qtgirl

I’m reading this great book about changing your habits and losing weight. It talks about how many of us have habits or vices that keep us overweight (and that got us here in the first place).

The top 3:

1) Too much soda. Some people have literally dropped like 40 lbs, just be cutting soda and other sugary drinks from their diet. I only drink water and herbal tea, so this does not apply to me.

2) Too much fast food: Again, imagine if you JUST cut fast food out of your diet, would that have an impact??? I bet it would.

3) Watching too much TV! A bit of a weird one, but the average person watches at least 4 hours of TV a day. (BUT we never have time to exercise!!!) So, either exercise in front of the TV (I do this a lot) or turn it OFF and go for a walk, etc. Can you cut you hours down to 2 hours a day. What will you do with that extra 2 hours?

And finally. Some of us are not any of these top 3. I don’t feel I have 1 glaring vice (like chocolate, chips, ice cream, etc). I more have categories. I choose ‘carby things’ most often. I’ll take crackers or bread over fruit and veggies. AND, could it be this easy? The author suggests, just replace your MAIN non-healthy habit with a good habit. So, get rid of the crackers and bread and eat fruit/veggies instead. Obviously, I need some bread/carbs, but I need to start limiting it and getting the FRUIT/VEG first, carbs second, not the other way around.

Well, I’ll let you know how it goes. I’m also thinking about BUSTING sugar. Not a major problem, but, it’s there!!

What is your BIGGEST vice??? Have you beaten it yet??? Do you think it would help if you did???

The book is called “the vice busting diet” by the way, I got if from the library!!

Well, some of you may have noticed I’ve been AWOL for a little bit.  Sorry.   After the house incident I just crawled into a cave and licked my wounds for a bit.  First we got screwed by the real estate agent and then by the lawyer.  Sigh.  Not fun.

The whole fiasco brought my husband and I down quite a bit.  We thought we were ‘ready’ to buy a house, commit to a place, ’settle down’ and then panic hit when we realized that we were not ready.

We hate our jobs, and were about to buy a house that would leave us ’stuck’ working at them to keep going.  And, still, moving to England is always there.  It’s like a silent ghost that haunts and taunts us (come, it’s better here)!

I’m proud to say that I did not ‘go off the deep end’ and binge my life away or eat like a nutter because of what happened.  But, I was not up for “dieting” or traning.  My husband and I did process by taking lots of LONG walks (one of them about 5 hours).

Before I had this emotional hiccup, I had ordered TONS of books from the library on changing habits.  What I realized, is that it was my ‘head’ that needed the work.

So, I’ve been reading lots of very interesting books.  Books that talk about not dieting and losing weight (just by focusing on eating good food).  And, a new book that is about going slower.  About changing 1 THING at a time.  

 In my past weight loss journey over the last few months I would do really good and then have a few bad days and get frustrated.  Or, I would do really good, and then not lose, and get ….frustrated.

I think my focus was wrong.  I think I need to shift gears and focus on making LONG term, permanent, lifestyel changes.  AND, I need to get away from the silly notion that I can ‘poof’ wake up tomorrow and morph into the person that I wish I was (exercise bunny, perfect eater, etc).  It’s just not realistic.

So, although this journey will be slow, I’m making one change a week!

This week.  MORE FRUIT!  Try to have some with every meal.  A small change, but a good change, and then I will ‘build’ on this next week.

If anyone out there has done something like this, or done a more healthy (not ‘perfection focus’ or extreme diet focused way to lose weight), I’d love to hear from you and hear some of your tips. 

Glad to be back.

Well, I just put an offer in on an offer on a house, which was exciting and stressful at the same time. I’ve barely eaten for days since this whole thing started…no appetite. Works better than any appetite suppressant on the market I’m sure. The deal has not gone so well because by the looks of it the house was beyond our level to afford (it is beautiful) and our agent did not put ‘financing’ as a clause for getting out of it. We saw a lawyer and I’m pretty sure we are out of the deal. Whew! Just 24 hours ago, I could have had to afford a house without a mortgage (that would have been interesting to say the least!)

I’m the only person who is thrilled to have NOT been able to buy the house they really wanted!!

The good news is, I’ve lost 3 lbs!! I know it’s not the healthy way, but it’s nice to have an upside when you life is in the toilet!!