The Big BLOB Weight Loss Blog

I found this article and thought is was the perfect time of year to make a pledge to reinvent myself!

It’s Time to Reinvent Yourself!
By Suzanne Hiscock

Put your hand up if the scale has ever gotten you down, if you’ve ever told yourself you’re useless or stupid, or if you’ve ever eaten something just to make yourself feel better — and then suffered through the guilt afterwards. Wow, look at all those hands! If you’re like a lot of people, you’ve gotten into a rut while riding the weight loss bandwagon, forgetting that the big picture is a healthy body and a healthy mind.

It’s time now to reinvent yourself! Not that there’s anything wrong with you, of course. But it’s time to stop plodding along the same route. It’s time rediscover yourself and take on a whole new attitude!

Take FitWatch’s “Reinvention of Me” Pledge - and take it as often as you need to!

FitWatch’s “Reinvention of Me” Pledge

I promise to be kind to myself, especially through my thoughts and actions. I am a good person, worthy of respect.

I promise to silence my inner critic whose negative energy always seems to drag me down. That critic will no longer have power over me.

I promise to find a source of comfort other than food. When I need to feel better, I will do that activity instead of eating.

I promise to make good food choices the majority of time; my body deserves the good, clean energy of healthy, nutritious food.

I promise to be active every day, even if it’s only for a few minutes; the power of movement will energize me to move more and more each day.

I promise to remember that I am much more than a number on a scale and to love my body exactly as it is right now.

I promise to spend time each day reflecting on how I’m feeling; only through knowing where I am now can I get to where I want to be.

I promise to remove “I should” and “I must” and replace them with “I want to” and “I will.” Such small words will have a powerful impact on my attitude.

I promise to surround myself with positive and energetic people and to brush off the negative energy of people who bring me down.

And most importantly, I promise to be my own best friend and to work hard towards the reinvention of ME…

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Suzanne Hiscock has been interested in fitness and nutrition for over 16 years. She is the owner of Fitwatch Inc. and developer of the FitWatch Fitness Tracker, an online food and exercise tracker. You can visit the site at http://www.fitwatch.com for a variety of fitness calculators and tools.

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Join me …

Make the pledge and add your name and the date into the comments section!

Melanie

I don’t eat cereal for breakfast; I eat it for lunch, or as a snack.

One day I was inspired to read the back of the cereal box. The section that talks about calories and portions.

Were you aware that ONE serving is only 1 ¼ cups of cereal and ¾ cup milk? Of course it depends on the kind of cereal … I have one in which the serving size is 3/4 of a cup!

Here I thought a serving was a bowl full!

In my bowl a 1 ¼ cup serving sits at the bottom looking TINY. I feel cheated. It’s not nearly enough. I realize that THIS is part of the “over weighting” of America problem. We are constantly being sold super sized portions. We feel deprived with anything less.

I need a SMALLER bowl.

A few days ago I had a friend over for dinner. A SKINNY friend. I watched as she loaded up her plate.

I loaded up my plate. I loaded up my plate again. She didn’t. That’s why I’m a blob and she isn’t.

Why did I load up my plate a 2nd time? Habit. Next time I’m going to match spoonful for spoonful and forkful for forkful what my skinny guest eats. I am going to experience eating like a skinny person eats.

My next few hypnosis sessions will include this … “I feel TOTALLY satisfied eating smaller portions of food at each meal.”
The issue here is portion control.

Big blobs need to pay attention to portion control. MEASURE. No estimating allowed. By measuring EXACT portions we become more aware of what we are putting into our bodies.

Melanie

The Pocket Diet: Perfect Portion Control That Works!

I was looking through a magazine last night and found an funny ad for YOGA TOES. What on earth?

So I had to follow up and check out the site to see what it was all about.

Turns out that YOGA TOES helps you exercise the muscles in your feet and legs. This helps realign your bones for stronger, healthier and more beautiful feet.

I guess if I sit there and do this while I watch TV, I won’t feel like such a couch potato. Who knows it may even burn up an extra calorie or so an hour!

http://www.yogapro.com

Look at the testimonials from happy Yoga Toes users …
http://www.yogapro.com/geninfo/testimonials.html

You can also get them at AMAZON

Enjoy your Yoga Toes!!

Melanie

PS In one of Billy Joel’s old, old, old albums there is a song called “popsicle toes”. I can’t get it out of my head, it’s driving me crazy!

So here WE are trying our blessed best to lose weight … and here is this 160 pound guy who is a world champion eater. In July he won the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest by devowering 54 dogs last week he set a new record at the Johnsonville World Brat Eating Championship.

Takeru Kobayashi a 27 year old from Japan, wolfed down 58 bratwursts in 10 minutes becoming the new brat eating champ of the world. He not only got a free meal, but won $8000 for his accomplished eating skills.

Read more about it
http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/5848936?FSO1&ATT=HCP&GT1=8485

AND at the International Federation of Competative Eating website.
http://www.ifoce.com/index.php

I’ll bet you didn’t even know there WAS an International Federation of Competative Eating … and that there are DOZENS of eating contests with BIG cash prizes.

Holy Schmoly Bat Man, who would have thunk! I’m going to start looking for the national Turtles (as in chocolate) and Miss Vicki’s (as in chips) contests!!

In fact, I just might hold my own private contest, right now!

Have a great contest!
Melanie

You know the drill. You get a thought … “I should go for a walk.” It’s a nice friendly thought. But you treat it like an enemy. You take a hammer and smash it to smitherines. Any of these sound familiar?

And that little voice (your subconscious mind) the one that was urging you to walk? It goes and hides for two weeks before it is brave enough to try again.

So … after days of resisting the urge to go for a walk I finally did it.

Then I downloaded a mountain of tacos and a vat of salsa!!

Sigh. BIG SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

That’s OK right?
I SAID that I could eat whatever I wanted, in whatever quantities I wanted, whenever I wanted.

Yes … it’s OK.
Telling yourself “you can’t” … produces the opposite action.

I can

I can

I CAN!!

I can allow myself to go for a walk and I CAN eat tacos.

So the question is … are you RESISTING? What are you resisting?

Melanie

I have a friend who kept on raving about this book … until I was forced to get it in order to shut her up. Now I am also raving about it.

Looneyspoons: Low-Fat Food Made Fun!

It’s a low fat recipe book by two Canadian women. And yes … it is a little bit looney with all sorts of odd facts and interesting tidbits and crazy cartoons. Looney Spoons and its companion Crazy Plates have become best sellers and once you get it and try out some of the recipes it’s easy to see why. The recipes are great. They TASTE great. There is no way on earth you’d ever guess that the recipes are low fat.

If you go on over to Amazon you’ll see dozens of testimonials absolutely raving about this book. One woman has lost 142 pounds (a whole person) so far just by incorporating the Looney Spoons recipes into her diet several times a week.

Several of the reviewers say that their kids love the recipes too … which is why my friend raves about it so much.

One reader says this …

I’m one of those cookbook collectors, who owns dozens of beautiful, pristine, read but unused cookbooks. But Looneyspoons (along with it’s ’sequel’ Crazy Plates and of course Joy of Cooking) is the book on my shelf with the most folded, spattered, tattered, scribbled-on pages, because it is truly one of the books I go back to again and again for reliable recipes that are great and reliable.

I agree … my really good cookbooks are a mess. YOu can tell the recipies I use over and over just by the accumulation of spots and stains.

The ingredients are easy to find and most of the recipes are fast and easy to make.

Now the only drawback is that some of the recipes are really HIGH on the carbs scale. If you have to watch your carbs (diabetes) you will have to either balance these recipes out by serving smaller portions or just stick to the lower carb recipes.

Portion Control is out of control … because basically everything has been supersized and we have gotten used to thinking that the supersize is NORMAL.

Well … do you feel normal at size 22 or size 18 or whatever size you consider yourself to be overweight at?

Take a look at the portions you should be working towards. HEALTHY portions … and will UN-super-size you.

This useful information is from the American Institute for Cancer Research.

The New American Plate isn’t a diet, or a complex system for calculating calories, fat grams, or carbs. It’s a fresh way of looking at what you eat every day. Create meals that lower your risk for ancer and other chronic diseases and manage your weight, at the same time.

http://www.aicr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=pub_nap_index_21

They’ve got a pile of really neat “free” stuff at:
http://www.aicr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=pub_nap_materials