Posts Tagged ‘Truth’

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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Kirsty Alley Falls Off the Weightloss Journey Wagon

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

The headline read “Kirstie Alley: ‘Yes, I Gained 83 Pounds‘”  WHAT?? She had lost and looked so good when I started Jenny Craig!  What happened?

Kirstie Alley

Kirstie Alley

The PEOPLE article goes on to say “When Kirstie Alley stepped on the scale for the first time in 15 months, it wasn’t pretty. “I started screaming,” recalls Alley, sipping homemade fruit-infused water in her Hollywood kitchen. “It said 228 lbs., which is my highest weight ever. I was so much more disgusting than I thought!”

Not Kirstie! I would do that, but not Kirstie! So did she blame Jenny Craig? NO. She stated the truth – once her agreement with Jenny was done, she did not have the ACCOUNTABILITY of weighting in every week.  She had that loaded thought that sabatages all of our weight loss journeys: Now I can eat what I want and not worry about weighing in.

That is how it ’starts’ for all of us.  We have a small thought and our rebellious side says – WOW go for it.  And we stray off the path, going a little further and a little further until one day we look up, and wonder ‘How did I get back here?’.  For me it was a vacation to my home town.  I had lost 25 pounds in 3 months. While there I said, out loud, I am on a vacation from my diet. My subconscious rebellious side took that for a go ahead.  I stopped by the grocery store, bought a two layer white cake loaded with icing, and ate it all in 2 days time. It took me 3 months to get back on the path I had set for my weight loss journey.

What is Kirsty planning now? To ‘get back on the horse.‘ To hire a personnal trainer, get back into an exercise routine, and start eating the healthy foods in smaller portions.  Doesn’t that make you feel better? It does me.  It helps to motivate me to pay more attention to my weight loss journey, to go over my reasons I started it, and to continue on to the end.

The only way you can fail is to Quit.

Do you have a story you can share? Leave a comment.  It may help someone else.

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