Do what I do

You know sometimes as a parent you feel like your talking to yourself.The kids might be standing right in front of you even looking at you and still they don't hear a word you are saying.So I have been pleasantly surprised to see a change in their attitudes since I have taken on the Body for life challenge.Our youngest has been running with me every other day (one day is muscle fitness the alternate day is cardeo, which I am doing in the form of teaching myself to run.)She is a very pickie eater so it was a great surprise to see her appetite increase with the amount of exercise she is getting.She is a chatterbox when we are alone so it's great company.The water I have been buying has been disappearing faster than I was drinking and I happened upon my son downing one of my bottles.This too was a change as he would be happier drinking pop!Small things in the big picture but in the right direction.Maybe that old saying "Do as I say, not as I do..." is not true.Maybe kids don"t always listen but they are paying attention. Who knew
See you next week
Linda

Who Knew !

I can really feel a difference this week.The changes are starting to make themselves known.Aside from the soar muscles and tiredness I feel good.We have some great people in our school to turn to when things get hard or confusing. Sifu Masterson is a great source of information on weight training.She has had some great suggestions.During the week I was really bottoming out after my workouts.I felt depressed and worn out.I went to her and explained how I felt and she had a few things for me to try, along with encouragement.The diet is still challenging but getting better.This weeks lesson was how much my diet relates to my work out.They definitely go hand in hand. See you next week...

Linda

Old habits are hard to over come

I find myself here this morning reviewing my week and beating myself up. I have fallen back into an old diet pattern. Those of you who have never really dieted won't recognize the starvation pit (starting the yo-yo pattern).IF your following a set out program that is going to make you lose wieght, well by not eating as much on the program must be better, faster. So half way through the week my work out partner pointed out that I had missed two suppers already this week.It was enough to make me stop and think... maybe it was a few breakfasts as well.I had eaten at least half a protein bar with the intention of making something else on the list later in the morning when I had more time.HA! Mistake number two. I really have to work on not breaking promises to myself.I have had a life time to prefect this,so who will know the difference anyway. I will.
Scratch week number two on the diet and start fresh tomorrow.(Sunday is a day off both exercising and following the diet on the body for life program)
The exercise part of the program has gone very well this week so I will give myself a pat on the back for that.Exercising is almost addicting don't you think? It sure makes me feel good!
Talk to you next week

Linda

Body for life challange

Well after two months of putting up obstacles and excuses I am finally started.A twelve week challenge of both mental and physical strength. The idea is to change the way I eat and exercise.I have not taken this challenge on lightly. I have been on many diets (that's putting it mildly) in my life and have had minimum success and have always gained the weight back.
So here goes, I have found a partner to do this twelve weeks with me. I never really have enough push by myself, so hopefully having someone else to keep me in line will help. I am posting this in hope that all of my fellow students will also keep me accountable. I am keeping a record of my daily exercise routine so I can track my ups and downs.Also there is a very specific way I must eat for the twelve weeks in order to build muscle and loss fat.
I started September 1 and will go until December 1 for the challenge and I hope that I feel so wonderful that I cam keep it as part of my life.
The first week has been very busy with my kids going back to school and incorporating the exercise routine that the week just flew by.I found the exercise refreshing and the diet challenging.I have a bit of a sweet tooth so giving up sugar is very hard.Also I feel like ten glasses of water is almost like drowning. I can tell you where every bathroom is within ten km. of my house. I hope this gets easier. I really don't like water.
Anyway I promise to keep up my postings once a week,this way you can see how I am doing and give me a kick if need be.( side heel thrust? well... maybe not that hard,see you next week

Linda

P.S. If you would like to learn more about the challenge you can go to bodyforlife.com

see ya