Archive for the ‘Weight Management’ Category

Your Daily Meal Plan for Your Weight Loss Journey

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Since each of us is different, our bodies all have their own nutrition needs.  Do you know what your body needs for a healthy diet?

Most of us don’t know.  The truth is, the amount of food our body physically needs is much less than what most Americans eat per day.  After we know, and accept, the amount of food we actually need, it is much easier to accept that we overeat for other reasons.

I found a great calculator by the US government that gives you your daily calorie needs for your age, sex, height, and weight.  After entering this data, it gives you a .pdf sheet with not only the calories for the day, but also the types of food for a day and minimum exercise.

For example, here is daily intake plan for a 60 year old female, 5 foot, and 220 pounds (which will produce a weight loss at an acceptable rate):

Daily Plan for 60 years, 5', 220 lbs Woman - 1600 cal/day

Daily Plan for 60 years, 5', 220 lbs Woman - 1600 cal/day

Then, to help you to use this plan, they give you a sheet to help plan and track your food intake during each day:

MyPyramid Worksheet

Very nice tool to help you choose what you plan for your daily nutrition needs.  If you already know your daily calorie intake goal, you can go to this table of links to Calories Results and Food Tracking Worksheets for 1000-3200 calories per day (in increments of 200 calories).

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Someone Stole My CHEESE! What do I do?

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

Who Moved My Cheese” boldly leap out at me while glancing up from work the other day. It got me to thinking how this book pertains to all facets of life, including our reasons for weight gain.  Simply stated, when someone moves our ‘cheese’ what do we put in place of it?

What is our ‘cheese’? It is whatever feeds us – love, friendship, laughter, accomplishment, self-esteem – the list goes on and on. When our ‘cheese’ seemingly disappears, what do we put in place of it? Those of us with emotional eating patterns use, you guessed it, FOOD – and not the healthy kind (chuckle).

Watch this short video I borrowed from smallerindiana. I think it explains it all.

So what do we do when one of our ‘feeding’ grounds moves?  Do we sit there and gorge to try to not think about it, or do we get  proactive and go out in search of it again – in another place, probably in another way.

I really would like to hear your thoughts.  Leave a comment and share your veiwpoints.

 Someone Stole My CHEESE! What do I do?
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