Habits we form

I though a lot about this last night. It is so easy to create a bad or good habit. It takes time for them to happen. Like going out to eat all the time, cooking dinner all the time and just about anything. I usually wake up and start the coffee, I only have one cup. The cup I do have is a supper size cup, so today I pulled out the smaller one. Now I have a smaller cup of coffee and my water jug sitting by me.

Today I have on my calendar to hit the gym, Breakfast, lunch and dinner plans are already done. Hey this is a start, one day at a time. I know what I am eating for dinner is not the best, but I have to make the salad bigger on my plate. My goal is to form healthy habits. Maybe I can move things around on my board of encouragement. What I will do is take a picture of it so you all can see it.

Well I am off to see what other habits I can form.
Ready set let the journey begin.

5 k walk (3.1 miles) In an hour

After I wrote the last blog I just had to check out about 5k walks. I need to start setting my goal for this. You know I have a vision now, not just losing weight but something I want to accomplish in life. That is what the tapes say that I am listening to. Now it is starting to make sense on what they are saying. I googled about 5k walks and this article was the best. About.com, 5k walk Training Schedule for Beginners. That is me in a nutshell. They give great tips on how to do this. I printed it out and put this on my wall of encouragement. I do suggest a wall of encouragement this helps a lot. Put positive scriptures, quotes or sayings out there to look at daily.

Stating Monday if the weather permits I am going for a 15 min. walk that is it around my block. I think we can all have 15 min. I know I spend 15 min looking around. Hey I pick up the new All You magazine to. They have a great article in there about Drop 18 pounds. I love this magazine, this is my all time favorite. Here is something that was interesting: Obese people spend $1,429 more on medical expenses. Source: Health Affairs. I took that out of the magazine.

Ready set let the journey begin.

Christmas parties

There was not weight in yesterday, so I am going by my scale at home. It looks as if I lost about 1lb. Not bad, but now great either. They say if you lose weight slowly you tend to keep it off.

We went to a Christmas party last night. It was a blast, oh and I got a lot of ideas on how to decorate my house. Anyway I watched how people ate and what they ate. Several of the ladies I sat with look really good. Salad was the item they piled on their plate. So when you are watch what skinny people eat and how much they put on their plate. Then they put just a little of this and a little of that. I told them all I was doing a blog on my weight loss. So we talked about how they lost it and how they maintain their weight. It was nice to talk with them because they have the same struggles. One of the ladies is going to do the 5 k walk with me in the spring. It is usually in March. I hope it is not the same time we go on the Cruise. So I better find out when it is and plan for it. That made me excited, that someone was going to do it with me. Now it made me even more determined to do this. I think by having this set goal of doing a 5k walk will help. Maybe if I google it they will have something on training for a 5k walk.Stay tuned and I will see what I can do. I really need to go purchase a pedometer.

On day's it is warmer I am going to send out a text to my friends to walk the river walk. We have great place to walk around here. I want to hike one day to. Today I feel a lot better than yesterday. Women go thought a lot more emotions than men do. That is why exercise is so important I really should go work out today.

Ready set let the journey begin.

Be prepared for day's like this

STRESS! There is no good way to say it, but plain stress. I am a stress eater big time. Today was a great example of what not to do when stress hits. I shoved food in my month with not even realizing how much I consumed. They are not lying when they said comfort food. So now this is a hurdle I am going to have to think about and have a back up plan. And then on top of all that I had no time to eat lunch. So what do you do you grab what is quick like the candy bar.

Plan,plan, and plan more. You need to plan your day, plan your meals,and plan, plan, plan. It is like when you have no set goal in life. You have nothing, but a huge void, with no direction. No wonder I set my self up for to fail.

I have no planned dinner time, no planned menu, no planed anything and then there is just plain stress of what to do with no plan.

What I need to do is have a drawer full of health snacks for day's like this. When I have been booked solid with calls and the stress hits. So look I have another short term goal. Let me search for some healthy snack I can save in the drawer. Stayed tuned for Snacks list to have on hand.