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New Jenny Craig Tips and Tricks
While I was fixing breakfast this morning I thought of some more tips and tricks that have helped me so far. Check out my earlier tips by clicking on “Jenny Craig Tips and Tricks” under the “Diet and Fitness Drama” up in the header at the top of this page.
When preparing the Sunshine Sandwich, nuke, ahem, microwave the sandwich according to the instructions but before putting the sauce on the sandwich, put the English Muffin in the toaster for just a bit. This firms them up and adds a bit of crunch to the sandwich making it a more enjoyable eating experience.
When spreading the sauce on the Sunshine Sandwich put the sauce on the bread, not the egg or meat. The texture of the muffin keeps the sauce in place while you spread it evenly across the bread. Putting it on the egg or meat is putting it on a smoother surface and the knife will just push it around in clumps making getting an even spread of sauce more difficult.. .
When having a fruit like a banana for breakfast, chop it up into a lot of small chunks and eat it with a fork.
This makes it feel more like a meal instead of a snack because you are increasing the number of bites you’re taking and you’re using the fork instead of your fingers. Fingers = snack in my twisted brain while fork = meal. Go figure. 😉
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Healthy at every size!
Ragen Chastain, dancer and author of ‘Dances With Fat’ — Photograph by Richard Sabel (used with permission of the photographer)
I have a good friend, Ragen Chastain, who blogs over at “Dances With Fat“.
Her blog is awesome! She’s a very talented writer. And dancer. And Choreographer. And a beautiful person, both inside and out! It is simply not fair that so much talent and niceness be packed into one person! 🙂
Be sure to check out her blog and subscribe, especially if you’re on a quest to get healthy. Why? Because she makes an extremely valid point which, unfortunately, is not widely accepted:
You can be healthy at any size!
What she says, in my own words, is that just because you are fat, that does equal being unhealthy. And just because you’re thin, that does not equal “good health“. There are large people who are perfectly healthy. There are skinny people who are unhealthy.
A medical study that Ragen mentions in a recent post to her blog supports this. Be sure to read the post and the study. I read the study. Ok, ok, I only read the abstract. The details of the study soon put me to sleep, plus they were using them thar big ole words tha’ cowboys like me from ta piney woods of East Texas jus’ get all befuddled ’bout. 😉
The conclusion of the study says, and I quote: Read the rest of this entry
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Getting Healthy is complicated… …and it takes sleep, if you can get it.
Continuing with the theme that “loosing weight is complicated because life is complicated” let’s look at another of those wildly interconnected facets of life that affects everything, including efforts to get fit and healthy: SLEEP
Sleep… OMG! I would *love* to get a good night’s sleep. It has been years since I slept well on a regular basis; I routinely wake up tired, exhausted, and feeling as if someone has worked me over with a 2×4. I can not seem to get a good night’s sleep.
Yet, everything I read, drives home the importance of getting consistent, restful sleep, especially when you’re trying to improve your health and fitness. Yeh, right. No pun intended, but dream on! Fair warning, this post is about to take you through the backroads of my brain and my life so you’d better brace yourself… …it is likely to be a long, strange and bumpy ride.
After reading a lot about getting a good night’s sleep, being me. I made a list and got to work figuring out what I could do:
- First thing I learned is that being overweight is a contributing cause of poor sleep!
So, let me get this straight… To sleep well I need to loose weight. To loose weight I need to sleep well. Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!!! Can we say “downward spiral”? Can we say “Catch-22?” Hmmm??? Makes ya want to snuggle up to a big bowl of oreo cookes, a gallon of milk and say “to hell with it all”. Ok, ok, moving on….
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2011-07-28, Week 2, Weekly Stats
At my Jenny Craig weigh-in yesterday, I lost 2.2 lbs from the week before. However, my weight at home was pretty much flat. A tiny increase in weight and body fat. That is strange. Usually the loss ration is about the same with my weight at home being a steady 3-4 lbs less than at Jenny Craig, because at Jenny, I wear clothes and at home I don’t when I weigh-in.
This coming week will tell the tale. I go full force onto the Jenny Craig menu, following it exactly, weighing and measuring everything.
Here are this weeks’ charts:
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2011-07-28, Week 2, Weekly Progress Photos
Progress Photos 2011-07-28, Week 2
Week 2 — basically the numbers stayed flat. 😦
Link to my Flickr Set: 52 Weeks-52 Photos: A Photo Log of My Fitness Journey
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5-6-7-8 Dancing My Way to a Healthy Me! 