What's your New Year's resolution? If it's to lose weight...

[UnluckyTwin]

...Then join us in the Bridal Bootcamp thread!

There's a few of us LIWs hanging out in that thread, supporting each other, and weighing in once a week (optional of course). Our numbers have dwindled over the holidays so I just wanted to remind anyone who'd like to be a part of it that it's there and welcome them to it.

What about everyone else? Do you make resolutions? Care to share any?

 

[missy]

Re: What's your New Year's resolution? If it's to lose weigh

My New Year's resolution is always the same. Not to make any.

However, I am always trying to improve myself throughout the year just not starting during Jan 1st.
My goal has been and still is to try not to worry as much as I usually do and to put things in perspective.

 

[UnluckyTwin]

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I'm with you-- I don't make any NY resolutions either! I actually always make "new semester" resolutions, like, "This semester I'm going to take every Saturday off and not do any school work." As graduate school goes, the resolutions (always geared toward making "me" time) always fail.

 

[vintagelover229]

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I'm not trying to lose weight, but I have no doubt I will because my SO and I are doing a drastic lifestyle change (which he kept up before we met, guess I"m a bad influence, lol). We bought a book called the Eat Clean Diet and it teaches you why your body can't process certain things and has a list of things to stay away from. People have lost TONS of weight because of this life style change. One example it gives is processed/fake foods (which are ALL over the market and bad for you). Your body can't process it and so it breaks it down into something it can process....and stores it as fat. Yup that's right, as fat. So, every time you want to eat fast food just think that your body really can use very little of what's in it and is just going to store it as fat and make you feel sluggish and like crap.

It has a grocery list, where to buy in bulk, what foods are good for you, and what you should avoid all the time. It has healthy desserts, and even teaches you how to eat as "healthy" as you can at fast food joints and at restaurants. People have had great results, but basically it's bringing us back to where we should be. No chemicals, no preservatives, additives, etc.

I'll let you guys know how it goes in a few weeks on it. We also are back at the gym 3 times a week and also doing 2 days of ice skating or cardio on top of that, but the diet is the main thing.

Hope this helps!

 

[UnluckyTwin]

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I can't remember who said this, I think I heard it on TV or something, but it was basically: You shouldn't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize. Now, my great-grandmother is 90 and still kickin' so she would recognize anything we eat today, but you get the point. It's what you said-- eat clean. Your great-grandmother would recognize baked chicken, but probably not chicken nuggets. And you're right, I'm sure the weight just falls off when you move over to that. I would love to do that-- I'm a vegetarian and I use only earth-friendly cleaning products, so a lot of people expect me to already eat clean, but man, as a poor grad student, having the time and money available to only eat clean is just not for me right now! About once a week SO and I make a homemade fresh vegetable recipe dinner, but so much of what we eat relies on boxes, bags, and cans. Ugh!

 

[vintagelover229]

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I can't remember who said this, I think I heard it on TV or something, but it was basically: You shouldn't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize. Now, my great-grandmother is 90 and still kickin' so she would recognize anything we eat today, but you get the point. It's what you said-- eat clean. Your great-grandmother would recognize baked chicken, but probably not chicken nuggets. And you're right, I'm sure the weight just falls off when you move over to that. I would love to do that-- I'm a vegetarian and I use only earth-friendly cleaning products, so a lot of people expect me to already eat clean, but man, as a poor grad student, having the time and money available to only eat clean is just not for me right now! About once a week SO and I make a homemade fresh vegetable recipe dinner, but so much of what we eat relies on boxes, bags, and cans. Ugh!

That's just it, foods back in the day, for most people were grown in their own garden or bought at the market frequently. Here it's difficult to find the foods that we need (esp organic). We are going to find a farm to get all of our chicken/meat from (FYI beef shouldn't be grain fed...cows eat grass, grain just fattens them up quicker) and we are eating a LOT of eggs. It's a real shock for me bc I usually only eat twice a day, late in the afternoon and late for dinner. Now I have to eat 6-8 times a day and I'm hating it, lol. But after my skin and hair gets healthy from a lifestyle change perhaps I won't mind so much!

When we get our own house things will be easier for us bc I plan on having a garden, a small green house, and I plan on canning a ton of stuff and we'll have an extra freezer. We live in an apt now and we can't grown our own stuff and the kitchen is to small to can.

It's sad that eating healthy is more expensive and requires much more work than not eating healthy is. However I know that if I do this my health, energy and everything is going to improve.

And we can't do it all the time (we used canned tomatoes for some stuff) but you just do your best. Even making a few small changes (like whole wheat pasta and turkey burger instead of regular pasta and ground beef) can make a big difference.

Good luck everyone, I'll check in on the bootcamp thread in a few weeks

 

[HaloBelle]

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The whole idea of making a resolution slipped my mind this year. I don't really know why!! I am starting a whole new chapter in my life (got a job, new house, etc) and I think because I have changed so much in the month since it all started in december, I didn't even think to change more.

That being said, I guess I made some 'resolutions' when I started my job and moved. Those being: live like a college student for a few years and use the extra money to pay off credit cards and student debt, eat real food (veggies, home cooked, avoid fast food), and try to maintain a healthy life style. I do want to lose some weight, 5-10 lbs, but not in any rush and I am not upset with how I look now - I just want to get back to what I was sophomore year. Healthy, active, and happy.

I no longer live within driving distance to a gym, but my small town has three meat markets and weekly farmers markets plus roadside vendors are the norm here. So far I am doing all right. Occasionally, I want McDonald's fries and I'm okay with that because I'm not just trying to lose weight but to eat better on the big scale.

Good luck to everyone and their resolutions, I'll be making an attempt to keep up with the bridal boot camp. I think I signed up right before I had to take a break from this website

 

[UnluckyTwin]

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I've decided to make a lifestyle change rather than a New Year's resolution, too: floss and mouth wash daily. In the past I'd floss for a week and then quit, comforted by the thought that I'm almost 25 and have never had a cavity, and every time I go to the dentist they tell me I have great teeth. But now I figure, in the past semester, I managed to defend my Master's thesis, lose 17 pounds, and pay off all my credit card debt, on top of all the other stuff that comes from living as a student-- there's no reason I can't take 2 minutes for extra oral hygeine every day! So far it's been a week and I've flossed and used mouth wash every day. Hoorah!