HOLD MY FEET TO THE FIRE! ACCOUNTABILITY MINUTE BY MINUTE
ACCOUNTABILITY MISSION: NO MERCY AND NO EXCUSES
Our new week comming up. Every minute of each day is a chance to move closer or further from your objectives. Can you be accountable minute by minute? Can you envision manageable pieces of the events that will accumulate to your success?
TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH AND BE ACCOUNTABLE:
Is just doing the right thing always a possibility? Are there times when weakness overwhelms? Does this make us weak in character or is it indicative of our particular disease? Is this simply the reality of imperfection being inherent in all of us? Do the answers even matter?
Why do we still struggle in spite of our varied wl tools and so much dietary information? THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A "WHY?" BUT DO WE HAVE TO ACCEPT IT? Insufficient weight loss. Weight gain. Failure to meet your pre op goals to get wls approval. Difficulty doing this with diet and exercise alone. Do we own the "why?" forever or is the true "why?" really "Why can't we just let it go?".
We can decide to release the "why?" that plagues us. If the explanation it is not helping you move forward, then perhaps your focus on answering the question of why has diverted your attention from finding your resolution. Perhaps we do not need 100% of the analysis to move ahead. Perhaps we can be accountable for just this small space of time. Get through right now. Get through the next right now. Perhaps that is the best we can do if we are to make progress in spite of not having all of the answers.
As we struggle we analyze, re access, strategize, and revize. If you are of the nerdy variety as I'm sure you've guessed I am, the need to have all the pieces is almost physically painful. Even many creative types feel the inspiration is missing in order to move on. The result is paralysis. No progress; or worse, we continue to back slide.
There are a ****load of people making a fortune on the concept of the power of attraction. COMMON DENOMINATOR: SUCCESS COMES FROM FOCUS ON THE DESIRED OUTCOME. Manifesting Your Destiny; The Secret; or, one of a few dozen other cash cows: Look past the magical thinking to what successful people do every day. Look at those around you and not just the billionaire stories.
Our weight loss journeys are no different. Those who succeed over a lifetime are focused on using each and every available resource to achieve their desired outcome. This drives their thougt process. When they see a tool or an obstacle it appeas to them as either a risk or an oportunity and is treated accordingly.
We do this every day without an author to sell it to us. However, we each have areas in our lives where it is more or less difficult to see things clearly. MINUTE BY MINUTE NOTICE THE RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES TO YOUR HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND A LIFETIME AT A HEALTHY WEIGHT. Adjust your focus and use these to your advantage.
This week commit to making it through right now. Let the rest happen as it happens. You will forsee what you need as you remain focused on your desired outcome. We may never be able to explain all of the un answered "why". Is it really necessary in order to achieve successful long term weight loss?
...All are welcome, jump in at anytime.
For reference:
5 Day Pouch Test (5DPT) website
http://www.5daypouchtest.com/plan/theplan.html
5 Day Pouch Test Instructions
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3995048/Hold-my-feet-to-the-fire-please-Accountability-Mision/
Protein Train Instructions
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3993571/Protein-Train-Educate-me-please/#32309205
Wagon Plan Instructions
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3650242/The-Wagon-Plan-Get-back-on-the-wagon
Overeaters Anonymous
Online Meetings Around the Clock * Information on changing eating behavior
Protein Sparing Modified Fast (PSMF)
The no op version. This version is still severe but far more liberal than the one many pre ops are given.
http://www.holisticmd.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ProteinSparingModifiedFast.pdf
Daily calorie needs calculator
A more advanced calculator that's still easy to use.
Advanced option lets you choose from 3 different calculation methods. Enter data once for calorie needs at maintenance; plus calorie needs for 2 different levels of weight loss; and, results include a week long calorie cycling plan. Calculator takes into account age and gender as well as activity level. Links to other calculators are on the same page.
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
Podrunner
Not just for runners. Site has a variety of workout music and music timed to progressive running programs for 5k, 8k, 10k, and speed. In place indoors, treadmill, or at the track run to the beat and you'll complete the stated distance. There is also a variety of interval training music from about 130 bpm up to to 180 bpm; and, fixed bpm workout music as well. Lengths of tracts vary but there is a speed/ length to suit most workout needs.
http://www.djsteveboy.com/mixes.html
A WORKOUT site to get you started or keep you going
http://www.exrx.net/index.html
No special equipment is required for this group of progressive workout programs designed for those new to it all and for those wanting to step it up a notch. Perhaps you can only do one or even none today. Perhaps you do quite a few already. Either extreme or somewhere in the middle, this self challenge is still for you.
http://www.twohundredsitups.com/
http://www.hundredpushups.com/
http://www.onefiftydips.com/
http://www.twohundredsquats.com/
http://www.twentyfivepullups.com/
USDA - database, nutrition facts
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
Our new week comming up. Every minute of each day is a chance to move closer or further from your objectives. Can you be accountable minute by minute? Can you envision manageable pieces of the events that will accumulate to your success?
TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH AND BE ACCOUNTABLE:
Is just doing the right thing always a possibility? Are there times when weakness overwhelms? Does this make us weak in character or is it indicative of our particular disease? Is this simply the reality of imperfection being inherent in all of us? Do the answers even matter?
Why do we still struggle in spite of our varied wl tools and so much dietary information? THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A "WHY?" BUT DO WE HAVE TO ACCEPT IT? Insufficient weight loss. Weight gain. Failure to meet your pre op goals to get wls approval. Difficulty doing this with diet and exercise alone. Do we own the "why?" forever or is the true "why?" really "Why can't we just let it go?".
We can decide to release the "why?" that plagues us. If the explanation it is not helping you move forward, then perhaps your focus on answering the question of why has diverted your attention from finding your resolution. Perhaps we do not need 100% of the analysis to move ahead. Perhaps we can be accountable for just this small space of time. Get through right now. Get through the next right now. Perhaps that is the best we can do if we are to make progress in spite of not having all of the answers.
As we struggle we analyze, re access, strategize, and revize. If you are of the nerdy variety as I'm sure you've guessed I am, the need to have all the pieces is almost physically painful. Even many creative types feel the inspiration is missing in order to move on. The result is paralysis. No progress; or worse, we continue to back slide.
There are a ****load of people making a fortune on the concept of the power of attraction. COMMON DENOMINATOR: SUCCESS COMES FROM FOCUS ON THE DESIRED OUTCOME. Manifesting Your Destiny; The Secret; or, one of a few dozen other cash cows: Look past the magical thinking to what successful people do every day. Look at those around you and not just the billionaire stories.
Our weight loss journeys are no different. Those who succeed over a lifetime are focused on using each and every available resource to achieve their desired outcome. This drives their thougt process. When they see a tool or an obstacle it appeas to them as either a risk or an oportunity and is treated accordingly.
We do this every day without an author to sell it to us. However, we each have areas in our lives where it is more or less difficult to see things clearly. MINUTE BY MINUTE NOTICE THE RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES TO YOUR HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND A LIFETIME AT A HEALTHY WEIGHT. Adjust your focus and use these to your advantage.
This week commit to making it through right now. Let the rest happen as it happens. You will forsee what you need as you remain focused on your desired outcome. We may never be able to explain all of the un answered "why". Is it really necessary in order to achieve successful long term weight loss?
...All are welcome, jump in at anytime.
For reference:
5 Day Pouch Test (5DPT) website
http://www.5daypouchtest.com/plan/theplan.html
5 Day Pouch Test Instructions
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3995048/Hold-my-feet-to-the-fire-please-Accountability-Mision/
Protein Train Instructions
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3993571/Protein-Train-Educate-me-please/#32309205
Wagon Plan Instructions
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3650242/The-Wagon-Plan-Get-back-on-the-wagon
Overeaters Anonymous
Online Meetings Around the Clock * Information on changing eating behavior
Protein Sparing Modified Fast (PSMF)
The no op version. This version is still severe but far more liberal than the one many pre ops are given.
http://www.holisticmd.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ProteinSparingModifiedFast.pdf
Daily calorie needs calculator
A more advanced calculator that's still easy to use.
Advanced option lets you choose from 3 different calculation methods. Enter data once for calorie needs at maintenance; plus calorie needs for 2 different levels of weight loss; and, results include a week long calorie cycling plan. Calculator takes into account age and gender as well as activity level. Links to other calculators are on the same page.
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
Podrunner
Not just for runners. Site has a variety of workout music and music timed to progressive running programs for 5k, 8k, 10k, and speed. In place indoors, treadmill, or at the track run to the beat and you'll complete the stated distance. There is also a variety of interval training music from about 130 bpm up to to 180 bpm; and, fixed bpm workout music as well. Lengths of tracts vary but there is a speed/ length to suit most workout needs.
http://www.djsteveboy.com/mixes.html
A WORKOUT site to get you started or keep you going
http://www.exrx.net/index.html
No special equipment is required for this group of progressive workout programs designed for those new to it all and for those wanting to step it up a notch. Perhaps you can only do one or even none today. Perhaps you do quite a few already. Either extreme or somewhere in the middle, this self challenge is still for you.
http://www.twohundredsitups.com/
http://www.hundredpushups.com/
http://www.onefiftydips.com/
http://www.twohundredsquats.com/
http://www.twentyfivepullups.com/
USDA - database, nutrition facts
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
MSW Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass: Eat sensibly & enjoy moderation
Links: Are you a compulsive eater? for help OA meets on-line Keep Coming Back, One Day At a Time Overeaters Anonymous
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V'N MY RNY. WORKING FOR ME BECAUSE I WORK FOR IT.
Last night I set up my day's menu according to plan. Today I could not choke down that protein shake at breakfast. Obstacle or opportunity?
I ate simple dense protein and drank lots of liquids. Then I recalculated the day's menu based on my assigned diet plan. It is a different approach yet I remained focused on my objectives.
As a result, the nutritional content is right on point as is the calorie count. Docs instructions have been twisted but the objectves of higher protein, lower carbs, lower calories, and less solid food have been met.
This will be a succesful day by taking it in manageable steps that accumulate to my overall objectives. I'm not thinking about why shakes just are not working today. My Desired outcome is achievable as long as it remains my focal point.
I ate simple dense protein and drank lots of liquids. Then I recalculated the day's menu based on my assigned diet plan. It is a different approach yet I remained focused on my objectives.
As a result, the nutritional content is right on point as is the calorie count. Docs instructions have been twisted but the objectves of higher protein, lower carbs, lower calories, and less solid food have been met.
This will be a succesful day by taking it in manageable steps that accumulate to my overall objectives. I'm not thinking about why shakes just are not working today. My Desired outcome is achievable as long as it remains my focal point.
LEE
on 9/17/12 4:37 pm
on 9/17/12 4:37 pm
I am doing so good. I am on day 1 of week 2 EFS. Pants are feeling looser, face is looking slimmer. Praying I can keep this up.
Working out is still good, about to increase weight next week in an effort to reload my arm muscles, but i'm also going to start trying to pay a lot of attention to my thigh muscles because I kneeled down to help a student and almost couldn't get my ass up, I had to use a chair and desk to get up, that is just wrong. LOL
Working out is still good, about to increase weight next week in an effort to reload my arm muscles, but i'm also going to start trying to pay a lot of attention to my thigh muscles because I kneeled down to help a student and almost couldn't get my ass up, I had to use a chair and desk to get up, that is just wrong. LOL
Salty Pickle a.k.a. Lee
From my mom, one of the best pieces of advice ever was always make sure you can get down to and get up from the floor without help or props. Its kept me working out all these years. You got this. Hoping to be off my ass again asap
EFS has always worked for you. Go with it girl! It is still working & you have the proof.
EFS has always worked for you. Go with it girl! It is still working & you have the proof.
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