food tv

The buzz all around is that Paula Deen *finally* admitted to having type 2 diabetes. Surprise!

not.

I feel bad that she’s got diabetes. I really do. But what bugs me are the recipes all the FN “stars” put out. Just about everything is decadent. It’s all about taste and not very often about health or nutrition. I find myself totally uninterested in Food Network (and sadly we don’t get the Cooking Channel) because there isn’t anything on there I want to eat! Every once in a while Rachael Ray will make something that is healthy…she is all over the board with her recipes, so sometimes it’s good for ya. And I know I can think of recipes here and there that are ok, so I don’t want to get nailed for this. But by and large, most of the stuff on that channel is bad for you.

When are these cooking stars going to start taking things more seriously and use their powers for good instead of evil make healthy food???

And especially Paula because she has now gone on tv and admitted she has a disease directly linked to the way she eats…whether she wants to admit it or not. I know there are other factors…trust me I know…both my parents were diabetic. But what we eat is a big player in this. A big one.

Come on “stars”…help us eat good food that’s healthy too!

a new one

I’ve started a new blog… as a tag-along to this one.   

I’m just doing this to save you from the daily ramble about that stuff, if you aren’t interested. I don’t know if it will work out for me or just end up being a pain.  I might enjoy the new blog or I might kill it. We’ll see.

But anyway…Hop on over and check it out.  

a weighty topic

I've been doing this WiiFit carnival thing on Fridays. It's a good thing. It's keeping me motivated to get on the WiiFit when I would rather not. This hasn't been a great week for that, but this post isn't really about the working out part.

It's about the eating part.

The thing I've been stinking up at lately.

In the past when I would talk to most people about my need to lose weight, they would mostly just ask 'why?'. And then I would laugh and go into 'it'. When my hubby and I married, I weighed a hundred pounds. That's all. At 5 feet, 2 inches, I was pretty much skin and bones. I've gotten past the skin and bones stage. Well, my middle has. My arms and legs are still fairly slender. Otherwise known as an apple shape. And if you've ever read much about this or watched Dr Oz or anything like that, you'll know that the apple shape is the worst because the fat is concentrated around the middle. And belly fat is largely responsible for diseases like diabetes. Both my parents had/have it.

So having said all of that... I am having the worst time with the eating part of this WiiFit thing. I can blog all day about how good or bad I've been at exercising. But my eating is out of control. And since I'm not blogging my weight, I don't get much accountability built in. So! I'm thinking about blogging my actual weight weekly as a deterrent to eating everything in sight (like I did yesterday).

Some people refer to it as the weather report to catalog their numbers, but I'm thinking about just putting my weight down every Friday when I do the WiiFit update. I'm thinking I will weigh every Friday in the morning after breakfast, since that's when I tend to do my update. And it's right about that time today.

So today's number is.... 140.5. My goal is to lose at least 15 lbs. It puts my middle in better proportion with the rest of my body and reduces my risk for other things as well. So it's not always about the number itself, but the info behind that number.

I'll usually try to document these on Fridays, but today I just wanted to get that off my chest, so to speak, so it doesn't take up all of Friday's post.

WiiFit Friday update #3

In some ways, I feel like I don't have much to share. It hasn't been the best week ever around here. I would have felt bad telling my sick daughter that she couldn't watch tv so I could jump around and make a fool of myself exercise. And I was pretty wiped out from taking care of her, too.

Anyway..here's the rundown:

Friday: yes 30 minutes

Saturday: Yes 30 minutes. I did lunges and boxing - both for the first time. Will take me a bit to get used to the boxing thing. I'm not exactly coordinated. The lunges made my legs pretty sore, so that's a good thing. I felt like I could have gone longer than 30 minutes, which is also a good thing, but I had to do something else.

Monday: no It was a crazy day and I never stopped long enough to do it.

Tuesday and Wednesday: sick kid. 'Nuff said.

Thursday: Yes. It was a crazy day, and I got interrupted more than once. The first time, I barely got the machine going and the phone rang. And then towards the end of my 30 minutes and during a run, the doorbell rang. Something about the plumber and water gushing outside bla bla bla. Whatever. My Mii was waiting on me to finish my run when I got back in the house. : )

About eating: I have been eating like there is no tomorrow and that drives me nuts. There are times in my life when I've been 'working out' that I haven't wanted to woof down everything that's not nailed down. Having a little trouble with that right now. Having said that, I went from normal weight to overweight between Saturday and Thursday. Bummer. But on the flip side... the scale on this thing is wonky, in my opinion.

I am still trying to work on some sort of routine. Having different things to concentrate on each day etc. Haven't sat down with it to figure out a good system yet. As I was peeling myself off the floor the other day after doing jack knifes, it congratulated me on doing so well and unlocked more reps. I 'bout threw up just thinking about that. But then it hit me (duh).. 'back in the day' when I used to work out, I didn't do 30 or 40 of something at one stretch. I did SETS. So I think I'm going to start trying to apply what I used to do in resistance training to this and do shorter reps and more sets. Might keep me from tossing my cookies when I do jack knifes! LOL

Another question... doing the tricep work.. I can't remember what those are called.. you hold just under your elbow and then bend the other arm back holding the wiimote. I get that.. but then the trainer chick says that if you get good at doing that, you can increase the weight by holding a water bottle etc.. just exactly how am I supposed to hold a wiimote AND a water bottle. Because it is actully keeping track of the ups and downs of that hand. If it weren't keeping track, I could understand the water bottle comment, but since it does.. I'm a little stumped. Any ideas? This one seems like a waste of time to me. I need weight. I might skip using the Fit for this and use my resistance bands instead. Dunno. It just feels like a lame movement with no weight. But that's just my opinion.

I'm thankful to be able to link up with others, because without it I would have quit a long time ago. And knowing I would be posting on Friday and I told people I was gonna do it has made me step on when I would rather be lazy. So I'm so thankful for this. I just need to stop eating so much and get a move on.

To check in with others or join the fun, click here.

because she inspired me

I read Donna's post this morning and it inspired me! I got out my WiiFit and gave it whirl. Right when we got it, we all took our turn on it everyday. And then life happened and it got pushed aside and you know what happened next. I haven't been on it in months.

I had been thinking I needed to do something. One of the first posts I ever did was about dieting and needing to lose weight. And I still do. As a matter of fact, I weighed 7.5 lbs more now than I did the last time I stepped on my WiiFit. ugh. Not to mention the things I can't even do anymore or worse yet.. my calculated 'age'. Double ugh. It's a discipline I've gotten out of the habit of and I need to get back into it again.

But not just the habit of stepping on the Fit. Discipline produces discipline. I know that since I worked up a sweat this morning and had to turn on my ceiling fan IN THE DEAD OF WINTER.. that I probably won't want to pig out at any point today. Isn't it cool how that works?! But not just for physical disciplines.. spiritual ones too. Everyone is making their resolutions of reading the Bible through or memorizing or whatever. And I couldn't decide what I wanted to do. It took me three years to read the Bible through. Some things I had read multiple times and other things not at all. So when I finally was able to cross off that last book, I was elated! God had taken me through the entire Bible.

I didn't know what my goals were going to be this year. I'd read a blog or two and come up with different ideas, but couldn't decide. Since I completed the Bible the first time, I had begun to be a willy nilly reader. And I had lost a lot of discipline in that area. And I had begun to rely on books rather than the Bible for a lot of my spiritual nourishment. (not that there is anything wrong with books, but they should supplement your diet... not be made up of it) I finally decided I would make a new 'list' and begin working my way through again. I am excited. I hope I make it through in less than three years. Whatever the length of time it takes me is ok. I know that He is filling me along the way. And I want reading and feasting on His word to be a pleasure, not a task to try to get done everyday.

So tomorrow, I hope to hop back on the WiiFit. And I also hope to spend even more time in God's word too.

The Diet

I am one of those girls that everybody looks at and wonders what I'm talking about when I say I'm going on a diet. I have skinny arms and skinny legs and the number on the scale isn't HUGE, at least by some people's 'standard'. But I am what they call an 'apple' which means that I gain it all in the middle.. so I begin to be out of proportion and look like a stick person with a circle for a middle. Soo... after fretting a lot about what I would do about it, I decided to go on South Beach. I bought the book when it first came out and never actually did the diet. Although I liked how it worked and what he wants to accomplish with it. Soo, I took the plunge and started a couple of weeks ago.. well three weeks to be exact. But last week was spring break, so that week I gained a pound, so I guess maybe subconconsciously I'm not 'counting' that week. But anyway.. I think I'm 'down' by two this week, so thats good.

I have a hard time with his desserts since I'm lactose intolerant.. and he calls for lots of cheese stuff and milk stuff throughout the day AND for that late night yummy. Soo.. a friend of mine, who is a lifetime dieter of one sort or another, but who currently is checking out life at 'The Beach' too, recommended that I mix some Cool Whip with peanut butter and freeze it and it would make this ice cream sort of concoction! Yeah.. not what you would call sticking to the diet exactly and something that the good doctor that wrote the book would probably roll his eyes at, but I did it this week and I was down by two and I didn't even get the ratios right.. I got it a little fatter than I was supposed to.. but hey... I tried!

Well.. today I was heading back to the store for more of my 'ice cream mix' aka Cool Whip when I saw IT! CHOCOLATE Cool Whip! (Cue: celestial voices and light from above into the freezer case!). The thought of mixing the chocolate with peanut better and getting a little blob of 'heaven' was more than I could stand. So... The topping is in the freezer. I need to get it out so I can make my yummy 'dessert'. I'm so excited I could pop! The thought of my original dessert sitting in the freezer all day this week has kept me more or less on track because I knew I had a treat coming! Well... I've got another one coming now! I can't wait to see what its like. But how could you go wrong??? Its chocolate and peanut butter, people!