coconut's Fitness Profile

coconut's Journal

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  Lost a Lot with Medifast, then gained 1/2 back so

  In early April 2009, I started on a 6 month trial with Medifast. I lost about 28 lbs but stopped because my body just couldn't stand it anymore. I felt weak, "gutted", my hair was falling out and my bones felt rather exposed and sore when I sat on chairs or lay in a bath tub. I felt ravenous, as if my body was dying for some other kind of food. I got so many compliments about my weight loss and I just loved fitting into my old clothes. I went cold turkey into trying to eat 'normally" and before I knew it, I'd gained back about 13 lbs. in 5 months. So here I am... after much researching and experimenting with Traditional Foods, organic, cod live oil/coconut oil, low-carb eating. I now think that I will not go back to Medifast and instead will go back to logging in my nutrition for everything I eat daily, and darn it!... I'll have to exercise... the one thing I let slip almost daily during the cold months. I just started logging my food here today. Here we go! I'll be checking my friends here to see how they have fared all this time. Hello everybody!

  Posted over 2 years ago by coconut

  
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  been getting to sleep very late ~ 4 or 5am lately and sleep into the day. woke tonight out of anxious dream. have been unemployed and money-strapped. and with this time of peri-menopause, i feel like my grandmother or some older aunt. i rarely look like a pretty, youthful woman anymore and i don't want to be in videos or pics. i wonder how i can show up for life like this. and wonder if it just gets worse and it's all downhill from here. then, i remember byron katie. and she was in her 40's and out of shape and uncared for. she must now be in her 60's and she looks trim and great! i feel strongly that it was an INTERNAL SHIFT for her... not so much what exercise/diet she's on.

  Posted over 3 years ago by coconut

  
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  ugh

  past few days have been intense prepping for surprise gig. and i became very vulnerable. i find out today that i'm also having a big hormonal shift. probably the big reason. my food-logging has gone to the wayside as i ate cheetos and cake slices. and lots of snapples. i see that i definitely turn to snacks to hopefully make me feel better. tomorrow will need to clean house as much as possible to be able to host sandy. let's see where i am tomorrow and get back on track here.

  Posted over 3 years ago by coconut

  
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  start day off with museum walk

  i have 'things' to do but will get out there and walk first.

  Posted over 3 years ago by coconut

  
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  ate so well yesterday

  we went out to eat at the best sushi restaurant i've ever been to. and i was full and when i got home, i was loathe to eat junk.

  Posted over 3 years ago by coconut