Tell me what are you good at...is it fitness knowledge, cooking healthy meals, are you motivating yourself well? What do you strive to be the best at?
For me, I enjoy group aerobics particularly step aerobics and body combat. On the other hand, I am a terrible cook! I hope to become someone who makes sure her schedule includes a minimum of 4 days of exercise each week (most of them being some fitness class).
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
What is your biggest fitness Weakness?
Where do you fall short easily? Knowing this will allow you to combat it! Is your diet good but supplemented with many beers a week? Is dessert your weakness? Are you eating healthy but portion size gets you everytime?
For me, my downfall is downtime and eating as a habit. I eat when I'm bored, happy, sad....I am rarely hungry....so if I'm not busy I am looking in the fridge! I have learned that if I keep healthy food around and limit the junk in the house that helps! My husband even stores his potato chip snacks at work to eat during lunch (because if I see them, I finish all of them...he can make them last for months)! However, just because I have healthy food doesn't mean I'll eat it.....so now I've learned I have to have it and I have to prepare it ahead of time (hard boil eggs, cut veggies in advance). This way I will not reach for the unnecessary unhealthy snack!
What is your health goal?
Alright! I have shared with you....now it is your turn. Comment and let me know what your health goal is. Perhaps it is a goal weight....or maybe a fitness habit, a diet change...you decide where you would like to start and let me know!
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Welcome to My Blog!
Hello! This blog is meant to serve two purposes. The first is to challenge myself to loose weight and improve my health while using this blog to track my success. The second is to provide knowledge and inspiration to myself and others in the process.
As a medical student, I meet people daily who are struggling to manage their weight. Many are dieting with little to no success and most of it is due to the inability to initiate and maintain a successful routine. I, too, fall into this category. So it dawned on me that if I couldn't help myself, it would be difficult to help anyone else.
Over the last four years, I gained 25 pounds. Approximately 6 pounds per year. I no longer fit into my largest clothes, and I felt miserable. When stated that way, the weight itself seems trivial....but if I were to continue that course I would weigh 250 pounds before turning 45 years old and the habits are already extremely hard to stop. That weight would become increasingly hard on my heart, my joints, and it would make it hard for me to work and play with my children.
So I am challenging myself to find an exercise routine that will get the weight off ASAP, but then transition to something I can maintain for life. I started the weight loss part of the journey January of this year, and have lost 10 pounds since with a low carbohydrate diet and a combination of group aerobics classes. However, I am finding that it is difficult to keep motivated and keep on track and I am starting to slide backward. I hope through this I can move forward.
As you follow this blog you can track my progress in the "My Journey" section, read about exercise options and health supplements as I learn more about them, and hopefully gain a thing or two from my research.
As I will be collecting research on topics that are less strictly studied, please take this information at your own risk and build upon it as you see fit. This is a trial for me too! Postings will be based on both opinion and fact. Also, please feel free to email or post your thoughts as I would love to hear from you!
As a medical student, I meet people daily who are struggling to manage their weight. Many are dieting with little to no success and most of it is due to the inability to initiate and maintain a successful routine. I, too, fall into this category. So it dawned on me that if I couldn't help myself, it would be difficult to help anyone else.
Over the last four years, I gained 25 pounds. Approximately 6 pounds per year. I no longer fit into my largest clothes, and I felt miserable. When stated that way, the weight itself seems trivial....but if I were to continue that course I would weigh 250 pounds before turning 45 years old and the habits are already extremely hard to stop. That weight would become increasingly hard on my heart, my joints, and it would make it hard for me to work and play with my children.
So I am challenging myself to find an exercise routine that will get the weight off ASAP, but then transition to something I can maintain for life. I started the weight loss part of the journey January of this year, and have lost 10 pounds since with a low carbohydrate diet and a combination of group aerobics classes. However, I am finding that it is difficult to keep motivated and keep on track and I am starting to slide backward. I hope through this I can move forward.
As you follow this blog you can track my progress in the "My Journey" section, read about exercise options and health supplements as I learn more about them, and hopefully gain a thing or two from my research.
As I will be collecting research on topics that are less strictly studied, please take this information at your own risk and build upon it as you see fit. This is a trial for me too! Postings will be based on both opinion and fact. Also, please feel free to email or post your thoughts as I would love to hear from you!
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