SHEs Organized

Welcome! This is a thread about gaining and maintaining strength for our wonderful calling, Homemaking. As we care for our own health, we grow more capable and competent to care for our families, our neighbors and our communities. As we become more effective, our hopes for ourselves and those we care about get the best chance!

We've posted recently about following healthful lifestyle changes, challenges we have given ourselves, getting sensible medical care/tests/proactive steps, trying to form good habits like enough sleep or hydration, trying to break some other habits and creating healthy meals. Please join right in!

It's the quarter mark of the year! GASP! How are you doing on your personal challenges and plans?

Maybe it's a good time to set new goals or start new record keeping!

I did ex.10 mi. On ex. Bike 30 min. On gazelle while catching some of Foyles War on net flicks just before bed for this it was great timing.
The benifit ... bs was perftct #96 this morning.

I am very discouraged b/c y'all knew me when I weighed 40 pounds less, and it has just gotten worse and worse as time goes on.
I obviously have no willpower whatsoever re: food, and dh is no help at all in the realm of healthy eating.
However, the good news is I am down a pound from the first day of March, and I am down 1.5 pounds since April 1, 2014.
So... here we go again...

Jan. -- (first day of the month weigh-in) 165, exercised 11 days, approx. 11 miles
Feb. -- 165, exercised 5 days, approx. 5 miles
Mar. -- 165, exercised 9 days, approx. 10 miles

So... will try to improve on the # of exercise days and increase the amount of water I drink. That is my April goal.

Got a walk in 2day.

Don't be discouraged, lucylee. Those are great goals and you are moving forward.

Thanks, runkitty. Yesterday I walked outdoors, 2 miles... Today, 15 min walk away the pounds.
Water -- 1 16oz glass yesterday, trying to add more today.

We know so much more about supposed "lack of willpower" now than we used to.
lucylee, snag a book or two about sugar/carbs cravings, especially the newer ones, either at library, amazon's look-inside pages, or purchase. I wish I could just reach through the screen and hand you the one I had recently purchased by Mark Hyman, opened to the chapter, "Why Are We Losing the Weight Loss Battle" and the clever subheading he titled, "Food Addiction and Biology (aka Stop Blaming Yourself!)" on page 29. But there are a lot of books out there now that help to understand it.

There are reasons for why we are still hungry right after a meal, even Big Mac, Fries and Coke. And why we will just eat more sugars at the meal that follows a previous meal that had sugars.

Dr. Hyman says that the untruth of "personal responsibility" for this, being placed on the shoulders of individual persons, is "propaganda" because the food industry spends huge $ to intentionally create cravings and addiction so that the individual will fail. There are cravings experts - biochemists - working hard on this as their job. They know the cravings are biochemical and how to make them stronger.

"It makes me furious to see patient after patient blame himself or herself for his or her weight problems and diabesity.... ... how can the food industry point the finger at you for not taking personal responsibility?"

I got a med walk in today.

Will definitely look into the book, Harriet, if you think KNOWING better will actually make me DO better. I have my doubts.
Sorry you're feeling so miserable with the cold/infection. You take care of yourself! Lots of folks gonna be needing you soon!

Whew -- pizza -- ugh -- DH was right. Up TWO complete pounds overnight! It is so frustrating when I am doing better w/exercise to see numbers rise like that... and I ate almost NOTHING yesterday, UNTIL I had 3 slices of pizza. Meat lovers.

Today will probably have to stick with indoor exercise -- man is mowing the yard right now and that is just too much for my allergies.