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Post by missklew on Jan 15, 2012 1:44:20 GMT -5
Ok so I looked at my new year list and I have failed at going to work every day. I have issues with this.
Sometimes I am really good and don't miss for months and months and then sometimes I get in this funk where I call in a lot. I am not sure why I do this. I get so depressed sometimes, it is hard to move.
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Post by headwires on Jan 15, 2012 7:27:39 GMT -5
1) stop skipping my classes 2) study more so I don't fail second year 3) learn to drive (again!) 4) read more high quality books 5) go surfing and snowboarding more 6) try to stop feeling depressed and homesick all the time 7) get up earlier (the reason for no.1) 8) be more sociable 9) set goals and STICK to them 10) keep up to date with science stuff more
I'm doing quite well with no.4 so far, not so much with the rest of them
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Post by Zoe on Jan 15, 2012 16:09:28 GMT -5
Ok so I looked at my new year list and I have failed at going to work every day. I have issues with this. Sometimes I am really good and don't miss for months and months and then sometimes I get in this funk where I call in a lot. I am not sure why I do this. I get so depressed sometimes, it is hard to move. Hi MissKlew.....sorry to hear you feel this way.....you know....every week is a new beginning....you can always try to make baby steps towards it.... it really doesn't matter too much how long you take....don't give up......You can do it, you are not alone in this journey. Take care - Zoe
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Post by marle on Feb 24, 2013 10:30:57 GMT -5
I know it's 2 months into the new year, but I wanted to revisit these 2012 resolutions (so I can be held accountable to them I guess). Last year's resolutions: 1. Get to sleep 30 minutes earlier than usual FAILED. I don't know why I find this so hard. So this is still an issue. 2. Save significantly more money each month Succeeded. I increased it significantly in 2012, and again this past month after I got a raise. It's finally at 10% of take-home pay now, which I've heard is the minimum you're supposed to save. 3. make major advances in my job/career I guess so- I got a job title promotion (it was entry level before), but I still haven't really learned/applied new stuff in the way of programming like I wanted to. I worry about having the right transferable skills. 4. Finally finish the book "Phenomenon of Man" (WAY before the end of 2012) and read a few others Succeeded. It wasn't an easy read, but I finally finished it because I promised myself. 5. stop having pasta for at least 4 months to see if that helps me lose more weight Succeeded. But it didn't help me lose weight. Maybe it's because I often substituted it with a sweet potato which is another starchy carb, but I find it incredibly difficult to avoid all carbs like that. So I didn't keep to all of them, but at least I kept to most of them.
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Post by jwn57030 on Feb 24, 2013 12:56:27 GMT -5
Good Job on all the hard work to complete these. Especially giving up pasta. I don't know if I could do that one.
As for weight loss I thought I would mention that the formula is simple but can be hard to actually execute especially if you sit at a desk all day. Really weight loss is a matter of burning more calories in a day then you take in. So just switching pasta for another food won't work if you still are eating the same amount of calories. You either have to eat a little less which I don't like, or exercise more to burn more calories. I really like exercising more because it makes you feel better about yourself and in turn i end up eating less without having to think about it. I do less eating because of boredom or depression.
I just thought of an interesting thing I saw on tv once about people who were overweight. One of the people they featured was a man who ate 20-30 oranges a day(1230-1640 calories) plus whatever else he ate that day. Even though oranges are good for you he still was gaining weight because there are a still a ton of calories in 20-30 oranges.
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Post by marle on Feb 24, 2013 17:50:02 GMT -5
Thanks jwn. I think losing weight is mostly, but not entirely about calories. So we disagree about that. I had an experience when I was a teenager of going on the Atkins diet - very low carb - and I melted the fat off very fast - 33 lbs in all. I didn't pay any attention to calories, and I never felt hungry. So this experience has definitely shaped my thinking. Whether I ended up consuming significantly fewer calories or not (it felt like I was eating a decent amount), the point is that the food you eat matters - certain foods make you feel full faster, while others spike your blood sugar and make you want to eat more. Things like exercise can also affect how much you eat. It really depends on finding something you can stick to for the long-term, and that's different for every person.
I'm also looking into ways of exercising that I can enjoy and stick to. I like walking, but it's hard now in the winter and I don't want to go to a gym or spend the extra time driving to a mall.
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Post by jwn57030 on Feb 26, 2013 21:47:16 GMT -5
I am now extremely impressed with you. 33lbs is extremely hard to do and you did it. The funny thing is that you actually proved my point. I agree with you, what you eat can help, but it still has to do with total calories. Atkins works because it is high protein. Protein takes longer to be digested and in turn you stay full longer. If you stay full longer you eat less, and in turn less calories. Processed carbs tend to digest a lot faster which in turn makes you feel full sooner, so you end up eating more calories.
I definitely understand how hard it is too get back into exercise. I used to exercise all the time when I was in college. After I graduated and started working at a desk 9 hours a day it becomes so much harder to find time and I have put on a little weight that I am trying to take off. I actually do a lot of walking too. Right now because of winter I actually walk around my house. It looks a little silly because I am going around in small circles in my kitchen and living room but its still exercise. Definately when exercise is fun it is a lot easier and doesn't feel as much like exercise. I really bike riding and rollerblading when the weather allows.
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Post by missklew on Feb 28, 2013 4:01:47 GMT -5
I am not so sure it is just calories in and out. You see people that eat nothing but junk food all the time but they are thin as rails. I used to eat like that and never would gain anything.
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Post by jwn57030 on Feb 28, 2013 20:38:53 GMT -5
What your talking about is metabolism. Some people have higher metabolism and some people have lower metabolism determined by age and genetics. This affects how your body burns calories. As you age your metabolism slows down and you become less efficient at burning calories. Young people tend to have a lot higher metabolism so they burn calories much easier. Here's a good article about in webmd. www.webmd.com/diet/features/make-most-your-metabolism
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Post by Audio the obscure on May 26, 2013 17:31:24 GMT -5
hmmm... 1. change my evil ways, baby 2. turn on the lights 3. heat up the pots 4. stop hangin round with who knows who 5. stop makin you feel like a clown Lord knows, i got to change! ;D WOW! What a list! Had me in stitches, SP ;D ;D ;D!!! Even though a joke or fake list, it's still funny to me . I'll have to give some more thought to a to-do list. Yeah I'm (((pro-cras-tin-a-ting ;D))), lol. oh well. What else is new. I hated homework when I was in grade/high school, so no wonder haha.
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Post by Audio the obscure on May 26, 2013 18:29:44 GMT -5
I am not so sure it is just calories in and out. You see people that eat nothing but junk food all the time but they are thin as rails. I used to eat like that and never would gain anything. same here (when I was 15 - lols). I personally think one factor could be what I used to call "thermal" - and that comes by eating. I remember when I was in my 20s (and back then I was way too obsessed with the dieting, calories, exercising thing, and went way too extreme but anyway...) I did this quiz in a library book. And one of the statements was: "Eating burns calories" . You had to put whether the statements was "true" or "false". When I read that, I thought (wrongly) well that must be false, because I thought (back then at the tender age of 23 or 24, lol) eating is consuming calories. But they explained why "eating burns calories" is actually true. The act of eating uses energy. Plus the food takes energy to digest. When I was 34, I put myself on an eating plan (I don't like to say "diet" - here's a lame joke from old audio: "never say diet"). I was overweight, weighing close to 160 for 5 foot 4 or 5 inches in height. I had a cup of tea and a bowl of cereal for brekkie, for lunch I had vegetables and whatever meat there happened to be; for supper I usually made 1 baked potato, a green vegetable such as green beans or broccoli, and a nice chicken breast. I usually went for a walk. But I wasn't extreme like back in the 80s. It was a slower weight loss than the crash kind I did in the 80s. I went from 158 to 138 between March and June 1996. Slow sensible weight loss. I drank lots of water also. And worked on my music. Kind of helps having a goal to look forward to: gets one's mind off food. Don't know if this helps anyone in here talking about weight, calories, and all that, but wanted to post it anyway:).
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Post by Audio the obscure on May 26, 2013 18:43:00 GMT -5
What your talking about is metabolism. Some people have higher metabolism and some people have lower metabolism determined by age and genetics. This affects how your body burns calories. As you age your metabolism slows down and you become less efficient at burning calories. Young people tend to have a lot higher metabolism so they burn calories much easier. Here's a good article about in webmd. www.webmd.com/diet/features/make-most-your-metabolism metabolism: yep, another word for "thermal" lol. My eating plan in 1996 had a goodly amount of protein in it, btw. Not too much, but a very satisfying amount. Speaking of protein.... blimey, now I'm craving some hardboiled eggs - lols.
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Post by Audio the obscure on May 26, 2013 18:47:05 GMT -5
Ok so I looked at my new year list and I have failed at going to work every day. I have issues with this. Sometimes I am really good and don't miss for months and months and then sometimes I get in this funk where I call in a lot. I am not sure why I do this. I get so depressed sometimes, it is hard to move. I can relate, esp. to your last sentence. We've got this rainy weather spurt here where I live, and it makes me just not want to get up at ALL. But yes, also the depression, it's not easy, I know. My legs get so heavy and I get so fatigued, the bed feels so good. I'm sending well wishes out your way to the "land down under" (like the Men At Work song goes) !
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Post by Audio the obscure on May 26, 2013 20:12:18 GMT -5
Hmmm to do list. Well well well. I've done them before, and didn't make a lot of progress. Not trying to be negative, just stating the usual with me.
One goal I have (not a really important one, but I'll put it anyway). I just played Songpop on facebook, and I'm doing well on it. I'll set the goal of getting over the 20,000 mark on my all-time score (right now it's 19,000 something).
Other goals (like I said earlier, I'm a procrastinator, lol) They're not in any particular order, so I won't bother with numbering them in this thread:
Read longer on my personal very important-to-me literature.
Keep reading that book I mentioned in the "what books are you currently reading" thread.
Try to get more exercise in (lol - I have a habit of saying "try" when Yoda said: "Do or do not: there is no try")
Eat more regularly and stop skipping meals so I can rev up my metabolism (as discussed earlier)
Do more productive things each day (yes it's vague, and that's all I have to say about this for now lol)
Drink less tea and drink more water
Try hard not to say something I'll regret when I'm highly stressed or nervous (whether the words are just words I don't want to say when I'm alone, or words said to other people - same goal)
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Post by marle on Apr 15, 2014 20:44:23 GMT -5
I didn't even have this as one of my resolutions, but I've actually managed to start exercising on a regular basis. As part of buying stuff for my new apartment, I bought a recumbent exercise bike that I had previously considered buying. I was also hoping to lose weight in the next couple of months before my trip to visit family. I've been using it almost every day for the past three weeks, and I think I've got a routine down. I've been reading magazines and listening to audiobooks while doing it which makes it easier. As a bonus, it's making me read more! This may become a normal thing for me, which will be good for my blood pressure which I've struggled with, and overall health.
All this being said, I have actually NOT lost weight from it, even though I'm diligently following a low-carb diet at the same time, which has always worked for me in the past. I am really struggling with losing weight, and at the moment the one obvious culprit is the anti-depressant I'm taking (I recently mentioned that I went off anti-depressants, but I'm trying them again). It's really frustrating, but I suppose I should be glad that I'm motivated to exercise even without the weight loss.
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