Revelation In Eating Breakfast Today

Those that claim, ‘Diets do not work’ are fools or liars. Diets do work. That is how we get to the size we are. Calories in = calories out + fat/muscle. Diets are unique for everybody since bodies are unique. The many ‘diets" I have tried did not work in the long run, liquid protein diet, twelve hundred daily calorie diet because I could not stick to it. I did not work. The diet did. Sure the diets worked while I was on them. After the liquid protein diet with a weight loss of seventy pounds, I tasted popcorn and it was nirvana. I did not stop eating until I gained the seventy pounds I had lost, plus ten more pounds. I got sad and remained obese for many years.

Once my precious, beautiful, intelligent eleven year old told me I was having problems on the job because of the way I look. She had never said anything similar to that again and she is twenty-something now. Her honesty is another reason to lose the weight and go from obese to at least overweight and stretch goal to normal size.

My mission is to get my two hundred and twenty five pound body to a normal size in three hundred and sixty five days. For me, normal will be one hundred and fifty eight pounds. My stretch goal is to get my weight to one hundred and thirty five pounds in a year. I am using dietpower software to track my daily goal of 1300 calories with all the necessary nutrients. Usually a big salad with grilled chicken breast and two tablespoons of salad dressing gives me an A in nutrients. When I exercised three times a week, I did not lose a pound. Now I am exercising five times a week for ninety minutes. I plan to get up to one hundred and twenty minutes of exercise six days a week.

I did not get overweight until I was in high school, around the time puberty started for me. As many obese people, I was sexually abused. Fat helps protect the inside you. It took a lot to get from 120 pounds as a freshman to 160 pounds as a five month pregnant high school graduate.


Today, I lifted heavy leg weights for about 20 minutes:
Machine Weight Set 1 Set 2

Seated Leg Press 135 12 12
Seated Leg Curl 85 12 12
Leg Extension 85 12 11
Hip Abductor 145 12 12
Hip Adductor 160 12 12
Seated Row 55 12 12

Then I took a sixty minute Les Mills body pump class : http://www.lesmills.com/global/bodypump/bodypump-group-fitness-class.aspx


Before the gym I ate almond butter on a slice of 8 whole grains bread. I had a revelation when I had no desire to eat the second almond butter toast. I was no more hungry for lunch than wen I automatically ate two slices of almond butter toast for breakfast.

After class, had a spinach frittata , 500 calories with the cheeses.

I am on track. I have this desire to drink cognac for my dinner. I will not do that for the main reason, there is none in the house.

Have a happy holiday to those that celebrate Memorial Day.