Live Life Healthy - Weekly Thursday Check-In #4

56.7 Kg's on Thursday I am assuming because I forgot to weigh. I usually weigh both morning and evening when I come back from work but apparently I forgot on Thursday, why? Well I got promoted and I was so busy with work and transition and 'people management', yes, I am now a people manager, what can I say? Yesterday night (Friday night) I thought up something so smart about what it is to be in middle management, it went like:

You look at me and think wow, you want to be me, let me tell you about me, I am squished stuffing between the grilled sandwich, I get it from both sides, my boss gives me the 'look' which means 'get it done' and the people I 'manage' give me the look 'No ways', I have toddlers and teens and 'know-it-all's disguised as human beings and God help me when a toddler and teen end up fighting. How to I handle an arrogant teen and a stubborn toddler at the same time? I have to handle the customers who if I don't respond in the next second emails, my boss and boss's boss and boss's boss's boss that I need a lesson in communication?! Really, where did the paper edge go. Could we get the postman again so I have enough time to dictate to my secretary an appropriate reply AFTER finding the solution! Job Description: If you love being a punching bag, this profile is for you. Welcome.

Trust me, it's not nearly as funny as what I creatively thought up last night. Thank God, I have not experienced all the above, yes, teens and toddlers I am just beginning to recognize them, but being in the corporate world and listening to the experiences and situations of others, this is what middle management is all about. I need to find a book to guide me. I just started a new job. I was a simple analyst and now I am a manager? and team lead? Agreed that I aspired for it and trained for it and I thought I could very well handle it (coz the scene was so pretty before) but now after being promoted, so many 'disturbed' Ha-big laugh, individuals, who are like why she? why her? why not me? So well I got the medal and now I am learning how to wear it. Let's see how it goes. I know, in my heart that I am going to be a good leader. It's like telling yourself, I know I am going to be a good mother, but when you ACTUALLY become a mother, do you know what being a mother is all about. (And I am not yet a mother.. go figure)

So anyways, coming back to my live life healthy, loose weight, eat good, sleep sound programme, Wed, Thurs and yesterday, Friday has been three hurricane days with the new role and fire fighting and change management and I haven't consciously worked on my health, having a few sleepless nights and work and so I figured I was 56.7 KG on Thursdays but yesterday night, that is Friday night I came home and I weighed 55.7 KG!! What?! Definitely recommend stress, work and no time to eat to people who want to loose weight.

I have begun loving to exercise, feeling the sweat, the energy boost after exercising. My sleeping habits are a toss. Still not doing anything about it. I have Insomnia.. what do I say? I sleep by 3:00 am and of course wake up late as my work starts at 11:00 am but I want to sleep by 9:00 am and wake up by 4:00 am. That is like Nirvana, the ultimate goal for me. My everyday for now I want it to be 10:00 pm to 5:00 am sleep. I think if for one week, I by hook or crook get up at 5:00 am, I am going to be so exhausted that I shall sleep by 10:00 pm. The books, gadgets and Internet and TV distract me too much.

As far as work out's go, it's Quick Burn Cardio by Denise Austin and I love it. I can almost complete the 20 mins now. I started with 5 mins and slowly built my stamina. Love the routine, very simple, yet fun and the cool down is great as well.

Yep, so this is how it is going. The next three months is going to be rough waters as I run how to sail this ship of mine... otherwise, all is good and glad to I am writing down my journey however choppy because sub-consciously, I am getting there.

Life Life Healthy - Weekly Thurdsday Check In #3

56.9 Kg's on Thursday. The goal was to be 55.5 kg this weigh in. I am 1.4 kgs farther from my weight goal loss every week. For some reason, I have not been able to loose 1 kg per week. There have been weak moments and I was doing well till Tuesday. My morning weigh in was 55.9 and I was on the way to achieve 55.5 by Thursday but then, I had a migraine and kind off let go of my dieting as I usually have migraine triggered by acidity.

Anyways, 'shit happens' as my boss says many times. I am back and this time I have decided to make a menu plan well in advance for the week and also increase my excercising. I on an average have exercised like 2-3 days out of 7 although my goal has been to exercise daily. On Wednesday or Thursday, I went out in the morning at 6:00 am for a walk around the apartment and OMG, it was so cool. I really enjoyed my stroll in the morning breeze and as much as I want to wake up by 5:00 am everyday, I am unable to do so. I still am not doing it. But I am not giving up. I won't. In my mind I know I want that and I am going to become that one day. I am going to be an early bird, exercising, eating healthy, great working habits, great housekeeping habit kind of an individual and that's my vision and I am going to hold on to it till I finally become that.

Live Life Healthy - Weekly Thursday Check In #2

57.2 Kgs, waking up weight. I managed to gain weight(from
the last 56.8 Kg measurement) instead of
loosing. I wanted to be down to 56 kg thinking I am going push myself harder
and loose more than just 1 kg. Looking back, I went from 57.6 Kg on last
Thursday to 57.2 Kg this Thursday so in the week I have lost 0.4 Kgs instead of
the aimed 1 Kg. The things that went wrong was on Monday I almost starved
myself and I had no energy to exercise. Tuesday and Wednesday although I
watched my food, I didn't exercise. Therefore three days, no exercise. What
works for me is exercise. When I exercise, I lose weight, when I don't and
watch my food, I maintain my weight and when I don't do either, I put on
weight.

Should I start a daily blog again on food and exercising? I
know this is not a fitness blog but it will be fun to note down my activities
and eating habits and see the results. Being an analyst makes you want to see
cause and effect and to what proportion.. haha. Therefore, I will go ahead and
do that. It will be fun to look back at these blogs later on and see how I
achieved losing weight.

As far as telling people I am on a weight loss journey, I
told my colleagues at office as they kept offering me sweets and chips and
biscuits. The usual snacks that I would stack up on too earlier. I do get
teases as to why I want to lose weight when I am just fine. I guess they have
seen me at this weight and not at 45 Kg's so they don't know the difference but
my family, uhhh, few of them are always ready to throw that to me, "Oh my
God, you have put on!". I am repeating what I have said in earlier blogs
but trust me that certain person(s) irritate me like anything and let this be
negative motivation (5% of my motivation reason) but might as well be there if
it's going to motivate to get myself back and see that fat person's face when
they see me losing weight.

Alright so I will go ahead and start blogging from today,
what I eat and exercise and sleep too. It's bad right now. I haven't been able
to improve but I will anyways keep making a note of it and have faith that one
day, I am going to be and early bird forever.

Live Life Healthy - Weekly Thursday Check In #1

57.6 kg. I thought I would go down to 57.4 or 57.2 but I am still at 57.6 for the past two days. I know it’s because although I have maintained my eating habits, I did not exercise for these past three days. Exercising everyday and getting my metabolism running is what is causing me to lose weight. Eating well, maintains my health and weight.

I did treat myself today for losing a kilo by eating a normal lunch aka heavy lunch. Instead of one paratha, I had two and also had some Guava juice. I felt heavy and stuffy because for the past week I have been eating just one roti per meal and eating home cooked dals and salads and the canteen food did not suit me with all the oil and masala’s.

My resolution this week therefore, is to eat home cooked food. Stick to my smaller portions and exercise! Exercise get’s me the results. I plan to exercise both morning and evening before and after I come from office. I do want to aim at 1.5 kgs for the coming week. Therefore, next Thursday, when I check in, I hope to be 56 KGS, which would be awesome!!

Live Life Healthy - Check In

It’s Tuesday and I am already down to 57.6 KG. Honestly, it’s not been hard to lose the weight at all. I have set myself a healthy weight loss and I am eating, in small portions and I even ate sweets! I made myself some Rasagulla Ice cream dessert and one more is left. I am constantly telling my mind that “I am not starving, I am eating everything, and everything healthy and also treating myself. I am approximately counting my calories but not a fanatic about them. No rice, as honestly, there is none at home and I have atta aka wheat flour so I am making myself chapati’s and dal’s and salads AND of course, I am eating smaller portions. I think eating smaller portions is what is working for me. I have also exercised – boot camp, quick burn or simple jogging and stretching to keep my metabolism up and running. Best of all – I don’t feel deprived!! I find myself healthier and happier.

Getting up early is still a challenge but I know I am going to do it. I think in another week or two, I am going to be an early bird. I hope so and I want to be an early bird not just Mon-Fri, but Sun-Sat. I want this as a permanent lifestyle change.

I do see myself succeeding and may be even achieving my goal before time. The one thing I am concerned about is something called the ‘Plateau’. This is where you reach a point where, even though you are continuing your weight loss program but you won’t lose weight. You go flat. I also know that if you change your program a bit, you can break the plateau. Anyways, let’s see if that happens to me. For me, the simple rules work. If I eat, I gain. If I don’t and work out, I lose weight. I hope the equations stays intact and I reach my goal of 52.5 by end of June!

Live Life Healthy - Day 9, Tuesday March 6th

Woke up late- 10:00 am although I had slept by 12:00 am but these fluctuating sleep habits is just killing my natural rythme.

Breakfast - Kichri and apple juice
Lunch - Pani puri
Snacks - lots of polo mints
Tea - two cups of tea
Dinner - Grilled chicken, Kichri Kadhi, Sweet, apple/mixed/guava juices (it's getting hot!)

Exercise - nil :( I think I should get any one of these posts to have some exercise. I know two times I succeeded in waking up early, I just need to get started on exercise.

Live Life Heathly - Day 8, Monday March 5th

I woke up at 5:30 am as I had set the alarm. I had slept by 9 pm the previous night. It was a disturbed sleep as it has become hot and I have to put on the fan and I can't sleep with the fan noise. I wanted to do some exercise but then I went on the computer and then got lazy.

Cooked, Cleaned and got ready for work.

Breakfast: Two dosas, Potato curry and a glass of apple juice - 9:00 am
Lunch: One pani puri, one plate dahi puri and a five star chocolate :(
Tea: Horlicks
Dinner: Kichri, Kadhi, Salad, apple juice

I must have consumed 1500 calories

Exercise - nil :(

Live Life Healthy - Day 7 Sunday March 4th

Woke up at 7:00 am. Then went to sleep at 10:00 am and got up by 12:00 pm. Had Oatmeal for breakfast around 9:00 am and the same around 3:00 pm. We went out and had Pizza around 5:00 pm which was a late sunday brunch with some coca cola. Went shopping and I was so proud - I did not buy any junk. Bought a lot of real fruit juice and wheat flour as I am thinking of starting my diet. I weighed myself on the BMI weight machine at the mall and I am not 58 kgs. I am 60.4kgs. Came home and had a glass of real fruit juice and went to bed at 9 pm as I was sleepy (yey coz it's monday morning now and I woke up at 5:30 am as I had set the alarm)

Exercise - nil

Live Life Heathly - Day 6 - Saturday March 3rd

This was a mess of a day. Woke up close to noon as I honestly didn't make any efforts to set the alarm or sleep early. Ate a lot of sweets, pasta and tang and really just poisoned myself.

Exercise - nil.

Live Life Healthy - Day 5 - Friday March 2nd

It's been a mess for these few days and I feel like just cancelling this program and no longer update but I want to keep going because I know somewhere behind my mind, I want this and I will get there.

Insomia - 3 am went to sleep and woke up at 9 am. I don't remember having breakfast but during the day I had a cup of tea, horlicks and at night some tandori chicken, biryani and naan from the resturant.

Exercise = nil

Live Life Healthy - Day 4 - March 1st

Woke up at 10:00 am again! :( I slept at 12 am but for some reason I am going back to my old habit.

Breakfast - A glass of water
Lunch: 12:30 pm - Rice and Paneer curry with Oatmeal
Tea 5:00 pm - A cup of light bru coffee
Dinner: 10:15 pm - Dosa and Potato curry and diet pepsi (0.3 calories)

Exercise - Nil

Live Life Healthy - Day 3 - Feb 29th, 2012

Alright I messed up today. I slept by 10:00 pm as I was tired since I had managed to get up at 5:00 am. However, I woke up around 12:30 am feeling refreshed for some reason and then couldn't go back to sleep until 3:30 am. Yes, I watched a cake making competition and indulged in some chocolate biscuits.

The end result, got up by 10:00 am as my body was tired.

Breakfast - 10:30 am, A glass of water and litchi Juice, 4-6 eclairs in office

Lunch - 3:30 pm, Hotel - A plate of Biryani, Half butter naan and chicken masala with Mango milkshake

Snack - 6:00 pm A piece of Litchi cake (Colleagues birthday)

Dinner - 10:30 pm, Three rotis, Paneer curry and rice with a glass of Guava juice. Dry fruits as snacks.

No exercise :( Need to get this rolling. Consumed around 1800 calories today.

Live Life Healthy - Day 2 Tuesday 28th Feb

Okay... better .. much better. I didn't sleep welll but got up at 5:00 am.. yey!!! I had breakfast at 7:15 am and lunch at 3:45 because I was not hungry and dinner at 7:30 pm. A good reason was that I came early from office but have to plan my day such that I have dinner after sunset everyday when I am in office. Updating via mobile so will add the snaps tomorrow. Exercise : nil. Have to work on it plus food portions.

Live Life Healthy - Day 1, Monday 27-Feb-2012

I got up at 7:30 am. Which is a huge improvement considering my past insomia. Forced myself in bed at 10:00 pmish and was awake till midnight tossing and turning but I did not allow myself to get up and read a book etc.

Food:

Breakfast 8:15 am - Pulav and Curd - I thought of having Oat meal but then... :(

Lunch 1:45 pm - The same with a glass of tang lemonade

A cup of tea around 3:30 pm

Cake cutting for a colleague so a piece of chocolate cake 5:30 pm

Dinner 10:30 pm - A plate of rice, dal, salad, curd, and a few grapes. I was too hungry to take a snap :)

I am guessing total calories of 1200. Same as always. No decrease but I don't want to do anything drastic. Hope to improve in the coming days.

Exercise: Nil apart from light housework and five minutes walk.

Its 11:30 pm and will most probably fall asleep by 12:30 am. Pretty happy with today because:

a) Cured my insomia - I want to sleep now!

b) Home cooked food

Improvements:

a) Type of food cooked

b) Time of food - especially dinner time

c) Excercise

d) 5:00 am is still my target - for life

Live Life Healthy Programme

Goal of the programme:

Get ready for Act II - Life over 30, Make myself healthy & fit and stay fit & healthy and away from medicines and doctors and hospitals forever. Amin!

Work Zones:

Sleep - Wake up at 5:00 am everyday and sleep by 10 pm so I get a good restful sleep of seven hours. I am most efficient at eight hours of sleep but seven is good too.

Loose weight- I am around 58 Kgs and my ideal weight for my height should be 48 kgs and I need to stay within 54 kgs max. I have a plan to loose 10 kgs over the next three months.

Exercise - Exercise everyday or at least walk for half hour everyday without fail.

Food - Stick to healthy foods, eat small portions and no junk!

I will be documenting how I do each day here for at least the next 90 days and watch the progress.