Just a reminder, Jay, of something you no doubt know: you can make the best of each situation that presents itself. E.g. if you're eating fast food, you can usually get something else besides fries with the meal - a salad, chili, etc. Also you can get a double instead of a triple, a single instead of a double, leave off the cheese, leave off the bacon, leave off the mayo, etc. And you don't have to do *all* of these; if you do *any* of them, shave off a few calories & fat grams from what you'd normally do, that's a win. Similarly with water or unsweetened ice tea in place of Coke, etc.
Pile up the little wins one meal at a time, and then ALSO get the bigger wins of workouts, walking, etc. -- and you can't help but get where you're going.
This blog will be my way of tracking my own fitness goals. I will post every day what I ate at each meal and how much and what types of exercise I've done.
Some strategies:
Eating: As soon as possible, I will begin to use the Weight Watchers point system to manage my eating. I've done this before and lost weight and it seems like a good plan for me. I will try to note these numbers in my posts as well.
I will also follow the five eating rules in Bob Greene's book Total Body Makeover:
Have an eating cut-off time. Mine will be 8:00 pm.
Eat a nourishing breakfast. I'm terrible about this.
Drink a minimum of 6 glasses of water per day.
No alcohol. I'm not a drinker at all, so this won't be a problem.
Make eating a conscious act: no mindless snacking.
Exercise: I will exercise every day. I will try to make it to the gym 3 times per week. On nights that I don't go, I will walk around my neighborhood at least 2.5 miles.
My workouts will be taken from the aforementioned Bob Greene book. It's pretty good.
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Just a reminder, Jay, of something you no doubt know: you can make the best of each situation that presents itself. E.g. if you're eating fast food, you can usually get something else besides fries with the meal - a salad, chili, etc. Also you can get a double instead of a triple, a single instead of a double, leave off the cheese, leave off the bacon, leave off the mayo, etc. And you don't have to do *all* of these; if you do *any* of them, shave off a few calories & fat grams from what you'd normally do, that's a win. Similarly with water or unsweetened ice tea in place of Coke, etc.
Pile up the little wins one meal at a time, and then ALSO get the bigger wins of workouts, walking, etc. -- and you can't help but get where you're going.
Rock on!
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