Drink Drink Drink Water

    This is something we all should do.

          If you eat a healthy diet, about 20 percent of your water may come from the foods you eat. If you eat a healthy diet you can drink 166 ounces of water today, or 5 liters.

Remember that water is the best source for your daily fluid needs. Other good beverages include milk, herbal teas, low-sodium broth, 100% fruit and vegetable juices. Soft drinks will also count toward your daily total of fluid, just remember that sugar sweetened soft drinks and fruit juices add extra calories to you daily diet that you don't need.


     I always just try to stick it out with water, unsweet tea and skim milk. Kicking that soda habit or addiction in my case will help you out a lot.

                                           
_{Sources:
CDC: Tips for Preventing Heat-Related Illness. http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/heattips.asp
Dietary Reference Intakes: Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate. http://www.iom.edu/?id=18495&redirect=0.}

Today

   Well today was a good day it is Sep. 29 and I weighed in at 423. Bringing my weight loss to 74lbs. since the last weekend in January. It is just a beginning of what is a long journey. I don't know why but I have picked Wednesday to weigh myself. I always seem to have my biggest losses when I am fearful getting on the scale. I don't know why. Maybe it is god keeping it real for me. But any way I just wanted to share my success and let you all know. If you read this please share your story in a comment.

My Inspiration Part 1

  Well I want to post tonight about where I get some of my inspiration. I often found myself going back to this passage out of the bible when I had doubt in the beginning of my journey. That passage is Romans 7:14-16. Which says ¹⁴We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. ¹⁵I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. ¹⁶And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good...... I find this to be not only a spiritual inspiration but an uplifting quote by a strong man. If he struggled with what was good for him then it gives me a hope that so can I. For my second piece of inspiration is my children and wife wanting to live a long fulfilling life together. If I can be that kind of inspiration for one person then I have succeeded in part of my journey. Just a note of what is to come in the next few blogs Family History, Share with others, My emotional eating, and My addictive behavior.

Missouri Weight Loss Talk: Getting started

Missouri Weight Loss Talk: Getting started: " Well for me it took a close friend to get me to a gym. Which was one of my biggest fears which I will talk about in a latter blog. But I j..."

The starting line.

  Some of this is going to be easier for others and may seem like I am full of it but I am looking back over what I have done over the last 8 months to achieve a weight loss of 67 pounds. In this blog I am going to give you a few exercise tips to help with that. These can be done at home with very small impact to your budget or your time but give you success.
          1 Step ups  ( 6 inch step up) 10 times each leg 1-3 sets
          2 Lunges (alternate leg) 10 reps each leg 1-3 sets
          3 Brisk walk (as long as you can)
          4 Crunches   10
          5 Dumbbell curls  8 reps 1-3 sets
          6 Dumbbell squats 8 reps 1-3 sets
          7 Dumbbell presses 8 reps 1-3 sets
 Try these 7 exercises for an easy place to start, even if you don't have weights at home or to out of shape to lift weights don't worry I use to be so I did it with empty hands and light weights. Adding to my workout as I go.

Getting started

  Well for me it took a close friend to get me to a gym. Which was one of my biggest fears which I will talk about in a latter blog. But I just kept it simple at first. I hadn't exercised consistently since November 2007 when I feel at work. But keeping it simple keep me going back. I started with walking in the neighbor hood and doing simple things like step ups and lunges at the gym. You don't have to join a big gym or train like an UFC fighter. In this blog I am going to list some simple things to help you out to get started.
      1. Simplify exercises
      2. Small diet changes
      3. Have fun
  These are 3 three top things that kept me going back in the beginning. Not feeling over whelmed or hurting was a big deal. Also I never felt like I was giving up more then I wanted to when it came to food.

Introduction to my blog

      Hello everyone,

  I am creating this place to share and exchange tips, stories, recipes, and inspiration for others like me. When I started my weight loss journey the last week of January I didn't have any idea where it would take me. I weighed in at 497lbs the last time I had gone to the doctors. Not only was it killing me emotional but physically as well. I was taking 3 medications for my blood pressure and using a cpac machine to sleep. I am now down to 430 lbs just 8 months later which for over 6 weeks I took off for carpel tunnel surgery. My biggest inspiration has been my family living a godly happy life. In this blog I hope to share the unique experience's and changes I have had in my life and to keep you up to date and motivated to do the same.