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Created by: BiFYorkCpl Original Starting post for this thread:
Ok, have read a few posts for motivation and to "kick my own butt" to get going and lose this weight, so now I have a question or two: Since I tend to jump in too fast and then not follow through, I want to do this more slowly this time and have it last. I am walking, increasing speed and distance so far. I am adding more excersize to this. Are crunches even optimal? Do they work? Advice please (and please don't yell at me, I'm doing the best I can so far) Gina

Created by: BiFYorkCpl
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Ok, have read a few posts for motivation and to "kick my own butt" to get going and lose this weight, so now I have a question or two:

Since I tend to jump in too fast and then not follow through, I want to do this more slowly this time and have it last. I am walking, increasing speed and distance so far. I am adding more excersize to this. Are crunches even optimal? Do they work?

Advice please (and please don't yell at me, I'm doing the best I can so far)

Gina

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User Details are only visible to members.	Good, solid advice, thanks. I'll take that. GIna
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User Details are only visible to members.	Gina... 63 pounds/52 weeks means that she lost 1.2 lbs/week. This works out to shorting herself 600 Cal/day. By "shorting", I mean the net of consumed - burn. This can be done with a combination of exercise and diet. Small meals (every 3 hours) tend to allow the stomach to shrink and also to feel full with the smaller meals. The smaller meals also are a more natural (grazing) form of eating. I would shy away from making the schedule absolutely rigid. First, it can be life-disrupting. Second, it's not physiologic. This can be a very effective approach because it avoids large changes. The caution is that tight portion control is important, lest the smaller meals get bigger with the obviosu result. FL
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User Details are only visible to members.	Ok...a great workout two days this week, and walking everyday. now that it's warm, can go play tennis and do more too...it feels good to be more active. I know I get in "ruts" and become too sedentary. I read an article today where a woman lost 63 pounds, took her a year, just in changing to eating small meals/snacks every 3 hours...she would set her cell phone alarm and never deviate. If she wanted to, or knew that she would be going out w/ friends, then she just had something very light at "snacktime." I don't know if that would work or not, I think it would take a lot of experimenting to get it right, and I would probably want some help w/ the choices, but also being diabetic (I'm working on that...lessened meds from 3 times a day to only twice, and working on that even more...I'd like to be "med free."), it is optimal to eat less but more often. Ideas, if you have done this, or do this now. Gina
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User Details are only visible to members.	Consistency...that's my number one problem in this. I'll work on it. I might do an 8 week belly dance class this summer...in ADDITION to work outs, which I plan to keep up with. I'll post my workout schedule in that forum tonight. Sigh. I'm fine once I get going, it's just that initial kick in the butt to get going. G.
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User Details are only visible to members.	The most important aspects of fitness are commitment and consistency. Adjusting calorie intake, even modestly, eventually results in enormous weight reduction. Shorting oneself just 250 calories each day will lead to a weight loss of about 26 pounds in a year. The reverse is also true--and excess of 250 cal/day will put on 25 pounds in a year. Most decent workouts will burn at least 500 calories in an hour. Doing such a workout every other day will also burn 25 pounds in a year provided no additional intake occurs to compensate. Medically speaking, the exercise leading to increased aerobic capacity and strength pays a greater dividend than calorie reduction, although the combination will lose weight faster. Keep up the good work!
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User Details are only visible to members.	JNb. I took belly dance for a while it really worked my waist. In the morning I still do the hip movements to workout my waist. But I traded the belly dancing for a personal trainer.
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User Details are only visible to members.	Exactly. I'll repeat what I've said before: the heaviest part of me is my mind. When I can change my thinking along w/ my behavior, then that's true change and it will last. G.
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User Details are only visible to members.	Bif.. I agree you need to start somewhere. But sometimes people believe that just cutting out food for awhile is all that is needed. I have learned if you want long term results you need to change your whole perspective on food. Not just ways to deny yourself food for a period of time b.c in the end your going to go back.
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User Details are only visible to members.	I think the cutting out soda, chips, etc., is a good start though, and it gets you to find healthier alternatives and think about what KINDS of food we are putting into our bodies. I can say now (boy, you could not have asked me this last year) that I'm kind of thankful I developed Type II Diabetes...let me explain that statement: Now, if I eat french fries, I get sick. I mean "in the bathroom nonstop" sick. It took me a little while to figure that out, but now i avoid fries. And at first felt all "sorry for myself" that I couldn't eat them. Well, that emotion has evolved into finding things that taste good but are good FOR me. So, not only will I feel better about my body, I will feel better, period! As for portions and calories, ok...shrug...I need to work on that more. And it didn't take me a month or two to get to 178 pounds, it's also not going to take me a month or two to relearn every bad habit I've allowed myself to develop for the past 47 years. Just need to stop somewhere, start somewhere, and go forward. I do falter...and it almost ALWAYS is for emotional reasons. From the end of January until just a few weeks ago, I went through a depression and had a hard time. Now I'm feeling better, and will treat myself much better as a result. Too bad I can't learn to treat myself better FIRST, and then feel better as a result. I'm still learning that one. Gina
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User Details are only visible to members.	You are soooooooo right pretty lady! In truth despite what the commercials say there is no easy solution other than self discipline, eating healthy and working out. No pill is going to magically get you there. But it CAN be done. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the tat Poly girl!!!! shell
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