IntuitiveEater

it’s TOM and am not very comfortable today.   Supposed to do weights and my walk/jog, but it’s not gonna happen.  I may however, do some weights at home where I will be more comfortable and might play on my WII (I have WII Fit and love it).  We just bought MLB and also the new Madden but I dont’ like football so I don’t really care about that one.  Next month NHL comes out on WII so we will have that and in October Jillian Michael’s comes out WII which I will also have (can’t wait) I have party to go to on Sunday (my daughter is having her kids names changed to her husband’s last name, their biological father wants nothing to do with them, luckily they are so young (4 and 5)  and only know her husband as Daddy so her MIL is having an “adoption” party) and a benefit on Sunday for a man with throat cancer that will have 4 bands on Sunday so I’m hoping everything will be gone by them.   Everyone have a great week….

Since I’ve be reading Intuitive Eating and gave up the “diet mentality” and eat mindfully and healthfully (is that a word??)  at least 90% of everyday if not more I have been able to put more concentration into what I really enjoy doing working out.  I absolutely love weightlifting and wish I could it everyday.  I love the way my body feels afterwards (even the slight pains the next day).  Sunday I did my bench press routine I came up with.   I have what I refer to as 3 different grips on the bar - normal, wide and close.  The bar itself is probably 10 lbs or more so I add a 5 lb weight on each side and do 15 reps of each grip in a very slow controlled motion, take a very short (15 secs or so) and do another 15 reps of each.  I especially like doing the close grip because it targets the triceps real good.  After I did those I got my 5 lb dumbbells and did side lat raises and front lat raises, love those too..love everything about weight lifting.  Monday we were supposed to go to cardio but my honey had to get his skates sharpened (he had a hockey game at 9) and I decided to take a day off and rest my body.  Tuesday we went to the gym and did upper body weight machines - incline chest press, overhead press, lat raise, lat row and lat pulldown (yes, I love to work the lats, I have a very strong upper back).  That took about 1/2 an hour because I don’t mess around doing my weights, it’s more like circuit training, very little rest between sets and machines (have I mentioned I LOVE WIEGHT LIFTING). 

Instead of doing our cardio at the gym after weights we drove home and I did my walk/jog.  Legs hurt a little yesterday doing but I plugged through.  Did it in 27 1/2 minutes.  It probably would have been the 26 1/2 I did last time but I had to wait for a truck to cross the road and I had to stop walking a couple of times because my HRM would give me a reading (I take it after every jog when I go into a walk and again before I begin the next jog).  I must have run faster on my jog part due the song that was playing and didn’t realize it because my HR was up to 89% of max.  Okay, must walk a little longer before next jog.  Usually by the time I have to go into my walk it’s at 82-86% of max.  My body tells me when to go to a walk and I listen to it.  My honey’s jaw was bothering him so he just rode is bike around the block twice, hopefully next time he can do it with me I really want to get him jogging.

So, my routine is now MWF, cardio for 45-60 minutes (I like split it between one of the ellipticals, there’s 3 different kinds at the gym, and a walk on the treadmill), T,Th,Sat, weights at the gym and my walk/jog at home (weather pemitting) and Sunday will try to rest.  Unless of course for some reason I don’t get Saturday in I will do it on Sunday.  I have to start doing more jogging on the treadmill because I can’t do the walk/jog at my house once the weather changes.  For one, I’m a baby and hate being in the rain, cold, etc.  Also, there are no sidewalks and the roads are very narrow and when it starts to get darker early I can’t be out there in the dark (no street lights way out in the middle of no where).  It’s easy to push myself on the road cuz I have to do it to get home so I’m hopeful between now and then it will get easier to jog and I can take it to the treadmill and have an easier time running on the treadmill than I have had. 

Oh, can’t wait until tomorrow when I get to lift again (have to talk honey into going by the “big boys” and doing free weights, what an adreneline rush to pump iron!!)

Thursday I was sitting on the deck listening my MP3 because I wasn’t hungry yet and everyone else was cramming food down their throats like someone was gonna take it way when I got an urge - to do a walk/jog around the block. I live way out in the hilly country so there is no really flat road, no sidewalks. As a matter of fact my warm up walk and the end of my going around the block are both hills…the first being much smaller than the second. So I put on my gym clothes, got my HRM watch and set off..I think it’s almost 2 miles around the block and the first walk/jog took me 29 minutes (the fastest I’ve walked it is like 36 or 37 minutes). I began with a walk up the small hill and then picked a spot to jog to. I didn’t make it that far so I made by jogs a little shorter and probably walked more than jogged but that was okay with me for the first time. I was excited I was even doing.

Today I went I back and actually cut my time down by 2.5 minutes!!! So I must have been jogging more than walking!!! My body tells me when to go back to a walk and sure enough when I check my HRM it’s about 83-86% of my max so I pick a spot to walk to and then check my heart rate and begin again. I’m hopeful if I can do this everyother day it will improve over time and I can jog further and walk less. It will be hard when we go to the gym this and don’t get home until later. I guess I will have to try to push myself to the same thing on the ‘mill but it’s easier to push myself out on the road cuz if I want to get home I can’t stop.

I love how I feel out there on the road and this is just what I needed to give more confidence that I can jog and it will get better.

I started trying to get back my lean self back about 3 years ago.  First I tried the Six Week Body Makeover, that lasted a whole 2 weeks.  See, I don’t have problem with carbs, fatty fried food, salt etc.  I didn’t like not being able to have my rye bread, a whole egg, vanilla soy milk which I love in cereal, oh yeah cereal too…it was just way to restrictive for me and once we started going to the gym 5 days a week I was famished so that ended that.  I started the calorie counting thing and did good at that and lost roughly 40 lbs in less than a year.  Then everything comes to a stand still.  I just maintained that weight for approximately 1 1/2 years.  It got very frustrating for me, no matter what I tried that stupid number wouldn’t budge and nothing was shrinking on me anymore, just frozen.  I lost my passion for working out, it became a chore so we started barely going.  Sometime during February and April of this year I put 15 lbs. back on.  Started back on the calorie counting thing all over again.  Lost a few but then it would go right back up a few.  Started getting frustrated again.  I hated that I was not eating things I truly enjoyed because they were considered “bad food” even though when I did have them I didn’t overeat. 

About a month ago I stumbled upon a book called “Intuitive Eating”.  I got it for my birthday this month and it is the most interesting book I have ever read.  It’s not a diet book, it’s an anti-diet book with 10 principals that you learned overtime, your time, however much time it takes you to work your way through each one.  They are:

1. Reject the Diet Mentality
2. Honor Your Hunger
3. Make Peace with Food 
4. Challenge the Food Police .
 5. Respect Your Fullness 
6. Discover the Satisfaction Factor 
7. Honor Your Feelings Without Using Food .
 8. Respect Your Body 
9. Exercise–Feel the Difference 
10 Honor Your Health

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Since starting to read this book I have come to love working out again and enjoying food that has been “off limits” because the “rules” say it’s “no allowed”.  There is no more guilt if I eat a donut or 2 pieces of pizza for dinner.  I honor my hunger and follow the 10 principals.

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