OTTER's CalorieKing blog
Thursday, May 15 2008 - CKU 12, Lifestyle Final Reflections:
View OTTER's food & exercise for this day
What will achieving your weight goals mean to you? Do you have an image in your mind about how you will feel when you hit your goal weight? Is it realistic?
Using your Blog, reflect on your journey so far. Describe how you feel about your lifestyle and which aspects you're happy with and any you'd like to change, and why. Describe what successfully reaching your goal weight means to you.
Achieving goal weight will mean all kinds of things, lots of them around feelings. I'll feel healthier, I'll breathe better, I'll have more energy, I'll feel better wearing clothes and shopping for clothes.
I play with having an "image" for myself, but can't settle on anything. I won't look 25 even if I weight what I did at 25. I love the look of Karen Voight, so sometimes I play and picture myself looking like that. Of course, I think she's from the Amazon tribe and I think I'm from the Pygmy tribe, so Karen Voight is not a very good fit for image. In the ordinary, sane times, I just picture myself looking older, pleasant with my forming wrinkles, my greying hair, my well-toned body, and the spring in my step.
One of the lifestyle questions was 'is my diet and exercise program precluding me from living and participating in my own life fully?' I think I may wrestle with this for a while. It is easy to give all of myself to my work, my family, and my faith community. But it isn't healthy to live that way. Right now I'm averaging 320+ minutes of exercise per week. I'd love to maintain or increase that to a maximum of 480 minutes/week. But it may be seasonal, or may depend on holidays or birthdays, or other needs. I think the important thing is to remain in dialogue with my life. What do I need, what does my family need, what does work want, what about faith community then build the balance based on the calling. I'm comfortable putting me first, since we have no minor children. Having a husband who is a workaholic also makes it easy to put me first :-)
Okay, enough reflection for today. Did well on my first day in "Business Trip Land" ate all my good snacks and the lunch I brought. Exercised last night and this morning, getting the day off to a good start.
-Otter
Using your Blog, reflect on your journey so far. Describe how you feel about your lifestyle and which aspects you're happy with and any you'd like to change, and why. Describe what successfully reaching your goal weight means to you.
Achieving goal weight will mean all kinds of things, lots of them around feelings. I'll feel healthier, I'll breathe better, I'll have more energy, I'll feel better wearing clothes and shopping for clothes.
I play with having an "image" for myself, but can't settle on anything. I won't look 25 even if I weight what I did at 25. I love the look of Karen Voight, so sometimes I play and picture myself looking like that. Of course, I think she's from the Amazon tribe and I think I'm from the Pygmy tribe, so Karen Voight is not a very good fit for image. In the ordinary, sane times, I just picture myself looking older, pleasant with my forming wrinkles, my greying hair, my well-toned body, and the spring in my step.
One of the lifestyle questions was 'is my diet and exercise program precluding me from living and participating in my own life fully?' I think I may wrestle with this for a while. It is easy to give all of myself to my work, my family, and my faith community. But it isn't healthy to live that way. Right now I'm averaging 320+ minutes of exercise per week. I'd love to maintain or increase that to a maximum of 480 minutes/week. But it may be seasonal, or may depend on holidays or birthdays, or other needs. I think the important thing is to remain in dialogue with my life. What do I need, what does my family need, what does work want, what about faith community then build the balance based on the calling. I'm comfortable putting me first, since we have no minor children. Having a husband who is a workaholic also makes it easy to put me first :-)
Okay, enough reflection for today. Did well on my first day in "Business Trip Land" ate all my good snacks and the lunch I brought. Exercised last night and this morning, getting the day off to a good start.
-Otter
2 comments so far.
2.
a decade ago
Hey! I looked up Karen Voight (I had no idea who she is). Nah, I don't think you want to look like that. You've done that. We've got to find us some good looking healthy women to emulate, but you're so right -- we're not going to be 25 again!
I'm with Brien -- 480 minutes of exercise a week!!! Is it seven days a week?
Girl, be good to you. Luv, U
by YEWTREE
1.
a decade ago
You know what I remember about being heavy the first time around? I had this persistent sense of self-loathing. I thought the whole world judged me because I was fat. Since I have had a chance to experience life as a fit person, I find that even though I'm fat again, I don't have that self-defeating, self-loathing feeling. I'm not happy to be heavy again, but I am glad that I still feel good about myself.
-------- But to your blog -- 480 minutes of exercise!? 70 minutes a day 7 days a week? Holy smokes! I thought my goal of 280 was ambitious. I wish you lived close by so you could phone me up when you were on your way to the gym. *laugh* wow.
by BRIENMALONE