Since 2016 is fast approaching, I’ve decided to go outside my comfort zone in many ways and take on a personal challenge that honestly, scares me to death! I hate New Year’s resolutions, so let’s not call it that. Let’s just say that after all of these years, I am finally going to pay attention to my diet as well as my exercise schedule to see what kind of results I can get with regards to my overall self. Notice I did not say I was going to DIET. I hate diets, and having never been on one would most assuredly fail in any attempts to do so ![]() Well, except that I am resolving to not eat an entire 8 oz. tub of Land O’ Lakes whipped butter in one sitting ever again. Do you know how many servings there supposedly are in that tub? It says there are 32! One tablespoon is supposed to be a serving. Give me a break. I’d rather do without. However, I just noted that there are 50 calories…50 fat calories, so at 32 servings, that makes 1600 calories. (Easy for me to go through if I am eating baked or mashed potatoes, bread, or popcorn for instance) This isn’t going to be one of those ‘just eat healthy’ experiments either. I actually already eat a lot of healthy things. Unfortunately, I also eat a lot of things many would consider unhealthy. That probably won’t change. Let’s see how it goes. But, hopefully having to admit to what I am consuming will shame me into straightening up a little. This is a huge step for me. I have always been able to control my ‘weight’, my ‘shape’ and my fitness level with exercise. This hasn’t been the case since entering my 50’s, and it has been very frustrating, humbling, frightening and enlightening all at the same time. This decade is a game changer for me. I can let myself turn into the little old lady that inevitably will result at some point if I am blessed with long life; or I can try to fight it off by kicking and screaming and see what that gets me. Today, I am a fighter. I got my hour in on the treadmill, and haven’t had supper. I did, however, have two frozen homemade caramels and two frozen peanut butter haystack cookies leftover from Christmas. See what I am saying? This is going to be interesting. I will reveal more of my plans later. Would any of you be interested in following? I am going to extrapolate on many things and be very honest about them. I will get into beauty tips, hormone problems and treatments, etc. I know I am not the only one that struggles with all of the changes that aging offers us. But maybe an honest account would be refreshing.
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Deneane
1/14/2016 09:01:00 am
I achieved my greatest weight loss, during my first ever serious attempt to do so, by using my fitbit app to track my calorie intake. It automatically tracks my activity, and you can manually enter more strenuous work outs, and it will do the math for you in terms of added calorie allowance. That worked for me, for a while. My issue is, unlike you, I don't have a workout regimen, nor do I have the desire, even to afford myself more calories. I'm starting to work out at home on my new exercise equipment and I enjoy upper body work. I just started rehab for my knee, even though I know what I need and I'm in pretty good shape, I'm happily going because they make me do the stuff I hate to do, the stuff I need most and the stuff that hurts. LOL I'm hoping I'll find some self discipline to maintain the leg work.
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Jackie Rodeffer- Scheetz
1/14/2016 10:51:07 pm
You are too hard on yourself. You are getting exercise in even if you aren't working out per say. Doing all of the sports and activities that you engage in, keeps you in better shape than you think. Having said that, I think you will be encouraged by improvements you will see after adding a resistance regime. The more activities of different types we engage in, will help us gain crossover benefits doing all of them.
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