FATIGUE!!!

Dont I look tired???  Are any of you experiencing extreme fatigue?  I'm 16 lbs down now and have switched my workouts to walking at least 3miles/day and I must say.....I HAS TAKEN ME DOWN!  I dont feel like doing anything...all I want to do is sleep!  I think I will start to take my multivitamins more frequently (I tend to forget to take them...).  I dont even want to play my Wii...I dont last 10 minutes... I am also noticing I have a loss in appetite as well...NOT LIKE ME!  Yet it has been doing wonders for my weight loss....because my last range (refer to my last blog entry) was so difficult to get out of...

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Break It Up...

How much weight are you trying to lose?  Some of us are trying to lose LARGE amounts and that alone can be discouraging. Personally, I am trying to lose about 80 pounds....WOAH!  I know its a lot.  That makes it hard to put 1 or 2 pounds in perspective because there is so much more to go.  Experts say that one should break up their large goal into small doable pieces so that we dont get discouraged.  Its a great way for you to put things into perspective.   What I do is I look at what I call "ranges", what I mean by that is each set of tens (the 150s, 200s, 220s, etc...).  Wherever I start, my next goal...

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Why Am I Doing This?

So at some point in your life when you are making life changes, you have to ask yourself....WHY AM I DOING THIS?  When it comes to weight loss there are various reasons from various people. Some want to just look better, others want to for their health or to lessen the pain from backaches and such.  Regardless of the reasons, you have to look at yourself NOW and make sure you like who you are.  Sure you may want to change your size or a certain part of your body BUT you have like yourself. TODAY!  Not a false identity that many overweight people have (that usually causes them to make a fool of themselves)  but a confidence...

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My Love For Walking

I dont like exercise.  I will be the first to admit it.  It makes me tired, I sweat and it causes people to see how uncoordinated my movements can be :).  Despite all of that, lets face it you cannot lose significant weight without exercise unless you plan to starve yourself. Which I dont ever plan to do. Growing up in metro NY has it benefits; good fashion sense, exposure to different cultures, knowing Spanglish, and developing the ability to walk for long periods of time.  At some time or another every city kid has walked over a mile with no thought.  In my thin days I used to walk up to 3 miles a day for leisure.  So that was the way I was able to maintain my 140-150lb frame while eating Kennedy's Fried Chicken  (a local greasy spoon) whenever I pleased...

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Eat Your Oatmeal!!!

Mama was right again!  Oatmeal is an excellent start of the day!  Its hard to believe that something that filled with CARBS (every dieters enemy) could help you lose weight and maintain health.  Well as for me....I am not on a diet so I love carbs I just use with much moderation.  Its not like carbs have more "calories" its just that you body absorbs more water for every gram of carbohydrates you eat.  So that is why it seems as if you gain more.  MYTH BUSTED! POP! Anyway,  oatmeal has so many health benefits not only pertaining to weight loss but overall body health.  Lets start with the obvious Like most...

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Key to Hair Growth

Want long hair?  Yeah most people do.  Want the secret to growing long hair?  Come closer.   All you have to do is...... PRESERVE YOUR ENDS!!! Simple enough right?  Its true.  All you need to do is make sure your ends are not breaking off.  See a misconception is that when you dont see growth its because your hair is not growing.  EVERYONE'S HAIR GROWS.  Not at the same rate but it is growing.  If it wasn't you would never need a touch up of relaxer or color....that stuff that is coming out your head is GROWTH.  That's why we call it "new growth"  but if your ends are breaking...

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How to Recover From a Slump

 Have you had a week yet where you just didn't do ANYTHING toward your goals.  I mean NOTHING! That was me last week...I worked out twice but also ate twice as much the whole entire week.  So of course the scale was not my friend.   My Wii Fit Board is disgusted with me!   So how do you move past the pain?  YOU JUST DO IT!  I saw a number that I did NOT want to see on that scale yesterday...even though I knew most of it was water weight...if I continued on this path it would be that and more!  So I literally said to myself....you have to get up and do something before you gained all the weight...

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