have walked together 3 days after work. We walked for 3 miles at a brisk pace (at least it's brisk for me because I don't really want to talk much). I want to work up to jogging 5 miles a day and lifting weights 3 days a week and stretching daily. Lonnie wants to jog 10 miles a day.
Weigh-in:
203.0 lb
lost so far:
0 lb
still to go:
53.0 lb
Diet followed N/A
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