The Haagen Daz

Is in the freezer.  It will stay there until Sunday.  I will have exactly one serving at that time.  The other things in the refridgerator are: lettuce, cooked turkey, cucumber, grapefruit, strawberries, walnuts, cabbage, cooked beef, and hard boiled eggs.  In the store room is chicken broth, black beans, and tomato soup (organic.)  I bought some steel cut oats and quinoa.  I will be doing two weeks of probiotic support to repair the damage from my antibiotics.  I have a bladder infection.

This weeks rotation:

Sun Walk 3 miles, 1 hour yoga

Monday Step Reebok Gin Miller

Tuesday: off (blood draw)

Wednesday: Wog 1 hour, Kathy Smith Yoga

Thursday: Cathe step WO.

Friday: Wog, Gary Bromley Yoga

Sat: Cathe Step WO

The last dance

Was today.  I have officially given up sweets.  I just had my last Haagen Daz.  I will skip the sweets for one year.  Until my next birthday.  I don't love the Holiday cookies that much so in an effort to no longer beat myself up.  I am giving up that which hurts me the most, sugar and grain.

I've given serious thought to Sandra Ahten's latest podcast about sugar addiction.  I'm limiting my eats to vegetables, good fats, lean protein, and just 1/2 cup of oatmeal per day.  I'm relying on the good fats for my calories.  

Life is good and its only going to get better when I stop hurting myself with the wrong nutrition.

The MUNCHIES!!!!

Where did that come from????  I ate two pork chops at breakfast.  At lunch, I stopped at a Chinese Buffet.  I was good.  I only had one little cup of egg flour soup.  One plate of shrimp with vegetables and broccoli.  I had three teriyaki chicken skewers. A whole mess of steamed peppered white fish.  For dessert I grabbed 1/2 an orange and one little cup of chocolate ice milk.  Over all not bad.  Later I had 1/4 of a bagel with sesame seeds on it.  

I don't really want to eat out any more.  I only do it for the fish.  My mother has a fish allergy so I don't like to bring it home.  I don't want the oil in the air to cause an allergic reaction.  So far, her reactions have landed her in the hospital for three days.  I'm not willing to risk her life.  I think the sardine solution is a better choice.  It is less expensive.  Also, I can just take it with me and dispose of a can outside.  If I use a plastic fork (I know, not too green) and recycle it thats not a terrible result.  

I'm no longer entertained by commercial food.  Once you understand how sweets effect your body, it is no longer a truly fun thing.  I recognize it now as a quick fix solution.  

Off to my workout.

Sardines

Have a ton of protein and no carbohydrate.  They are not expensive.  I got a can of in water sardines for 1.27 (on sale) yesterday at Trader Joe's.  I just ate them with 6 little triscuits.  I could have skipped the crackers.  Good to know.  I think I just found my on the go meal.  I love having fish in my diet.  It fills me up and the calorie load is low too.  Just 170 in the whole can.  Awesome!  And 19 grams of protein, again, awesome.  I think that a can of sardines, a fork, maybe a string cheese and an avocado would be a perfect lunch.  I'm holding my own at 176.4.  I'm working on keeping my carbs at about 60 grams a day.  And, I'm working on bumping up the protein.  I have a rice protein powder which is ok.  It doesn't taste good but it doesn't make me gag either.  

Happy slimming everyone!  Its nearly spring!

Behavior modification and guilt by association

We tend to derive anticipated emotion, pleasure or pain, from previous experience and we also experience or relive those emotions each time we think of the stimulous again.  The trick is to understand that is what is going on and to decided whether or not our intrinsic response is fair or just guilt by association.  In other words prejuidice can be held against anything not just people.  If you have had negative experiences with exercise and have developed an association of feeling bad with going to the gym the very thought of going to the gym may cause those sensations or feelings to bubble up again in your brain.  This is a very real phenomena and does have a very real effect on the body with the release of stress hormones which make you fat btw.  Adrenalin makes you fat.  Cortisol makes you fat.  Even testosterone, especially in women, makes you fat.  And estrogen does too, just in a different place/way on the body.  Learning to reprogram your response and expectation is a very powerful tool.  I highly recommend recognizing how you feel about the behaviors which produce physical fitness and if the idea of exercise makes you cringe consider reprogramming yourself to smile when you think of sweat.  Challenge the icky feelings, they may just be left over feelings that are not serving you anymore.  

A new workout to me!

Woo hoo.  Tomorrow is Cathe's Low Impact Circuit WO.  I'm stoked.  I'm already set up.  I will be doing the cardio timesaver and then in the evening it will be a Leslie Sansone dvd with the resistance bands followed by 15 minutes of yoga.  

Step 1: Water- I've had most of my water.  I have one more glass to do.

Step 2: Walk- Did my wog this AM.

Step 3: Clean out a drawer- I tidied my desk.  I will attack the kitchen silverware drawer tomorrow.

Step 4: Save 2$ a day- I'm doing this with my coupons and switching to using a refillable bottle instead of buying the half liter bottles.  

Testosterone

I have an over abundance of insulin which when not absorbed behaves like testosterone and androgenizes my body.  I had increased my sugar intake a couple of weeks ago and I am paying the price, facial hair.  Ugh.  I had also decreased my testosterone blocker, saw palmetto, to an every other day dosage because it slows down my bowels.  I am going to use an increase in fiber to deal with my bowels and I will up my saw palmetto dosage.  I do recall that my doctors had told me that hormones are not dosed based upon one's body weight.  I had thought I could lower the dosage because my body weight is down 80 pounds.  Boy, was I wrong.  I hate facial hair.  That is the worst part of this condition.  Its the being mistaken for a dude or a transgendered individual (I don't have a problem with them.)  So, back to what I know works: Cardio 6x a week, Yoga 3x a week, Testosterone blocker, Psyllium fiber, only having my carbohydrate post workout because that is when my insulin receptors are wide open, and eliminating wheat.  I like to favor other sources for carbohydrate that carry more nutrients with them.  Lately, I have been trying grapefruit for its mood elevating properties.   

Continuing:   cardio, yoga, 

Adding: more saw palmetto, psyllium fiber, daily dose of fish oil, increasing evening primrose oil.

Subtracting: Wheat (I have 6 slices of the sourdough walnut bread left.)