The Green Room - 2009 Health Plans & Reports

Dec 30^th, 2008 at 3:47pm

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Here is the 2009 thread for creating a health plan and reporting on your progress!

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Reply #1 - Dec 30^th, 2008 at 4:06pm

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My Plan:

EXERCISE:

This year I am training for another Marathon in the Fall of 2009. �I'm looking at either doing the Portland Marathon in October again or doing the Top of Utah Marathon in September. �My marathon training blog for the year is right here:

STODGY LEGS ELF TRIES TO RUN

I'd love it if anyone wants to follow the blog and check up on me... make sure I'm keeping up.

EATING:

1- Work on not binging. (See "Excuses for Eating Sugary Blossoms: Solutions" on the Stodgy Legs blog) �I am working with therapy tools to stop my 25 year eating disorder.

2- Cutting out most sugar and high-saturated fat in order to battle the Sugar Demon and the HDL Demon. (See 2009 "List of Systematic Tidbits" on the Stodgy Legs blog)

3- Portion & nutrient control by keeping a food journal which I've already purchased. �

EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING:

1- Continue daily meditation
2- Continue reading/listening to books for pleasure (one per week)
3- Take one day off from homework & teaching every week
4- Continue to go out with Dave once a week

I will be reporting on my progress once a week, every Friday night.

Happy New Year, and good health to you!

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Reply #2 - Dec 30^th, 2008 at 8:21pm

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My goal: Lose 12 pounds by April; then go on to lose another 5 by May.

Plan--

Eating: continue my journaling. It's worked for me for the past 4 years of weight loss; I always gain when I stop journaling. I record exchanges for starches, fats, milk, meat, fruit and vegetables. My caloric limit is 1500. I have a hard time staying within my caloric limit when I include desserts in my diet, so I think I'll go back to my pre-holiday limit of one dessert per week. And I'm thinking no more on the chocolate.

Exercise: I finally found what works for me with weightloss--1 hour of ballet barre, stretching and centers. Even if it's just alone in my house. I enjoy it more than running or aerobics; and I'm able to maintain my target heart rate when I do it at home and if I avoid taking long breaks between exercises. I'm going to make a plan for upper body strength training, though, since I don't get much of it with the ballet stuff. My goal is to dance 5 days a week.

I'll report on Monday mornings.

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Reply #3 - Dec 31^st, 2008 at 10:08am

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I refuse to count calories or obsess over carbs. But I WILL try to eat more vegetables and fruits, less processed food, more whole wheat and grain, and less sugar. I will also exercise more regularly with a goal of at least 120 minutes a week.

The only thing about my lifestyle that's changed in the last several years is my job--instead of climbing up and down ladders and unpacking boxes and walking back and forth for 6-10 hours a day, I'm sitting at a desk. I'm terrified of becoming like so many of the women on this campus who gain 10-20 pounds a year just sitting. I think, judging from past experience and family history, that just getting on the bike for 30 minutes a day will make a HUGE difference in my overall health. This may be the year I invest in a gym membership (if I'm paying for it, I'm more likely to actually use it) and start biking to work. Something has to change. I refuse to be 100 pounds heavier in another 8 years. I refuse to make my chances of conception even worse than they are because of my age and family history. Most of all, I refuse to give up.

And I may report from time to time. Wink

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Reply #4 - Dec 31^st, 2008 at 11:52am

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My health plan for 2009 is to try very hard not to die.

I'll also try to keep you posted on my progress....

My skills are as varied as they are impractical.

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Reply #5 - Jan 2^nd, 2009 at 8:01am

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Okay, so I said I'd report every Friday and It's Friday already. Heh! So here is my report for the past two days:

Week #1

Exercise: I'm heading for the gym right now. I'm on my second week of stodgy legs elf marathon training. I plan to blog when I get back.

http://stodgylegs.blogspot.com/

Eating: I kept my journal and ate plenty of veggies, fruits, whole grains and good stuff yesterday. I stayed within the right caloric intake. I plan to keep my journal again today. I also blogged a recipe on Fine Fettle Kettle.

http://finefettlekettle.blogspot.com/

Emotional: I did my meditation yesterday and plan to do it again today. I read for pleasure and took the day off from homework and teaching.

See you next week!

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Reply #6 - Jan 3^rd, 2009 at 11:25pm

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kitchensinger wrote on Dec 30^th, 2008 at 8:21pm:

My goal: Lose 12 pounds by April; then go on to lose another 5 by May.

Plan--

Eating: continue my journaling. It's worked for me for the past 4 years of weight loss; I always gain when I stop journaling. I record exchanges for starches, fats, milk, meat, fruit and vegetables. My caloric limit is 1500. I have a hard time staying within my caloric limit when I include desserts in my diet, so I think I'll go back to my pre-holiday limit of one dessert per week. And I'm thinking no more on the chocolate.

Exercise: I finally found what works for me with weightloss--1 hour of ballet barre, stretching and centers. Even if it's just alone in my house. I enjoy it more than running or aerobics; and I'm able to maintain my target heart rate when I do it at home and if I avoid taking long breaks between exercises. I'm going to make a plan for upper body strength training, though, since I don't get much of it with the ballet stuff. My goal is to dance 5 days a week.

I'll report on Monday mornings.

If you have Wednesday mornings available, consider signing up for the adult ballet class with me at Classical Ballet Academy! It's at 9:30, $55/month. Jennie Creer-King is an excellent teacher.

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Reply #7 - Jan 3^rd, 2009 at 11:28pm

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I'm starting up a new round of Body for Life tomorrow. Cardio MWF, Weights TThS. Still working on fitting in yoga/meditation, but I think I can at least tack that on to the end of workouts on most days. I'm excited to find my muscles again!

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Reply #8 - Jan 4^th, 2009 at 12:32am

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This is my friend Christopher

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This is also my friend Christopher

http://pics.livejournal.com/bladeliger/pic/00025769

He changed himself little by little by making his goals and sticking with them. If he can do it, I can do it. I already know how wonderful it felt/feels to ride a bike and be at that point where I physically like it. I just need to find other muscles to train (I'm sure there's no shortage), and I just need to take a little time out of every day, like I did with my bike this year, to actually do something about it.

Oh, and no more cheese.

There is one thing you never put in a trap, if you're smart - if you value your continued existence - if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow there is one thing you never EVER put in a trap.� Me.

Listen, I don't know what sort of kids you've been flying around with in outer space, but you're not telling me to shut up!

As long as I don't bleed or cry, I'll do it!

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Reply #9 - Jan 4^th, 2009 at 11:18am

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I don't even know where to start. The last couple of months have really done a number on my body. I would like to lose 10% of my weight by the end of March. And then another 5% before my 40th birthday in July. I'd like to workout 5-6 days a week. I'd like to get a better handle on my eating so that after 40 I don't have to do the yo-yo thing so much.

But, a plan? I guess I really don't have one at this point. Everything seems up in the air. I'm almost afraid to make a goal and then have everything change in a couple weeks and not be able to stick with it.

Guh. It's always a battle.

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