The
experience of sharing our thoughts through writing each day has been extremely helpful to me.
Every day of MyDiet
is my honest journey day by day of my struggle to stay away from junk food, which ultimately lead me to lose weight, too. My journey includes my successes
and failures. I hope you find it helpful, too. Please let me know what you think
as we go along. Others are losing, too, while reading along and often
share their thoughts. That's why I started writing my daily e-mail
messages--in order to help keep myself on track and to connect with others.
Something that I
have learned throughout this process is to only weigh myself
once a week. I used to weigh every day and it never helped me lose. But just
weighing once a week seems to be the best. (WOW—Weigh Once a Week, or Weigh On
Wednesday, or whatever day works best. WOW can even stand for Walk Off the Weight, too.)
A good way to start is to measure your waist and rate your BMI (Basal Metabolic
Index) for a more accurate indicator of where you are today. There is a calculator on the following website for measuring
the BMI:
http://www.weight.com/definition.asp?page=2
A chart called "Rate Your Weight" in The Nutrition Action Health
Letter, October 2005, p. 5, states, “Your Body Mass Index (BMI) gauges your weight
in relation to your height. Although a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered
normal, the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, breast and uterine cancers
starts to climb above a BMI of 23.”
So, there it is.
There are risks to carrying around more pounds than we need. There is also a note of
warning whichs says, “BMI shouldn’t be used to evaluate the weight of children,
the frail elderly, serious bodybuilders, or pregnant or breastfeeding women.
If your extra weight comes from muscle, not fat, you may have a high BMI even
though you’re healthy. Frail or older people may be unhealthy even though they
have a low or normal BMI.”
I am happy to share
my writing and my thoughts about food, etc., so I hope you enjoy it and are able
to read at least one entry each day, because it is useful in staying focused.
It is the key that has helped me to lose—writing honestly about my thinking and
my eating.
Each attachment
of MyDiet is broken down into one-week segments and includes the entire process
of what I thought and what I did, which ultimately helped me to reduce my junk food intake and to lose weight. Let me know what you think.
It's been a big learning experience. I think I mentioned that my daughter has
lost 15 and is on her final 5, I've lost nearly 20 pounds. Another friend has
lost 15, and another, who just started 1 month ago, has lost 8. My husband got
on board and lost 5 1/2 lbs in 3 weeks, and a total of twelve in two months.
Yea! I love that people are having success, too. It's wonderful to hear their success stories. And, it's a miracle that I am finally reaching my goal.
