You Are What You Eat

I had a very wonderful meeting today with a Holistic Health Counselor.  I found her company,  Full Well , through a Facebook link.  I chose to meet with her, because as I am on this journey to a happier, healthier life, I know that my eating habits are not the best.  I want to lose weight, have more energy, take control of my life back from the fibromyalgia, and PCOS that has plagued me for years!

Leah has also struggled with the Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue issues, so I am interested to learn from her how she has healed herself through nutrition and lifestyle changes. I know that changing established routines and ways of eating may be hard at first.  But I am ready to face this challenge head on!  This time that I have had off, I have begun to take better care of myself, to listen to my body, and lost 24 pounds in the process, but that is just the first step.

I am hoping to never have another relapse like this again! I have learned so much about myself, and I am learning more every day.  My mind is open to new possibilities, and hopefully a healthier, happier new me will be debuting to the world within the next few months!!

Crunching Some Numbers

I re-joined Spark People today so that I would have a place to track my progress on my fitness and weight loss goals:

• Get to my ideal weight by 1/1/12
• I need to consume between 1650-2000 calories/day
• 186-325 grams of carbs/day
• 37-78 grams of fat/day
• 60-175 grams protein/day
• To lose one U.S. pound (.454 kg), you must burn 3,500 more calories than you take in as food
• I need to burn 1170 calories/week 
• Swimming/Water aerobics-1 hr burns 679.68 calories Calorie Calculator Calorie Count
• I plan on doing Water Aerobics twice weekly Tuesday and Thursday and possibly swimming on the weekends
• Walking -1hr at a 3.0 Mph, Level, Moderate Pace, Firm Surface burns 560 calories

That is the plan so far!   Water Aerobics on Tuesday!  Here is to the start of a brand new lease on life!!

Baby Steps

I have made a bit of progress on a few of my goals that I made in my first post:

• I lost 18 of the 100 pounds I want to lose, 82 more to go!
• I am working on ridding the house of clutter, one room at a time.

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

George Bernard Shaw