New Day - Part Two (Or is it Three, Or Four???)

Day 5 begins on my WFPBNOSOS lifestyle. Yes, you read that correctly! Whole Food, Plant Based, No Oil, Salt Or Sugar! So what does that leave? Tasty plant-based goodness! I'm going to try keeping this blog up on my progress to lose weight, get healthy, and stay OUT of the cancer mill again. God has been sooo good and given me a second chance at life not just once, but at least twice, and I'm still overweight and unhealthy. There's a reason He has left me here. I still have a job to do. I don't know what it is, but I want to at least FEEL good while I'm trying to do that job! Or maybe THIS IS my job! I mean, the original plant-based diet was right out of Genesis in the bible, right?
So, in the spirit of the new year, I'm going to include my new day resolution list and start over on that! Here it is:
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New Day Resolutions

In the spirit of the new year, I am resolving not once, but 365 times, to begin again. Every day I will begin with my "New Day Resolution" and have 1 or 2 things I will resolve to do that day. If I fail once, I haven't blown the whole year. I can start again tomorrow! It is one more way that I'm going to be gentler with myself and my {SLOW} weight loss. I will weigh in on Monday, December 27 to see what my new "beginning" weight is, every day I will choose 2 things from this list that I will complete that day. This list will be added to throughout the year to create more challenging things for me, but for now, so that I will not fail, I will start with these:

Drink 8 glasses of water.
Eat 4 fruits/veggies
Replace a meal with a salad.
Replace a meal with a smoothie.
Walk on the treadmill 15 minutes.
Work out on the home gym.
Make 4 extra trips up and down the stairs.
Take my vitamins.
Use my dumbbells for upper body strength.
Drink green tea.

OK, so I do some of these every day anyway. This is not meant to be a challenge every single day, it is meant to keep me feeling successful and motivated. As I need new challenges (that IS the goal!) I will add them...but only so that I remain successful! Failure is NOT an option! Happy New Year! 

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Thanks for stopping by today! 'Til the next pound down!

Which Plan?

I have been struggling because I didn't really have a plan to follow. I've tried so many different plans and stay on them for a week or two, or a couple months, but I always fail. When I joined a page on FaceBook called 52 lbs in 52 weeks, I was tossing around the idea of going vegan again with a plan called Eat to Live. I have done a plan called Trim Healthy Mama, which is sort of like carb cycling. I've counted calories. I ate 1400 calories a day for years...and I still have the books that I recorded them in. THM was so dairy heavy. I loved eating it, but I couldn't lose weight. The ETL speaks to me, but was so difficult for me to stay on. I started researching again. I had followed the DASH diet and counted calories before and lost weight. I was working out for almost 2 hours every day, also. Well, I found a book that I purchased on Amazon, and I think I'm going back on the DASH diet for health and weight loss. Til the next pound down!

5 Years

Wow. 5 years, almost to the day, since I last posted on this blog. A lot has happened, including missing a whole year of my life to sarcoma and chemo. I'm trying to start again, I really am. I have struggled with which type of diet to follow. THM is too dairy-heavy and meat-heavy. I think I really need to keep the calorie count lower than that. I am playing with Eat To Live and the nutritarian style, but I just keep falling off. I thought that cancer would scare me into wanting to eat healthier, but it hasn't. What can I do to find the motivation? I'm just tired.

I'm. Just. Tired.

Time for a Cleanse

My immune system is weaker than normal. I had a bad infection during the radiation, and then I got a sore throat and cough. It's only lasted a few days, but it's time to build up the immune system again! I'm starting tomorrow with a cleanse, and them going back to healthy eating for weight loss. This is the year! I'm going to do it!
Til the next pound down!

Because of some health setbacks, I haven't been blogging for a while. I had surgery 7 weeks ago, and was on a little roll with the weight loss. I am having radiation treatments, and during one of the visits I was weighed, and the nurse was surprised at my weight. I had lost some weight since my initial consultation. I told her I had been trying, and she said I wasn't supposed to lose weight during radiation treatments!!! Well, how's that for a surprise?? And let me tell you, NOTHING can make you want to keep going at weight loss than someone telling you that you CAN'T lose weight!! But, I've settled in at this weight and I'm looking forward to a fit and fabulous 2013!
Til the next pound down!

It's Time!

I had made up my mind that there would be no "New Years' Resolutions" for me. I have started and stopped, started and stopped my whole adult life. I have always eaten healthy foods and had great health in general, and my joke was "I'm the healthiest fat person you know!" Well, now I'm beginning to fear for my health. Eating healthy is not enough. I have to start exercising, too. A couple miles on my recumbent bike once a month is not going to be enough, either. I need to get moving, in a BIG way. I haven't decided yet what I'll do, but my "stationary" habits and hobbies have got to change. I'm seriously needing input and motivation. I don't want diabetes or heart disease, or worse, cancer, like my parents had. Today is the day I need to start changing.

French Onion Soup Tartine

Tonight's menu: French Onion Soup Tartine! I found the recipe on the Vegetarian Times website. It's a thickened version of french onion soup, served as an open-faced sandwich on a thick slice of Indian bread, with shredded Gruyere cheese sprinkled over the top and melted to gooey perfection in the broiler! It was supposed to have some pretty caramelized onion slices on the top, but since it's just me, I skipped that step. This was quite an undertaking for me, but soooo worth it! The recipe made enough for 4, so I have enough for yummy leftovers! Thanks for looking!