Profile Details
- Female, 43 years old
- Edgemoor, SC 29712
- Current Weight: 190 lbs.
- Weight Change: Lost 7 lbs.
- Desired Weight: 167 lbs.
- Height: 5' 5"
- BMI: 32
Main Goal
I would like to lose at least 30 pounds and improve my physical conditioning.
Previous Diets
Fit for life and the see food diet. When I see food, I eat it.
Favorite Workouts
Things To Do Before I Die
See some of the worlds most famous glaciers before global warming makes them extinct. Visit New Zealand, teach my grandkids and neice how to kayak and share with them the excitement and fun of paddling whitewater rivers.
Favorite Activities
Favorite Music
Most anything but rap, but especially beach music and blue-grass. Work out to classic 70's disco. My iPod has Simon & Garfunkel, Sarah Machlachlan, Sheryl Crow, Billy Joel, Allison Krauss, the Drifters, Fleetwood Mac, Pattie LaBelle, Grand Funk Railroad, the Spinners, Smokey Robinson, Doobie Brothers, Garth Brooks, Eric Clapton, David Alan Coe, Donna Summer, the Judds, Elton John, Mellissa Etheridge, Lynard Skynard, Lyn Morris, the Tams, Blue Highway and the Platters.
Favorite Movies
The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Star Trek.
Favorite TV Shows
Lost, Jim Lehrer News Hour, anything on Masterpiece Theatre, the National Geographic, History or Discovery channels.
Favorite Books
A Handmaiden's Tale, The Left Hand of Darkness, Herland, the Gate to Women's Country, Walking the Appalachian Mountains, everything by Ursula LeGuin and any science fiction that has a woman as the main character.
Other Interests
Kittens who mysteriously appear in my life then require copious amounts of money to bring them back to health and return them to some level of wholeness, especially my three legged cat, Bucky and my one eyed cat, Frankenkitty. I am keenly interested in people who have lives that color outside the lines, demonstrate the courage to speak truth to power and those kindred souls that find laughter to be an essential component of daily life on this nutty planet. Other interests are varied and complex.
Riverfox
Lost 7 lbs.
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About Me
I am a fun loving mischief maker who likes tilting at windmills (corporate power and its chokehold on our gov't). In transition between jobs with my new job starting on May 1, 2008. So I thought I would take the time off between the old job and the new job to eat right and get some exercise.
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Riverfox
Posted by Riverfox on Mar 22, 2008 01:09 PM
I started working out on March 3, 2008 and eating healthy on March 14, 2008. As of March 22, I've lost 7 pounds. It's a start. I feel better and have more energy now plus am sleeping better at night. The hardest part is being patient with the scale. I get up every morning and step on it expecting big changes in weigth to go along with the big changes in diet and exercise. My brain knows that it takes time to lose the weight but I guess my heart thinks that if you work hard and stick to eating healthy you ought to get rewarded by seeing the pounds fly off.
I know I'm converting fat too muscle, now that I started aerobic exercise and weight training again. Since muscle weighs more, the weight loss will slow down soon and I may even gain weight. I'm trying to prepare myself for that now, so I won't be disappinted. But it is tough to shake the expectation of daily weight loss. Maybe I need to ask my parnter to hide the scale and only let me have it once a week. Lol, that way perhaps I can kick the addiction of stepping on the scale everyday to see the benefits of eating right and exercising. I probably need to find a diferent way to quantitatively measure daily success and results from eating right and daily exercise.