song of the road

I have got my hands on the Positivity CDs of Paul McKenna. They seem to be really good. I have listened to only the first two episodes twice before going to sleep. Already I am feeling so much better. I had been missing gym for so long. Today without any prior planning, I got up much earlier and went to gym. I am feeling happier and more enthusiastic about life. Ruby, Annie, please give it a try. He has a two CD pack for weight loss. I am going to get that next.

 About my last post, I am planning to get into weight training once more. Then I am trying to go for a healthier choice almost all the time. I am not beating myself up when I slip. Because I am going to count all the time when I don’t slip. I will lose slowly this way but I will stay guiltlessly happy in the process. Even if I can make good food choices in an average of 50% per day, I am going to be happy. Also I am planning to have more protein in food and more walking and stairs etc in my non-exercising part of the day. I will do some and miss some. Even though I have gained back all the weight I had lost, I now eat fruits absolutely every day and in fact have managed to love fruit. A year back that was unimaginable. So with all my slow progress etc, I am sure by next year I would have incorporated more healthy habits in my life.

On the life front, more or less all is calm. I missed out a really good job interview call by not checking my mails regularly. I have applied now. But I am not sure if I will get a call now. However I am going to start job hunting with more vigor. Just the fact that I am moving out of here, has healed me much. Hopefully Mr. McKenna would do the rest.

Hope you all doing fabulously well. Love and good thoughts for you.

I was reading this article in Prevention about why guys seem to lose weight so much more easily than we women do. I am just writing the main points here, in case you find them interesting –

• They don’t crave sweets. Apparently while women would turn to chocolate, potato or something cheesy, guys go for more protein like a roasted chicken breast. So if we too more protein heavy food, we will be more satiated and of course can drink water also helps.
• They don’t berate themselves when they screw up. They don’t aim for perfection and so they are less likely to fail. There’s this 80% rule: hit your weight loss goals 80% every single day you can. Some day – 120%, some 50%, some 20% - but make sure it averages to 80%.
• They go for weights with muscle. Well, women too should train with heavier weights as muscles help to lose weight faster.
• They don’t use food as a therapist. More importantly they get physical with anger. A guy who gets angry goes out and pounds nails. Of course major generalization, but the idea is to get moving when we are angry.
• They don’t give up things they like. This is where I found a great idea. I am not sure if it works or not. Apparently, Toronto based weight loss coach Mary Crawford lost more than 20 kilos on what she calls the enjoyable diet – a program she developed that allowed her to eat whatever she wanted, every day. The catch; she restricted herself to 800 calories every other day and didn’t diet on the alternate days. It solves the girly dilemma: I want it – lots of it – because I can’t have it.

What do you think? I am quite intrigued by this enjoyable diet idea. But calorie counting here is tough. I am thinking if I can mould it to my situation. Also I am thinking about buying a pedometer.

Love you ladies. : ) Keep well.