I know how hard it is to lose weight!
My husband can just stop eating and lose 10 pounds in 3 days. Not me, I would have to not eat for 3 months before I lost a pound. Over the years of yo-yo weight loss I have found what works for me with experimentation.
First – don’t say the word “DIET” around me.
Diet conjers up thoughts of deprivation of the years when I was young and went to bed so hungry I couldn’t sleep. Diets makes me start snarfing up all the food in sight. Something clicks in my brain like the red button in the oval office, lights flash and my heart beats a mile a minute… panic sets in. I see silver dots flashing in my eyes and before I know it I have raided the house of all the chips, dip, ice cream, fried foods, and somehow found the stash of oreo’s and scarfed them down after crumbling them in a glass of milk…. even the dog hides.
I have lost 15 pounds since December 11th on the following 5/30/Half Plan (see I didn’t use the “D” word!)
Check with your health professional before starting ANY exercise and eating plan! Start out slowly - you can’t climb Mt. Everest in one day. If you go off your eating plan for one meal, just put that behind you and keep thinking about 5/30/HALF…. it works!
”5/30/Half Plan”
(or 5/30/half for short)
5 is for 5 pounds - 5 pounds is all you need to keep in your head!
Let’s start out with the goal of ”5″ – all you have to do is lose 5 pounds….. at a time. Your goal is to lose 5 pounds. After you lose 5 pounds you get to celebrate and have one meal where you can eat what you want. (in moderation, you wouldn’t eat the whole pizza…no, you wouldn’t!) If you binge and eat 5 pounds of fried potatoes – just drink a cup of hot green tea with a laxative tea or two senekot tablets. Cleansing is always good for the body!
30 is for 30 minutes of walking, (treadmill) bike, dance/zumba, every day for six days! If you have stairs in your house or at your office, walk up and down the stairs for 10 minutes straight – 3 times a day or if you are young and healthy – walk up and down stairs for the full 30 minutes!
Start out slow the first week… do ten minutes at a time or fifteen two times a day. On Mondays I am slow and walk 30 minutes. Tuesday I do 45 minutes. I take off Wednesday and walk an hour on Thursday and on Saturday I walk for an hour before I clean my house.
After a week (or two) change your 30 minutes: Alternate 5 minutes at 3.0 then speed up for 1 or 2 minutes, if you are able – jog for 1 or 2 minutes. Do this for your 30 minute workout. Finish with 3 minutes of slowing down to 1.8 mpg. I put a movie in and usually forget that I am even walking, before I know it I have done 45 minute or an hour. Music is also great… Madonna, Britney or Lady Gaga are the my favorite exercise music.
This is all the exercise I do! 3 hours of walking a week and cleaning 9 rooms every Saturday (about 4 hours).
I don’t lift weights - if you want to work with weights then keep in mind that muscles weigh more than fat and you may actually put on a few pounds at first. Building muscles will increase our metabolism over time and burn more fat but only if you watch your carbs and eat more protein. Low-weights with lots of reps will define your muscles if done about 3 times a week.
If you have a dog – get him outside walking with you when the weather is nice. 30 minutes a day – just walk, slow, fast, medium, doesn’t matter, just move, keep moving for 30 minutes!
Half – this means eat half portions of food. Cut your food in half but eat 5 meals a day.
There you have it – 5/30/HALF PLAN
I am 5’3″ and weigh …. a lot right now. I cut 500 calories a week from my eating and am eating around 1200 – 1400 calories a day. I spread it out over my waking hours and have never felt deprived or as if I am dieting (Oh, NO! there is that word.)
Drink water, tea or coffee when you feel hungry, eat almonds, carry them with you!
Take a calcium supplement or drink milk (not whole milk) eat cheese, cottage cheese, yougurt with nuts or cereal on top.
- Eat breakfast (keep protein drinks or bars handy and fruit)
- Mid-morning snack (half-way between breakfast and lunch) salted almonds, piece of fruit, applesause with cinnamon to burn calories, peanut butter, fruit or protein drink or bar (keep it about 200 calories)
- Eat a big lunch! This should be your big meal of the day; pasta with a salad, chicken with veggies or salad, subway grilled chicken….about 500 calories
- Mid afternoon snack - salted almonds/other nuts or protein bar or drink (Adkins, Slimfast watch the sugars!), fruit slices (McDonalds apple slices!)
- Lite dinner, salad with grilled chicken, frozen Weight Watchers, stir fry with rice.
- No eating after 7PM if possible. Drink water or tea with honey.
- Half hour before bedtime – two hersheys chocolate kisses and a cup of hot tea with honey in it…..ALWAYS… always have chocolate!
Water, water, water – 6 ounces 8 times a day, or just count out 5 bottles of water and drink all of them every day. Water washes out the fat.
Watch your intake of soft drinks even diet pop – this was the hardest for me! Use honey to sweeten tea or coffee. Drink one cup of green tea a day (you can use peach tea WITH the green tea if you do not like the taste of green tea).
If you don’t like chocolate – have one sinful low calorie snack before bedtime, one oreo cookie dipped in hot tea….yummy. All day long I can eat sparingly because I know I can have my chocolate every night!
- If you eat out, chose your meal wisely, stay away from fried foods. If you most eat fried chicken eat one piece only – this is not about depriving yourself but of maintaining good healthy life style.
- Ask for substitue for french fries which seems to come with everything.
- Breakfast is very important when you try to lose weight. If you don’t eat or drink something nourishing for breakfast your body gets stingy about shucking off fat – it won’t do it! Your body will hold onto fat like a woman who is getting her purse stolen….we women can be pretty stupid at times when faced with giving up something like our purses!
- Eat less red meat. Instead choose other protein foods, chicken, shrimp, talapia, grouper (white fish without bones). If you dont’ like the taste of fish watch a Youtube video on blackening fish – yummy. Blackening will add lots of unique taste and disguise the fishy taste.
- Always look at the food on your plate as if it is a slab of marble and you are the sculpture. Cut the entre into two pieces and push one aside. Eat half of your meal, put down your fork and talk about the weather or take deep breaths. Order a cup of hot tea and sip it for a few minutes while you imagine yourself wearing one size smaller jeans.
- HALF a plate of food will eventually equal you being half your size! Remember the 5/30/HALF? Half your size does not mean that you will lose half your weight (most of us would be walking skeletons if we lost half our weight… I’d be about 80 some pounds!) Half your size – if you are now a size 12 – means you will be a size 6.
If you eat out. When you order tell the waiter/waitress that you want a take out box. If she forgets, remind her to bring a doggy bag when she delivers the food.
Look at your plate. Take a knife and divide the meat in half and the starchy food in half too. Start out eating the veggies. Ask for a takeout box when you order and when your food comes put half of your meat and starchy food in the takeout box (leave it on the table when you leave because nobody eats leftovers and they will rot in the frig!)
Let me know how you are doing! I will begin to post before/after pictures on the sight.
NEVER ever deprive yourself of something you are craving. Just eat a few bites of it. If you wake up and you want a doughnut, you should have the doughnut but only eat half of it and throw the other half away. This is not a diet and it is not about depriving yourself of the foods you love.
It is a new year, a new week, a new day – and tonight is the full moon. This is a great time to open your Prosperity Energy Center for full benefit. 
BLESSINGS FROM REIKI FLOW FOR YOUR NEW YEAR 2012!
year filled with love and laughter. It is a new year – start it as if it is a new life!
Spirit Walkers – Mike & Beata – Celebrating 20 Years Together. Mike and Beata signed up for Spirit Walker classes 2010. After becoming certifed in SpiritWalker Practioner One both Mike and Beata from Southern Ohio are now looking forward to more spiritual adventures together. When SpiritWalker training commences in March of 2012, I am sure Beata and Mike will be the first to sign up. 
thankful for. If you have nothing or are in too much distress to remember your blessings, then take a break from worrying. Take five minutes off from worrying; play cards, read a book, listen to music, think about the life you want to live right now; but take five minutes off. Do this every hour. Make a concerted effort to take a five minute break every hour if possible. During this five minutes, let your mind roam to what you want in your life, see yourself with it. 
Today it has come to my attention that many ‘mom and pop’ shops across America are having problems making ends meet due to the economy and the decline in industry in the United States. Many say they are forced to lay off long-term employees and run their companies themselves. Some have already locked their doors and taken down their signs, forced out-0f-business by decline in sales, loss of clients having already gone through their savings in the last two years.
the threads come together that is where we all sit. At these corners imagine a golden light of the Creators love and see it move from one link to the next, creating a shimmering light. This light carries love, good health and prosperity, to me, to you and to all who take part in this prayer.