Nutrition And Safe Weight Loss

Safe Weight Loss

You CAN achieve your ideal body weight through safe raw weight loss. If done right, the extra weight on your body will easily release this will free you both emotionally and physically. Remember, health is just as important as the pounds shed.

Not Safe Weight Loss Practices

When I was young I use to watch my mother practice un-safe weight loss techniques. She took diet pills, ate a diet consisting of hot dogs, eggs and bananas. I think the banana part was great but I can't say much for the rest of it.

Safe weight loss is more mental and then physical. It requires us to look deep within a ourselves, accept what is right in front of us, and make that complete determined decision to create anew. The rest is simple, safe fresh weight loss. When we are concise and conscious of our decisions our love for ourselves shines and we are secure. Safe weight loss comes about naturally and our health comes with it too.

As I grew up, even though I did not share my mothers larger figure, I did pick up her Dexatrim pill popping thought process. At the age of ten I started a starvation diet after an aunt of mine started teasing me about taking after my mother, "you’re going to be fat like your mom someday."

After years of work on loving myself, I have been anorexic free for 10 years now. I don't think some people realize how both overeating and being out of control or not eating and wanting to over control are both deadly. Self-destruction comes in many forms and parents can be unaware of their habits on their children.

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• Variety: Eat a variety of fresh whole fruits, greens, and vegetables, gives you a variety of vitamins and minerals to support your health while experiencing safe weight loss.
• Season: Eating foods in season, fruits and veggies eaten in season contain better nutrients for your support.
• Exercise/PLAY: Body movements and muscle building help burn fat and support your heart health. Play through fitness and it won't feel like work.
• LOVE: Love yourself and start a list about all the things you do love about you. Your body has been so amazing to get you to this point, appreciate it for doing all it does to keep you alive and well.
• Lifestyle thinking: This is NOT a diet. Healthy changes are a LIFESTYLE and safe weight loss is apart of your new life.
• Feel Thin, Its Not About The Number: Keep the scale in check. You may be building muscle in place of the fat. Muscle is leaner, pay attention to your clothes and your new ability to move instead of the number on the scale.
• Patience: Also keep in mind you did not get to be your current weight overnight, be patient, safe weight loss will occur and the pounds will be gone soon enough.
• Calories, calories, calories: you need calories from fruit in order to feel full and keep the cravings away.
  

Supplementation and Safe Weight Loss

Keep in mind; our bodies are amazing and complex. Human understanding and knowledge about our nutritional needs and the break down is very minimal.

Whole, organic, living, foods contain complete nutrition. They come fresh, living and vibrant. Powders come . . well lets just say we are what we eat, eating healthy delicious live foods bring health and safe weight loss.

When we feel we are unbalanced in one form, we may be eating too much of one thing or another. Reevaluate and write down our food consumption and adjust were needed.

Remember, the only magic safe weight loss pill is the magic desire to be healthy within us!

Robyn's Safe Weight Loss Journal Entries For Week #4

Day 23

Safe Weight Loss 90 Day Raw Food Journey

Today I ate:
A green smoothie with 1 banana, frozen strawberries and kale.
Raisins, goji berries, cashew’s, ½ an orange, 1 banana,
96 oz. water,
Romaine salad with avocado, roma tomatoes, sunflower & pumpkin seeds, cucumbers and Darlene’s tahini dressing.

Emotionally: I am learning patience. I am eating so healthy and working out, and doing everything right. I want this fat off me now! But, it’s been hanging onto me for many a year and will take a good while to come off. It feels like I passed my drivers test with flying colors but I’m not allowed to get my driver’s license until a year and a half has passed. Patience is a virtue!

Physically: I am itching to get on my bike. My body is hungry for some movement. However it’s windy today and I am gonna hit the Wii Board again.

Mentally: Someone gave me a compliment of sorts today. A co-worker, who last week said my home made dressing looked like something mother birds regurgitated to their young, today said he admired my steps to eat better. He even tried my Goji berries. So, it felt nice to have some positive reinforcement at work.

One way I love myself today: I had the house to myself tonight, and would usually use the time to put away laundry, or some other domestic task, but I did something for me instead, I exercised!

Physical Activity: 30 minutes on the WII Fit Board

Day 24

Safe Weight Loss 90 Day Raw Food Journey

Today I ate:
A green smoothie with 1 banana, frozen strawberries and kale.
Raisins, goji berries, cashew’s, 1 banana, 80 oz. water, Romaine salad with avocado, roma tomatoes, raisins, sunflower & pumpkin seeds, almonds, cucumbers and Darlene’s Tahini dressing.

Emotionally: My youngest daughter is still sick and my oldest daughter is irritated at me because I am making her go to a school that she is not interested in going. Awe, the joys of parenthood.

Physically: I have had a sore back for a few days. I keep waiting for it to go away, but the pain seems to like where it is. I am worried about the back of the arm waddle so I bought a 9 lb. kettle bell. I was sure I’d have some muscle pain after working out, but I feel no pain at all. Kind of cool!

Mentally: I am working on making new things for my consumption so I don’t feel like I am eating the same thing all the time. I keep looking at all these recipes, and I guess I get a little overwhelmed.

One way I love myself today: I had the house to myself again tonight, so I worked out again. The laundry can wait!

Physical Activity: 45 minutes on the Wii Fit Board.

Day 25

Safe weight Loss 90 Day Raw Food Journey

Today I ate:
A Green smoothie with 1 banana, ½ a pineapple, kale, ice & water.
Darlene’s Tahini dressing with seedless cucumbers, celery, plum tomatoes, carrots, Almonds & goji berries, cashews & raisins, 1 apple, 72 oz. water

Emotionally: I have tried several diets in my life, and one I kept going back to was Weight Watchers. I have nothing bad to say about them what so ever. On that weight loss system, you track your daily food intake, and I kept some of my old food diaries. I was surprised at how much processed food I was consuming on this “healthy diet.” I don’t know if I shared that my freezer was left open a crack all day, and I lost a whole big freezer bag of organic banana’s. What was also in there was a box of WW Ice Cream sandwiches. So, there are melted Popsicles and ruined fruit, but those ice cream sandwiches had maintained their form for the most part. They were soft, but still holding up. I think that is kind of creepy! It can’t be real food if it held up like that, can it? So, I said all that to say that I FEEL really good about my RAW food choices. I am finally giving my body actual nourishment.

Physically: Kind of struggling with continued back pain. I’ve noticed that my foot pain is just gone. I’ve not had any trouble with the plantar faciitis. Liking that a lot!!!

Mentally: I’ve decided that I need to start taking a B-12 supplement. I have been reading a bit about possible B-12 issues with a Vegan/RAW diet, and just don’t feel like having to worry about it anymore, especially since I am still a nursing mom. So, it’s off to the market for methylcobalamin B-12 in a sub-lingual compound. This is yet one more thing, I just would not be thinking about on a SAD diet. I thought, as fat as I was, I was over nourished. What I didn’t know that even though I was eating in excess, I wasn’t eating what my body needed to nourish it. The things you didn’t know you didn’t know!

One way I love myself today: I am loving my tiny little size 6 ½ size feet that have held up this almost 300 lb. body for so long.

Physical Activity: None today.

Day 26

Safe Weight Loss 90 Day Raw Food Journey

Today I ate: A Green smoothie with 1 banana, ½ a pineapple, spinach, ice & water. Raisins, sunflower & pumpkin seeds, almonds, 1 banana, 1 apple, 72 oz. water. For dinner, I am going to have a veggie wrap.

Emotionally: A co-worker of mine is considering a diet program that is similar to being RAW. He noticed the weight loss I have had and is desirous of the same results for himself. So, that is another incentive to continue on with my challenge. There is another guy at work who pretend vomits every time he sees me with my blender full of Green smoothie. He’s a meat and potato man, and I guess I just have to take comfort in the fact that he is ignorant of the health benefits I am enjoying that he is missing out on.

Physically: I am kind of bummed about my heart. I went into tachycardia today at work. However, it was brief as I was able to get it under control within the same minute it started. My thinking was the less fat in my system, the less issues I would experience with tachycardia. Perhaps I just need to wait a while longer to see those results.

Mentally: I’m putting more RAW information in my head today with a new book High RAW by Kevin Gianni. I like his approach to the subject; factual, straightforward, and free! I downloaded the book from his website. I was reading a book by a raw author whose son supposedly had all his fillings fall out and the holes where the fillings once called home were filled in by new tooth material, I guess formed anew from his choice to go totally raw. I am sorry, but I have to roll my eyes at that one. Going raw has some wonderful health benefits, but I don’t see my gold tooth popping out anytime soon and a new tooth growing in. I appreciate an honest and direct approach to going RAW, and not having my head filled with unrealistic expectations of what might happen as a RAW foodist.

One way I love myself today: I love myself today by being prepared, so that I am successful on my 90 day challenge. I was running late this morning, and didn’t have time to make myself a proper lunch. So, I just grabbed some stuff for a green smoothie, the Vita-mix and headed out the door. I had raisins, seeds and nuts in my desk drawer to snack on, so I was able to ward off any hunger I might have experienced otherwise. Also, when I go into the snack room to fill up my water bottle now and see all those highly processed “pretend” foods in the snack machines, I am seeing it all for what it is: capitalism and the all mighty dollar hard at work, just trying to make a buck. Nothing is in there that is nutritionally beneficial; nothing worthy of feeding my body for health’s sake. The wool has been pulled from my eyes.

Physical Activity: None today.

Day 27

Safe Weight Loss 90 Day Raw Food Journey

Today I ate: Green smoothie, Watermelon, carrots, Veggie Wrap, tomatoes, more watermelon & banana

Emotionally: I’ve got a social function to attend tonight. It’s my best friend’s daughter’s birthday. This is my first social event that I am attending as a RAW foodist. I know that parties are all wrapped up in favorite foods and I am focusing on enjoying myself tonight.

Physically: Today was a good day. I’ve got a lot to accomplish, and have plenty of energy to get it all done.

Mentally: I’m remembering that I don’t need food to enjoy myself. Food should not be the focus of Megan’s party. The focus should be on celebrating her birthday, and the joy that my children have interacting with her.{Safe weight loss works great with a positive mental attitude and conscious awareness.}

One way I love myself today: I took some time off work to get my errands done. This way I am not rushing to get to the party and don’t have any feelings of stress which could in turn weaken my resolve.

Physical Activity: None today.

Day 28

Safe Weight Loss 90 Day Raw Food Journey

Today I ate: I fixed a Green Smoothie with Blueberries, mixed greens and a banana, almonds, a salad with avocado, tomato, onion & Darlene’s quick Italian dressing, 1 more banana, and a few bites of RAWnola. YUM!

Emotionally: I am charged up about my success with the birthday party. I guess I expected it to be a little harder than it was.

Physically: Feeling good other than the fact that my back ache will not go away. I am thinking of getting a massage.

Mentally: I was excited to share my RAWness with my friend’s mom at the party yesterday. She is going through some illness and already knew about eating raw. She was inspired by talking to me and is going home (to Arizona) and is going to start juicing and eating RAW. I was glad to have been an inspiration, as she put it, but I didn’t really do anything but say I was eating raw. She already had the knowledge to work with and a juicer & a vita mix too! I am going to start e-mailing her to be a support to her. I just feel blessed, because I have had far more trouble with other attempts at weight loss.

One way I love myself today: Even though I didn’t get out riding my bike until 9:15 at night, I still did it. I made a little time for me, and really enjoyed the warm summer night here in Vegas crusin’ around on my Schwinn.

Safe Weight Loss Physical Activity: 30 minute bike ride

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