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August 29, 2008

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"No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty."
– Leon Wieseltier

Is Your Diet Making You Fat?
A Dieting Mentality Can Lead to Problems

A healthy lifestyle is an ideal that we all strive for. Eat right, exercise regularly, get enough sleep. It seems pretty simple, right? But, we all know that it's much more complicated than a few simple words. While you might be successful in one area, like meeting your diet goals during the week, you can easily fall short in another by not exercising regularly. If you're still in "diet" mode, temporarily changing your habits just until you reach your goal, then one of these dieting dilemmas could be preventing your from reaching your goals - and achieving a permanent, healthy lifestyle. Your diet might be making (or keeping) you fat if...



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Are You Eating Enough?
You're all trying not to go over your allotted calorie amounts for the week, but how many of you are having trouble eating enough calories? It may not seem like a big deal to consume a hundred or so fewer calories than you're supposed to each day, but that's a dangerous — and incorrect — assumption. It is absolutely 100 percent essential to eat enough calories! If you don't, it will destroy your metabolism. It's like telling your body that you're starving. If your body thinks it's starving, your metabolism will shut down.
Not eating enough calories will also force the body to cannibalize muscle and hold on to fat. The body considers muscle to be expendable during periods of starvation, and it considers fat to be necessary to insulate your organs for survival.
Finally, a deficit of daily calories will lead to a horrible cycle of yo-yo dieting. You'll starve yourself and end up losing muscle, and when you begin to eat the right amount of calories, your body will pack on the pounds in anticipation of another "famine."
What can you do to break the cycle? If you're a woman, set your calories at 1,400 steady — don't vary them. I almost NEVER say that, but in order to get your metabolism back up to speed and set your body right again, you're going to need consistency and time.
Stay on this calorie allowance and exercise at least five hours a week. You probably won't lose weight for at least four weeks, but the good news is that you won't gain either, and hopefully we will have gotten your metabolism back on track permanently. After about four weeks or so, you should start to lose weight, and then you can begin to vary your daily calorie intake — as long as you never drop below 1,200 calories. Now, go get something to eat!

ILLIAN'S TIP OF THE DAY
Moderation, Not Deprivation
There are only two types of foods I really want you to avoid: processed foods and foods that are loaded with bad-for-you trans fats. A glass of wine is not bad at all. As long as you can have things in moderation, you'll be fine. Who in the world would want to live a life without little indulgences, like a glass of wine or a chocolate truffle occasionally? The key is to drink one glass of wine, not the whole bottle. Enjoy an organic peanut butter cup once in a while, not two or five each day, and most certainly not a whole bag of them either. Get it? It's not so much about dieting as it is about learning to live differently.

My goals for this week:

1. Continue to exercise....both HIP HOP abs and the gym
2. Drink more water
3. Take my vitamins
4. Stay below 29 points per day
5. Keep the refined sugar out of the diet....

Awesome goals, Lyssa!
Here are mine:
1. 90 oz water a day
2. vitamins
3. Log on and post accountability, Monday-Friday(Ted works on the computer on the weekends)
4. do Jillian Michaels 30 day shred4 days a week, Taebo or a long workout on Saturday, and Sundays.
5. Fridays are a day off from workouts, and Sundays are diet breakday, I have added a workout that day
6. log on and get and give support and friendly razzing, lol
7. stick to 1300 cals a day, as much as possible.
8. Trust God more with my stress
9. 4 challlenges a day.
10. get back into trying more healthy recipes.
There ya go!

This week I will:
Continue to "let go and let God"
Drink 96oz of water a day, including my free day
Not have caffeine more than once
Stay in my point range Mon-Sat
Exercise Mon-Sat
Be 206 next Friday!!

Kama, the forums look great!

Betsy, love the new picture!

Great plans Kama, Lyssa, and Betsy!

Mine is pretty much the same:
1200 calories
MORE WATER (I have really been slacking this week) I'm too busy to pee so much!
More exercise, foot finally feeling better
Vitamin
Razz, cheer, and support all my wonderful team mates!

Oh crap, I just realized I'm signed on to the wrong account to post my goals...oh well.