I'm alive!

Getting the ball rolling ...
I'm alive!  Simply I have ..... busy.  I Know.  How boring and me.  Anyway, I thought I would pop in & say hello.  Let you know how things evolve.  In my typical, anal retentive, fashion, bullet/number my way through this conversation. Lol

1) so I took my message per day from the universe (www.tut.com) via email this morning.  Here is what he said:

You are asked to pass in a Word, Heather, from your friends closer to unseen ...


"whooohooooooo!"


Hooligans

the universeI know because it gives me a great "whoooooohooooo" this morning?  Since yesterday, for the first time ever I win my husband in a race!  I Know.  Amazing, right?  This shocked the hell out of us, too.  In fact, I'm not sure what we were shocked.  I thought that he handed it to me.  This makes it not done so.  I wrote about this in my blog if you want to read all of the amazing, amazing, deprived of details by clicking here.  :)

2) speech running blog, your hosts a competition over there.  The prize is an active knee wrap ice & heat wrap.  Pretty much anyone who performs regularly edynato to have hands.  If you want to enter, read all about the www.willrunforcoffee.com on.

3) Is official.  Gluten is trying to kill me.  I could rattle hours and hours on this subject, but it'll do.  I don't have the time, energy or reasonable to do so.  Allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll by intestinal issues you've had over the years ....because of gluten.  Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, barley, and sometimes oats is being contaminated with it.  It seems to me to have an astronomy intolerance for things.

Still trying to figure out how to make it through life without.  During the weekend, I totally has been blown up.  100% off of all kinds healthy eating coach possible.  What happens to the best of us.  Of course, I am suffering for my actions today.  Nothing like pain can get ya back on track!  I found many wonderful gluten free (GF) products out there.  Do no we will not be able to switch from five children and Chow down on a burger with my family as a normal man.  This is so different from the set of "is your choice to eat what you want and lose weight or keep weight Off" concept.  This is just as awful as my (multiple) food allergies, and so it seems very limited throughout the year now.  You we will by many products, even healthy, wholesome products contain gluten.

Until now, I'm busy feel completely screwed.  Kylisma.  Throw a pity party, left and right.  This is a dramatic and almost a year of full-time to keep pace with myself at this point.  It will eventually get over it, to learn to Cope, or something. For now, I'm in a State of mourning and anger.  Why am I?  Why are my MANY doctors over the years included?  After the surgery.  After numerous "range".  Tests.  Sigh.   Why am I?  Why am I?  Why am I?  As if I don't have enough piling high in fun themes!  Uggg!

What number is with bullet points ...4?  Yes, 4.

4) Sewing.  All I want to do in my free "me time" either a or b) runs) sew.  I am sure it is some sort of therapy I am not completely cognitive of the moment.  I don't have much free time, so that this poses a problem wants vs. needs.  I began documenting some of the projects my sewing at www.SoHeatherSews.com mainly made this my mom could keep track of all the things that I do.  However, it was kind of fun to go back to see what you all have done in my spare time. Although only started the blog a few weeks ago.  My fellow Peeps sewing, feel free to check out if/when you have time.  I did my curtains for the kitchen and a guest bedroom on the weekend.  You need to snap some pictures & update the site later today.  To say honestly, I'm sick of sewing curtains. I'm ready to move on to another project.

5) "Crud" finally hit me.  Every child and my husband was sick twice since Thanksgiving.  I managed to escape.  I chalk up taking vitamin D, B12, C, exercise, eating well, getting plenty of healthy oils with my diet, drinking ToNOYS water (and coffee), washing my hands of 72 times per day and getting enough sleep.  I suppose once a disease is better than others in my family have already been through this winter.  Still trying to recover fully.  The feeling of the elephant sitting in my breast grew old during the first 5 seconds.  I think I am day 5 now.  One of the cherubs is now.  I am sure the other two in the household will follow shortly.  warning: stay away from us our laid-back affair & air! Lol

Happy 6) 9 year goal weight (approximately) the anniversary for me!  I close my 9th year to maintain weight.  Holy hell!  I never thought that I can say.  However, I said "never again" after I've lost weight.  I never wanted to go with the way things were.  I have so much to say about losing weight, but there isn't enough time in my day to spit it all.  Managing my time very well.  This is not an issue that causes too much from this vs. that.  It is a matter of living my life the way I live, and that means not writing here, as I wish.  Part of me are no longer interested in weight loss.  Am I losing.  I have been for many years.  Another part of me knows it needs to keep my toes in the water as a reminder as to why I have such great success in keeping the weight off all this time.  I have no appetite to make new cooking videos.  That you do not need to make new recipes.  I am ready to enter a new phase of my life.  Who knows where in the world to me.  One door closes, so that others can open it, right?  You need to tell the "magic word" to the door open faster?

Packaging by ...
This is a little much.  We are currently fully unpack.  We've installed offices, and shelving, storage systems and Curtains, ... and the list goes on and on.  The great thing about the purchase of a 3-year-old House that was blocking ... It is like a blank slate.  Almost a year of life in large enough to create things.  This also means that nobody had time to perfect "for all new homes.  So we will have discrimination do want.  Let's see if I'm still feeling shredder, when we are months of yard work this spring and summer! Lol

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Week 3: design (menu dinner & daily intake)

Planning is key.  If you’re trying to muddle through this weight management gig thinking, “I don’t need no stinkin’ plan!”, you’re grossly mistaken.  You need a plan.  Otherwise, you wouldn’t be reading about weight loss would ya?  I can speak openly and honestly about this topic because I was one of those “no plan needed” thinkers.  Reading books about weight loss, popping pills for weight loss, half-assed attempts at on again, off again exercising for weight loss, counting calories with no regard to nutritional value of the calories consumed for weight loss – none of it seemed to be working for me.  Or…it would work for about 5 seconds, and then I would give up.  You know why?  Because nothing I was doing involved a plan for life.  Low and behold, I needed a solid plan.  Something I could follow forever. Within a week or two of joining Weight Watchers, I was (finally) a woman with a plan.  I learned that the “calories in, calories out” concept worked, but I needed more.   I wanted it to become part of me.  As if it were custom made for me.  The process of coming up with such a plan generally happens after being forced into a corner.  You see, I easily fall into traps.  The most common trap for me in the beginning, you’ll love this one, was the one where you consume all of your calories/Points too early in the day, and they you get to eat air for dinner.  [FYI: Air isn’t nearly as yummy as a well planned dinner.]  Clearly, something needed to change, and it needed to change FAST.  I could talk about planning ‘til the cows come home, so I’ll split the topic into segments to save your brain a bit of trauma.  Today, it’s all about daily intake and menu planning - which go hand in hand for me.  It’s “the big one” as far as planning goes.  If you know what you’re having for the most troublesome meal of your day, the rest of your day falls into place with ease (most days).  For me, that “trouble” meal would be dinner.   Finding this out about myself took a bit of trial, error, time, and keeping a daily food journal.  Dinner is my favorite meal of the day, for so many reasons.  Probably too many reasons to list here on my blog. It might stem from childhood.  That was really the only meal we ever ate together as a family, and I’m not sure how often that really happened because Dad was away a lot.  However, I have fond memories of coming home from school to the smell of dinner cooking.  Now that I’m an adult, dinnertime is when I sit and chat with the kids about school, friends, events, and so on.  Dinner is the meal I usually try all of the new recipes I’ve run across (I do not like missing out on yumminess!).  Dinner is spent catching up with my husband about work, family, plans, etc.  Did you feel that?  It was like an earthquake of the heart.  The emotion just poured and oozed out of me when I told you about my love for dinner.  To top it off, I can’t just skip a meal.  For one thing, I’d be really hungry.  Also, doing so is a metabolism killer.  My family is busy.  I don’t expect everyone to come up with another hour of their day (aside from dinner) to sit and catch up with me.  That’s simply not a possibility.  It’s dinner or bust.  So you can see how not being able to eat dinner with my family was eating away at me.  [ha, ha, ha…a pun!]  Once I realized I was missing out on the whole dinner experience, I went back through my daily food journal pages looking for details & clues.  It became clear that I was doing just what I mentioned earlier in this post.  Eating too much early in the day, and then there was simply no Points/calories left for dinner.  Yes, you can eat low cal veggies to fill you up, but night after night of that gets old FAST.  Especially if you feel deprived in any way, shape, or form.  Plus, there is pretty much nothing worse than watching your family consume all of the yummies you’ve made while you sit back and eat nothing but lettuce and various steamed veggies. It’s simply not fun to relive night after night.  In the middle of my fed up-ness, my mind instantly switched into budget mode.  This thing with calories is really no different than money, and I was determined to fit dinner into my world no matter what! 


What’s your highest bill each month?  Ours is the mortgage.  I make damn sure to have money set aside to pay it.  Money from our paychecks is dedicated to paying that bill loooong before anything else is paid.  I did the exact same thing with dinner.  I started planning for that meal first.  Literally filling out the dinner section of my food journal before breakfast was eaten.   The rest of the day sort of fell into place once dinner was planned.  The budget was successful.  Even if I have to do some creative shifting around with the funds (Points/calories) from time to time, I get the bills paid.  I might even have to go work some overtime/work a second job (exercise more/run an extra mile or two) to get the bills paid, but they get paid.  Sometimes, I hold off paying the cell phone bill (dessert) if I’m running a little short.  But I know I’ll pay that bill (get to eat dessert) very soon, and I won’t be charged a late fee.  It’s just on hold for that day (I’ll get to eat it Friday instead).  Budgeting!Now that dinner has been planned, it’s time to backtrack to breakfast.  I would like to start off with the topic of breakfast by saying….I’m not much of a breakfast fan.  I eat it.  There was a time when I did not.  Like so many others trying to lose weight, I honestly thought if I skipped meals, fat would fly off of my body.  Like so many others, I found out it works totally in the opposite direction.  I kept getting fatter, unhealthier, and feeling worse about myself with each skipped meal.  Again, it’s just not my favorite meal.  To this day, I’ll pretty much eat anything for breakfast just to have something in my stomach.  I’ve learned over time that an even mix of protein and carbs keeps me fuller longer.   I know I need to eat breakfast in order to rev up my metabolism.  Breakfast is called breakfast for a reason.  Break…fast.  Breaking- the-fast.  Your body has been in sleep mode, fasting away, for hours & hours.  From the last time you took a bite of food in the evening to time you wake up in the morning, you have not fueled your body’s fire.  In order to feed the flame (metabolism), you need to put a log on the fire (food).  It took a while to get used to eating breakfast.  I literally felt barfy the first few mornings doing so.  It had been years since I at anything that early in the day.  Before I knew what hit me, I found myself needing to eat in the morning.  Metabolism: ACTIVATED.  Now, I eat several times between waking up and lunch.  Fueling the fire!  And because I know how much of my caloric budget will be spend on dinner, I have a good idea how many I can spend on breakfast.  By trial and error, I discovered I function best with a certain number of Points/calories for breakfast each morning.   It works for me.  It keeps me full until snack time.  The snack, usually a cheese stick or fruit, lasts me until lunch.  Clearly, there’s not an emotional attachment to breakfast or snacks.  Just make a mental note of that.  It’s important because you’re going to see a pattern form before your very eyes in a minute.Dinner & breakfast have been planned.  Not it’s time for lunch.  For me, lunch is a breeze.  Because I know what I’m having for dinner & breakfast, I automatically know there are X amount of Points/calories to spend the rest of the day.  I usually eat leftovers. Or soup.  Or salad.  Or a sandwich.  I keep it light.  I make sure to add at least one piece of whole fruit and sometimes raw veggies if I need a little more “filler”.  Like breakfast, lunch isn’t that big of a deal to me.  It’s simply something I have to do.  Like an event that’s scheduled into my calendar each day.  I’m hungry.  I need to eat.  It’s almost annoying because I have to take time away from whatever I’m working on to pull something together (AKA: heating something in the microwave).   I’m still feeling mentally strong at this point in the day, and can focus on making healthy choices.  I am not tempted to overdo it at lunch.  Do you see it?  There’s not a strong emotional attachment to lunch, either.  Just like with breakfast or snacks.  Interesting.There’s structure to the madness of planning around a “trouble spot”.  You might have initially thought the trouble spots were breakfast and lunch since I was overdoing it during those meals.  However, I knew those meals were not important to me, other than the fact I must eat them for metabolic purposes.  I was only overdoing it because the concept of budgeting my intake had not fully formed in my brain.  Planning is key.  Knowing what you’re eating ahead of time is like a pair of Spanx for your daily meal plan!  It holds everything in place.  Planning is sometimes more of a process & not something you can instantly jump into (same with putting on Spanx!).  For the dinner planning situation, it took a little time to realize what the problem was.  Instead of me saying, “I need to start planning breakfast & lunch so I won’t use up all of my Points so early in the day…..”, I narrowed down where the problem was really stemming from. Dinner!   It’s was a double sided problem to boot.   It’s an emotional issue because of my love for the meal, and also for what the meal stands for in my life.  It made me sad when there wasn’t room in my day for it.  It’s not healthy to just skip a meal.  I had no choice but to face the dinner issue, no matter what, if I wanted to continue this journey.Breakfast, lunch and snacks followed once the dinner monster had been tamed.  Don’t run or back away from issues that pop up throughout this journey.  Running from problems is a behavior that helped get you to the unhealthy place in life you’re trying so hard to change.   So when you see me posting my kooky weekly dinner menu here on the blog from time to time, you know a little more about why I do what I do.  The dinner menu is a road map of sorts.  I would never get in my car, and just start driving around aimlessly.  Once you have a destination or goal, you need a map to get from point A to point B.  That’s what planning a dinner menu does for me.  It provides a roadmap for my day, my week, and my success with keeping the 80 pounds off.  It starts by helping in one isolated area, and then trickles down to help in so many other areas.  That dinner menu makes it so I don’t have to think come 5PM.  It also helps me figure out the weekly grocery shopping list.  If I know what I’m cooking for the week, I know what to buy while shopping.  To top it off, I’m not over buying at the store with the, “I might make ____ so I might need _____”, floating through the back of my head.   Obviously, sticking with a grocery list & not over buying while shopping, helps with a financial budget.   Not to mention, keeping the menu on my fridge keeps my kids and husband from asking me the ever-so-dreaded question……“WHAT ARE WE HAVING FOR DINNER?????”
This post isn’t about planning every breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, etc.  It’s not a micromanagement type of thing.  It’s not to teach you how to go about planning a dinner menu.  [All that takes is a post it note, a pen, and a good cookbook.]  This is about digging deep to figure out where your trouble spot is located, and giving that one problem area a makeover.  Narrow down what portion of your day is the hardest to deal with regarding meals.  Start planning around that one meal for a few weeks.  See if eases the stress of not sticking within your daily intake goal. 

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January wrap up. .. focusing on positive

How did the first month of the year for you? If you had to pick five "January positively, related to your research for a healthy lifestyle, what will be? Here's mine ....

1) Have metaferthika on a gluten free lifestyle to see if the horrible Stomach cramps/issues you've suffered for years & years, is probably a gluten intolerance.  So far, things are looking better!  I'm not 100% positive a gluten intolerance is the root of my problem, but feeling better for whatever reason it is good.  Obviously, there is something happening between my body & gluten because I had nearly a whole week just to no cramping.  Couldn't tell you the last time you had a week this last charge ".  is a terrible feeling!  After surgery, multiple intestinal scopes, allergy tests, etc., etc., etc., it is nice to see something triggered a change!

2) I ran 67 miles in January!  This is the most kilometres that I have done before my last half marathon in October.  Go me!  My aim was for 80-85, but I'm excited to 67.  Have documentation of each education runs on top of running my blog, www.willrunforcoffee.com.

3) started physiotherapy for my bum hip (Torn labrum).  I like to help me do has drills the healer.  The hip pain is still there (because the tear is still there), but decreased the level of pain that I'm in batches since I started PT.  Plus, I crazy powerful due to all the exercises!

4) you will be able to spend more time with my family.  More time is active.  More time in the kitchen.  Combine them all together, and have a happy mixture of less an agonizing context of life (for me, anyway).  Less stress means a healthier me.  Also means, I have a better change of target weight pointing around me, since I am not emotional eating.

5) I made a point to keep up with the 100 day challenge!  It was not nearly as easy as I thought it would be.  There were several days I stayed until 30 minutes later than I need to know to get in my 30 minutes of activity for the day.  Fortunately, physiotherapy exercises fits the Bill for this challenge. [Read more about the challenge here.]

If you don't find where anything positive throughout the month ...now is the perfect time to do this.  May we dwell on the negative life ' til the cows home, but God knows enough with the negative chatter is already on our intelligence.  Sometimes, a break from the voices within is a nice change of pace.  :)

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Weight Watchers PointsPlus Review: "healthy Controls" Make Me Smile

A simple and small motivator
is helping me better eating decisions.

Do you remember when you were a kid and you could "earn" stars in school? For me, the mother lode of earning potential star loomed large on my list of to-achieve: a chart of gold stars for good behavior that could see the entire class.

Now, what, you may be wondering, could that have something to do with my review of Weight Watchers?

When you use the tools for the detection of good health meeting guidelines set out as part of the Weight Watchers program (e.g., eating enough fruits and veggies, getting in your daily dairy products) you can check off the newspapers as you meet them. He ate an Apple? Check. Enjoyed an 8-ounce serving of yogurt? Check.

I don't use healthy controls, when I started to truth. I thought that I would like to know how many healthy choices I make through the day and still be able to meet them without checking them in this way. Well, on a whim, I decided to start their out of control. And you know what? It Works.

When you meet the minimum recommendation for any given control, it was "awarded" a smiley face next to the box. Now, I know that I'm a little long in the tooth to be motivated by the star system takes the gold, but I must admit, I get a thrill when a special smiley face.

Not ashamed to admit that at least one occasion I chose a food over another, in order to be rewarded my emoticon (snacks, I put down a reduced-fat cookies and switched to yogurt, so could realize my two servings of dairy per day.) My "good behavior" rewarded again ... just like the first grade!

The moral of the story? Sometimes the smallest things can help keep you motivated in your weight loss efforts. For me those little boxes and smiley faces are making my new habits a bit easier (and more fun!) to stick to.

Note: Weight Watchers has provided me with free access to the online version of their program and other tools, for me to complete my review of the new program PointsPlus. I am in no way be compensated by Weight Watchers.

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