Quote of the Day: "Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit." - Anonymous
I'm still tinkering with the design and code of this template I made. I just doesn't say "me," yet. Bear with me, please - it's a work in progress. I want to include a comments pop-up, but I haven't quite figured out how to do it. I know there's a hard way, but I'm hoping to find an easy way. I'm hoping to win the lottery too - we'll see which comes first. Which reminds me of something my mother always said, "Spit in one hand and wish in the other and see which you get first." Well she didn't say "spit," but she didn't say say the other four letter word that has three of the same letters either. She hated that word, so I won't say it here either, just in case she's sitting on my shoulder reading as I write this.I finally got to pick up my treadmill from Sears on Saturday. It's key element in my self-Reclamation Project. This is half health-consciousness and half weight loss effort, and I really need it.
I used to be thinner. I also used to be healthier because I used to exercise a lot, but then I got involved with the internet and the web <g> - and then my health club went out of business. Now I'm a mess.
I also used to be one of those annoying people who could eat like a pig and never gain an ounce. I guess it's payback time. Big time.
When I was a kid I was skinny - all arms and legs. Mostly because I wasn't interested in food. I was one of those picky eaters. Long about high school, I decided that food was a good thing, but I was still skinny. I could drop 10 pounds during a 3 day cold (stuffy noses = loss
of appetite). I hated it. Clothes looked better on the hangers than they did on me.
As I got older, I could still lose any weight that I did gain without much effort. But I guess now I'm at that age (I'm not telling - you have to guess) where the metabolism starts slowing down. They tell me it does that. There's research to prove it, so it's not just an excuse <g>. For whatever the reason, as each year passes I keep adding more and more inches to my waistline, kind of like a tree adds rings. I really think they need some serious medical research into this problem. Why does metabolism slow down? Makes no sense to me.
To combat this, I've been reading up on metabolism and I've learned that there are foods that will nudge your metabolism up a bit - namely fruit and veggies. An enzyme complex like Enzymatic Therapy's Mega-zyme will help too. So they tell me. We'll see. I do seem to have more energy.
So I've been eating more fruits and veggies by making a daily trip to Whole Foods Market. They have the best salad bar with all kinds of goodies - not just your ordinary salad fixings. They also have a phenomenal bakery - but that's kind of counterproductive if you also want to lose weight.
I also know that if you exercise it increases your metabolism - especially if you work with weights, because muscle burns calories at a higher rate. So that brings me full circle back to the treadmill. I hope to increase my stamina and aerobic health with all the energy I've been getting from the fruits, veggies and enzymes. If this self-authored program works, I'll put some tips here and in the Kitchen of my Victorian house - once I finish the renovations, that is. On the web house - not me <g>.
You should know that I'm not getting fanatical about this. I'm not on my way to becoming a "health nut." I'm just not the fanatical type. Fanatical types kind of scare me, if you want to know the truth, but more on that some other day, or I'll never get this posted.
Posted by Cyberkat at January 29, 2002 7:36 AM | TrackBack