Dorky sayings

Shinsplint

Shinsplint

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Here's something I found on a bookmark. I wasn't sure where to post it, so I thought I'd put it here.

When going through life
and travelling in the direction of your dreams,
the best way to get ahead
is the simplest way:
Take it one step at a time.
Don't look over your shoulder.
If you do, you'll feel the weight
of all your yesterdays upon you.
And don't worry about what lies ahead.
By the time you get to the bend in the road,
or the crest of the hill,
you're going to be better and stronger
than you ever were before.
Just go a step at a time.
One day at a time.
And you'll find a rich, thankful life
you never thought you could afford. -Adrian Rogers

Dorky, but suitable, don't you think!:)
 
Today I heard another great saying: "Success is one step beyond the end of your familiarity rope."

Really inspiring.

Record of achievements so far stands at the fact that I climbed the stairs to the 6th floor of my work today again, only this time I didn't stop once. Whoohoo!
 
Hey thanks Sophie! Bit of a ways to go though...

Another saying I heard (which probably many people have already heard, especially if you're from the States) and which really inspired me a lot:

"In life, you need either inspiration or desperation." -Anthony Robbins

Also, a really useful one for getting out of bed and for a jog/walk on those cold mornings:

'Action is thoughtless.'

That one helps heaps when I remember it.

Also, I'm actually reading Dr. Atkins' book properly and wish to apologise to anyone who read my misinformed comments about ketosis. According to Atkins, it is a totally harmless and normal process where your body burns its stored fat for energy. I had confused it with ketoacidosis; guess my biochem knowledge is a bit rusty!:eek:

On the Doc's advice, I stopped eating white bread again and really am feeling much better and less tired. Also, it seems when I stay off that stuff in the evenings, I can more easily get up in the morning. Otherwise, I kind of go into a hangover and sleep for over 9 hours like I'm drugged! Ugh!!:(

Hugs to anyone who reads this. :)
 
Progress report:

Still climbing stairs.

Just started a running program.

Resting heart rate is 70 bpm. After 1 min of jogging: 145 bpm. After climbing 12 flights of stairs: 180 bpm and fit to burst.

Weight loss has slowed and hovered at the current weight for the last 2-3 weeks. Diet is the same.

Today's saying (actually should be This Week's saying)

If, on walking up the mountain, you are prevented from stopping to admire the view, it's probably because your eyes were meant for a vantage point higher up.

Hugs to everyone. :jump:
 
Shinsplint said:
On the Doc's advice, I stopped eating white bread again and really am feeling much better and less tired. Also, it seems when I stay off that stuff in the evenings, I can more easily get up in the morning. Otherwise, I kind of go into a hangover and sleep for over 9 hours like I'm drugged! Ugh!!:(

Hugs to anyone who reads this. :)
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U r just like me! The white bread doese the same thing to me too!

Thanks for sharing those quotes. Perks me up!:jump: *hugs*
 
I haven't posted any sayings for awhile (sorry Pinkydolly!) cos I've been slack.:drooling: I'm going to pull my act together right now.

Today's saying:

There are two ways to approach life: as though nothing is a miracle, and you're expendable; or as though everything is a miracle, and you're irreplaceable.

For anyone who's interested, Cool Runners on the Web have a great running program that is really helping me to get fit; I've lost so much fat that I can now button up shirts that two weeks ago only buttoned up halfway.

This week has been a bit of a downer for me. It seems every time I turn on the T.V. I see something about climate change. People are committing crimes at younger and younger ages and sentences for criminals are getting lighter and lighter. I see the innocent suffering and sometimes I wonder to myself why I bother trying to lose weight and look good, feel good, when the world is such a sick place. What's the point?

I don't know, I never have an answer, but all I can do is grit my teeth and keep going, hoping this journey will lead me somewhere happy. I just know I can't go back to what I was. People can be so unjustifiably cruel to you when you're overweight. They feel they have a God-given right to insult you or something.

I never understood the pain of the fat person until I became one. Before that, if I heard someone talking about negative attitudes towards their excessive weight, if that person had, say, a really pretty face, I used to think they were being paranoid. Then I started putting on weight, and I noticed that suddenly, people stopped looking at me. And I don't just mean guys. I mean everyone. People stopped making eye contact with me. I began to get very lonely. It felt like I was an invisible person. Now I know why. I caught myself once looking at a heavy woman walking towards me and unconsciously averted my eyes. The thing is, I didn't want her to think I was staring at her because she was fat. As soon as I realised what I was doing, something clicked and I understood why people didn't look at me.

It was so easy for me to think fat people were being paranoid until I got fat and began living that reality. I can't believe what a difference it makes to see someone look at me, to have them smile at me. It puts me on a different planet almost, for the rest of the day. And if I'm missing out on that because I'm fat, it makes me a sadder, more boring, more lonely person. Now, as I lose pounds bit by bit, I've noticed more and more people don't ignore me. I'm beginning to feel more human, instead of like an inanimate object.

Another thing which ticked me off during my very overweight time, was people disregarding my opinions (especially regarding health and fitness) and being less tolerant of my character flaws because I was fat. Some would even blatantly tell me what I should be eating, as if I didn't know. Are you, or have you been overweight? Has this ever happened to you? Do you think there is one rule for how thin people should behave, and another for overweight people?

Anyway, to get back to that heavyset lady walking towards me, I made myself look into her eyes as she came towards me and when our eyes met, she gave me the sweetest smile you can imagine. Her whole face was transformed and her true beauty came out. This small encounter changed my whole day and set me on air. I thought how good would it be if people could look at us and see us as we are inside, and not see the outside package.

Well, that's enough prattle for one day. As always, when I get like this, a good workout is what I'm lacking. Like I said, I gotta pull my head in.:sleeping:

Hugs to all.
Don't rest until the battle is won.:)
 
Anyway, to get back to that heavyset lady walking towards me, I made myself look into her eyes as she came towards me and when our eyes met, she gave me the sweetest smile you can imagine. Her whole face was transformed and her true beauty came out. This small encounter changed my whole day and set me on air. I thought how good would it be if people could look at us and see us as we are inside, and not see the outside package.
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What an absolutely beautiful statement :) thank you :D
 
Shinsplint: I almost didn't read this thread 'cause I usually sort of hate quotes and sayings (dorky or profound) for some reason. But I'm so glad I did because your last post totally hit home with me on a personal level. It actually gave me a much needed reminder and set the positive tone for how I plan to approach my interactions with people the rest of my day and evening. Thank-you. Quote on.:)
 
Thank you maleficent and cym. That's really nice guys. :)

I hope your week is going well and you're enjoying life, even in the midst of weight loss/fitness training/healthy eating.

For my part, I've been a very wicked woman this week. (Not in the way I'd like either!). I haven't worked out for over 5 days and today I had a - :eek: :eek: :eek: - croissant for lunch! :doh: Oh but it was so nice!

I need to get my butt into gear this week, seriously. I spent the weekend fixing my computer and my legs got stiff; consequently, today I could not even walk, my knees were so sore. This has set me back a bit. I'm actually glad my parents have nicked my bathroom scales and I have no idea how much weight I've put on! (no! please God?)

Anyway, quote for today is:
"Nothing is impossible to him who will try." (Alexander the Great)

I hope everyone is going fantabulously well with their weight loss and life gain!

Cheers for now.
Hugs :hug2:
 
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Thought for today: It's just pain; it can't hurt you.

Update: Knee is still sore, but glad I did my jogging today. As of yesterday, have proudly lost 10 kg. I can't believe it! The scales have stopped flashing 80s up at me, finally! Want to walk tomorrow but will see what the weather will do. Also have to go shopping. Wondering if my thalassaemia will in any way stop me from achieving my exercise goals, as today I thought I was dying and my lungs splitting open from just climbing 7 flights of stairs. Other people seem to have no trouble with 10 flights. I couldn't stop coughing from an itch in my throat and made me think I developed a lesion in my airway. Guess I shouldn't have pushed it with my blood being so crappy right now. Note: Need to eat more red meat. Doc will test my blood in 6 weeks. Good point: I've given up on carb-watching. The exercise has stimulated my metabolism enough that I can eat healthy carbs. Still off sugar. Chocolate cravings are getting stronger. Worst in the evenings, right before dinner. Realised I need to have food ready when I get hungry and discourage mum from making cakes and putting them in the pantry at eye level. Good luck.

Running really hurt today, but HR only 170. Felt unfit, heavy and very, very uncomfortable. Could be because I hadn't eaten and also bumped up the time spent running, as opposed to walking. Decided to go with a more gradual version of the Cool Running C25K program, increasing the time spent running in small increments, rather than blocks.

Hope this next week will see some weight loss. I'm half a kilo over my goal weight for this month. Hope knee feels better tomorrow and no lasting injury happens from me running on it.

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Reading some of the thoughts of people on this site, I've realised how many people were originally overweight because they were afraid of sexual attention. I used to believe that until I had a very unfortunate experience a few years ago where I was sexually assaulted. I was walking down the street at 6.15 in the morning, light, but quiet, and this skinny, stoned-looking guy on a bike rode up to me, said hi and then proceeded to grab my left breast. Luckily, he was easily discouraged (probably so much out of it or off is face from drugs and watching internet porn all night) and slinked off, after I knocked his hand away.

Now this is the thing: I was wearing old jeans, a bulky tracksuit top and carring a backpack on my back with my hair pulled back and wearing glasses... hardly alluring material. Also, I was overweight then, as now, maybe even more. So what was it that attracted him? And this was certainly unwanted male attention. Yet, at the time, I was angry that nice-looking, cute guys never took any notice of me.

So here is the conclusion I came to: I must lose weight, so then I can attract the right guys. Bad guys must think overweight girls who dress plainly are up for anything, are desperate. They wouldn't have the balls to approach a really good-looking girl, because she'd tell them where to get off. Meanwhile, good guys seem to be looking for a girl who can match them in some way. And I've never met anyone who believed looks didn't play some part in male attraction; they always do. Sure, you have to have a brain and a personality, but what they look at first is the package. I think it's just a male thing (no offence to any men here).

That's when I decided I had to change. I don't want the fat person's life. I don't want to be ridiculed and ignored and the only attention I get to be from ice addicts on horny highs. Being fat sucks. I wish I lived in a different world, where people wouldn't judge you because of how you look, but this is not church or the Dalai Lama's house, it's the mud-pit we call earth, full of eyes. Eyes everywhere, looking, judging, weighing, assessing, spying. There have been days when I've gone outside wishing the world could just have no people in it and I could walk down the street totally free. Or that I wore a hijab and nobody could see my face or body.

It's tiring not being able to be yourself because the world will never accept you, or accept you only under a label that you refuse to wear.

It's at this point I would play Metallica's 'The Unforgiven'. :rolleyes:
 
Thanks for that Maleficent. That was my most negative post yet but it's nice to know it was appreciated anyhow!:) I'll visit your diary after this; want to know what you've been up to.

Better stuff than me I'm sure. I promised myself I wouldn't touch chocolate for a year. Then last night I went out to a friend's birthday dinner and it was at an Italian restaurant (I LOVE Italian food) but... the food was bad. They had all these young chefs who liked to make food 'a work of art' rather than something appetising. You know: heaps of needless spices all mixed together to produce questionable effects, undercooked vegetables ('al dente vegies', the latest craze), little knowledge of herbs and no meat that I could see (anti-omnivorism gone mad). The food all had an unpleasant bitter taste. So I managed about 3 bites of the first and second courses and then they brought the dessert. *sigh* Chocolate and vanilla mousse with strawberries. By this stage, my appetite was piqued and I hadn't had nearly enough to eat to stave off any cravings. So, in I dug. And didn't stop digging until there was hardly anything left on my plate. It tasted so good! I was about to feel disappointed in myself, but you know what? I suddenly realised that I had never eaten something 'bad' in public and enjoyed it so much. All my indulgent eating had been done in secret. When out with friends, I would either pass up on dessert, in some pseudo effort to lose weight, or else not enjoy what I was eating because I had already been eating plenty of junk food at home.

I decided to begin a new eating system: only eat desserts when somebody else has paid for them. :cool: Since that doesn't happen very often, I'm bound not to eat too much, hehe.

Well, turn to today: I'm having cravings to just eat, all day. Now I remember why I stopped eating sugar!

Think I'll interrupt here to say what a fantastic movie 'Shrek' is (just watched it now) and also, the saying for today, which I'm sure every human being on earth can relate to: "You are no greater than your choices."

I watched a program on TV the other week about the Venus de Milo, that famous Greek sculpture of Aphrodite (the one with no arms). The presenter of the show said that the reason people admire her so much is because the sculptor who made her used a special ratio: 1:1.6. He said it's kind of like a cosmic ratio that occurs everywhere in the world and is a measure of beauty and harmony. He said everything from the pyramids of Egypt, to the fashion industry, to modern audio cassette tapes have made use of this magic ratio. For the female body, the ratio is obtained by measuring the distance between the middles of the two breasts and the distance between the edges of the hips, and dividing the large number by the small one. For example, if the distance between your breasts is 20cm and the distance between your hips is 32cm, then your breast:hip ratio is 1:1.6.

Anyway, I measured my own ratio and got 1:1.9. :eek: Oh well. No Milan catwalks for me, I guess.:p

Good news: my knee is feeling a lot better and we did go out after the restaurant and Salsa danced for a couple of hours... So at least some of that mousse was burnt off.

Best wishes to anyone visiting here... I wish you all the best with your weight loss and a wonderful journey through the coming week.

To finish this entry, I'll quote a famous American fitness queen (whose name I predictably can't remember):

"If you wanna lose weight, you gotta eat, you gotta breathe and you gotta move."
 
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Shinsplint said:
To finish this entry, I'll quote a famous American fitness queen (whose name I predictably can't remember):

"If you wanna lose weight, you gotta eat, you gotta breathe and you gotta move."
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Ha.... i like the above quote. It's a WHOLE PACKAGE! ok... moving my fingers to click that mouse now.:p
 
Love is a verb, not a noun.

I am so happy! Today, while walking with parents, dad said I've lost a whole lot of weight. Hehe!:jump: He's never abundant with his praise, so I know it's true.

My knee is still having problems. EEEK! I've stopped jogging for a week to see if it gets better. It's probably all that excess fat weight pressing on the knee joints and jarring the bones each time my fat legs hit the ground. Can't imagine what sort of damage I'm doing trying to be Cathy Freeman, while body is just trying to be something closer to a real human being.

News! Parents said a holiday to Greece may be in the works for December; also, maybe even a short detour to Egypt (my DREAM destination). I'm too scared to get my hopes up but if it happens, I want to be a trim traveller.:cool:

Pinkydolly, thanks for your post. I heard that quote a long long time ago; she (the chick who's the fitness guru) looked like a stunning, blond superwoman; I just wish I could remember her name.:confused: Hope your week's going well. Btw, your directions beg the question: where exactly are you?:)
 
Nature fears the focused mind.


Well, this morning I couldn't believe the scales had dropped again. Suddenly, the weight is coming off faster. Lack of jogging could be doing it, but I'm not sure whether it's lack of more muscle growing or a loss of muscle that's already grown. Can muscle be lost after only a few days of not exercising?

Hey there Mal, how's it going? I agree, Greece would be good, although I doubt we would go to any islands or anything (I was watching a show on Greek TV yesterday that showed the horrors of hotel cleaning regimes: cleaning ladies were secretly filmed using guest towels to wipe toilet bowls and then sinks, before being placed back upon the rails in the bathrooms... :eek: ..and this was in 5-star hotels!).

As for Egypt, I remember seeing the footage of the 1999-2000 New Year celebrations all over the world and I have to say, the fireworks over the pyramids in Egypt looked like the ultimate place to be. Ever since that night, I've dreamed of going there and just seeing them, maybe touching them. It's partly also because of my interest in Egyptian culture, the fact that they were a great civilisation yet also peaceful and they gave women a lot of freedom and respect. Sometimes I wish I could travel back in time and that's the place where I would live for sure!

All the best and thanks for visiting my diary. I hope next post I'll have some more exciting news... What that is, I guess only my scales know, really...

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Pinkydolly, thanks for your post. I heard that quote a long long time ago; she (the chick who's the fitness guru) looked like a stunning, blond superwoman; I just wish I could remember her name.:confused: Hope your week's going well. Btw, your directions beg the question: where exactly are you?:)
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Heh... I am in Singapore. Thats in South East Asia. We are a "Fine" city.:rotflmao:
 
Singapore! I've heard that's one of the safest places in the world. It's also one of the most beautiful and clean (I've heard). You lucky woman.:)
 
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