Mine too. I think I’m ready to give it up, though.
PostSecret‘s beneficiary is the National Hopeline Network. It is a 24-hour hotline (1 (800) SUICIDE) for anyone who is thinking about suicide or knows someone who is considering it.
This post by Braidwood is incredibly motivating to me. It talks about how dieting can sometimes turn into a “project.” We are trying to “fix” ourselves.
You are perfect and beautiful just the way you are. If you need to eat healthy food to live longer, that’s not a project, it’s just a new habit. I need to stop measuring so much right now because I have turned healthy eating into a full-blown PROJECT with all capital letters.
I need to start listening to my body more and using the measuring cups less.
This is the ultimate computer treadmill that I have ever seen. This is his description of how they built it. I wish I had a “Ross” that I could just depend on to build me prototype exercise machines.
He has a keyboard and trackball that he can use (a mouse is useless), but he also uses a voice recognition program, Dragon Naturally Speaking, for some of his word processing.
I doubted that Dragon Naturally Speaking would work while I was running, but it performs almost flawlessly after thirty minutes of training. I’m still finding my way around it – although it does remind me (by not recognizing anything) to slow down my running pace if I’m breathing too hard.
I like to imagine that in the future I’ll be able to just walk into Sear’s Roebuck and buy a treadmill that looks like this, but that is probably wishful thinking.
I thought it was gone. I thought I was finished with bingeing. Sure, I hadn’t gone three months without a lapse, but my lapses were only lasting a couple of hours. This last binge has lasted days and I’m still struggling with it.
Part of the reason is that I’m sad right now. After going to a wonderful convention (SXSW), I came home to Salt Lake City and was immediately confronted by isolation and loneliness. So I’m dealing with that, but I am still sad.
The rest of the reason should be a good thing. My IBS is almost gone. I would consider myself cured if I wasn’t taking acidophilus pills every day. As long as I swallow one of those capsules from the refrigerator every day, I am completely free from my stomach symptoms I had before. That means I can eat massive quantities of food without any physical repercussions. My stomach will feel full, but I no longer feel like someone has stabbed me in the gut when I eat more than two cups of food.
That should be a good thing, right?
I’ve just been taking advantage of my new-found eating freedom. For the first time in six years, I can eat WHATEVER I want without pain. Everything that I have avoided for health reasons and to prevent stomach pain have been consumed in the last couple of weeks.
Suddenly, I feel like a fraud writing for this site because my eating is out of control. After so many years of restrictive eating, it feels wrong to go to a restaurant, eat an appetizer, my full entree AND dessert. It feels wrong, but nothing hurts inside, so I’m happy.
Yeah, I’m happy until I try to button my jeans.
So, now I have to take my own advice and ask myself the question, “What motivates me to eat healthy and exercise?”
My stomach feels great and I feel like I have no answer at all…
What motivates you to eat healthy?
What motivates you to exercise regularly?
Give me a list of five to ten things that make you want to pass by the unhealthy food and get on that treadmill every day.
The Question of the Week is meant to be an Inner Workout for you. Find some time during the week and allow yourself to write the answers to the questions posted. You can write them on paper, on a word processor or here in the comments section. Whatever works for you as long as you do it.
Keep writing until you find out something about yourself that you didn’t know before. I’ve also heard that it works to keep writing until you cry, but that doesn’t really work for me. Whatever works for you. Just keep writing until it feels right.
This story at BBC News says that when you focus on what your muscle is doing, you exert more energy than when you just perform the move.
Here is how the scientists tested their theory:
The team wired their subjects up to weight machines which monitored levels of electrical activity in their biceps and asked them to think in two different ways while exercising.
The more electrical activity measured – the more the muscle is doing.
When subjects were asked to focus on what their muscles were doing and how they were working there were significantly higher levels of electrical activity.
But when they were asked to visualise lifting the weight, electrical activity was lower.
If you focus on the muscle, it will work harder. If you focus on hitting a ball correctly, it will direct the ball better. This is one reason why running on the treadmill with the television distracting me might not be as good as exercise as when I’m outside running. I have nothing else to focus on but my muscles.
Via: Meriblog: Meri Williams’ Weblog » links for 2006-03-31
As part of video-blogging week, Michael Verdi posted this video about running.
His daughter just joined Track, so he thought he would start running again. Much to his surprise, it was a little harder than he remembered.
These bowls from Mesu are sized for portion control. They range in sizes from 1/2 cup to 2 cups and after using them for a couple of months, you should be easily able to estimate portions when you’re at a restaurant.
It took me months before I was able to estimate a 1/2 cup of rice or noodles. Even now, I break out the measuring cups so verify that my eyes haven’t made the portions “grow.” If you have been lax about measuring your portions lately, maybe it’s time to have a refresher course for a week or so.
Peter Jackson, the brilliant director behind the Lord of the Rings, has lost a lot of weight. Based on some estimates, he has lost 70 pounds. The news people clamored for an answer. How had he lost the weight?
What’s the Peter Jackson Weight Loss Secret? Introducing the Skull Island Diet
IFILM – Viral Video: Comic-Con 2005: Jack Black on Peter Jackson’s Weight Loss –
Yogurt and muesli.
That’s it… He stopped eating fast food and traded it for yogurt and muesli.
Sometimes the answers to our problems are so simple that we can’t see them. He simplified his eating, ate often and worked like a dog on his next film, King Kong. Sometimes having something that you are dedicated to can help the rest of your life in ways that you never imagined. You don’t need a fancy DIET. You need a passion.
What’s your passion? Find it today and use it to help you get to your healthy weight.
Via: Shortpacked!
Mike was out of the house and I was struggling. I wanted to binge while he was gone and couldn’t see me. I sat down with my camera and had a 33-minute conversation. Here is the 1:48 minutes that are worth listening to.
I wish I could say that I’m completely over bingeing, but I’m not. It’s easier today than it was five years ago, and I’m hoping that it will be easier tomorrow than it is today.
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