One of my favorite shows is called “I Lost It” and it runs on the Discovery Health channel. Originally filmed in 2004, the show follows obese individuals and chronicles their weight loss, what technique they used (Atkins, Weight Watchers, etc) and what they look like now.
Most often, the folks are fat from childhood. The other day the show was interviewing one of the mothers of the now-skinny-guest on the show. The mother said, “I knew she was overeating” (talking about her daughter) “but how do you take candy from a child?”
OMG!
I was watching the show and answered her outloud, “Like this, lady!” and made my hands motion like I was taking candy from a child.
No wonder we’re a nation of obese individuals! If you knew your kid was smoking, wouldn’t you do your best to take the cigarette outta their hands? They’re killing themselves and may not be old enough to know it.
If your kid was drinking at a young age, wouldn’t you take the alcohol away?
Same principle! To not want to deprive your kid of enjoying sweets, knowing that they could face a lifetime of obesity, being made fun of by their peers, depression, heart disease, and prol’ly an early death…you’d better move heaven and earth to take the candy away!
Am I saying you can’t have sweets? Duh! No way! I love chocolate way too much to ever think of depriving anyone of nature’s most perfect gift. 
My point is that, if a child is overeating, as a parent, its your mandated duty by the Laws of Nature to ensure they are living healthy, happy lives.
If that means taking sweets away because they’re overindulging – do it. If it means not even buying them so that they aren’t in the house to cause temptation – do it.
If it means you doing without a special treat because you know your child will find it and eat it first – do it.
Maybe if we as parents spent more time being involved and active in our children’s lives instead of being content to just make sure they make it out the door for school in the mornings, we could curtail the obesity problem that’s gripped our society today!
I’m going on vacation today, leaving in about 30 minutes. While I’m looking forward to the “time away”, it doesn’t mean my workout will suffer!
Next time you travel, take a second ahead of time to jump on the internet. Most gyms have some sort of free trial membership that will allow you to still workout but enjoy your vacation, too!
By taking the time to think and plan ahead, you can be assured that you’ll still get your workout in while enjoying what you eat while you’re on the go.
Of course, there isn’t anything wrong with taking a week off either! You won’t experience muscle degredation for 2 weeks after you’ve stopped working out, so if you can’t get to the gym or don’t have a killer summer beach workout (like you’ll find in What if You Were Thin? due to launch very soon!) you can rest easy, knowing that you’re still doing well for your body!
Enjoy your week! I know I will!
July 6th,2009
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I got to thinking about it during my cardio the other day. There are definitely things that have changed since I lost weight! Not just physically, either (but yes, a lot of things have changed about me physically, too)!
Here’s my list of things I don’t miss about being fat:
- Being self conscious when I eat out somewhere, thinking that the whole world is watching me eat and saying, “She could live off her fat! Why bother eating more?”
- The sound of my inner thighs rubbing together, waiting for them to start a fire with all the friction.
- Buying ugly bras that resemble circus tents because of their size. I still haven’t figured out why they have to make them ugly.
- Changing clothes in the bedroom by myself because I didn’t want my husband to see me naked. I was too embarassed.
- My butt ‘eating’ my shorts when I walked. You know how your thighs will grab hold of the material as you’re walking and the next thing you know, you’ve got to retrieve your shorts from between them as they’ve hiked up several inches?
- Sweating when I ate.
- Sweating when I walked across the room.
- Being hot when all the thinner people in the room were cold (body fat is one heck of an insulator!)
- “Feeling fat” whenever I tried on clothes.
- For that matter, only having Lane Bryant to shop in.
- Sucking in my gut whenever anyone came in contact with me.
- Grocery shopping and feeling people judge me for what was in my grocery cart.
- Never having the energy to do anything.
- Napping in the middle of the day.
- Wishing someone would wave a magic wand and make the fat go away.
- Realizing #15 was never gonna happen.
- Saying, “Not now, honey. Mommy’s tired.” to my kids a million times a day.
- Sitting down to a plate of food, then wondering where it went (I’d eat it all and not even realize I’d done it. It was like a coma.)
- Hating to wear skirts or dresses because of my fat ankles and calves.
But the biggest thing I don’t miss about being fat? Thinking that #1-19 was the way life was always gonna be.
If you’re currently feeling what I felt in the list above, you’re ready for What If You Were Thin? The Kaizen Program for Permanent Weight Loss. I take you step-by-step through meal planning, give you a choice of workouts to suit your current lifestyle, and still let you eat the exact same foods you’re eating now!
Turns out, its the timing of what you eat, not necessarily the exact food you’re eating that’s making you fat. I’ll show you all the details and more when the book launches July 10th. Hope you’re ready!
I’ve blogged in the past about how I sabotage myself most of the time. I mean, it rarely comes from outside sources.
This weekend, I beat myself up like Mike Tyson boxing in a mirror! I mean, I let myself HAVE IT!
I thought about the chocolate I’d eaten, the cookies, the hotdogs, HOLY COW (or holy whatever-they-put-in-hotdogs…)
But the fact of the matter is, it was all planned. I had planned to eat half an organic chocolate bar as my reward for doing so well during the week. I had ONE cookie that was within my caloric intake and carb count. The hotdogs were turkey and very low in fat. The buns were 100% whole wheat.
And yet I looked at myself in the mirror with enough contempt to make myself feel so guilty for what I’d eaten.
Its funny, how we can really beat ourselves up and not look at what all we’ve accomplished!
I’ve lost over 70 pounds! I didn’t gain it by eating one cookie and won’t gain it back by eating one cookie! I’m in a size 4! Not a size 20 like before! I’m not going out to buy size 20 clothes because I ate a cookie this weekend!
So why write about it? Because every once in a while, I have a bad day. I have a bad workout. I eat badly. Whatever.
But I get back on the fitness horse and keep riding. I learned how from my husband’s Kaizen Method for Permanent Weight Loss. Its SOOOO easy and fun to do. I can’t wait til the ebook is finished and I can show you all just how easy it is to lose the weight and keep it off (even if you have a Hot Fudge Cake Sundae from Sonic!)
It’s coming! I’ll let you know when its ready!
Yesterday I was watching TV (I think it was “I Lost It” on Discovery Health) and saw a commercial that made me laugh out loud – and hit the rewind button!
I was waiting for the Energizer bunny to march across the bottom of the screen!
It was a commercial for…wait for it…
MEDICATION to thicken your eyelashes! Doctor prescribed! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! Complete with “Side effects include…” and everything! It was called “Latisse” and the celebrity endorsement was Brooke Shields.
Have we really become so addicted to the thought of a “magic pill” that we will take one for any reason whatsoever? I mean – doctor prescribed eyelash thickener???
What’s next? “Earlobe shrinker”???
What if (and here’s a crazy thought) we could thicken our lashes; grow longer, thicker hair; strengthen brittle bones; lose weight; gain self-esteem; even get greater sex appeal…WITHOUT A PRESCRIPTION…Unthinkable!
Its possible and the Kaizen Program is gonna show you how. In one week. I swear, it’ll change your life forever.
Its well-known in the marketing world that I’m the queen of “Ooh! You know what else we should do? We should add….” and the product becomes bigger and better than originally imagined.
A couple of days ago, I said, “You know what else we should do?”…and its resulted in an entirely new section of the ebook – one that you can print out and keep with you in your pocket, wallet, etc. I’m pretty excited about it.
All that to say – I’ve added another week onto the launch. Sure, another 7 days isn’t gonna be the end of the world, but I’m so excited about getting this book out there so folks can start using it to close the chapter on their fat selves once and for all!
Just wanted to give y’all an update. New launch date: July 22, 2009. I’ll keep ya posted!
The very first time I stepped on the scale and saw “210 pounds” – I was heartbroken. Something about seeing the “2″ in front of my weight PLUS the extra 10 pounds crushed me. I started thinking of ways that I could get the weight off.
I tried starving myself but that just left me hungry and irritable.
I tried working out for hours but that left me sore and irritable.
I tried detoxing but it left me irritable…and still fat.
Then I hear from all the big ‘health gurus’ that you’ re suppose to get 30 minutes of exercise a day for optimum health.
Have you looked around this country lately? Who has 30 extra minutes in their day? (I’ll help you with the easy ones…NO ONE!)
So how can you suggest (and think that I’ll follow your advice) that I carve time outta my schedule to get sweaty and gross, stay sore for a week, and then prol’ly not pick up another weight because I tried to do too much, too fast?
Thinking about how much I couldn’t do for myself only made me more depressed (and kinda angry, let’s be honest).
So I started taking kaizen steps towards doing what I needed to do for myself…and that made all the difference in the world.
What kind of difference?
- I am no longer considering gastric bypass surgery (I weigh less than 140 pounds.)
- I am no longer considering a tummy tuck because all the saggy skin from my excessive weight loss is going back to its normal size.
- I am no longer in danger of heart disease as a result of my heavy weight.
- I tire my kids out.
- I no longer shop in Lane Bryant.
- My bras don’t look like circus tents (seriously – why are large bras so hard to make attractive?)
- I can shop in almost any store I want (see the comment above about Lane Bryant – they don’t carry my size!)
- I am happier, healthier, and more productive each day thanks to my weight loss.
- I enjoy my husband seeing me without clothes on.
- I take showers every day (hey, at over 200 pounds, I didn’t see the point. I grossed myself out.)
What makes any of us think that sudden, dramatic, over-the-top change is gonna do anything but make us frustrated and feel guilty because what we’ve tried in the past didn’t work???
You’re ready to start enjoying these changes in yourself and more. That’s why you’re reading this blog!
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I don’t know why I need its approval. I hate that damned thing.
Stupid scale. Every morning I see it, I wanna get on to see if I’ve lost any weight. Every time I go in the bathroom for anything, I wanna see what it says. Even at night! How silly is that??? I hate living for its approval and I don’t wanna do it anymore.
I mean, now that I’m strength training to prepare for a fitness competition (Women’s Tri-Fitness – I blogged about it in April) I’m putting on a few extra pounds…because its MUSCLE.
Muscle is truly denser than fat, so it takes up less room, but a pound is still a pound…if that makes any sense.
Its funny, I was reading a book by a bodybuilder who is also a doctor (he’s 60 years old and looks my age! I’m 34!) He said that by all the classical descriptions, he’s obese. His weight and everything made it hard for him to get insurance because its almost 300 pounds.
On paper, he looks like a fat man if you just look at the numbers. But then when you see his picture – WOW! There ain’t a scrap of fat on him!
It made me realize that my dependency on the bathroom scale for approval is NUTS! As I’m changing, as I’m developing muscle and still burning fat…of course my measurements are gonna change! They’re even gonna go up! But if I’m constantly hopping on and off that scale to see if I’ve gained a pound…I’m gonna drive myself crazy!
So I’ve turned to Kaizen methods for breaking my addiction to the bathroom scale.
I’ve decided to take it one step at a time. I’ve realized that if I decide to never, ever step on the scale again – I’m setting myself up for failure. Of course I’m gonna weigh myself! I just can’t depend on the number the scale shows me to determine whether or not I’m happy that day!
Since I’ve used the same Kaizen Program to lose over 70 pounds, I have no reason to look for anything but success in breaking my scale addiction too.
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Ugh.
Last month I said I was gonna start my year-long training for the fitness competition known as Women’s Tri-Fitness. It was far enough outta my comfort zone that it made me as nervous as a whore in church!
But here’s the thing – that’s what I’ve heard my whole life. Every motivational speaker, all the guys on the infomercials or on stage say, “Think big!” or “If you’re gonna waste the time to think – why not do it as big as you can!”
Even Donald Trump’s book is about Thinking Big.
But that’s not our way! We as human’s get overwhelmed when we think big! We get bogged down in the details!
When I first started thinking about the 70 pounds I needed to lose to truly be “healthy” – it was daunting.
In college, I worked out some but remember thinking in the gym one day, “Oh my gracious. I’m gonna have to do this forever if I wanna stay like this forever! I’m only 18! That’s a LONG time to work out EVERY DAY!”
It seemed overwhelming because it was. It made me wanna give up altogether.
That’s why I’m the most excited about where I am in my life right now. Because of the Kaizen approach to True Health!
Think about it. You didn’t come into this world and suddenly start running. You first learned to roll over. Then to sit up. Then to stand. Then to crawl. Then to walk. And THEN to run. It was a gradual process.
And when you finally started running everywhere (and your parents rushed to keep up with you)…you didn’t say, “Hey, I’m a baby. This walking thing is too hard. I think I’ll go back to crawling.”
You stayed with it and chances are you’re still walking to this day – at least to the mailbox or the car! You may not have time for exercise, but you’re still walking because you learned slowly and through a series of changes within yourself that you could walk and then stuck with it!
Its the same way with the Kaizen Program – we’re going to re-teach you how to roll over, then sit up, then stand! The end result will be that you have the body you want, are the weight, size, and shape that you want, and are the healthiest you’ve ever been…
…because of baby steps.
If you’re ready to say goodbye to your ‘fat self’ FOREVER – now is the time to act!
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Randomly put together, they don’t seem that bad: CCOOTELAH. Put em together the right way and they spell disaster! CHOCOLATE!
I think if you could go back to the beginning of 2008 and cut me, I’d bleed chocolate (and Diet Coke, but mostly chocolate)! I LOVE THAT STUFF!
I could have the will power to resist even the greatest of temptations…unless it had chocolate in it. Then I had to eat it. It was a moral imperative!
It use to be, we’d get close to dinner time, realize that we hadn’t thawed or prepared anything for dinner, and suddenly decided we were going out to eat. And truthfully, as the Kaizen Program developed, we found that we could go out and eat just about anywhere, still stay on the Program, and still lose weight (check my previous blogs – you’ll see!)
But if I caught a glimpse of the dessert menu and saw those 9 little letters…I couldn’t resist.
So my husband John and I sat down and got…medieval. Well, more like pre-historic!
Looking at cavemen and the way they ate, we reckoned that it wasn’t often you heard Zord say to Lizu that “I can’t have that cacao bean, I’ve had too many carbs today”. (That made me giggle writing it!)
They ate what they could, when they could…for a certain reason. There were specifics to what they ate and why.
So John and I figured that there had to be reasons why, as humankind developed, there were suddenly “good foods” and “bad foods”. Why we were suddenly made to feel guilty by modern society about eating specific foods and that there had to be hard and fast rules about losing weight.
And can I just say – there are two chocolate dessert recipes on page 46 of the Kaizen Program! Real chocolate. No artificial sweeteners, no “fake” chocolate. Real cocoa. Real sugar. Real weight loss.
We chucked all the “fad diet” stuff out the window (including the bathroom scale) and used the Kaizen Program to take baby steps towards our weight loss.
And since I’ve lost over 70 pounds and he lost over 30 pounds and we’ve kept it off…I’d say I think we’re on to something!
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