Thanks for your tip about this diet! I’m not a fan of any type of weight loss regime or diet, but it’s good to know that there are some diets that work for some people. And, it’s good to hear that publishers are walking their talk

Laurie
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I lost 20 lbs in 10 days, and made a major alteration to my permanent diet that keeps the weight off. The diet is simple, sound, easy to master and execute and it works.

Most diets are about as complicated as IRS instructions for your tax return and one can quickly find an excuse for giving up.

Following up the diet with a sigmoidoscopy to take advantage of the newly cleared intestinal tract should be the ultimate way to detect and prevent colon and intestinal cancers.

Any book this short that is this clear and this good should be in everyone’s library.

No, I didn’t know Martha Beck is speaking in Calgary! Very cool. I lived there for a year, before I moved here to Bowen Island, BC.

Do you have tickets to see Beck? I hope you blog about it!

Laurie
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No worries about ranting — that’s what Jane is here for!

I love this bit about exercising:

“I’m so tired of exercising,” said comedienne Jann Karam. “I think 5,000 sit-ups should be pretty much permanent. You should be at home, you’re on your last and final jumping jack, and you get that phone call: ‘Congratulations! You have completed the exercise portion of your life. Welcome to the incessant eating section.’ ”

Wouldn’t that be something — to be done with exercise forever??

I just wrote an article for Health magazine, about keeping your brain healthy until you’re really, really old (it’ll be in the Sept 2009 issue, if all goes as planned). A brain expert from Princeton said that exercise is the number one way to keep your brain strong and prevent diseases such as Alzheimer’s…because the more oxygen you get flowing throughout your body, the healthier you are.

I don’t know about you, but keeping my brain healthy is vital. In fact, I wanted to go off on a huge eating binge yesterday (I’m bad for emotional eating) — and you know what stopped me? The fact that it’s bad for my brain. I’ve written articles on how bad excess sugar and fat is for our bodies, and I know what happens when I binge…and it ain’t pretty.

For you, Sandra — and all women struggling with weight loss motivation — I think finding your trigger is the key to exercising regularly! It’s different for every woman: some like to sweat, others want to look gorgeous, and still others just want to have healthy brains.

What’s your trigger? What would keep you going back for more? (It might help to read my 10 Health Benefits of Exercise on Quips and Tips for Achieving Your Goals http://theadventurouswriter.com/blog/quipstipsachievinggoals/health-wellness/fitness-goals-health-benefits-exercise/ )

Also — another key to weight loss motivation is finding activities that you LIKE doing. If you have to force yourself to work out, then you won’t do it for long.

Did the guilt trip work yesterday?

Laurie

I did start fencing back in 2002 and loved it enough to not mind the sweating. But the 45 min. drive each way started getting old, the dynamics of the club changed and it wasn’t fun anymore. I barely went in 2008 and quit early this year. I do miss it, but there is nowhere else to fence that is any closer.

Having to change into my exercise togs, jump around my living room to a DVD until I sweat, having to then take the time to shower and change clothes again to me is a drudge. But I have to do it, don’t I. I have trouble with keeping it up because it is a drag. (In large part because the instructor is always saying the exact same thing.) I don’t like classes because even beginner classes usually aren’t really beginner level and there are always people there who are already thin and can breeze through whatever it is, making me look fat and foolish.

It is hard work to keep “pumping myself up” with thoughts that I’m putting on just to keep trying to feel positive about it all. (Goes for the dieting too.) I’m lying to myself and having to make like that’s a good, happy thing.

I’ve had times when I’ve kept up exercising regularly for as much as two months and never have gotten to where I feel perked up or energized by it. I wish I would as I think it would help. It’s supposed to happen, but it hasn’t. Two months isn’t long enough.

Then there’s this; I’ll get sick and not exercise till I’m better and it’s hard to start back up. Or I go on vacation and it’s hard to get back at it once I’m back home.

Speaking of all this is a good guilt trip. I’m going to go jump around to my DVD or do my mat routine. I should do both but I don’t know if I will, I don’t want to end up exhausted and in tears later, which is what usually happens.

Again, sorry to rant. These are sore subjects and I’m rather depressed today already.

Sandra