BS: Accountability - counting goals - 4th month

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting goals - 4th month
From: Eye Lander
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 07:29 AM

me! I'm still decorating. Wallpaperers mate yesterday pasting measureing from 100am to 9.30pm with a quick lunch and dinner break. Too tire for treadmill but many up anddown stair though.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting goals - 4th month
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 11:17 AM

QG-30

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting goals - 4th month
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 11:31 AM

Thanks, SRS. Yes, summer clothes just put back into the main closet are confirming what Hardi's been trying to tell me.

I'd just like to offer a word of encouragement here. And that is, the scale DOES NOT give the most accurate, helpful feedback-- your woven clothes do. Knits may lie (stretch with age) but woven fabrics do not-- they show you what you lost, and where.

Unfortunately the body-sense also lies, and cannot be relied upon. A huge lesson I learned yesterday is that the "I'm so fat" feeling can easily come from the sensation of looser skin as fat melts off under that skin. In my program, the loss is calculated to go as slowly as possible so that the skin has as much opportunity to shrink as possible. I try to lose 10%, maintain till body sense catches up and skin shrinks, and then go for the next 10%. The ONLY way to monitor that is via clothing, because muscling up is also occurring and scales do not know the difference between fat and muscle.

Of course I also notice sinking more in the pool as I lose, because muscle sinks while fat floats. But it's surprisingly easy to talk myself out of the water feedback, when my loose skin is making me feel so icky. At my age, there isn't going to be much more shrinkage.


But the really nice thing is that ALL THIS has come without a focus on fat, fighting, or dieting. The healthy habits we instituted for our "training table" by focusing on the sports of choice has led to reduced portion sizes, better food choices, and an automatic daily adjustment in caloric intake according to what kind of sports activities we did or did not include in that day.


The daily tracking of progress on goals is clearly helpful at the start of such a program-- I did that myself at one point, tracking every little stat I could to try to learn what was actaully working and needed to be kept up.

But I want you all to know that there is a time to look forward to where the newer, healthy habits just integrate seamlessly into your life, and IMO you're all headed there.

Now I'll hve to learn to sew. :~) I LIKE that stuff in my closet, if it weren't so floppy.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting goals - 4th month
From: LilyFestre
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 11:49 AM

I'm in complete agreement with not dieting but rather making healthy choices without even really having to think about it. And clothes really are a great indicator in how your body is changing. I have been stalling out on the scale for the last few months but my body is reshaping itself. My clothes show it without a doubt. The other morning I was running off to a yoga class, grabbed a dress out of the closet and when I got to work, I changed my clothes and was both mortified at how it fit and happy!!! So I floated through the day and tucked in where I could. My summer kayaking stuff from last year is ridiculous. I spent some money on new clothes last weekend for my upcoming adventures (sojourns and such) and when I commented to my husband that I shouldn't have spent the money, he said, "YES! You NEED some clothes that fit!!!"

    I am also loving that I WANT to exercise every day. Soon the bikes will come out of the shed, the kayak will be a permanent fixture on the car and weekend hikes will be the norm. I never thought this would be the life for me, but it is and I am loving it. Today ends the April Yoga Challenge, Thirty Days for $30.00. I have been every single day except for one (sick day....missed work too). Some days I only go to one class, some days I go to 3...it just depends on my energy level and the available time factor.

    I still keep track of my exercise or play time as I like to call it. It's very motivating for me and reminds me of what has worked well or not so well. I also participated in a local Step Up program which involved 10 weeks of keeping track of the minutes of exercise one does. I set a goal and was happily surprised at the end to see I had surpassed my goal by a great deal without really thinking about it or planning for it. The exercise just seemed to find it's way in.

    It's been a good month. I am feeling great and I hope you are too. Gotta go get my kids. Lator Gators!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting goals - 4th month
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 01:28 PM

T-20-30

Same here, loving that I am loving it. I like the motivation of coming in and sharing the good feelings with my friends. I have noticed a "cave-in" in my cheeks...I can see my high cheekbones again! I also have cave-ins around my waist and hips that feel great when Rog runs his hands over them to put on lotion at night. Funny thing, I told him for years I was sure, psychologically, that I would lose weight when I saw him actually TRY to quit smoking. Well, he started on chantix in December. He weaned down to 3-4 cigs per day AND, as of two weeks ago, today, he has NOT had one cigarette! I am so proud of him. I've noticed some great changes in him, too...take more care with his appearance...it's so good for him to be rid of the nicotine. So here we are, the two of us, doing some good for ourselves and loving it.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting goals - 4th month
From: LilyFestre
Date: 01 May 08 - 11:24 AM

April 30th:

Yoga: 2 hours

Mindfulness, Website & Joy!!!

Michelle