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Resound11 Prompt 10: High/Low

Today is a bit of a choose your own adventure: write (paint, draw, photograph, record, etc.) about your best experience this year. If that’s not your cup of joe, write about your worst experience. Feeling chatty? Share both your best and worst moments.

How will you resound?

There are several best moments this year. The best ones were traveling with Josh, taking a real vacation that involved not much more than walking to dinner, traveling to California for the first time, hosting friends at my house, being hosted at other homes and for the whole of the year finding and sharing time with people who just “get” me and vice versa. I find comfort in my relationships with other people.

I wouldn’t say there was a definitive worst moment of the year. Thankfully, for the most part 2011 was smooth sailing. My biggest lesson this year came in a difficult way and that came by giving red flag people the benefit of the doubt repeatedly. I believe (and still do) that most people are good. I like to believe that most people have the best intentions. And then their are others who live purely on the surface. They don’t have relationships with other people, they bring me and everyone else down, they try to fix my life and wave their magic wands so that I can be “better”, they analyze me in a negative way (and most other people), and they get involved in my life and then quickly pull away. They throw stones at how I live my life with my husband.

My lesson is, is that I’m not always crazy and overly sensitive when I have red flag feelings about people, I don’t always have to get involved with these people. I don’t have to give them permission to bring me down. It’s okay to simply say no and move on. There are people who think that my life “isn’t together” because I’m not on the exterior, always a together person. We don’t drive a fancy car because we are waiting for our current car to die, this bothers some people. We didn’t buy the fanciest or most expensive house in town. This means that we are “poor” and our house is “too small” to entertain. My husband doesn’t shave every day and has wild and crazy hair, this means he is “irresponsible and not a real adult”. We don’t have children so we are “selfish”. We work from home and this means we are “unemployed”. Yes, these people exist, and yes, I finally understand what it means to have civil relationships all the while giving them a big “f-you” and moving on.  It feels Awesome, with a capital A.

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Blogging, Spinach and Discovery

I’m embarking on a new journey of self-discovery.  I know this because my thoughts and wants are more clear, yet I’m having a hard time articulating it.

I’ve been asking myself lately: why do I blog? why will I continue to blog? what can i share? what will i get out of it?

This has been the longest project of my life. I started not knowing where I would arrive and five years later I’m still not sure. The only thing that I keep coming back to is to inspire. I don’t even know what that means, but I share because I know I’m not alone. I share because I may say something that might help someone else. I know it’s a big thing to believe about myself, but at the end of the day, I write because my words inspire me. I’m able to see who I am through my writing.

I don’t plan my posts. Which I’ve heard is a blogger mistake. But, I write what I feel, and along this journey I’ve gotten lost in that desire. I’ve seen other bloggers doing things that I wish I could do. I’ve seen them count, track, photograph and document every inch of their lives. I’ve wanted so bad to be other bloggers, that at times, I’ve forgotten who I am and why I’m here.

So there’s a lesson in that. To follow who you are, to follow your gut and not to punish yourself for not being like everyone else.  Because the world needs more people becoming and embracing who they are. There is someone, if not just myself, who needs me to be here just as I am. Saying what I need to say. And so in this realization, I want to continue to share whats important to me, regardless of the content. At the heart of this blog, I’m trying to live a healthier life. But, for me, this is not an isolated action. Being healthy is not just important for my body, it’s important for my relationships, my career and my belief in who I am. My life is about making things happen.

When I eat too much, I get depressed and my work suffers. When I eat well, I am productive and clear.

In all of this, I want to blog more about my process and my journey, regardless of what that looks like.  My journey isn’t just about following blogging tips and tricks, it’s about sharing where I’m headed. Where I want to be and what I know to be true.

So here’s the thing. I’ve completely stopped dieting. A concept I’ve tried before and got too scared. And I want to share this, but sometimes it doesn’t look like it should. It’s not ideal, but, it’s wonderful and eye opening. I’ve been “un-dieting” for several weeks now. I’ve purchased “taboo” foods at the store. Food that is just sugar and comes in wrappers. I’ve openly eaten what I desire in public, in front of my husband and for the world to see. I’ve stopped hiding food. I’ve stopped feeling guilt over food, mentally calculating calories, tracking, and measuring. Punishing myself for not making ideal choices. I’m trusting myself around food. I’ve never trusted myself around food. I’m celebrating that I can live with triggers in my life. That I can have candy in the house and not eat it for breakfast.

I’ve been actively stripping away all guilt around food. Removing the notion of good food or bad food and just being. I’m bridging the gap between unhealthy lorrie and healthy lorrie: they are the same. My choices are not isolated.  Healthy lorrie is just as present and open and ready as binge-eating lorrie. Healthy lorrie  is not a future goal she is who I am, all the time, every single day. Unhealthy, binge eating lorrie has her place too. I wish I knew how to articulate it, but I’ve become okay with the outcome. I’m trusting that I will get there, if I’m open. There have been days when I’ve done exactly what I feared: I ate too much. I turned to food when I stopped trusting myself. But, I embraced the action, and realized it was a choice. I am owning it.

Before, I treated these actions as though they were not a part of me. Habits are choices that I make everyday. It’s a big deal, to trust that I can stop. That eventually I will stop on my own and make another choice. I am making better decisions on my own because they are not future parts of my life. They are now. They reflect what I want and where I’m headed.

Un-dieting is not without goals, I have them, but they are different. This week, my goal is to eat fresh, raw vegetables as much as possible. I purchased a huge container of organic spinach and kale, lots of squash, apples, oranges, and bananas. My goal is to eat it all this week. To eat them first, not because I feel like I have to, but because I genuinely want to.  I like how I feel when I eat well, I need to feel good to complete all my goals. Not just the ones that result in a lower weight on the scale.

It’s been huge for me to let go of worry and possible outcomes. I’ve let go of the fear of the unknown. The fear of eating until I weigh 400 pounds. The fear of never stopping. The fear that I can’t control what I eat without a regulated system. I trust that I will stop and that I know how to hear what I really want and need. There are days when I shock myself with how soon I stop eating. And it doesn’t happen because I think “I should stop”, or “how many calories am I at now?” it just happens because I’m done.

I had a glimpse of myself recently. A glimpse of where I’m headed and it’s incredibly beautiful.

 

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Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle – Fat Loss

Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle – Review of Tom Venuto's Book

While I was looking through the most popular fitness / fat-loss e-books out there. I found a book under the name Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle. This book seems to be many reviews of others as the best book of fitness available, a book written by a natural bodybuilder with a lot of experience, he IINT fitness industry, has named Tom Venuto.

Burn the Fat Feed The Muscle is a book created by a bodybuilding champion by the name of Tom Venuto. This book attempts to teach people all the important aspects of losing weight, muscle, while earning. Burn the Fat Feed the muscle has been called the greatest book ever fitness. With this kind of severe beating, I wanted to look inside. I wanted to see if it really live up to its great reputation. I have been bodybuilding for many years and being a fitness freak, so I wanted to see what the real information in this book fitness.

My review of Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle

This book fitness can be found on the official website of Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle – You'll have to go through its long sales letter. I wonder, since this book is meant to be the best, why it has such a long sales letter. This sales page is about the average number of pages you go to find any product like this being sold on the market today, full of information and success stories to draw you to him. Reading these stories of success, made me realize this book was actually live reputation. The sales letter is based on the history of 14 years Tom Venutos weight and food / fitness research.

The book itself:

Burn the Fat Feed The Muscle is an impressive 340 page book. The book is full of informative and writing tables. Not even a photograph. So there is much reading to do if you want to read it cover to use the best of your advantage. I advise you to print it all out, because you drive crazy reading all of your screen.

What is Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle does it contain?

Burn the Fat Feed the muscle contains 17 chapters, a conclusion and an appendix page. Each section is divided into smaller sections, making it easier to read, even if it is a very important book.

Here is an overview of the book:

Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle Section One: Introduction

In this section, the author stresses the importance of certain specific principles such as quick fixes, weight loss is not the same as fat loss and even if the book is not only to lose fat, but it's also about making people healthier.

Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle second section: setting goals, strategies and motivation.

Goal setting is naturally one of the most important things to achieve what you want with your health and fitness. Tom Venuto has done an excellent job in expressing the art of setting a goal for this to work so much better for almost everyone.

Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle: Third Section: body types and how to identify what you need

Tom Venuto breaks down how people have different body types. Most people assume that the body for almost everyone will react the same, although his easy assumption, because we're all human, but this book stops that idea.

Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle: Section Four: Frequency of meals and macronutrients

This section discusses how to eat meals and the relationship between proteins, carbohydrates and fats to a diet even though you can live with life.

I will not go into details, but I hope it gives you a good picture of the nature of information in this book cover.

Tom 5 lists of bonus materials:

Bonus 1: Foods That Burn Fat.

Bonus 2: Foods That Turn To Fat.

Bonus 3: The A food B food lecture: How to get good grades on your food choices.

BONUS 4: FREE Updates to burn fat, Feed the Muscle e-book. (Value: AT LEAST $ 197. 00).

BONUS 5: Free subscription to the Burn The Fat Clients-Only Newsletter and The Burn The Fat Weekly Fat Loss Tips E-Zine

Burn the Fat Feed Muscle Conclusion

I was skeptical at first to burn the fat feed the muscle, just as I am sure you are since lets face it – we've seen hundreds of these books announced – but are they all work? I doubt. However, I must conclude that this book surprised me and I am happy to have found.

The thing that I tend to do with some exercise books is that they tend to cover only one or a few subjects that is good or bad, and I've seen so far for many of these books.

I thought that Burn the Fat Feed the muscle still works in 15 years, since information is so relevant.

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