Step by Step, How I Made Progress

                                                Step by Step How I Made Progress

My daughter in law, Cara read my blog and then she commented that she thought people might want to know how I actually lost the weight I did and so I told her I would write another blog with the specific information.

Before I continue, I want to say this, that my journey may not work for well for you.  You all have to find a way to make your own life style changes.  I will share what I am doing that is working for me.

September 25th, 2012 I stepped on the scale for the first time in quite awhile.  I wrote down that number and I swore to myself not to get discouraged or upset with myself but to keep moving forward to health. I write down my weight once a week.  Then I said to myself, diets don't work for me, I will make some changes that I hope to keep.  I will continue to exercise and I will cut down on bread and sugar.  So that is how I started and the weight started to come off.  On October 15th, 2012, I started using a nutri-bullet blender.  Five to Six Mornings a week, I make a drink for breakfast that is half spinach and kale, half of a banana, apple and orange, frozen blueberries, put in filtered water, than I add raw almonds and flax seeds.  The fruit take away the flavor of the greens and make it tasty in my opinion.

In January, my husband and I made the decision to go wheat/gluten free because of the findings that my husband read about in the book, Wheat Belly, written by Dr. William Davis.
I mainly eat protein, veggies and some fruit.   Occasionally I have rice or rice crackers or a non-gluten goodie.  But I don't make it a daily habit.  That is what I have been doing for going on 10 months.

                                               Jumping Ahead of Myself

So as I get closer to my goal for losing weight, I find myself thinking about how will I maintain a healthy weight, will I add this food or that food?   I decided to write about slowing myself down.  Since I agreed with myself that this is a life time project, I want to be with myself every day where I am.  I will try to figure out how to eat healthy and not lose anymore weight when that time is here.

Today, I just need to do all the healthy things in my life to maintain this lifestyle.  Exercise is in place and actually has been in place since 1996.  I write in my journal and I try to keep my connections alive and well in my life and online!  The big difference for me right now with this journey is being honest.  I have been a sneaky eater in the past and I don't want to continue that way of being with myself.  So now, I try to tell at least one person that I am struggling and now I have this blog where I am writing about my journey so here it is in black and white, I don't want to jump ahead of myself and I want to write and speak my truth.

                                        I Want To Eat Like This For The Rest
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What I realized this time for the first time in my adult life, that I wanted to eat this way for the rest of my life.  Before I would lose some weight and I always had the hidden agenda that I would go back to eating the way I had before!!!  Then the weight, the guilt, the roller coaster ride would begin again.

This time I understand, that yes, occasionally I can have something I really enjoy that I won't eat every day.  But most of the time I want to eat veggies, protein and fruit. I want to make my health drinks in the morning and I want to feel this good for the rest of my life!

How I Got Started

                                              Over The Rainbow And Back Again
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In late September of 2012 I realized that I wanted to get healthier. I had my exercise in place, my emotional  being was well taken care of.  You there are always some challenges but basically life has been even.   I needed to tackle my way of eating. I decided that I would not go on a "diet" but that I would eat healthier  So my first agreement with my self was that I was to cut way back on sugar and bread. I wanted to eat more simply, protein, veggies and fruit.

I have been doing this for 9 and a half months and I have lost alot of weight.  But what really made me write this blog is the way I still want to over eat on the weekends.  When I have structure of work during the week I manage really well, but on the weekends, it is as though everything I have gained and worked for gets a little more loose and crazy on the weekend. I usually end up gaining from 1-4 pounds back and then losing them again.  That is what I want to look at.
More later.

At Age 62 I see Light or Struggles of a Heavy Person Who Has Lost Weight

                                                     At Age 62, I See Light At The
                                                     End of the Tunnel
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                                                      Struggles of a Heavy Person
                                                       Who Has Lost Weight

A lighthouse is important it shows light so that boats do not crash onto the shore.
This is how I feel as I struggle to be healthy, and even though I have lost weight
I still  feel like a liar because I still think, thoughts that could sabotage what I am doing.  So I have this conflict of being successful at eating healthier and sometimes thinking about food as I did before.

I have learned  that when I have eliminated wheat and gluten that I have less sweet cravings, and really I am mainly eating, vegetables, fruit and protein.  I feel healthier, I look better but I still struggle.  So I wanted to write about my process and hope that it might be helpful to someone else who is trying to be healthy.

The last thing I want to mention is this:  we are physical, mental, emotional and spiritual beings.  So I know, I need to be healthy on all these levels.