Went to the doctor today, Yeah, it was only 3 pounds, but guess what that means the plateau is gone. Yes!!!!!! So, now we are headed toward that three hundred and then below it. Maybe the bowflex worked. :) I know my muscles feel it.

After talking to Dr. May, she says she has had many people come in saying they have been working out like crazy and watching what they eat and they just can't seem to lose weight. So, what I have to say about this is. Go one whole normal day, with a little notebook in your pocket, take time to write down everything that you eat that day, I mean everything, even if you think it is too small to count put it on your list. one day, that's all, just one normal day, write down what you do activity wise also. Then at the end of the day take the time to go to CalorieKing.com and find the calories for each thing and then add them up.

Are you getting more calories than you know? Are you not getting enough? What kind of calories?

You need protein to maintain muscle mass and to keep from feeling hungry, you need fiber to keep the body funtioning and everything moving through and to help curb your hunger. If you eat to much sugar, it goes straight to fat, if you are not getting enough calories your body goes into starvation mode and starts storing fat for later use. (this is it's survival instink that God gave it) Same with water, if you starve your body of water, it will retaliate by retaining fluid. You have to drink plenty of water to keep dehydrated so the body will flush the excess along with all the bad stuff it doesn't need to function. (ie: fat....)

I will start putting good articles I have found on this blog about all this. Anyway, if you are really busy and need help finding the calories for your one day food journal, send it to me via e-mail and I will look it up for you. Just don't give up, keep working at it and you will find the right balance. :) love Mel

another eye opener

Well, last night was an eye opener for me. I watched the biggest loser and they visited a school where a big girl stood up in front of everyone and spilled her heart. There were kids in the group that cried with her, but you could tell the ones that were the "in crowd". They were snickering and well just had looks on their faces that I could have slapped off.

You see I was that girl. I went to a small school and was overweight the majority of my school years, my school mates teased me and made fun of me. It was a real miserable existence. If I had not had God and wonderful supportive parents I might not be here today. I did manage to get off a lot of weight the summer of my sophomore year, but it was not for me, it was to try and stop the pain. Then all of a sudden I had a lot of friends, this in itself made me sick and hurt, because I was the same person just a better body style.

The teen years are extremely impressionable years and they are years that mold us for life. It’s funny, all those people that made me feel so horrible all those years ago are friends on facebook.

Even though as an adult, I love them and really care about all of them, I don’t think they will ever understand just what negative mental impact they put me in back then. Some of the guys would say you are fun to make fun of because you laugh with us, but what they did not realize is that when I got home at night I would cry myself to sleep. Looking back, it’s a wonder if maybe they did what they did because they felt inferior in their own lives, families and bodies and that maybe that was their way of making themselves feel better. All I know is this is another issue that is still haunting me and one that I must deal with and put behind me.

My face book status yesterday came from a flood of feelings, but it is a true one and one that we need to keep in mind and practice:

"So much going on around, some we have control of some things we don't, grasp the things you can change and change them, don't fret over the things you can't change, forgive those you haven't forgiven and love everyone with all your might because you don't know when that chance will end."

I weigh in tomorrow, we will see if my changing things up a bit helped me get over my 4 month plateau. If it did, I will share. love mel