It’s time for new year’s resolution, again! People’s most popular resolution is “to get fit, work out more, make time for the gym …” In other words, be fit and healthy. Well, I actually started mine several weeks ago. I enrolled in a weight management program (WMP) that not only teaches me how to eat the right foods, it also includes how to bump up my metabolism through exercises and trim those giggling stored fat cells with the end result of losing weight and toning the body. I do not consider this a “diet”, gone those and each time they work, once I get off them, I gain the weight back and then some. Sounds familiar? Yes, because diets usually deprive you with the food you like to eat. Once off the diet and your back eating the same foods that got you to be over-weight and fat! This WMP is not a “diet”, it is a guide to a healthy lifestyle change similar to my path towards simple living. In three weeks, I lost 7 pounds. Not ground breaking, but that is the program about – losing weight slowly, the healthy way and keeping it off.
This program allows 25 to 30 grams of fat per day with low carb and sugar intake. Portion size, of course, is also important. I am getting the hang of filling out my food diary. Most days I am below my allowable fats, but there are days I go over the limits. I already see and feel the change – my clothes fit better, I have more energy and I can walk several miles without being tired. I do not get breathless going up and down the stairs. Woowee!
To further motivate me to keep going, I will be posting my successes and failures (I know there will be those, but I hope there will be very few and far in-between). Posting will get my motivation in check and I will have a record of what I went through.