exercise
2 kilos gone in a week…with ice cream
I did not starve and I drank wine and had ice-cream and chocolate as well. And a couple of cookies and a real junk food meal – KFC with chips and coleslaw! Yep. I did take the skin off the chicken and used organic tomato sauce from Woolies with the chips 
Really, I just had more raw vegetables and a little more fruit in between all the high carb food and I ate alkaline as far as I could. It is a great way to think. Thinking alkaline. And of course, I have been exercising in the pool for an hour a day, five times in seven days. My absolute best. So weightless and divine, but boy am I feeling stronger! Very yum with wasabi mayo.
Take a tortilla (ok that’s acid) /thin crepe/lettuce leaf, whatever, and cut up some veggies into strips. Spread wrap with some wasabi mayo/cream cheese/cottage cheese/mayo and yogurt, again whatever you fancy, and fill with your veggies, roll up tight and cut on the diagonal. And just because you have cut up a lot of veggies, you put them on the side and eat them as well. This was one of my snack-lunches.
This morning was a banana (alkaline) after one hour of Water Babes and a little while later 2 small slices of olive ciabatta toast, drizzzled with olive oil and a cup of black Italian Roast freshly ground coffee, no sugar. If I did take sugar I would have used Stevia or Xylitol. And if I was desperate and had no sugar I would have dipped a clean spoon into the coffee and put it into whatever sugar (preferably muscovado or demerara) and had a wet teaspoon of sugar in my coffee. Very rarely though.
I am heading for a green smoothie at 12. All alkaline. Watercress, rocket and some lettuce, with an apple and a some ginger, blended with some cold water. I will also put some almonds in water in the fridge to soak.
Activity will be a little more than usual today. Normally I sit and write or sit and stand to paint, so I really am sedentary most of the time, but today I am going to start packing for the new farm house. Everything that I need with NO CLUTTER!!! While I am decluttering my body I shall be decluttering my house, garage, carport, in fact, my life. Go to Flylady.net to see some excellent tips on how to declutter your life. Starting with a Shiny Sink (which I still don’t get right all the time). But I love to declutter when I get into it.
So, off to to have my green smoothie and then pack.
End of 2012…MOD and Obesity
It is the end of 2012… but not the end of the world, not yet. The solstice came and went, along with a slew of conspiracies and mixed expectations, and now I welcome the New Year, with its secrets and challenges.
I am doing something new, for this is the journal of My Journey to Healthy and Happy. I have a Plan that is hatching as I go… and a little sign that says Live the Life You’ve Imagined.
My many years of struggle with obesity (I will say it like it is), has come to a most spectacular place. This is the most I have ever weighed. Huge. So I have made a plan and I have asked for help. It is a good step I have taken. I now have a support team who, happily, agreed to let this Plan be openly and selfishly all about me. The team comprises my friend and assistant Kathy O and my ‘son’ JB, (he adopted me:) who is my personal trainer in the pool with oodles of noodles…and my arms are beginning to feel it already after two days.
These friends allow me ramble and they exercise with me and we all have a good laugh. It is so encouraging. I cannot thank them enough for agreeing to help me. No, I am not an island. They have taken photographs of me in my bathing costume, (I smiled and fooled around but I am not looking forward to seeing those pics) recording the momentous occasion marking my Grand Intention. Weights and measure have all been recorded and saved.
Why am I doing this?
If you eat 6 chocolate sweets, have two helpings of food, drain your wine glass in order to refill it and then have a large bowl of ice cream, with another chocolate afterwards, you would know why you are fat, yes? I saw this in a friend and then I saw it in myself. It was very sad and also quite an epiphany. We were living in denial and acting mindlessly. I saw how we were clinging to our many, various diet books, spouting information on great ways to lose weight, the nutritional value of foods, the protein carb discussion, the newest diet discovery. Our clever minds were filled with information overload and yet with years of reading and research, trials, tribulations and failures, we were still (I will say it again) obese. Still struggling. Still stuffing our faces and getting more and more stressed and upset about our weight.
This experience got me thinking very deeply and the only thing I could think of to do to help myself and hopefully others in my position is to blog an honest journey on this road I’m travelling, while I face myself. Face facts and deal with them honestly, as best I know how.
I have devised an eating plan – MOD – My Own Diet. I would urge any and every overweight person to do the same. Make it up from good information, good sense and your own desires. Work your favourites into your daily life. As I go along on this Blog, my discoveries will be written up here.
My exercise routine includes exercising in the water – weightless what bliss! A full massage as I run and leap like a ballerina in the water. The second exercise is in a chair. Yes, seated exercises for the obese, the frail, the disabled, the recuperating, for the office and even the lazy. Ask Aunty G (Google) and go to YouTube where you will find a plethora of wonderful little exercise snippets from a few minutes to nearly an hour. Yoga in a chair is lovely. There are even seated Sun Salutations a-plenty. Because of these chair exercises, I actually did some exercise today on my day off and it feels good.
So the first step of the Plan has made its appearance. Today is the first day of the Journey.
Step 1: Make up your own MOD then Ask for Help and Share your Plan
Next: The Food Plan