keeping track of our daily exercise

Все мы стремимся выглядеть красивее, ощущать себя лучше и по возможности меньше хворать. Множеству для получения таких результатов возможно мешает лишний вес, у многих излишка веса даже слишком много. Пора подумать о вашем состоянии, заняться собой! Причин излишка массы обычно много это малоактивный современный образ жизни, работа за компьютером, изобилие жирной и нездоровой пищи, и т.д. Ожирение стало сейчас большой задачей для людей развитых стран и уже пора ее решать.

А решение одно - вым прийдется понять и вести правильный, нормальный образ ведения жизни. Только с помощью диет можно этого добиться, но если по окончании проведения диеты возратиться к предыдущему принципу питания, то возможно результата можно не получить, а можно сделать и того хуже. Необходимо получить все принципы здорового питания, понять какая пища хорошая, а что и какая плохая, разобраться в процессах, происходящих в вашем организме. Если имеется чрезмерный вес, вам необходимо выбрать хорошую диету, прекрасно подойдет кремлевская диета, достичь нормальных для ваших параметров показателей массы и дальше держать правильный вес, а это обычно намного труднее, чем его сбросить. Хорошо подобранная, подходящая для вас, диета поможет удерживать массу тела, а также избавиться от разных болезней.

Я приглашаю вас на сайт о диетах и похудении, где сможете найти подробные описания главных диет, рассуждения по поводу ведения, результатам, найдете отзывы опытных людей испробовавших эти и другие методы. И кроме всего этого в блоге увидите различные рецепты, подходящие под необходимую вам диету. Я приверженец низкоуглеводистой диеты, благодаря которой получил огромные параметры и с помощью которой я хорошо сбросил вес. Насайте есть полная таблица кремлевской диеты, в которой все продукты сортированы по типам и у продуктов показано содержание углеводов, на уменьшении которых и строится кремлевская диета. Помимо этого вы найдете множество и других методик похудения, диета по группе крови, однопродуктовые и другие. Изучив статьи на блоге у вас получится выстроить для себя нужный тип питания, у вас получится добиться нужных результатов и быть таким(ой), о чем вы и мечтали.

Хочу пожелать вам постоянно достигать результатов, выглядеть лучше и всегда быть полностью здоровыми.
Заходите на блог о диетах.

Name: Sarah
Age: 27 (in June)
Sex: Female
Where you live: Currently in Hervey Bay, moving to Cairns in June - Qld, Australia
Weight: About 127kgs, I'm not 100% sure.
Goal Weight: 70kgs
Exercise Plan: Walking
Goals: First goal is to get to 115, then 100 and then I'll go from there.
Comments/Questions: I have issues with my weight, I dont eat for hunger - ever. In fact I can't tell you the last time I was actually hungry. I grew up in an anti-fat household with an overweight mother and an emotionally abusive father.
I'm married with 2 kids.

In the 1990's, when I was in my thirties, I began riding a bicycle long distances. It gave me something to feel good about. I might have deep, seemingly intractable problems, but, I thought, at least I'm riding a bike. My legs took me to places that I couldn't appreciate at 55 miles per hour.

The bike and I traveled from New York City to Ocean Grove, down the Jersey shore. I did a solo ride from my apartment to my parents house in upstate New York over the course of four days. (No, I did not camp out. My other companion was my credit card, so I slept on real beds, showered in real bathrooms, and ate at real restaurants.)

In the mid 90's, I learned how to design web pages and subsequently developed a repetitive stress injury in my right arm. I'm nothing if not obsessive and compulsive. Stop work because my arm is about to fall off? Don't be ridiculous! Each week my chiropractor put my arm back together and each week I'd work with the mouse and get on the bike, never allowing any healing time.

I had to give it up in 1997. With much regret, I admitted that I had to chose my arm and my job over my bicycle. It took nine years for me to get back onto the saddle. Last summer I bought a new bike at a bike shop near my house. I'm in love again.

I'm hoping that it's a more mature love. One that doesn't hurt me.

Yesterday, I spent the day building a new website. I worked too long, made too many gif files, didn't stop when my arm began to get sore, and caused a flareup of the repetitive stress injury. Today, when I hopped on the bike to pick up the newspaper, my wrist and hand hurt.

At first I was confused. I hadn't ridden that much last week, but the poor bike had nothing to do with it. When I realized that I was behaving in the same old way, I decided to lay off the website for a day and try to absorb my lesson. That is, before I have to give up my renewed relationship with the old riding habit.

xposted: Blog, aim_highly, cycling

A few years back I read a book called Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self, by Frances Kuffel. In it she talked about how much she loved running on the treadmill. I've always avidly avoided the treadmill. I figured that my old joints couldn't take the abuse, but her book struck a chord so I tried it.

It turns out I like jogging. I've done it both on treadmills, tracks and the road. In 2005, when I started jogging, I said that I wanted to do a 5K. It may seem like a rather long time to finally get to the goal of 3.1 miles when people run much further on a daily basis. But for me, overweight, active but not athletic, and a former long-distance bicyclist, it was a challenge.

So last weekend I participated in the "Trout Run" as part of Livingston Manor's Trout Parade. I got a little nervous because they allowed 45 minutes for the 5K and my best time to date was 46 minutes.



I know I'm slow, but I made it and improved my time by three minutes! I'm in costume (an apron and tongs) because my only association with trout is cooking and eating them. I have a house in "Trout Town, USA" but I still haven't gotten around to fly fishing.

x-posted to: Blog, aim_highly

hi all

havent seen any updates in this community for a while.  how are you all going with your weight loss and exercise?

a few weeks ago i decided to start measuring my body parts and weighing myself (which i hate doing and try to avoid) in order to try and track any changes in my body.  i originally was only going to do this monthly, but eventually i decided to do it weekly.  this is not because i am obsessed with it or anything, moreso to get an accurate idea of how things are going, since all of us females know that our bodily measurements change over the course of the month.

i am now playing netall twice a week (as opposed to pretty much NO exercise  6 months ago) and am trying to get back on a good eating plan (which will be made a lot easier by me going back to full time work - why is it so expensive to eat healthily and so cheap to eat crap!? *pout*)

so i did the whole thing this morning and got a little bit of a nice surprise.  this is by no means groundbreaking amounts of loss, but i was still happy.  this is over the last three weeks.  although my weight has gone up and so has my upper torso (and my bust is smaller *cries*), everything else is go, go, go!!!

weight: up by 0.5kgs
upper arms: down by 2.5cms
bust: down by 1.5 cms (*booooo*)
upper torso: up by 3 cms
waist: down by 3 cms
hips: down by 0.5 cms
calves: down by 0.5 cms

it's nice to actually see results on paper, even if you cant see them on your body yet.  i'm a bit confused as to why my torso has increased so much (fyi - i take this measurement of my torso just below my boobs) but apart from that i'm happy.  hopefully in another 12 months i will be able to make a graph showing how my body has changed in relation to what i am doing with it and what i am putting into it.  also, i hope to use this data to pinpoint if there is anything i am doing that is getting in my way of my objectives.

hurrah for confirmation that what i am doing is actually working, however gradually.

Intro Post:
Name: gnomeangel
Age: 30
Sex: Female
Where you live: Canberra ACT Australia
Weight: 113kg
Goal Weight: 67kg
Exercise Plan: Minimum 30 minutes per day.
Goals: To lose 13 kilos by July. Start IVF and be healthy for me and the baby.
Comments/Questions:
I've started a community to try and help motivate through a quasi-competition. It's called biggestloser_lj please feel free to join.

I'm looking forward to reading and learning from everyone. *good luck*

Does anyone know of a nice tasting one? Is Attiki natural sugar free?

I recently talked about reading the book Get the Sugar Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar Out of Any Diet, by Ann Louise Gittleman, M.S., C.N.S.. One of the points that Gittlemen made was that in all of hoopla over low-fat and low-carb diets, no one talks about lowering the amount of sugar that is consumed in the US.

She suggested that one try to shoot for 20 to 40 grams per day. So I picked up my trusty copy of The NutriBase Nutrition Facts Desk Reference, by Dr. Art Ulene. I expected to be able to quickly find the grams of sugar in my morning banana. But it wasn't listed anywhere.

This is a very thorough book. When I was keeping a log of the calories I consumed last year, I generally found the information I wanted within its pages. So I was shocked at this gap.

Today's trip to Barnes and Noble revealed that while many books give detailed lists of components of the food we eat, I found none that listed the sugar grams.

For most foods this isn't a problem, it's on the label. But for whole foods I'd like to know.

Does anyone have a guide that has this vital information?

X-posted: Blog, aim_highly,

No, this is not a spy novel about ejecting a mole, but a book about the process of removing one of the most insidious "foods" out of our diet. Sugar is everywhere and it's the root of multiple evils. Getting it out of my diet has been a goal for the last year.

Get the Sugar Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar Out of Any Diet, by Ann Louise Gittleman is a good part of the program. Anyone who looks at my reading list can see that I read the book Beating Diabetes, by David M. Nathan & Linda M. Delahanty last year. The question is does Deirdre have diabetes?

Answer: no and I don't intend to get it. Diabetes runs through my family, tearing out members here and there. Both my parents got Type 2 adult onset in their later years. It made my father miserable and I believe hastened his death. My mother manages her disease with a strict diet regimen, but still, it has the potential of exacerbating other conditions that she has.

So, last year I made the effort to remove processed sugar from my diet. In the US this is no small task. Sugar, in all it's forms, is stuffed into so many foods that getting rid of it became a challenge. Label reading, waiter quizzing, and bringing my own foods to family gatherings became the norm.

Now I want to reduce the amount of foods with a high glycemic index and Gittleman's book is an excellent tool for doing that. She has detailed information that I haven't seen elsewhere like a list of what foods have a high glycemic index which tends to raise blood sugar quickly. She has a list of the 41 names that appear of food labels for sugar in most all of its forms. And while I don't need all of the 501 tips, just reading a book about sugar is helpful reinforcement for my process.

X-posted: Blog, 50BookChallenge, aim_highly

1.  Do you have a personal trainer?
2.  If yes, how often do you see him/her?
3.  If yes, does s/he let you do your own thing (eg. classes) or is it gym work all the time?
4.  If you don't have a personal trainer, have you considered one, or had one in the past?
5.  Any other comments?

I had a personal trainer for the last 3 months of last year.  I saw her once a week, but it was for a fitness challenge I was doing.  Now, I'm out of the challenge and have to decide if I wish to continue.  I had to go to the gym 5 x a week with her, and do what she requested of me.  But I love spinning and pilates, and any spinning, pilates etc was on top of the 5 x at the gym (cardio machines and weights).  I never got to classes, because of time, and I got bored of cardio and weights.  I really want to do spinning once a week and weights once a week as well as work out with her.  I just wonder if it's possible.  Any comments appreciated.