hopeinapril

Walk, take gas x and use heating pad. It will pass and you will feel better.
Good luck!

want to plan on Wednesday evening at 6pm at the 896/40 path in Glasgow?
Let me know, I am going to add it to my calendar as a date!!!
I m usually free every night but Thursday, bowling night, but this week is my last week. and this Monday I have a repairment coming to give me an estimate.
I went to the grocery store and bought frozen strawberries and mangos. Gonna add them to my Protein mixes and get an new flavor "blast". Acme has the Dannon liight & fit yougurt 10 for 10 this week, so that is a good bargain! and the bags of frozen fruit were 2/$5.
I did my walking while shopping today. I went and bought a generic brand of the magic bullett..
On one of the other site someone recommened thedailyplate.com as a source for an on line food journal. I took a look at it and it seems to be fairly self explanatory. I am currentl using a hand written journal to keep track of my food/liquid intake, but think this may be much easier.
Let me know about the walking on Wednesday.
Lynn

I've been thinking a lot about Paul McKenna's guidelines for weight loss. I watched the entire I CAN MAKE YOU THIN series, and I believe he's spot on about the process, particularly in his Golden Rules:
1. When you're hungry, eat
2. When you eat, eat what you want
3. Eat consciously
4. When you're full, stop
There's a whole lot of stuff in there, but those are the guidelines that I think are key for losing weight, and they echo the guidelines in the CAMP program Harley posted previousl. I need to be more conscientious about eating consciously.
This morning, I followed rules 1 and 2 - I was hungry, and I wanted to eat what I wanted, so I bought a loaf of seeded wheat bread, and some lemon curd (what I really wanted was marmalade, but it's out of season). I had a piece of toast for Breakfast, with French butter and lemon curd. And I loved it.
But later I regretted it a little. It was v. tasty, but I didn't eat it consciously enough - I satisfied a craving, but I didn't focus on the food. McKenna's guideline (also encountered in various eating guidelines issued to bandsters) is to take your bite, put your fork or spoon down, then chew for a count of at least 20 before taking your next bite.
And I didn't do that - I just, you know, ATE it. So I wasn't happy about that.
I picked up some Golden Rules from the NYU banding people, and one of them was, after swallowing your food, count to 50 before taking the next mouthful.
So I was disappointed that I just wolfed down my precious piece of toast. And I'm also a bit sorry I didn't go for more Protein in my Breakfast intake.
Or even ANY protein!
I shall concentrate more at lunch.