The plan starts today...
I have invited folks to blog on this site so please view often to see how everyone is doing. If you got an invite to join this team site and don't want to do it right away, save the email and join later. 10-8 has joined the diet blog team and I have a feeling we will be hearing from her soon.
I have been preparing for today. I had hubby blow up the "big blue ball," daughter showed me some good exercises to do with it and some small weights, I went grocery shopping after removing the junk that wandered in the cupboards when I wasn't looking, bought a new journal and I had hubby take a picture of me in my bathing suit.
Let me explain the bathing suit picture. It has a lot to do with the skewed image we have of ourselves--both physically and mentally.
I spent a while looking at the pictures before placing them in my diet/exercise journal. I felt the need to come to terms with the fact that as much as I don't like my body shape and weight, it is me. I can see in a picture what others see. I can also see what I like and don't like--I like my ankles and wrists, I don't like my thighs and abdomen and arms.
Looking at the picture was like looking back through time and taking inventory of a life: those thighs developed because I was a runner until my bladder repair and my doc said "quit running." The tummy is from my dad's side of the family. I remember standing around with my cousins in about 8th grade comparing our tummys--and we were all related on my dad's side. If you put different period clothes on me I could be either one of my grandmothers--the stout one from England or the stout one from Ireland. Since my father and mother are both first generation Americans, the stoutness hasn't been bred out of us yet--almost--if you look at the generation after my sisters and me! About the arms--those are my mothers!!!
The picture helped me be at peace with some things, realize that I can't fight others, and understand that this is going to have to be a long committment with my self. If you are willing to hang in there with me, I am willing to hang in there with you.
Hope you have all done what you need to do to prepare to be the best you, you can be! (Did I steal that line from someone?)
This is my plan for the first week: 6 days/week
Mon: walk 30 min weights
Tue: dance 60 min toning
Wed: walk 30 min weights (today)
Thu: dance 60 min toning
Fri: walk 30 min weights
Sat or Sun will walk for endurance
Next Monday I will adjust what I think needs adjusting but I am pretty much sticking to these activities. I am going to attempt to increase times on the walks by at least 5 minutes/week. The long walk on Saturday or Sunday will be a prep for some distance walking I want to do this summer. I will let everyone know what day I am going and if you want to join me, please do.
Those of you who are going on vacation--find some exercise to do while you are there!! Those of you, like me, who have hubby's trying to loose weight or get healthy--keep in mind that men are different than women and will lose weight faster and be more motivated. They love us and will understand that the best thing they can do for us is be supportive. Any of you husbands that want to team blog--plese let me know.
Good luck everyone!
I have been preparing for today. I had hubby blow up the "big blue ball," daughter showed me some good exercises to do with it and some small weights, I went grocery shopping after removing the junk that wandered in the cupboards when I wasn't looking, bought a new journal and I had hubby take a picture of me in my bathing suit.
Let me explain the bathing suit picture. It has a lot to do with the skewed image we have of ourselves--both physically and mentally.
I spent a while looking at the pictures before placing them in my diet/exercise journal. I felt the need to come to terms with the fact that as much as I don't like my body shape and weight, it is me. I can see in a picture what others see. I can also see what I like and don't like--I like my ankles and wrists, I don't like my thighs and abdomen and arms.
Looking at the picture was like looking back through time and taking inventory of a life: those thighs developed because I was a runner until my bladder repair and my doc said "quit running." The tummy is from my dad's side of the family. I remember standing around with my cousins in about 8th grade comparing our tummys--and we were all related on my dad's side. If you put different period clothes on me I could be either one of my grandmothers--the stout one from England or the stout one from Ireland. Since my father and mother are both first generation Americans, the stoutness hasn't been bred out of us yet--almost--if you look at the generation after my sisters and me! About the arms--those are my mothers!!!
The picture helped me be at peace with some things, realize that I can't fight others, and understand that this is going to have to be a long committment with my self. If you are willing to hang in there with me, I am willing to hang in there with you.
Hope you have all done what you need to do to prepare to be the best you, you can be! (Did I steal that line from someone?)
This is my plan for the first week: 6 days/week
Mon: walk 30 min weights
Tue: dance 60 min toning
Wed: walk 30 min weights (today)
Thu: dance 60 min toning
Fri: walk 30 min weights
Sat or Sun will walk for endurance
Next Monday I will adjust what I think needs adjusting but I am pretty much sticking to these activities. I am going to attempt to increase times on the walks by at least 5 minutes/week. The long walk on Saturday or Sunday will be a prep for some distance walking I want to do this summer. I will let everyone know what day I am going and if you want to join me, please do.
Those of you who are going on vacation--find some exercise to do while you are there!! Those of you, like me, who have hubby's trying to loose weight or get healthy--keep in mind that men are different than women and will lose weight faster and be more motivated. They love us and will understand that the best thing they can do for us is be supportive. Any of you husbands that want to team blog--plese let me know.
Good luck everyone!
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