**I can't do that because it may interfere with my exercising!!!
When I went to get my latest tattoo (as a reward to myself for all my hard work thus far) I was sitting in the tattoo parlor contemplating on what part of my body to get it, one thought was on the top of my foot, then I went to thinking oh hell no I cant get it there because it will hinder my exercising. I wouldn’t be able to exercise for at least a week or two while the tattoo was healing, because I wouldn’t have been able to wear tennis shoes, so I nixed that spot idea right away. It just made me laugh because if that had been a year and a half or so ago the word exercise wouldn’t have even crossed my lips, that word wasn’t in my vocabulary.
**I love my smaller boobs!!
I have always been bigger than “normal” in the boob area, now they have gotten considerable smaller for the first time in my life. I had always thought I loved my big oll bobbies, and hated small ones, in the past I couldn’t imagine my life with them, I thought they were who I was. Now I love love love the new smaller version of them. I learned something about myself and my big boobs through this process. For those of you who know me you know I use to wear low cut shirts that showed off a lot of my boobs. What I learned was I wasn’t doing this purposely, well yes I was so to speak, I was the one picking out my clothing, but every time I put on a low cut shirt I wasn’t saying to myself oh make sure your boobs are hanging out so everyone can see them. I have come to the conclusion that I think what was going on subconsciously in my head, is I knew I was fat and thought no one would look at me because I was fat and ugly, so if my boobs were hanging out I got more looks. Sad I know but I really didn’t realize this at the time, but I see it now, because now I have realized I don’t feel I have to have my boob showing all the time. Now I knew I wasn’t “ugly” before when I was fat, but I also knew men didn’t check me out either, except for when the girls were showing, see most men don’t care what the rest of the body looks like if they get to see some boob exposure. Sometimes I will wear a shirt with some boob showing now, because sometimes it just happens, but not like I use to. So what I am saying is I love my new smaller boobs, and I learned my boobs are not who I am!!!!
**I have had to admit I am not “big boned” LOL!!!
I use to say this in the past “oh I am just big boned, I will always look bigger no matter how much I weigh” Well I have learned I am NOT big boned and I was fat plain and simple.
**Tofu isn’t to bad!!!
It actually is good when mixed with other things like with ground turkey burger, or use it in spinach or ranch dip. I have lots of good recipes of anyone is interested.
**I am a much more confident person!!
I now feel comfortable to walk with my head high and make eye contact with people. I noticed once I started losing weight I started to walk with much confidence and with my head up and would actually make eye contact with people and smile, not just walk with my head down looking at the ground like there was something so interesting down there. What I thought back then is I was just really shy that's why I did that. What I have learned is I was so self conscious about myself I didn’t want to look at anyone, because I was embarrassed about myself. This is really sad to me that I felt I needed to be like this, but that is how society treats fat people, they make you feel bad about yourself, I always felt that people were judging me, thinking they were looking at me saying to themselves how could you let yourself get so big, or your so lazy, or your just gross looking. Now I have much more internal confidence in myself.
**I am a strong person!!!!
I have learned and proven to myself I am a much stronger person than I ever thought I was. Maybe that is my motivating factor right now, because I have learned I CAN DO THIS. I have always thought of myself as a week person, I would give up easily if something was to hard for me to do, I use to have the type of personality that I wouldn’t push myself to try harder if something was to hard. If I found resistance at all, I was done, I wasn’t a go getter type, there for I looked at myself as a weak person. Why the hell would I want to push myself to do something hard especially if it wasn’t going to be enjoyable. I guess what I didn’t know is sometimes you have to do hard work to get to an enjoyable ending, it may not be easy along the road but well worth it in the end! I guess if you never push yourself you would never know this. What I have learned also is stepping outside the box is a good thing, yes it is easier to just do what you know how to do, that is easy and comfortable for you, but if you don’t ever step outside the box you will never know what is there for you. I have proven to myself I am a stronger person than I ever thought I was and that feels better than any amount of weight I have lost, and is more enjoyable then the next doughnut I want to put in my mouth!!!!
(Let me make something clear about this last statement, when I say I thought I was a week person, lots of people that know me always say your not week, because of the issues I deal with on a daily basis because of having a son with special needs. I agree with that statement I know I am not a weak person in that aspect, but the way I look at having a son with special needs is a much different type of strength I have. To me it isn’t a choice, I am a mom and you do what you have to do for your kids no matter how hard it is at times, that's what moms do!!! So I look at being a strong mom for my kids and being strong or week in other aspects of my life as two different areas strengths.)
There are a lot of things that have changed in my life in the last 16 months, it has been a very eye opening experience for me, I have really learned a lot about myself.
**Side note: I have increased my walking to 4 miles the 5 days a week it takes me about 52 minutes, I still dread getting my ass out of bed each morning and I surly don’t have much of a a spring to my step as I trek around my blocks that early in the morning, but I am doing it and that what counts!!
Monday, August 30, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
How to beat the 4 most common cravings!
**I wanted to share one of my latest “rewards” to myself, it is only an hour old here, so a little swollen and a smidge of blood, & shinny with the ointment you have to put on it when it is new, the tattoo isn't as big as it looks here it is about an inch and a half tall and wide**
I found this article in one of my online groups, I found it very interesting, I didn’t write this I simply copied it. So yes call me a copy cat ha ha ha
The Craving: Sweet
If visions of cookies and ice cream dance in your head, what you may be craving more than the sugar in these foods is the fat that provides their texture, taste and aroma, according several studies, they have shown that fat and sugar may release endorphins into the brain (neurotransmitters that can produce a feeling of pleasure or euphoria). This hypothesis may explain why people crave that sweet, creamy taste it produces a pleasurable feeling.
The Solution: Guess what? Good old-fashioned exercise also appears to boost levels of endorphins (they’re the same substances credited with the so-called “runner’s high”). So next time you feel like biting into a chocolate-covered ice cream bar, lace up those walking shoes or hop on your bike instead. You’ll get the same pleasing feeling and the benefits of doing something good for your body. If you’re on the job or unable to get immediate fitness gratification, you can still get the creamy taste and texture you yearn for from low-fat yogurt or cottage cheese with fruit.
The Craving: Salt
According to Somer, many women experience salt cravings related to premenstrual syndrome (PMS) since fluctuating levels of estrogen can interfere with the normal salt concentration in the body. Unfortunately, cravings for salt often result in the consumption of foods that are not only high in sodium dangerous for anyone with hypertension but also heavy in fat (think chips, French fries, pizza). Some studies have shown that people who are deficient in calcium crave salt more frequently than those who are not. And Somer suggests the desire for salty foods, such as chips or pretzels, may have more to do with the wish to crunch than the actual salt.
The Solution: Try upping your calcium intake (which will also benefit your bones) with low-fat dairy foods or leafy greens. And reach for crisp, fresh, munch-able foods, like baby carrots or bell pepper wedges they make great stand-ins for that pretzel or chip crunch. If you can’t forgo the salt, eat just one serving of low-fat, whole-grain pretzels.
The Craving: Carbs
Cravings for simple carbohydrates are most frequently associated with times of stress. The explanation behind this relationship? Carbohydrates found in such foods as crackers, breads, unsalted pretzels, and animal crackers have been shown to help boost levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, shown to produce a feeling of calm and well-being.
The Solution: Anything that relieves stress can help to inhibit these cravings. Try deep breathing techniques, yoga or simple exercise instead of resorting to the refrigerator. When you feel the need to feed, go for snacks of complex carbohydrates, such as yogurt or vegetables, which can help fend off cravings for simple carbs.
The Craving: Chocolate
They don’t call them chocoholics for nothing. While it could fit into the “sweet and creamy” category by most definitions, chocolate’s complexity and the fact that it is the most commonly craved food among Americans, according to Somer, earns it a class unto itself. Chocolate is the most difficult of foods to explain. According to researchers at the University of Arizona who last year conducted a review of the current research on chocolate cravings, the sensational combination of the fat, sugar, texture, aroma and several ingredients with addictive properties similar to those in psychoactive drugs, are most likely responsible for chocolate cravings. The researchers also suggest that these cravings can be a result of a magnesium deficiency.
The Solution: Uncompromising chocolate addicts may balk, but keeping other magnesium-rich foods, such as raw soybeans (a.k.a. edamame), on hand can be a quick fix. In cases where the longing is not due to magnesium deficiency, there’s not much else that will fulfill cravings for chocolate, Somer says. She suggests sipping a cup of warm, low-fat cocoa, or plunging fresh fruit, like whole strawberries, banana slices and melon wedges, into fat-free chocolate syrup both of these approaches will add up to a lot less fat and calories than your average chocolate bar.
Monday, August 16, 2010
More about walking
The GREAT benefits of walking:
I know I have talked about walking before but I found even more info on it and thought it was worth passing along. It really is a very easy and enjoyable way to spend a mere 30 or more minutes a day. With such positive benefits how could you not give it a try. This is a little long but well worth reading all the surprising benefits of walking.
Side note: a couple weeks ago I had another first in my life, I actually wore out a pair of athletic shoes!!! I never thought I would hear myself say that, but I did have to go buy a new pair of shoes to walk in, because the old ones were giving me blisters because they were wearing out in places and rubbing on my feet therefore causing blisters.
If you're looking for the ideal way to comfortably improve your health, walking is the nearly ideal exercise, from burning fat to rekindling romance.
It's more or less automatic, almost anyone can do it well, it takes a minimum amount of special equipment, and it's low impact. There are a wide variety of environments you can walk in even with the entire family, basically walking is low risk, and high reward.
It doesn't even take a whole lot of effort. The Center for Disease Control recommends just 30 minutes or more of moderate intensity physical activity on most and preferably all days of the week. This translates to walking 3-5 miles per hour, which most people can accomplish with relative ease. You would be surprised how far you really can go in 30 min. Walking translates into great health benefits.
Weight control: A half-hour of vigorous walking can burn 180-250 calories. Walking at a slower pace for longer periods of time may actually burn more fat, particularly if the walk is done early in the morning, before breakfast. At this time of day, with no ready caloric source in the digestive system, the body is more likely to tap into existing glycogen stores (body fat) to fuel extended exercise.
Heart attack: Walking more than an hour a week can cut the risk of a first heart attack by 73% as much as high intensity exercise. Three hours of brisk walking a week reduced heart disease by 30-40% in women.
Older men who walked two miles a day had half the risk of heart attack of those who walked only half a mile.
Breast cancer: Seven hours per week of moderate to vigorous exercise such as brisk walking can reduce breast cancer rates by 20%.
Disability: Adult aged 65 and older who demonstrated high levels of physical activity were almost twice as likely to die disability-free, compared with inactive counterparts.
Age-referenced mortality: average age of 69 found that those walking two or more miles a day were 40% less likely to die than those the same age who walked less than a mile.
Age and cognition: Sedentary men and women ages 60-75 who were enrolled in a progressive exercise program which culminated in walking 45 minutes per day, three times a week at a 16-minute per mile pace, improved cognitive abilities significantly.
Osteoporosis: All weight-bearing exercise including walking helps increase strength and bone density. Walking improves circulation, increases the supply of oxygen and lubrication to joints, ligaments are kept pliable and thicken through regular use.
Diabetes: one hour of brisk walking every day can cut a woman risk of developing Type 2 diabetes in half.
Cholesterol: An increase in good cholesterol has been associated with moderate exercise, including walking.
Stroke: Walking more than 20 kilometers a week was associated with significantly lower risk of brain attack.
Glaucoma: Sedentary people who walked 40 minutes three times a week experienced an average of a 9% reduction in interocular eye pressure, other studies found regular exercise lowered pressure by 20% in those at risk for the disease, and by 16% in those with glaucoma.
Depression: Walking decreases incidence of depression through the production of endorphins and the neurotransmitter serotonin.
So put on your shoes and get outside and do a little walking!!!
I know I have talked about walking before but I found even more info on it and thought it was worth passing along. It really is a very easy and enjoyable way to spend a mere 30 or more minutes a day. With such positive benefits how could you not give it a try. This is a little long but well worth reading all the surprising benefits of walking.
Side note: a couple weeks ago I had another first in my life, I actually wore out a pair of athletic shoes!!! I never thought I would hear myself say that, but I did have to go buy a new pair of shoes to walk in, because the old ones were giving me blisters because they were wearing out in places and rubbing on my feet therefore causing blisters.
If you're looking for the ideal way to comfortably improve your health, walking is the nearly ideal exercise, from burning fat to rekindling romance.
It's more or less automatic, almost anyone can do it well, it takes a minimum amount of special equipment, and it's low impact. There are a wide variety of environments you can walk in even with the entire family, basically walking is low risk, and high reward.
It doesn't even take a whole lot of effort. The Center for Disease Control recommends just 30 minutes or more of moderate intensity physical activity on most and preferably all days of the week. This translates to walking 3-5 miles per hour, which most people can accomplish with relative ease. You would be surprised how far you really can go in 30 min. Walking translates into great health benefits.
Weight control: A half-hour of vigorous walking can burn 180-250 calories. Walking at a slower pace for longer periods of time may actually burn more fat, particularly if the walk is done early in the morning, before breakfast. At this time of day, with no ready caloric source in the digestive system, the body is more likely to tap into existing glycogen stores (body fat) to fuel extended exercise.
Heart attack: Walking more than an hour a week can cut the risk of a first heart attack by 73% as much as high intensity exercise. Three hours of brisk walking a week reduced heart disease by 30-40% in women.
Older men who walked two miles a day had half the risk of heart attack of those who walked only half a mile.
Breast cancer: Seven hours per week of moderate to vigorous exercise such as brisk walking can reduce breast cancer rates by 20%.
Disability: Adult aged 65 and older who demonstrated high levels of physical activity were almost twice as likely to die disability-free, compared with inactive counterparts.
Age-referenced mortality: average age of 69 found that those walking two or more miles a day were 40% less likely to die than those the same age who walked less than a mile.
Age and cognition: Sedentary men and women ages 60-75 who were enrolled in a progressive exercise program which culminated in walking 45 minutes per day, three times a week at a 16-minute per mile pace, improved cognitive abilities significantly.
Osteoporosis: All weight-bearing exercise including walking helps increase strength and bone density. Walking improves circulation, increases the supply of oxygen and lubrication to joints, ligaments are kept pliable and thicken through regular use.
Diabetes: one hour of brisk walking every day can cut a woman risk of developing Type 2 diabetes in half.
Cholesterol: An increase in good cholesterol has been associated with moderate exercise, including walking.
Stroke: Walking more than 20 kilometers a week was associated with significantly lower risk of brain attack.
Glaucoma: Sedentary people who walked 40 minutes three times a week experienced an average of a 9% reduction in interocular eye pressure, other studies found regular exercise lowered pressure by 20% in those at risk for the disease, and by 16% in those with glaucoma.
Depression: Walking decreases incidence of depression through the production of endorphins and the neurotransmitter serotonin.
So put on your shoes and get outside and do a little walking!!!
Monday, August 9, 2010
Roy's time to shine
Ok this is my time to brag on how well Roy is doing and how he is proof of how great losing weight is for your health!!
When we started the new healthy eating lifestyle, Roy really didn’t have a clue on what this all entailed. He didn’t know what a serving size was suppose to be, he probably never had read a food label before, he didn’t know how much was to much fat and sugar in foods, and before we started all this he really “didn’t care”. He weighed in at just shy of 300lbs. He had been to the doctor and was put on pills for his very high blood sugar and high blood pressure. His blood sugar was averaging mid 200 to high 200, normal is suppose to be average of 120. His blood pressure was averaging 140 to mid 140's over 90's to 100, this is extremely high, he was approaching what they call Stage 2 hypertension, Left untreated, high blood pressure can lead to coronary heart disease, which can mean a heart attach or stroke. These 2 health issues left untreated would have most certainly caused some very serious damage to Roy and possibly death if he had continued along the same path.
He is now down 40lbs, his blood sugar is 112 and bp 125/78 he hasn’t taken his medication for a couple months so these numbers have dropped drastically because of his weight loss. Just losing 40lbs he has been able to get off the medication for the high blood sugar and bp. This is proof of how losing weight can turn around these numbers and make you a healthier person.
He has learned what foods are better for you and what foods are not worth eating because you will have to exercise more to work off the extra calories, or it will spike your blood sugar levels.
We decided to try Tofu hot dogs since regular hot dogs and polish dogs are so bad for you and full of fat and really no nutritional value especially when you eat 3 to 4 in one sitting. Anyway I am not really fond of the Tofu dogs but Roy likes them, anyone that knows Roy your probably picking your jaw off the floor right now reading that. In the past he has told me many times he is a “meat and potatoes kinda of guy” so the fact he is eating Tofu hot dogs now is a miracle in it self and the fact he likes them is not anything I ever thought I would heard come out of his mouth.
In the past when I would say oh your eating a lot or that certain food really isn’t good for you his standard response had been “I don’t care.” He started to “care” when the doctor gave him the 2 diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, so I did research on these and I told him all the info I found on them and how dangerous it was. I asked him to sit down and watch a hour long Dr. Oz special on diabetic and how dangerous that is for you. Over the years he kept saying he “felt fine” well that’s the problem with these two issues they are silent killers, you think you feel fine but it is killing you from the inside out. A lot of people don’t even know they have either of them, all the while it is doing a lot of damage to your insides. I told him I wasn’t ready to lose my husband, and his son wasn’t ready to lose his dad. I told him if he “didn’t care” about himself, then to think of his son and myself, I told him “yeah you wont care when your dead, but it will be the ones that love you most effected when your no longer here.”
Now that he has lost 40lbs so far and he now has learned he didn’t “feel fine” like he once thought when he weight almost 300lbs. When you have been overweight for a long time you just get use to how you feel, all the little aches and pains you feel on a daily basic your back, knees, and feet, your stomach being icky a lot of the time, not sleeping well because the excessive snoring wakes you up all night long, all issues related to being overweight. Roy has now said he “feels so good” a lot of the issues are subsiding and with the more weight he takes off he will completely feel like a new man more so than he already is experiencing.
Some of the guys harass Roy saying I am controlling him telling him what he can and can not eat. I want to be clear on one thing, again those that know Roy well, you know you don’t tell him what he can and can not do. I will say when he got the diagnoses of the type 2 diabetes and the high BP, it scared me and yes I did get a little bitchy as said above telling him if he didn’t care about him self he needs to not be selfish and think of the people that love and care about him and I helped him see how serious both of these issues are. Mostly after that initial conversation, we learned together how to eat healthier. I don’t nag him at all, frankly now I don’t even have the opportunity to do so even if I wanted to, he has learned that if he goes back to his old ways of eating, he will not feel as good physically, and will have to go back on all the meds which he doesn’t want to do. As I have said myself all a long it is a choice we each have to make on our own, no one can make you eat the right foods and to exerciser on a regular basis, it is only something you can do for yourself.
I want to say how proud I am of my wonderful husband, he has done such a great job and is on track to living a long and healthy life!!!!
When we started the new healthy eating lifestyle, Roy really didn’t have a clue on what this all entailed. He didn’t know what a serving size was suppose to be, he probably never had read a food label before, he didn’t know how much was to much fat and sugar in foods, and before we started all this he really “didn’t care”. He weighed in at just shy of 300lbs. He had been to the doctor and was put on pills for his very high blood sugar and high blood pressure. His blood sugar was averaging mid 200 to high 200, normal is suppose to be average of 120. His blood pressure was averaging 140 to mid 140's over 90's to 100, this is extremely high, he was approaching what they call Stage 2 hypertension, Left untreated, high blood pressure can lead to coronary heart disease, which can mean a heart attach or stroke. These 2 health issues left untreated would have most certainly caused some very serious damage to Roy and possibly death if he had continued along the same path.
He is now down 40lbs, his blood sugar is 112 and bp 125/78 he hasn’t taken his medication for a couple months so these numbers have dropped drastically because of his weight loss. Just losing 40lbs he has been able to get off the medication for the high blood sugar and bp. This is proof of how losing weight can turn around these numbers and make you a healthier person.
He has learned what foods are better for you and what foods are not worth eating because you will have to exercise more to work off the extra calories, or it will spike your blood sugar levels.
We decided to try Tofu hot dogs since regular hot dogs and polish dogs are so bad for you and full of fat and really no nutritional value especially when you eat 3 to 4 in one sitting. Anyway I am not really fond of the Tofu dogs but Roy likes them, anyone that knows Roy your probably picking your jaw off the floor right now reading that. In the past he has told me many times he is a “meat and potatoes kinda of guy” so the fact he is eating Tofu hot dogs now is a miracle in it self and the fact he likes them is not anything I ever thought I would heard come out of his mouth.
In the past when I would say oh your eating a lot or that certain food really isn’t good for you his standard response had been “I don’t care.” He started to “care” when the doctor gave him the 2 diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, so I did research on these and I told him all the info I found on them and how dangerous it was. I asked him to sit down and watch a hour long Dr. Oz special on diabetic and how dangerous that is for you. Over the years he kept saying he “felt fine” well that’s the problem with these two issues they are silent killers, you think you feel fine but it is killing you from the inside out. A lot of people don’t even know they have either of them, all the while it is doing a lot of damage to your insides. I told him I wasn’t ready to lose my husband, and his son wasn’t ready to lose his dad. I told him if he “didn’t care” about himself, then to think of his son and myself, I told him “yeah you wont care when your dead, but it will be the ones that love you most effected when your no longer here.”
Now that he has lost 40lbs so far and he now has learned he didn’t “feel fine” like he once thought when he weight almost 300lbs. When you have been overweight for a long time you just get use to how you feel, all the little aches and pains you feel on a daily basic your back, knees, and feet, your stomach being icky a lot of the time, not sleeping well because the excessive snoring wakes you up all night long, all issues related to being overweight. Roy has now said he “feels so good” a lot of the issues are subsiding and with the more weight he takes off he will completely feel like a new man more so than he already is experiencing.
Some of the guys harass Roy saying I am controlling him telling him what he can and can not eat. I want to be clear on one thing, again those that know Roy well, you know you don’t tell him what he can and can not do. I will say when he got the diagnoses of the type 2 diabetes and the high BP, it scared me and yes I did get a little bitchy as said above telling him if he didn’t care about him self he needs to not be selfish and think of the people that love and care about him and I helped him see how serious both of these issues are. Mostly after that initial conversation, we learned together how to eat healthier. I don’t nag him at all, frankly now I don’t even have the opportunity to do so even if I wanted to, he has learned that if he goes back to his old ways of eating, he will not feel as good physically, and will have to go back on all the meds which he doesn’t want to do. As I have said myself all a long it is a choice we each have to make on our own, no one can make you eat the right foods and to exerciser on a regular basis, it is only something you can do for yourself.
I want to say how proud I am of my wonderful husband, he has done such a great job and is on track to living a long and healthy life!!!!
Monday, August 2, 2010
Rewards
When you have accomplished your goal and want to reward yourself it can be something that makes you happy, and not necessarily food.
In the past when I use to “diet” I use to, use food as a reward for my accomplishments, but now I don’t really like to choose food items as my rewards. For me if I did this and I choose the “good foods” I use to eat, that wouldn’t be to smart for a couple reasons. The first being like I said before food is an addiction for me, so if I want to reward myself with a snickers candy bar it quite possible might set me off once I get a taste of that wonderful candy bar in my mouth I will crave it more and more. Second reason is why would I want to eat something full of a ton of calories, with the knowledge of how much longer I should be exercising to work that amount of calories off. I ask myself is it worth it to eat that Snickers to have to walk an extra 30 minutes to an hr on the treadmill, that answer always is the same “HELL NO IT’S NOT WORTH IT!!!” (remember I hate the exercising part) so that happy little party that could be happening in my mouth for all of what, 2 minutes that it took me to gobble up the candy bar is NOT worth it to me.
Why would I do this to myself anyway, how is that any different than if I was an alcoholic and I had met my goal of being sober for a month, I sure as hell wouldn’t want to reward my sobriety with a drink of vodka. If I had quite smoking cigarettes for a month I wouldn’t say oh just a couple celebratory puffs on a cig wont hurt, yes it would hello, it would make your cravings heightened all over again, and all your hard work just went out the window. So for me I mostly choose non food items as rewards for myself, like buying new clothes, or some of my favorite crafty items, plus these kinds of items are around much longer for you to enjoy than food items you just shoved in your mouth, chewed up, and swallowed, and it gone in a couple minutes. If I do choose food items I may choose something I don’t usually eat on a daily basis, like a no sugar added pie from Sherries, or Marie Calendars, or I may make a 50% lower sugar cake from Pillsbury, so something that is a “treat” for me, but a better choice than a regular pie or cake.
Rewards are nice and you deserve them, but make sure your making the best choice for you as to not pick something that may possible send you in the wrong direction all over again, choose wisely.
In the past when I use to “diet” I use to, use food as a reward for my accomplishments, but now I don’t really like to choose food items as my rewards. For me if I did this and I choose the “good foods” I use to eat, that wouldn’t be to smart for a couple reasons. The first being like I said before food is an addiction for me, so if I want to reward myself with a snickers candy bar it quite possible might set me off once I get a taste of that wonderful candy bar in my mouth I will crave it more and more. Second reason is why would I want to eat something full of a ton of calories, with the knowledge of how much longer I should be exercising to work that amount of calories off. I ask myself is it worth it to eat that Snickers to have to walk an extra 30 minutes to an hr on the treadmill, that answer always is the same “HELL NO IT’S NOT WORTH IT!!!” (remember I hate the exercising part) so that happy little party that could be happening in my mouth for all of what, 2 minutes that it took me to gobble up the candy bar is NOT worth it to me.
Why would I do this to myself anyway, how is that any different than if I was an alcoholic and I had met my goal of being sober for a month, I sure as hell wouldn’t want to reward my sobriety with a drink of vodka. If I had quite smoking cigarettes for a month I wouldn’t say oh just a couple celebratory puffs on a cig wont hurt, yes it would hello, it would make your cravings heightened all over again, and all your hard work just went out the window. So for me I mostly choose non food items as rewards for myself, like buying new clothes, or some of my favorite crafty items, plus these kinds of items are around much longer for you to enjoy than food items you just shoved in your mouth, chewed up, and swallowed, and it gone in a couple minutes. If I do choose food items I may choose something I don’t usually eat on a daily basis, like a no sugar added pie from Sherries, or Marie Calendars, or I may make a 50% lower sugar cake from Pillsbury, so something that is a “treat” for me, but a better choice than a regular pie or cake.
Rewards are nice and you deserve them, but make sure your making the best choice for you as to not pick something that may possible send you in the wrong direction all over again, choose wisely.
Side note:
I have been following a blog that is really great if you want to check it out also, she is very inspirational, and funny http://msbitchcakes.blogspot.com, if this link doesn’t work go to where it says who I follow and look for bitch cakes
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