Aw Snap!
Keeping on track this week with my food was difficult this week. I took my calories down to 1200-1300/day to see what happened and I just got hungrier and hungrier. Basically, I set myself up for failure. I scarfed down a bunch of chips without thinking. Not going to do that again. I really didn't like how I felt while eating them, almost out of control. Yeah... time to take a closer look at that issue. Meanwhile, I'm making sure my calories stay in my sweet spot, 1500 to 1600.
It's really super cold here! After a milder than usual January, we're now in a cold snap. When there are frostbite warnings, I don't exercise much outside at all. I did walk to the grocery store and back as always; it's not that far away. When the temps go down like this from -20C to -40C (-4F to -40F), I throw on a few layers and bundle up. Down coat with hood, and it goes down to the knee, a knit hat, long johns, tightly woven jeans and a good pair of tall boots with a thick sole (or a pair of real mukluks). My mitts are boxer glove style. I won't let the cold trap my in the house. But I'm never out longer than 30 minutes in one stretch when it gets past -30C. My workouts are indoors. Elliptical or doing DVDs. Get a load of what my mother sent me for Valentine's Day...
She's hilarious! She's trying to get healthy after a heart attck this Fall, so we're motivating one another, especially with humour. Anyway, back in the day, during a slight chubby phase, I tried to Sweat to the Oldies but failed miserably because I'm pretty uncoordinated. If I remember rightly, there are a lot of dance moves in these routines and I just couldn't keep up! I'll have to try again to see if I'm more coordinated now. Probably not :)
This is too funny. Back 25 years ago when I got to WW goal the first time, I started out doing that Richard Simmons video (on tape back then). It was so hard for me because I was really out of shape. But, I kept working on it and eventually "graduated" to Kathy Smith videos when one day I found that I go Sweatin the the Oldies and it didn't cause me to, well, sweat.
ReplyDeleteWhat was nice about it was that it really was designed to be friendly to those who were overweight and I think it had modifications you could do. At the time, I was really uncoordinated (well, I still am) and I had a lot of trouble with many of the dance type videos. This one though was really just designed to get movement and I knew it didn't really matter that much if I got the exact step right. I still remember it fondly.
Hi Kitty thanks for stopping by, and that's a great story! Once I try them out I'll post a review :)
DeleteI love that dude! DO you seriously get to -30C. Holy shit balls! I couldn't handle that!! It gets to +15 here and I hardly function!
ReplyDeleteI wish RS would come out of retirement, he's done so much good for folks.
DeleteSeriously, the weather is not as bad as all that... if it's in small doses!
It's great that you're so aware of your triggers, and what you can do to set yourself up for success.
ReplyDeleteMy list of triggers seems to get longer with time. Tracking and really paying attention to feelings seems to help identify... problem now is can they ever be resolved?
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