As always on the New Year Eve I am thinking of things I want to do a bit differently, not resolutions so much as goals. For this year, I would like to cut back on unnecessary spending, use up things I already have and not buy things I don't need.
A boss years ago when times were tough, told us this. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without." I would like that to be my motto this year and see what I can actually save and in the meantime this would get rid of numerous perfume, shampoo, lipsticks, creams etc in the bathroom cupboards. LOL
I would also like my goal to bet better with the tracking, excerise and food. Use walkertracker, and fitness journal along with Spark and really keep track of what I am doing and when. This should help to lose those last few pounds.
Happy New Years Everyone, what are your goals?
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Your Ideal Weight
Ever since starting my studies in fitness and nutrition I have discovered that I keep going back and looking things up. I keep going over the same things trying to drum it into my head. Almost daily I will have a thought about something I have read and want to remember and I go find the correct book and read it and write it down again. This is really helping me to learn. I am going to incorporate that one step further and ask the question here and write the answer.
Yesterday at work, one of the guys I hadn't seen in a while told me he lost 12 pounds. He is doing well and looks good. We discussed what he has been eating and I feel it is way to low. He is around 1000 calories and it is not recommended to go below 1200. In fact, my daily caloric allowance recommendation is 1200 to 1500 for my weight. A great way to determine the amount of daily calories needed is to add a zero to your desired weight. If you want to weigh 150, you should eat approximately 1500 calories a day. Remember calories in equals calories out and you need to create a deficit to lose that weight, either through eating or exercising. The best way is a combination of both.
I thought it may be helpful if he knew how they determine a person's "ideal" weight.
Your ideal weight is determined by your height. Women get 100 pounds for the first 5 ft of height. Add 5 pounds for every additional inch. Met get 105 pounds for the first 5 ft of height and then 5 pounds for every inch thereafter. To create a weight range add or subtract 10%. So a woman, like myself for example who is 5 ft tall, my ideal weight would be 100. Weight range would be between 90 and 110. Let me say here and now that I am a bit over this but working on it. LOL
A man who is 5 feet, 7 inches would have an ideal body weight of 140, with a range of 136 to 144 pounds.
Yesterday at work, one of the guys I hadn't seen in a while told me he lost 12 pounds. He is doing well and looks good. We discussed what he has been eating and I feel it is way to low. He is around 1000 calories and it is not recommended to go below 1200. In fact, my daily caloric allowance recommendation is 1200 to 1500 for my weight. A great way to determine the amount of daily calories needed is to add a zero to your desired weight. If you want to weigh 150, you should eat approximately 1500 calories a day. Remember calories in equals calories out and you need to create a deficit to lose that weight, either through eating or exercising. The best way is a combination of both.
I thought it may be helpful if he knew how they determine a person's "ideal" weight.
Your ideal weight is determined by your height. Women get 100 pounds for the first 5 ft of height. Add 5 pounds for every additional inch. Met get 105 pounds for the first 5 ft of height and then 5 pounds for every inch thereafter. To create a weight range add or subtract 10%. So a woman, like myself for example who is 5 ft tall, my ideal weight would be 100. Weight range would be between 90 and 110. Let me say here and now that I am a bit over this but working on it. LOL
A man who is 5 feet, 7 inches would have an ideal body weight of 140, with a range of 136 to 144 pounds.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
We remember!
Happy Birthday Mike! Bet your riding that Harley across that big blue sky. We have snow!
We love and miss you! We remember!
I registered with the NCSF yesterday for my Personal Trainer Certification. I have until Dec 2010 to take the test. It is getting harder and harder. I even bought Anatomy and Physiology for Dummies on the Kindle. Mike would have loved a kindle, boy did he love to read.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Time
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
- John Burroughs, essayist and naturalist
I find this quote to be so true, more so than ever. It goes faster and faster the older I get and it is hard to realise that I will never have the time to do all the things I want to do. I would love to have about 8 hours more to my day and think about all the hours I wasted when I was younger. I remember napping for hours and that is definately a thing of the past and now it is something I regret. It cannot be changed however.
I am reading about 4 different books right now, all at once, while in the middle of my studies. I have really been good at making lists lately. I find that if it is on my list it gets done. I love the start of a new year and bought a new appointment type calender book for at home, and one for at work also. Its big and has plenty of room for notes and plans and appointments.
Some days my list includes stupid things like make a salad for work and fill ice cubes and study. Other days it may include all the errands that need done or to pay bills and balance the checkbook.
There is not enough time for everything but with a list the things that are important to remember to do get done.
- John Burroughs, essayist and naturalist
I find this quote to be so true, more so than ever. It goes faster and faster the older I get and it is hard to realise that I will never have the time to do all the things I want to do. I would love to have about 8 hours more to my day and think about all the hours I wasted when I was younger. I remember napping for hours and that is definately a thing of the past and now it is something I regret. It cannot be changed however.
I am reading about 4 different books right now, all at once, while in the middle of my studies. I have really been good at making lists lately. I find that if it is on my list it gets done. I love the start of a new year and bought a new appointment type calender book for at home, and one for at work also. Its big and has plenty of room for notes and plans and appointments.
Some days my list includes stupid things like make a salad for work and fill ice cubes and study. Other days it may include all the errands that need done or to pay bills and balance the checkbook.
There is not enough time for everything but with a list the things that are important to remember to do get done.
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Little girl
It must have been the summer of 62 or 63. I had to be about 7 or 8, somewhere in there. It is so funny the things we remember years later. It was a hot, sunny day in Ohio. I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, in the projects, in Euclid. I remember standing in the back yard, think we still lived on Clark Ave. Wasn't doing much, just standing there by myself, wearing the little pink sundress Aunt Jo had made me. She always made us some really pretty outfits and that little pink sundress was a favorite of mine. I am almost positive Cheri had one identical to it. However, I was maybe 7 at the time so that is a bit fuzzy. The next part isn't however.
I remember a tall, thin man walking down the sidewalk that connected all the backyards of the houses. Think he had a leather jacket slung over a shoulder, and he had dark hair. He was maybe all of 17 or 18 but at the time I sure thought he was old. He spoke to me, the little girl standing there all alone. His words? "Little girl, whatever are you doing?" "Pulling out my eyelashes." was my reply. "Why are you doing that?" My reply, "Because I like to." He told me then "Little girl, someday you are going to be really sorry you did that." He was right. I am still sorry I did that, have been sorry for years and have thought of that guy often throughout the years. We lived in Euclid and in that same area until I was about 15, if I ever saw him again I never knew it and didn't know who he was. I wonder if he ever thought about the little girl standing by the sidewalk in her pretty pink sundress pulling out her eyelashes.
People come and people go in our lives, and they all make an impact. This man made an impact on me and has stayed with me for over 35 years.
I remember a tall, thin man walking down the sidewalk that connected all the backyards of the houses. Think he had a leather jacket slung over a shoulder, and he had dark hair. He was maybe all of 17 or 18 but at the time I sure thought he was old. He spoke to me, the little girl standing there all alone. His words? "Little girl, whatever are you doing?" "Pulling out my eyelashes." was my reply. "Why are you doing that?" My reply, "Because I like to." He told me then "Little girl, someday you are going to be really sorry you did that." He was right. I am still sorry I did that, have been sorry for years and have thought of that guy often throughout the years. We lived in Euclid and in that same area until I was about 15, if I ever saw him again I never knew it and didn't know who he was. I wonder if he ever thought about the little girl standing by the sidewalk in her pretty pink sundress pulling out her eyelashes.
People come and people go in our lives, and they all make an impact. This man made an impact on me and has stayed with me for over 35 years.
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