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I’m a firm (don’t I wish) believer in the WWE’s of weight loss.

Water, I know, I’ve read the articles that say ‘nonsense, you don’t need as much as was previously thought’, but when I read that while hydrating you, water also help reduce wrinkling, well, that’s all it took to convince me!

Write down what you eat and when. Any kind of journal, diary, (I have a white board hung on the back of my kitchen cabinet) will do. You will be surprised how much less you eat when you know you are going to have to look at it in black and white. And if you have time to plan ahead,write it out for the day and total it up, it’s such a pain in the butt to change everything you will find yourself deciding ‘it’s just not worth it.’

Exercise. Any kind of exercise, (I wog 3 days a week and take a water aerobics class 3 mornings a week) but any exercise for an hour a day, 6 days a week will do. I read a blog recently that said something like ‘you shouldn’t try to diet & exercise at the same time because you don’t have enough will power for both? Come on! You can’t believe that???? After I wog a mile and a half there’s no way I’m going to ruin this great endorphine high I’m on!

So, there we go…..the WWE’s of weight loss. At the sound of the bell…………well, you get it. We can all be winners. Let’s do it!!

One last thing…..if you haven’t joined in “The New Year’s Resolution Christmas Challenge” look it up in the forum under Weight loss challenges. One of their slogans is: Lose the weight in 2008, You’ll be looking fine in 2009. So give yourself an early Christmas present and check it out. “149 in 2009!”

Need I say more?

Well I just gotta brag…you know how I used to hate to exercise. Any excuse would do….couldn’t walk because the dogs would feel bad if I went without them and it was either too hot for them or too cold, or too rainy, or their toenails were too long, or ….well you get the idea. Since Chrisie told us about wogging I have gone every other day without fail, without the dogs. Guess what? They don’t even care as long as they get a little treat when I leave. IT RAINED TODAY and I went anyway. Best of all, I actually enjoyed it. Smelled so good, the lake looked beautiful with the rain hitting it and when I got home I was soaked and so proud of myself. I think I’m starting to like exercise. WOW! Never would have thought that would happen! Thanks to Chrisie and Podrunner.com I’m up to a mile and a half in 20 minutes.

Now I have to tell you about our latest Heartbreakers’ homework assignment. It comes from Brett, one of our team members. He suggested that for one week, whenever we look in a mirror, we tell ourselves only positive things, such as “you are beautiful” and “I love you”. So I have been looking at myself a lot more than usual. Instead of avoiding seeing myself in the glass when I walk up to the store, like I usually do, I have been sucking it in and telling myself I look great, even have a sexy little wiggle in my step…lol And my dogs can’t figure out who I’m talking to when I look in the mirror. Telling myself only good things; nice hair, good cheek bones (yep, they are there) nice chin (singular) and just look at the belly shrink! What a good idea. Thanks Brett. (he says we’re all beautiful, and he’s right)

[B]To all you “up & downers”.[/B]  I asked my doctor Friday (I had an apt because I had an infection in my back and he thinks it is staph..took a culture and said no water aerobics til I’m off my antibiotics) anyway, as I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myself….. he explained the “ups & downs” that exercise and diet produce.  When we workout we build muscle, that’s an ‘up’.  We lose because we are eating less calories, gain because muscle weighs more than fat (we all know that, duh) BUT…(there’s ALWAYS A BUTT) not only does muscle weigh more, it burns more calories as it grows.  So we lose because the muscles that made us weigh more are now burning more calories.  Because the fat weighs less than the muscle, as we progress to bigger muscles burning more fat our weight loss slows down and we must exercise more (or eat less) to get the same degree of weight loss.  Get it?  Me neither, but I did when he was telling it.  lol   The moral of the story is this….don’t sweat the little ups & downs, as long as the overall picture is a long, steady, downward slope we are doing just fine.  It’s when we get in a hurry, push ourselves, and demand immediate results,  that we start feeling helpless & hopeless, and  ultimately give up.

I did something unheard of this morning…. I was eating my yummy breakfast (whole wheat English muffin, egg beaters, ff cheese & bacon and 1/2 sml grapefruit) and about half way through I felt full. Now this never stopped me before, and it tasted so good, BUT I remembered my stomach is only the size of my fist and I decided to stop. I threw the rest in the garbage and I feel so POWERFULL.  WOW, and oh my God, all the hungry children in the world I am so sorry but if I ate it you would still be hungry. (my mother is turning in her grave, God rest her soul)  Now I’m going to get dressed and hit the ‘Wogging Road’.  lol    Oh yeah, I maintained again.  Yay me!   Even with all the extra muscle I must have developed this week, I DID NOT GAIN.  I am powerful and strong. (still a little jigglely)

While we revere most things ‘antique’ the same doesn’t seem to apply to our bodies. So here goes something new….. Hello old buddy, old friend.  You look like you’ve seen some hard times, a few scars here and there. Folds and wrinkles, warts and moles, lumps, bumps, cellulite.  Hair growing where it shouldn’t, not growing where it should.  There’s a lot I don’t remember seeing before. I really should have taken better care of you, but it’s never too late to start. (is it?) You have given me, and a few very close friends, much pleasure. I thank you for that and for my four healthy children, and my inquiring and fairly sharp mind.  Considering years of unhealthy eating, not enough sleep, too much partying, inactivity and smoking, among other things (I did spend my college years in the 60’s)….. I am blessed with amazingly good health. So I am thinking I should really stop and take stock….maybe it’s not too late to get this body back in shape. I don’t think I’ll be winning any races, but sometimes a nice walk on the back roads is even better. It’s true I’ll never put you on display in a bikini again (did I ever?) but at least I won’t feel like I have to hide you in a ‘big shirt’ or a muumuu. I am going to do my best to give you all the care and attention I would give a lovely old piece of furniture, or a vintage car.  I will eat healthier,   exercise more, moisturize, paint, pluck, shave and dress you in pretty things.  I will look at you with satisfaction, knowing I’m doing the best I can for you.  It’s the least I can do. You deserve it.  (I deserve it.)

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Originally Posted by Cathy Does anyone ever gain back alittle bit of weight? I haven’t changed anything, but sometimes I’ll gain back alittle bit of weight. It doesn’t worry me cause I always lose it again and than some but it still gets to me, you know?

Cathy, the human body is not always the same. You don’t put in 2 lbs of food, poop out 2 lbs of food, and since you exercised and burned 1 lb, you lose 1 lb. There are so many variables, like your changing metabolism. Burn rate depends on mood, salt intake, fiber content in what you ate, caffeine consumption, drugs you take (legal, of course) temperature, how you dressed, eyeliner, lipstick, how tight is your bra, urine color……..well maybe not all those things, but you get the idea. That’s why you shouldn’t weigh too often and should always do it (weigh-in) at the same time of day. Like me, every Saturday morning about 6:30, after going potty, after coffee, before breakfast, and stark naked. If I weigh more often I get discouraged with the ‘ups ‘n downs’. I tried going longer between weigh-ins but it gave me too much opportunity to get off track before I caught it. (besides, I couldn’t go that long without going potty) lol I know I already posted this on the Heartbreaker’s thread in Forum, but so many ask about the ups and downs I felt like I should share it with all y’all.

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