Okay so I have not been diligent about blogging

Well at least I did have my date with the scale, 148.8 lbs so I lost weight and hopefully will stay on this path. I have changed other things in my rountine as well. I started to read a spiritual book each day. I figure if I am changing my outside I should better my inside as well.  These changes are good my days have been filled more with happiness than depressed thoughts about myself.   

2/25 Food and Exercise

It is 7:15 and although it is possible I may eat more tonight I am going to try not to.  I will drink more water though.  So for breakfast I had raisen brand and lowfat milk (190 and 110 calories), for lunch PB&J and 1/2  a banana (240 and 52 calories), snack: popcorn with cayenne pepper (110 calories ) and dinner: barbaque beef sandwhich, tater tots and mixed vegetables (514, 170, and 40 calories) (total calories= 1426).  I drank 8 (8 oz) glasses of water.  My exercise today was walking/jogging my son to the park and back.  For 34.5 mintues (me making sure the heart moniter worked and walking to the park) my heart rate averaged 113 beats per mintue on the way home for 18.5 minutes my heart rate averaged 138 beats per minute.  Oh I guess I didn't mention this before I have a heart condition and my doctor said I shouldn't allow my heart rate to exceed 160 beats per minute for too long thus the heart rate moniter.  So I found a website that calulates how many calories you need to eat to maintain your body weight and the theory is if you eat 500 calories less than that in a day you will lose a pound a week add exercising to that you could lose more (lets see how it goes you have to remember the thyroid could be hindering me too).  Oh yeah the websites: http://www.caloriecontrol.org/healthy-weight-tool-kit/weight-maintenance-calculator-women

and http://www.caloriecontrol.org/healthy-weight-tool-kit/lighten-up-and-get-moving. The second one calculates calories burn while doing everything almost from watching t.v. to aerobics.  So my caculations are 1907.1 calories to maintain minus 500 means I want to keep my daily intake to about 1407 calories, So horray for me day 1 a success.  My exercising should have helped used up an extra 342 calories. Now if I can repeat this process consectutively I'll have it made right?

Let me explain

So I really want to lose weight and as some of you know I have hypothyroidism (ie: it doesn't work as well as it should). So losing weight can be hard. Well losing weight for most women is hard this just makes it harder. But I am going for it and I figured keeping a record would help me stay on track. My goal is to write down what I eat and when I exercise and have a date with my scale once a week. So every Thursday morning is my scale date. Today I clocked in at 150.4 (which may I say is 5 lbs more than I was at the begining of this year so now I have more weight to lose). I want to weigh 135 by Jan.1 2011 which is a very reasonable and healthy goal. I shouldn't have to kill myself to do it and as I work up to exercising more and eating better hopefully it will be a habit at the end of this year and not a quick phase long forgotten. If I reach my goal quicker than expected then I may try for 130 but I don't think I need to go lower than that I am 5'7" and that is well in healthy limits. We'll see how it looks on me and maybe at that point I'll just tone. I'm sorry I have to laugh, the last time I had "toned" anything was 8 years ago when I chose the wrong color cover up make up to wear. Tonight I plan to write down my food and exercise.
Be Healthy
Barbara