RE: Sunday checkin and my new ideas

[Guest guest]

Wow Mikki, I nearly wore out just reading all your activity! Think

that burned some calories for me too?!? LOL! LOL! LOL!

Whatever makes you feel good in your body is what is best for you to

do. The thought of such a 'driven' (my word) exercise isn't appealing

to me. Heck I would rather see a resistive pulley assembly built into

the refrigerator door to help be 'work out' more - LOL!!! Or maybe I

need to do more Push-Aways from the table?!?

You can see that my attitude towards exercise is not as open as yours,

but the joke is one me in that I am (slowly!) working up to Pilates to

counteract my back/leg/sciatica/whatever that is plaguing me. The

exercise gods are chuckling :)

Hope you had a wonderful sweat out - ehugs, Katcha

>

> Hi everyone Today I hauled all the kids to the gym and did 2

22-minute segments for a total of 350 calories burned on the

elliptical trainer. I don't think I'm fit enough to do the intense

intervals that I used to do, but I change up the tempo and cross-ramp

every few minutes and do " mini-intervals " of getting my heart rate up

to the 140's then letting it drop back to the 120's.

> After reading some of the free Prevention and Fitness mags that have

been piling up around my house (you know, finally decluttering them

LOL), I've decided to incorporate these strategies into my eating this

week (and my husband will join me, as he also gained 10 lbs in the

last few months):

> 1. eat one serving of mono-unsaturated fats/oils at each meal

(almonds, olive oil or olives, dark chocolate) - this is supposed to

encourage your body to preferentially burn the internal belly fat that

is so dangerous to your health. You still have to eat fewer calories

to lose weight, but this targets the belly fat.

> 2. exercise in 2 segments with a 20 minute break in between. I've

read in several places that this is supposed to be a much more

efficient kick to your metabolism than one long workout.

> Also my goal is to do 4 workouts this week - I did 3 last week and

am trying to gradually increase frequency, length, and intensity

> Everyone have a great week!

> Mikki

>

[Guest guest]

Right now I'm more involved in learning to love and accept my belly fat. lol!

-- Sunday checkin and my new ideas

Hi everyone Today I hauled all the kids to the gym and did 2 22-minute segments for a total of 350 calories burned on the elliptical trainer. I don't think I'm fit enough to do the intense intervals that I used to do, but I change up the tempo and cross-ramp every few minutes and do "mini-intervals" of getting my heart rate up to the 140's then letting it drop back to the 120's.

After reading some of the free Prevention and Fitness mags that have been piling up around my house (you know, finally decluttering them LOL), I've decided to incorporate these strategies into my eating this week (and my husband will join me, as he also gained 10 lbs in the last few months):

1. eat one serving of mono-unsaturated fats/oils at each meal (almonds, olive oil or olives, dark chocolate) - this is supposed to encourage your body to preferentially burn the internal belly fat that is so dangerous to your health. You still have to eat fewer calories to lose weight, but this targets the belly fat.

2. exercise in 2 segments with a 20 minute break in between. I've read in several places that this is supposed to be a much more efficient kick to your metabolism than one long workout.

Also my goal is to do 4 workouts this week - I did 3 last week and am trying to gradually increase frequency, length, and intensity

Everyone have a great week!

Mikki

[Guest guest]

Hah, I'm not there yet Actually I CAN'T - I had a tummy tuck a year ago (after having twins, my belly was a mess!), and if I start gaining too much weight my ab muscles just can't expand to hold it, so I'm stuck losing weight LOL. I only have to get rid of 5 lbs though to be comfortable again...

Mikki

-----Original Message-----From: IntuitiveEating_Support [mailto:IntuitiveEating_Support ]On Behalf Of KimSent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 3:57 PMTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Subject: Re: Sunday checkin and my new ideas

Right now I'm more involved in learning to love and accept my belly fat. lol!

[Guest guest]

Calm?!? Me CALM??!! Not a chance - lol! In You've Got Mail Tom Hanks

said of his (high energy) girl friend that 'she makes coffee nervous'.

My husband nearly fell off the couch laughing because that's me too.

And while I have 'drive' enough for a racing car, its just isn't

directed towards 'exercise'. But like you, the old body has the last

say - its MOVE or 'lock' up, or in our cases suffer from the nagging

pain of back/sciatica etc. Guess I get to 'rest' when I'm dead - lol!!

>

> Can we trade a little of my motivation for some of your calmness??? LOL

>

> hugs

> Mikki