40 Pounds of Purpose Plan:
- 8-10 cups of hot green tea a day (I don’t add sugar) --> After 2 days of this I’m completely off coffee and have more energy.
- 5-6 smaller meals (balanced, not no-carb or anything creepy like that). At least one snack needs to be fruit or veggies. Portions are what really get us.
- Exercise 6 Days a week – Weights and Cardio – EX: Mon. - upper body – 3 reps of 12 (Chest, Bi, Tri, Shoulders, Back, Abs) and 20 minutes moderate cardio (i.e. Not killing yourself, just keeping the heart rate up)., Tues. - Cardio – 30 minutes (currently using elliptical on the ‘Weight Loss’ program), Weds. - Lower Body (Leg Extensions, Leg Curls, Calf Raises, Lunges) and 20 minutes moderate cardio, Thursday - (Same as Tuesday), Friday – Same as Monday.
- TONS ICE COLD WATER. The hot green tea (especially around meals) helps to keep the cholesterol from forming plaque (according to my doc), but the ice cold water forces your body to work harder in keeping your base body temperature up, so you burn more calories.
- Multi-vitamin - my doc wrote me a script for prenatals that I can get at WalMart™ for $4/month. Generic, but pretty good.
- Supplements - Chromium Picolinate, Vitamin C (I take extra) - maybe more when I burn some fat, such as protein, etc. I did have a natural Whey shake. Brandi gave me some whey from the goat's milk cheese she was making (they have goats y'all!). Actually wasn't that bad.
- Set a start date.
- Don't get crazy with the junk food the day before you start in order to have 'one last hurrah'. You will regret it. Trust me.
- Plan ahead - i.e. if I know I will be leaving super early on Monday's for seminary, thus having a propensity to eat junk food or skip meals all day (both happen, actually), then I need to ask my lovely wife to help me by packing a healthy lunch with several snacks.
- Enlist Accountability - I have done this, and actually this blog is another form as well. Don't diet in secret, I've tried for 2 1/2 years, and it doesn't work.
- Pray, Pray, and Pray Some More (This should be before, during, and ongoing...)
3 comments:
If you already mentioned this, I'm sorry, but why do you have to give up coffee? I mean, I know green tea is better, but coffee's not bad for you if you don't load it down with sugar and cream. What gives?
I have been on a roller coaster with my weight since high school. I feel your pain.
I haven't mentioned it, but I drink coffee like a girl. I love 2 sugars in the raw and cream and more cream. Also, I was drinking WAYYY too much coffee, thus too much caffeine, leading to dehydration. I will drink coffee again, I'm sure, but I needed a break.
Gotcha. I drink it black so I guess I can keep it. Except we found mold in our coffeepot and can't get it off so I am temporarily coffee-less and NOT happy about it....
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