Keep moving today

Do you like massages?  Give yourself a long, gentle massage today, from the inside out.  Just keep moving.  Concentrate on slow, gentle movements that feel good.  Roll your shoulders.  Wave your arms across your body.  Let your upper torso slowly sway left and right while you're sitting at your desk. Tense up the muscles in your tush.  Rotate each ankle in circles, and flex your feet forward and back.  Gently reach up with both arms and stretch to where it feels good.

You'll start feeling the warm fuzzies from the inside out.  Now keep that sensation going all day.  It's like riding a bike.  Once you start the motion, you'll want to continue...or you'll fall over.  And that part hurts!

Knees hurt?

Every pound of weight you gain puts THREE extra pounds of stress on your knee joints.  Every pound you gain puts SIX extra pounds of stress on your hips. 

Lose weight now, and your joints will thank you.  You may even be able to avoid hip and knee replacement surgeries.  But even brand new artificial joints won't hold up if you're still carrying too much weight on them.  If you want to be pain-free in your bucket list years, lose the weight now.  Oh, of course you can do it!!

Bucket List Weight Loss tells you how!

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You lost a pound of this?

You want to shoot yourself.  You've been "good" all week, and you step on the scale, expecting to see a drop of at least four pounds.

You're shocked and dismayed to see what the scale reveals:  you've lost just one measly pound this week.

Okay, before you give up and drown your sorrows in a tub of ice cream, take a look at this:

This disgusting handful is a pound of human fat--lard--rendered from a body during a surgical procedure.  This is what a pound of fat looks like! 

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Lunch at the supermarket

You're looking for a sit-down restaurant where you can grab a quick bite to eat without spending a fortune or going off your eating plan.  How about the supermarket down the street?

Fortunately most of today's newer supermarkets provide coffee nooks and comfy, attractive dining spots where you would presumably enjoy some deli food and a latte.  But you don't necessarily have to eat the deli food!  Buy a pint of Greek yogurt, a bag of washed veggies, or a piece of fruit.  Some food markets have fresh salad bars, soup bars and even olive bars.  The in-store bakery may even offer gluten-free goods.  Bring it to the dining area and enjoy a prompt, nutritious lunch at a reasonable price.  No waiting for service, no tipping, no high cost.

Because individual supermarket foods will seem less expensive than restaurant meals, you may be tempted to purchase more food than you need.  Err on the side of "not enough," and you won't feel obligated to pack up (or pack in) your leftovers and carry them home with you.

Splurge on your passion!

"I'd rather ________ than eat!"

Fill in the blank.  Read?  Ride a horse?  Play "Words with Friends"?  Play pickleball?  Sew?  Whatever the activity, it's your passion....particularly if you'd rather do it than eat.

So do it.  Engage in the activity that's so exciting and delightful to you that you'd rather do it than stop to eat, even when you get hungry.  It consumes your mind so totally and happily that you have no time to think about food.

Most of us have such activities in our lives, but we deny ourselves the time to enjoy them, lest we should neglect our routine responsibilities.  But if we deny ourselves too much...if we always choose household obligations over our passions...we'll begin feeling resentful.  Resentment leads to frustration and depression, and that often leads to overindulging in calories from food or alcohol.  We would have been better off to take the time to enjoy our passions instead.

Rediscover your true passions and give yourself permission to indulge in them, just as you may have once indulged in a huge banana split.  Next time you have a moment of willpower weakness, you'll remember that there really are things in your life more pleasurable than  that ice cream calling your name from the freezer.

Sodium:  The saboteur of your weight loss

Ever wake up in the middle of the night with a pasty mouth and an unquenchable thirst?  That's often a reminder you ate something too salty for dinner or right before bed.  That "something" was probably a processed food containing as much as half your recommended sodium intake for the day.  It leaves your cells screaming for water and desperate to retain it, which causes a temporary but unsettling weight gain.

Sodium is, frankly, what makes processed foods so addictive to our taste buds.

Check the foods in your pantry.  I just did.  I discovered two bags of "stuffing mix."  The Western Family brand of stuffing had 10 times more sodium per serving than the Country Hearth brand.  I also compared two boxes of Near East couscous.  The "original plain" couscous had 220 calories and 5 mg sodium per half-cup serving.  The "Mediterranean" variety had fewer calories (190), but a whopping 500 mg sodium....that's 100 times the amount of the plain!  I think I prefer to cook the plain and season it my own way.  A little dash of table salt isn't anywhere near 500 milligrams!

Watch the sodium!  Worry less about salting your food at the table and more about eating packaged, processed foods.  Even if you stay within your calorie range for a day, your weight will likely be higher the next day if you've eaten a bowl of salty soup or chili the night before.  And whether it's "temporary water weight" or not, it's still plain old extra weight on your joints.