Monday, July 25, 2011
In week three, our hero contends with a plateau and heat-related illness and meets with a nutritionist.
Third week down and I lost nothing. Gained nothing, either, but I lost no weight. There was a big mitigating factor: work, which left me no free time to do much more than walk (usually late at night, with the spouse) or exercise with heavy cans. There was also the heat wave. I am a 50-degree person, happiest in a sweater and when there is a tiny nip in the air. The last week was nothing less than a nightmare for me. By Thursday, my body had had it, between 100-degree-temperature-fueled headaches and sheer exhaustion. When Friday came around, I started having serious breathing issues that forced me off my feet. Obviously, there was no exercise getting done. On the other hand, I wasn't eating either. So as sad as I am about the lack of …
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Sharon works to lose weight while holding two kids weighing a combined 43 pounds under her arms.
I am the best bet LA Fitness ever made. They didn’t have to wipe a drop of my sweat off the machines last week. I didn’t take up an iota of floor space in the aerobics studio, either. When I do plug my activities into Spark People, my exercises are not listed. On a daily basis I throw one 26-pound toddler under one arm while holding a 17-pound baby and climb the stairs. Or I move that same load into and out of the car numerous times each day or onto the bar stools in our kitchen. I could make the toddler walk, but we would spend our days milling around rather than getting out the door (and I would miss out on my heavy lifting). Lacking more scientific data, I would say I burn thousands of calories hauling my children. Therefore, I …
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Patch contributor Stacey Van Seggern joins the PTIO challenge.
I have a mommy confession to make. When it comes to my daily list of priorities, I put myself dead last. In regard to eating well and working out, most days come to an end without me giving thought to either. Here’s a little bit about me (aside from the fact that I do not make myself a priority). I am a working mom of 2-year-old twins. Ten months out of the year I have the pleasure of teaching second grade at what I believe to be is the best school in town: Lake Parsippany Elementary School. When I am not teaching, I am a wife, mom and household CEO. I am also involved in Alpha Delta Kappa, a professional sorority for women educators, the Twins and Triplets Club of Morris County, and a writer for Parsippany Patch. Juggling so many …
Monday, July 18, 2011
In which our hero uses the old noodle to find ways to exercise when work and life keep her from the gym
Houston, we have a problem. I am running into a difficulty that plagues many people traveling the weight loss road: no time to get to the gym. Let's take the last week as a for instance. As editor of this august local news site, my time really is not my own. My day can begin as early as 5:00 a.m. and continue until early the next morning. Sleep, for me, is a luxury. And now that I am eschewing all even remotely junklike foods, so is mealtime. That's just reality. In the last week, swamped with work and with dealing with my teenage son's football practices, doctor visit and travel plans (he spent a delightful long shore weekend at Long Beach Island), there literally was no time to get to Anytime Fitness. Now, that will be rectified today …
Monday, July 11, 2011
Where our hero craves potato chips, walks off calories and encounters a personal trainer,
My eyes hurt. I am so sore from Friday's visit to my new gym. Literally everything hurts. Including my eyes. But I am going back tomorrow. And if you don't mind my saying so, this girl is going to kick butt. Early in the week, my get-up-and-at-'em activity was limited to walking: Walking around the track at Parsippany Hills High. Parking at the far ends of lots to maximize my walk into buildings. Walking around the pond near my home. Walking up and down the island of Manhattan (well, between Bleecker and West 72 streets and back) and every flight of stairs I could find. Learned something: I simply don't have that kind of time. So it was time to move on to what was inevitable: serious "Biggest Loser"-kinda pain in the gym. My base workout …
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Two days and counting until the big weight loss adventure officially begins.
If you haven't heard yet, Patch is launching a weight-loss/get-fit adventure on Monday, and I get to be Parsippany's poster girl for taking it off. Am I nervous? You bet. But I really need to lose some ugly fat--my mother-in-law has taken to calling me Fattie to my face--so this public exercise will force me to do it. I have several goals here: to lose 50 pounds, to run in the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 5K in New York City this September and to get the aforementioned mother-in-law to find another way to abuse me emotionally. In an effort to get off to a good start, I started early, doing a seven-day fiber flush consisting of nothing but fiber pills, a half cup of oatmeal for breakfast with a lemon-juice-and-hot-water chaser, a small …
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Looking for bloggers to join in weight loss adventure...
I will admit it: I could stand to lose a few. Isn't that what everyone always says? There's a reason "lose weight" is always at the top or near to the top on people's New Year's resolution lists. But, those lists are fleeting. What about real change? That is what "Patch Takes it Off" is going to be all about. Starting July 4, participating Patch editors throughout the state (including myself) will begin chronicling their fitness exploits in their coverage areas. Expect profiles on local businesses whose goal is to get people in shape. Expect your editors' accounts on what they are doing to climb that high hill on the bike, or go the extra several miles around the track. Expect to see your neighbors getting involved. What's that? Well, we …
Natalie Davis
10:58 am on Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Yes, sustainability is the key. And avoiding my mother-in-law and her cupcakes. Red velvet! more ›