Fidgeting burns calories... (dawn *bounce*'s journal)

[dawnball]

Ok, since I've been chiming in here and there today - I might as well bite the bullet and journal a bit. I only came up with this scheme yesterday, so we'll see how it goes.

The CHALLENGE!

I've got 50lb to lose, and a disney vacation scheduled for may 2006. $10/lb bounty for body fat! $10/lb penalty for gaining body fat! So, time's a ticking (or dropping) - how will I get there?

The PLAN!

Eat less, move more.

I'm committing to 25 minutes of activity every day. I get 2 sick/exhausted days per week (no rolling over sick days! ) Worse, I've got a spreadsheet to track it, and it says that every week I'm adding 5 minutes to this committment (up to 120 minutes, then it changes). Can you tell I'm a planner?

I'm also practicing some of the behavior modification techniques from Dr Kushner's Personality Type Diet - They are:

Eating conciously. Reminding myself before 5 seconds before I eat to eat slowly and savor my food. Reminding myself 5 minutes into the meal to think about how much I'm enjoying my meal, and how hungry I am. NO EATING LIKE A RABID MONGOOSE!


No more munching alllllll night. One snack after dinner. That's it. No, even if the baby keeps me up until midnight, I will not eat 5 pkgs of M&Ms. One snack. If it looks like a long night - I might want to save that snack for later.

Making myself (and my health) a priority. When the baby goes down for a nap - I get some time for *me*. At the moment, my plan (and what I've been doing) is to do my pilates as soon as she goes down. The world won't come to an end if I don't empty the dishwasher for 15 more minutes. I am a valuable member of my family. If DH wanted to get more exercise and eat healthier - I would support him - so I'm supporting myself!

Sucesses so Far

Well, yesterday I did a morning walk, nap pilates and an evening walk for a total of 55minutes of exercise, well over this week's goal of 25 minutes. This morning I skipped the morning walk (we've been altering the kid's bedtime and wakeup time, and I didn't want her to nap in the stroller) - but I got in my pilates, and I'm planning a long walk before swim class orientation tonight.

I ate less than usual at dinner last night - and stopped when I was full instead of finishing the three bites of rice in creamy sauce on my plate. I ate a healthy breakfast this morning, and after preparing my lunch - discovered I wasn't hungry enough to eat much at all. I'll eat more of my lunch before tonight's orientation and plan a light dinner afterwards.

Time to go empty the dishwasher, pop in some tunes and see if I can break a sweat cleaning up without waking the kidlet!

dawn *bounce*

 

[R_Judy]

Welcome Dawn. Another type A person. Geez you guys need us type b's to foul you all up! Sounds like you have a very good plan. Keep on journaling. It is a great way for self accountability. Oh and drink your water

 

[TigerCheer2009]

Welcome to WISH Journaling, dawnball! Exercise and read other people's journals. It helps.

The only fly in the ointment that I see is the penalty for gaining weight. But that's just for me...I'd owe out the wazoo at certain times. Just my opinion about myself for myself.

You're doing good. Awesome even!

And a cheer to commemorate your journal!

Dawn!
Oh yes!
You can lose that weight
Drink your water, exercise
You'll do just great!

Good luck!

 

[pearlieq]

Welcome to WISH!

Sounds like you've got some great ideas! Best of luck to you on your journey!!

 

[Purrrrfecta]

I used Disney as an incentive to lose weight, and it worked!!!!!
Way to go. I think that as long as you remind yourself why you are eating it should work out for you, and you will be successful at losing weight.

I think you have the plan all typed out and ready to go. Wooosh! I wish I could be that mentally organized. Can you come and live with me? It would really help me to be able to have that type "A"

Good luck and I will keep in touch

Connie

 

[dawnball]

Me? A type A? Ummmm.. noooooooooo, not me. Heh - anyway, it's time for the morning kvetch! A kvetching ship is a happy ship, or so they tell me, but if you're not the kvetching type - don't read the next 2 paragraphs and just skip to the bouncy stuff

So last night I was talking to DH about this diet plan, and how I wasn't going to eat after dinner. So after dinner he snarfed all my leftovers (which were supposd to be my lunch today) and he made potato salad for a potluck today and kept coming over and saying "here, how does it taste?" Of course, I ate some. Bleh. Then we stayed up late arguing about why I like Disney and he hates it. And he says "I stayed up too late, now I'm hungry!" and proceeds to eat nearly every other edible thing in the house. The rest of them he finished off for breakfast or packed for his lunch today. Sooooooooooooooooooooo - I wake up this morning, and there's no flippin food in the house! I can eat frozen vegetables, drink coffee or cook some raw (frozen) meat from the deepfreeze. Yeah, this is moving me along to healthy breakfasts. I swear there was a mountain of food when I left the kitchen for the night.

While I'm kvetching, I wonder if DH has some psychological need for me to be fat. It seems like he tends to sabotage my efforts quite innocently. "How long is that going to last? 2 days?" "No, don't make enough of your special diet food for me to have some too" followed by eating it all. "I'm tired of salads, can you make something else?" "I feel like deep-fried fish for dinner" - I'm pretty sure it isn't a concious thing, but it's annoying as all get out! He does it for the baby's bedtime too. "We need to get her into bed by 9" and at 10 he's still puttering around in the kitchen, keeping her awake!

Ok, that's enough griping for one day - back to things I *can* control. I had a largish amount of ice cream yesterday afternoon. Kidlet and I were hot, tired and hungry. So I stopped and got some cheese shapes and a pint of icecream - then ate more than I should have because I couldn't keep the rest frozen. (Ice cream is on kidlet's recommended food list from the doc, because she's falling off the bottom of the growth curve - higher fat and lower sugar than yogurt). I got in my 25 minutes of exercise, but only about 5 minutes more. On the bright side - that ice cream was the *only* thing I ate all day past the point of being hungry, so I wasn't doing too badly.

I did snack a bit after dinner - I had three small snacks instead of the one, balanced snack I was planning on. Even if DH was offering - I should have known better than to eat it. My mouth, my fat cells. I just ate a smallish breakfast, and will go get myself some more to eat in a few minutes. Nothing we have sounds good - but I'm hungry, and so should eat.

Today's PLAN

gah, beats me - I'm not thinking beyond my coffee yet. Ummm, ok... plan, plan, plan.. what to do today? It's going to be 85 with a 90% chance of thunderstorms. I'm seeing indoors for today. I think I'll try to sneak in a walk around the neighborhood, let the kiddo wear herself out on the playground... then home for lunch, nap and pilates. After nap maybe we'll hit the mall (should be raining by then) for more walking for me and some time on their indoor play equipment for her. I'm by golly making enough healthy lunch for a couple of days, even if DH eats most of it!

Anyway - onwards and upwards!

Oh, someone asked about the concept of debt for weight gain.. it's only 10 months - how much weight can I gain? Don't answer that - man would that hurt to pay that.. I don't get *that* much discretionary cash in our budget.

dawn *bounce*

 

[TigerCheer2009]

Good luck today!

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* to get you through today. Good plan.

And I was the one who asked about the debt because my metabolism is SLOW and I just wouldn't want to pay the $$ either or else I could (kiss) my money g'bye!

Tell the kidlet I said hi, please!

 

[dawnball]

Well, I used both of my sick days last week, but I was actually sick - so that's ok. Every other day I did do at least 25 minutes of exercise. My child carrier pack came on Tuesday, but we were having DH's birthday dinner that night, so I only used it a little bit. Then I was sick again on weds, bleh. However - I broke it out bright and early this morning, popped the kidlet in and walked for 80 minutes. Then we came home and took a break for lunch and so I could post. After this - I'll load her up again and walk to the bank and back, which is probably another 15 minutes. She likes it in there, and it's a 30lb weight, so the walking is more work. Tommorrow I'll probably try some light hiking with her loaded in, in prep for a weekend of hiking with DH! I have missed hiking soooooo much, but it just wasn't practical when I was pregnant, or when the kidlet was tiny. Now that I've got a pack to carry her in, and I know she loves the great outdoors - I think we're going to have a ball!

Food-wise I'm doing "ok". Most of the time I manage to stop eating when I'm not hungry. Once in awhile I eat a little more, but it's a lot less of a little more than I used to. Baby steps. For other baby steps we've moved our living room layout so that I can't sit on the couch and use the computer at the same time anymore. So no more days when all I do is veg in front of the computer and play with the kid. So far it seems to be inspiring me to get up and move a little more. Also, we've got swimming class for the kidlet twice a week now. That seems to mostly involve me walking her around the pool for a half hour. It's good exercise for me at least! So life is good!

I'm waiting another week to weigh, due to TOM.

dawn *bounce*