Afrita's Health and Wellness Accountability Thread

[afrita]

I am working on a project: me. My goals are to become as healthy as I can. This is complicated, because my addictive issues are intertwined with how unhealthy I have become.

I have recently joined a gym and had a few introductory personal training sessions. In ten minutes I leave to go to my first of a package of twelve sessions. I will go to him twice a week and have a goal of doing cardio or a circuit class on all other days of the week. I will walk twenty minutes to and from the gym.

I am keeping a food and water diary which I will show to my trainer at each session and post here to keep myself accountable (along with a note about daily exercise). I will keep track of calories as a matter of accountability, and I will attempt to stick to healthy, unprocessed food, but because I have a tendency towards bulimia and bingeing, I feel like I have to be careful to not label foods as "bad" or "good", or my choices as "bad" or "good"

I could easily make this a weight loss thread--and I want to weigh less--but I really want it to be a thread about learning to make healthy choices. So I will not ever weigh myself. My trainer has measured me, and at some point I will ask him to provide me with a comparison if I need to reinforce motivation.

I imagine this is totally uninteresting to most of you, and I respect that. I just hope that by posting here I am laying myself open to a more public commitment.

afrita

[Chy]

This is so awesome!! You go girl! I'm very proud of you in taking this step on working on you! After four years with the same trainer I finally had to let him go. I'm looking for a new direction as I want to do more as well on working on me and being self reliant. I loved the motivation he offered me and miss him a great deal as well as have become less accountable but now finished with some stuff that has kept me making those excuses I can get back on track. Good luck! I'm rooting you on!

[Velvet]

I could easily make this a weight loss thread--and I want to weigh less--but I really want it to be a thread about learning to make healthy choices. So I will not ever weigh myself. My trainer has measured me, and at some point I will ask him to provide me with a comparison if I need to reinforce motivation.

This, I like!
I'll be peeking in to see how you're doing. I can't afford a trainer, nor the gym, at this point...but will be doing some walking. So I'll be cheering you on and you just may motivate me.

[Autumn]

Hey, great! This is also something I plan to tackle soon. It will be an inspiration to follow your progress.

Good luck!

[TheLandofOz]

Hi Guys,
sounds like a great idea.

Lets get to it.

Will need to do some planning but am prepared to commit to a schedule.

Will have a plan in place in two days and be working it by Friday...

Ciao,

Greg.

[Peggy Power]

EXCELLENT, Afrita!!! Avoiding processed foods makes a big difference, I believe. We'll be here cheering you on -- and maybe even improving our own health!

[indigo]

I'll be following your progress too Frits as all these operations and immobility have left me needing to have less of myself. What a fabulous idea thansk.

[leaf]

Wait?

Do they let ninjas into the gym?

Go get em afrita.

Kick some butt big time!

[afrita]

The support is absolutely wonderful. I can't thank you enough. OK, so today starts the diary--I will post in the evening about the choices I made today. My trainer also showed me www.dailyplate.com which he encouraged me to use.

afrita

[indigo]

Thanks Afrita.

[Peggy Power]

We'll be watching, Afrita! And hopefully learning a few pointers in the process.

[afrita]

Um. I meant, of course, that I will be starting today.

Breakfast was two slices white toast (not too healthy) with two teaspoons of Earth Balance margarine, plus tea and 1/4 c. soymilk. 24 kcal.

Lunch was kimchi, 1/4 c. basmati rice, 1/4 avocado, lots of grape tomatoes, and a heaping cup of edamame in the pod. 335 kcal.

Dinner will be a tofu scramble with lots of broccoli, mushrooms, and garlic to make it taste good. I may also add in some tempeh bacon if I get around to marinating it.

Exercise was forty minutes of walking plus 30 minutes on the (legs only) elliptical.

So far five glasses of water, so three to go.

[Peggy Power]

Wow, your entres are so creative! Do you make your own kimchi? What's edamame? (yeah, the white toast really should be replaced with 100% whole grain -- fiber is so imporant). Well, one day down, years and years to go

[afrita]

Peggy, I am afraid to make my own kimchi. Edamame are soybeans (often in the pod)--you can often find them as an appetizer at sushi restaurants. White toast was baaad.

Today was the same kimchi/avocado/basmati rice/edamame/grape tomatoes for breakfast. (I don't like traditional breakfast food.) 285 kcal

A snack was one ounce of Tillamook cheddar cheese, 90 calories. Bad vegan, bad.

Lunch was curried red lentil stew over tofu shirataki fettucine noodles with half a head of roasted cauliflower. 438 kcal

I haven't eaten dinner yet as I am on a weird schedule, but I think I will have more stew. And I want an orange.

I did not exercise today as I have a bit of a fever. So far six glasses of water. Tempeh bacon marinating in the fridge for tomorrow, mmm. I have to figure out how to season my cast iron skillet so I can cook in it properly--I have not mastered this yet. I am entering everything at The Daily Plate, and that is useful. Good healthy choices today, I think!

[Peggy Power]

You go, girl! Is the fever gone today?

[afrita]

All gone, and tyty for asking! Plus my calorie limit was set at 1200, and I had 8 to spare after the lentil stew and the orange. TEN glasses of water total. Yesterday was silver starrish.

[Chy]

Way to go Afrita! You inspired me to to get to the gym this morning so thank you!

[Peggy Power]

Yay, Afrita (AND Chy!) Someday I'll make it back to the gym (I hope!) Meanwhile you've inspired me to have lentil soup for lunch (YUM!)

[afrita]

Peggy, you just focus on getting well. There is plenty of time for the gym later. In the meantime, lentil soup sounds like a great choice. Chy, well done on the gym!

I went to the gym too, for my personal training session. Everything was going great until my second round of doing steps with a weighted ball. Coming down, I stepped on the side of the step, rolled my ankle out, and went FLYING. I landed on one stiff arm and my rear. Luckily I have quite a lot of padding back there so I bounced and ended up flat on my back. Completely totally ridiculous. OMG, how embarassing. I have a history of rolling out my ankles and feet, and my right ankle does feel a bit tender, but not too bad. I kept on beating myself up over looking stupid, while my trainer was feeling responsible because he thought he pushed me too hard and I was tired, and then I started feeling responsible that he felt responsible, and the whole thing became even more ridiculous! We finished the workout (sans step and second round of rowing) and I did not walk home. I have instructions to leave the shoe on for a while and to ice it over the shoe. I think I'll be fine.

But, oh, the embarassment! LOL! I mean, that was BAD.

[Chy]

Oh girl just shrug it off it happens, in fact that happened to me recently on those step up stands like 2 feet high, same exact scenario, rolled my ankle coming down and tumbling I went. The good thing is you didn't get hurt!! Ice the ankle though just in case and takes some pain reliever for swelling. It won't hurt and will be less soar. I'm so proud of you!