Weight Loss Blog

I know I haven’t kept up with my weight loss blog, but I had to let you all know that I lost 7 pounds in 3 weeks! 21 days and 7 pounds came off. I am thrilled. This is such a great weight loss success story and I can’t believe it’s me.

Here’s how I did it:

I replaced half the juices and any other things non-water besides milk with water. Next, I added 10 minutes of abs every morning right after I got up and before I ate breakfast. I did this 5 days a week – on the weekdays. Another change I made was I ran three days a week but I spaced them out – 1 on Monday, 1 on Thursday, and 1 on Sunday. All I did was run 25 minutes with all the effort I had. It was very tough, but it really helped me dig in the fat and burn it.

On eating food, I completely shut off my eating after 8:30 pm. I had been eating later and later and so I decided this could help. Big HELP! No more calories just grabbing to my fat when I went to bed. One more thing: I lifted weights and I went for a lot of reps with just my little rep and I didn’t give myself much rest – in a way this was almost like another cardio for me.

After it was all said and done, I was burning calories and lowering the number of calories I ate at the same time. The results are amazing. I feel lighter and my clothes look a ton better. Besides loosing weight, I toned up with a little muscle tone in my body.

Thanks for everybody that’s been writing in. Jen – don’t worry about what other people think at the gym. Just go in and get your body and don’t worry about anything else. Go girl!

To understand how to lose weight you need to take into account the following 4 weight loss tips.

1. First, start with the basics. In order to lose weight you have to create a deficit of 3000 calories. This actually means that when the calories you burn are 3000 more than the calories you consume you will lose one pound. If you appreciate this simple rule then everything else is a matter of finding the right ways to create the deficit.

2. The only way to burn more calories than you do now and thus expand the calorie deficit is though exercise and physical activity. If you exercise more then you will help your body burn more calories. Unfortunately not all people like exercise so you have to find other ways to become active. Some good examples are to start walking, running, do a sport that requires movement or start doing manual work i.e. gardening, washing your car, cleaning your house etc.

3. The other part of the weight loss equation, consume less calories can be met by a careful diet. This does not mean excluding any food types from your diet but being selective on what foods you eat from each food group. For example you can start by skipping full fat foods (red meat, full fat dairy products) and replacing them with low fat foods, lots of fruits and fresh vegetables, fish, tuna and low fat dairy products. This action alone will save you enough calories to start the process. For better results you can keep track of your current eating habits, measure the number of calories you consume and calculate how much calories you can save by making alterations to the items you eat.

4. Finally, do not forget that drinks also have calories. This includes soft drinks and coffees. As part of your new diet you must remove sugar soft drinks from your diet and replace them with diet or light drinks and drink coffee with no milk or sugar. The only drink that you can consume with out feat is water which has 0 calories and has a lot to offer to your health and weight loss.

By following the above 4 weight loss tips you will be able to enjoy a healthier life and also you will start losing weight. Remember that weight loss takes time and you need to be patient throughout the process. There may be times you will get bored and wish to quit but you have to stick to your goals until you achieve your targets.

I’ve recently wrote in my weight loss blog how I’ve been more determined than ever to loose weight.  Well today I finally cashed in on that inspiration and thanks to my weight loss blog I’m now 20 lbs lighter in 2 months.  There really was no magic trick.  Just good hard cardio work combined with eating less and cutting down on my fats and calories.

To keep the weight off, I’m going to make sure I walk every morning no matter what.  I’m also going to keep not eating after 8:30 pm (I never realized how much I ate at night).  Another tip for quick weight loss is to do sit-ups while you watch tv.  I know it’s not the same as relaxing on the couch but this helps me combine fitness with entertainment and I get more out of my time by being efficient.  Can’t wait to write about more weight loss in my blog.

I’m all for setting goals in my weight loss blog of course and invoking a positive mindset, but you have to be serious about them. The idea of turning over a New Leaf when the the New Year strikes is a little bit disingenuous to me, but if it works for you, then it works and that’s what counts. If it doesn’t work for you, you need to realize that you don’t need any milestone or date to start becoming more healthy. You just need to start adopting a better lifestyle. It doesn’t have to be drastic either. Start off by ditching soda for water and go from there. If you’re looking for fast weight loss, realize that people who lose weight the fastest also have a tendency to gain it back the fastest. Why? They lost it so fast because that they’re lifestyle wasn’t altered that much. So sometimes slow weight loss is better. It helps become something you embody.

This is something that can be a big challenge in your life so dedicate your power to it. You know if you’re taking losing weight seriously or if you’re kidding yourself. Watching your calories is a big time way to shed some of those extra pounds. You want to eat a healthy amount of calories relative to your individual situation. If you’re over that amount, simply start chipping away at some of the bad calories you’re getting. Drop a bag of chips here. Ignore an ice cream bar there. Substitute the vegetables for fries and the calories really start adding up. That’s at least 400 calories just off those 4 items. And if something you’re eating that’s not good for you doesn’t taste good, then put it down. There’s no sense in eating something that tastes bad and is bad for you.

Different people attack losing weight differently. I compiled a list of the best weight loss blogs I found while surfing the net. So many people have great stories and great tips, they definitely are worthy of all the attention they get. For one, PastaQueen is a really cool site. She has lost about half her weight in 2 1/2 years. Plus, I really think her website name is cool. I also liked LessJess. She gives some really good tips on her site and her writing is very fun to read. Another really good blog is Johnisfit. Today he wrote about some of the same websites you need to be on the lookout for. He is just a genuinely good blogger.

So many of us are looking for that miracle cure to losing weight, but we lose sight of what actually helps us lose weight: Change. If you want to make a big move in your weight, you’ve got to change your habits to reflect that. You need to cut out the late night eating and the other bad habits you have accummulated over the years and adopt a healthy lifestyle.

When you start changing your diet and you start changing your lifestyle into healthy mechanisms, you’re going to see a change and that change is going to be for the better. As you keep up your healthy lifestyle, you’ll be surprised at the positive improvements you feel and see.

My thought on trainers.  I recommend those reading my blog on weight loss hire a trainer. I really like how they are motivational and give that positive start to working out in a gym. I think that most trainers regardless of what they appear to be like are motivational. For me picking out a trainer is picking out someone that I think will work best with me and will know my future goals of “weight loss” and fitness best.

I have had great trainers that have all worked with my fitness goals at the time. I started out with a trainer with a background in health, so he knew what was going to be the best for me to eat and the best exercises for my stressed muscles. I also worked for a few weeks with a trainer who emphasized arm muscles and weight, so I lost a few pounds and gained a bit of strength.

After that I worked with a trainer that knew his exercises very well and showed me how different exercises would help me learn about different muscle groups. This trainer challenged me. I have also had a trainer that worked very hard on learning new types of exercises and always challenged me to do new exercises and to gain not inches but strength and confidence in my workouts. He helped me incorporate my workouts and my strengths with new exercises. I love doing these workouts and challenge myself every time I workout with the workouts he has shown me.

I would say that all of these trainers did a great job with helping motivate me and advising me on how to get a better workout in my time at the gym. In this “weight loss blog”, I can’t say how much I endorse trainers. I love to workout and I think that working out is the key to my weight loss goals, fitness, and loosing weight fast but I do not think its a good idea to workout everyday.

I don’t think its a good idea to workout everyday, because its hard on my joints and my bones. If I workout everyday and stress my muscles out, then I wont be able to workout in the long run. I am working out about five to six days a week and its been a challenge to push myself even that much. Working out five days a week requires some consistent days or days in a row to workout. If there are days in a row that I will be working out, then I make sure that I will be doing a different type of muscle group each day. With training a different type of muscle each day, the muscles I have worked the day before can rest and be ready for a few days later or the next week.

I have started working out my arms a lot for example. When working my arms out I do alot of pull ups, and resistence exercises. So the next day I work on legs and the next day I work on cardio. It gives my muscles time to rest. On a cardio day I usually run or bike. On the cardio days and all the days I workout I make sure to maintain a good eating schedule so that I will be ready to workout and that I have enough calories before and after the workout.

I would love it if I was able to wake up really early and get a good workout in before I start the day. It seems like I would have the most energy in the morning and that I would never skip my workouts. I would always have the workout first and I would not be tired. Many weight loss blogs besides me have recommended this as well as you’re apt to burn more calories and loose more weight in the morning. I just cant wake up early enough to call any of my workouts a morning workout. A morning workout is not something I have to do now, because it seems like I am not doing anything else in the day.

I do make sure that I get a good breakfast in. A breakfast is key to my fitness. I have two pieces of toast and some yogurt or calcium. That’s all for this journal. I’ve got to get back to working out and trying to loose more weight so I have a success story chronicled in my weight loss blog.

I do a lot of work on the computer.  It hurts to blog about this but the truth is I’m lazy way to much and that laziness impacts my weight loss. In fact, I do too much work on the computer. I’m on my summer break trying to generate some more revenue but the bad thing is my sleeping schedule is messed up and I’m working out 1/2 the time I used to. Well that stops today. I’m going to go to the local middle school football yard and running sprints. I’m also going to do some pushups, jump rope, and curls to get some all around workout in me. Once you start getting in better shape, you can’t let it go, you just can’t. The mountain can make you pause sometimes, but never stop.

I’m all for setting goals and invoking a positive mindset, but you have to be serious about them. The idea of turning over a New Leaf when the the New Year strikes is a little bit disingenuous to me, but if it works for you, then it works and that’s what counts. If it doesn’t work for you, you need to realize that you don’t need any milestone or date to start becoming more healthy. You just need to start adopting a better lifestyle. It doesn’t have to be drastic either. Start off by ditching soda for water and go from there. If you’re looking for fast weight loss, realize that people who lose weight the fastest also have a tendency to gain it back the fastest. Why? They lost it so fast because that they’re lifestyle wasn’t altered that much. So sometimes slow weight loss is better. It helps become something you embody.

This is something that can be a big challenge in your life so dedicate your power to it. You know if you’re taking losing weight seriously or if you’re kidding yourself. Watching your calories is a big time way to shed some of those extra pounds. You want to eat a healthy amount of calories relative to your individual situation. If you’re over that amount, simply start chipping away at some of the bad calories you’re getting. Drop a bag of chips here. Ignore an ice cream bar there. Substitute the vegetables for fries and the calories really start adding up. That’s at least 400 calories just off those 4 items. And if something you’re eating that’s not good for you doesn’t taste good, then put it down. There’s no sense in eating something that tastes bad and is bad for you.  Finally, blogging about all this stuff really helps me loose weight because it helps me have a conscious about what I’m eating and how much I’m exercising.
Blogs on Weight Loss

Different people attack losing weight differently. I compiled a list of the best weight loss blogs I found while surfing the net. So many people have great stories and great tips, they definitely are worthy of all the attention they get. For one, PastaQueen is a really cool site. She has lost about half her weight in 2 1/2 years. Plus, I really think her website name is cool. I also liked LessJess. She gives some really good tips on her site and her writing is very fun to read. Another really good blog is Johnisfit. Today he wrote about some of the same websites you need to be on the lookout for. He is just a genuinely good blogger.

So many of us are looking for that miracle cure to losing weight, but we lose sight of what actually helps us lose weight: Change. If you want to make a big move in your weight, you’ve got to change your habits to reflect that. You need to cut out the late night eating and the other bad habits you have accummulated over the years and adopt a healthy lifestyle.  Diet and fatloss have become the focus big focuses of mine and I think its going to help me loose weight this summer.

If you get no exercise whatsoever, start walking 25 minutes a day. That will definitely get some positive changes going. If walking becomes too easy for you, move into briskly walking to help burn calories and fat. Get a good sweat going and you know you’re getting something accomplished.

Also remember that water is plentiful. You can have as much water as your heart desires. Water has no calories, no sugar, no fat, no nothing. So if you’re thirsty instead of reaching for a soda, grab a bottled water.  Fruit and vegetables will be good add-ons to your diet as well. These provide much needed nutriets for your body to convert into a more efficient and healthy machine. Usually getting protein isn’t a problem in our diets, but when you do consume protein, try to make sure you are getting lean meats or less fatty foods rather than fast food hamburgers or fried chicken nuggets.

Another healthy tip is to check labels on the food you buy at the grocery store. This forces you to be aware of what you’re putting in your body and take conscious efforts to improve your eating habits.  Keeping track of all this with a journal or weight loss blog is a good start to getting in shape and finally getting healthy so you can fit into your jeans and feel vibrant and energetic again.

I’m trying to lose weight with the help of my weight loss blog before the wedding. I have about 45 days so I should be able to lose the weight if I stay focused on my workout. You have no idea how much this journal keeps me organized with my eyes on the prize. The stats don’t lie, when I blog, I generally shed pounds and stick to my diet and when I don’t, I get lazy and gain back weight so I’ve really got to make sure I write about getting in shape at least 3 times a week, hopefully more.

I really want to look for the wedding. Luckily it’s not 2 weeks away so I don’t have to loose weight that fast, but I do need to hustle. Here are my 5 keys to success I outlined today in my offline weight loss blog also known as my notepad and pen:

* walk at least 20 minutes every morning no matter what
* 85% of my liquids need to be water
* motivate myself everyday after I wake up
* stay busy so I’m not tempted to eat just because the food is available
* continue to blog on weight loss to stay focused
* go to the gym 5 to 6 times a week

Those are my keys to weight loss success. My new strategy also includes some running which has been hit and miss for me. I want to get some very comfortable running shoes so I can make the process as easy and painless as possible and chart it in my “weight loss blog”. Another topic of conversation I will hit upon in this weight loss blog is the slow elimination of processed foods from my diet. Why do food companies have to create such unhealthy products? Its really hard to eat anything pure anymore so I’m going to frequent WholeFoods more often and get healthy, organic food which I have heard helps your weight loss more than low cal, low fat, low sugar processed diets.

My goal is to lose 12 pounds (healthily) in 45 days. That is almost 2 pounds a week and I think very doable if I tighten up my diet to 2,000 calories a day and burn an additional 250 calories each day. I’ll start charting my weight every blog so you can see whether or not the exercises and diets I’m using are working.

Here are the high calorie, high sugar, and high fat foods and drinks I’ll be staying away from in my new program for losing weight:

* all soda
* cookies
* chips
* pizza
* cake
* sweet tea
* ice cream
* buttered popcorn
* fast food hamburgers

Weight Loss Blog

If I can lose 12 pounds in 45 days, I will be one happy and energetic weight loss blogger. I do a lot of work on the computer. In fact, I do too much work on the computer. I’m on my summer break trying to generate some more revenue but the bad thing is my sleeping schedule is messed up and I’m working out 1/2 the time I used to. Well that stops today. I’m going to go to the local middle school football yard and running sprints. I’m also going to do some pushups, jump rope, and curls to get some all around workout in me. Once you start getting in better shape, you can’t let it go, you just can’t. The mountain can make you pause sometimes, but never stop.

I love the microwave pizzas. In my previous losing weight blog, I wrote about how they helped me lose weight. Both the South Beach Diet and Lean Cuisine taste good to me while offering low calories, low fat, and high protein. I think most kinds are about 330 calories and 100 calories from fat while offering 26g of protein. Pepporoni, three meats, chicken and spinach, and three cheese are my favorites. At $2.50 – $3.50 apiece depending where you’re at, these pizzas are economical in addition to being great sources of necessary nutrients. Fast, cheap, tastes good, and is ok for you. These are winning combos for me and I’ll continue to blog on my weight loss by using these two products (though as I’m reading more about processed foods I’m thinking I may not want to eat them). Take these two work or school and just put them in the microwave for 2:50.
Losing Weight With Microwave Dinners

One of the biggest obstacles people have is avoiding the real exercise and the real dieting. You walk around the gym and do a few stretches, lift some weights, and maybe play in the pool if you’re feeling adventurous but you don’t do any heavy lifting (and I mean that figuratively). Stop avoiding the treadmill and attack it – this is one of my primary philosophies in my weight loss blog. I’m a big advocate of running to shed the fat. Attack sit-ups. Attack the rotex machine. This cardio is the key to losing weight. Sweat your ass off. You aren’t going to lose weight lifting weights or splashing around in the pool. Could you get stronger? Of course. Can having more muscle help you burn calories? Yes.

But right now this is not what you need. You need to get some good old fashion walking or jogging and start getting those sweat glands working.You don’t have to have a warrior workout. Just make it an effort. Don’t talk to anyone. Don’t read a magazine. Put your headphones on. Listen to the music that pumps you up the most. Think about why you want to lose weight and do it.

There is no magical trick where one day your in shape. Being in shape and losing weight. comes from living that type of lifestyle. It’s a way of living thing, not a trick like infomercials would have you believe. There are some things that can help you in your journey to lose weight that might seem trivial but do help like weight loss blogs, substituting bad calories for good calories, eating more meals, but with smaller portions, and so on. You can start as slow as you want. All you need to do is put in a diligent effort and dedication to getting a nice healthy cardio exercise 5-6 times a week. Its not as bad as you make it out to be. Just work out 30 minutes in the morning. That’s your start. Walk, jog, bike – whatever you want. Just have a good workout and feel good about it.

Next weight loss blog will be a huge way to lose weight that you know about and need to read again because it is super helpful. Last night I ate a big meal after hardly getting anything to eat the whole day. Hardly the way you want to do anything, but it was done and recorded in the weight loss blog. The first thing I did this morning was do a little cardio exercise even though I was and still am tired. When you’ve taken the first couple of big strides and lost 29 pounds, the last thing you want to do is steadily let yourself crawl back.

With that thought in my mind, I did something I call running the step. At my house, there’s one step approximately 6 inches off the ground. What I did was run on and off of it for 36 minutes. It might be somewhat akin to running, but it’s probably only 2/5 the workout. Still, it got my blood moving and my body sweating which is what I wanted. This exercise isn’t going to help me lose any weight given the circumstances in which it came, but it will help keep some of that weight creeping up on me at bay.

When you’re trying to lose weight and you’re successful at taking clumps out of that weight, remember there is no letting up before achieving that goal. Even after reaching the goal, you need to transition your diet and exercise to that of being in shape. If you’re thinking, “this doesn’t ever end”, you’re right. Fitness is a forever thing. Get used to it. Get off your ass and do something. I highly recommend you start a weight loss blog to get your going and holding yourself accountable.