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What have I learned on my weight loss journey

December 13, 2009 By 2 Comments

I can’t believe this is the last post for our cross blog conversation.  It’s been great getting to know Shannon over the last week and I sure appreciate her letting us into her little home on the web.  What a fun time it was!  If you have missed any of our questions/answers, feel free to go back to follow along by visiting our cross blog conversation categories (Shannon’s and Angie’s). Shannon has one last question for me.  Shannon asks,

“Being this far along in your weight loss journey, what have you learned that you wish you knew when you started?”

WOW it sure has been a long time on my weight loss journey.  I started changing my lifestyle back in 2005 and the biggest thing I have learned since then is that it’s way too easy to put the weight and inches back on once you lose them.  I always heard that it’s easier to put it on than to take it off but once I experienced that for myself I knew people weren’t lying.  It really has been a challenge the past 4 years.  Losing over 80+ pounds and then gaining back quite a bit has been a downer but I know since I have done it before I can and will do it again.  I have learned so much more and will have to share more at another time.

So sad this is our last cross blog conversation blog post and I want to thank you Shannon for asking me great questions.  It’s been fun getting to know each other and I look forward to more cross blog conversations in the future.

If anyone has questions for me, feel free to post them here in the comments and I will be happy to answer them on my blog from time to time. Maybe I’ll even start a “Mail Bag” day on my blog where I’ll answer a question a month (or if I get a massive amount of questions *wink* I can do it on a weekly basis).  You can always email me with questions too.  Or if you have a healthy living blog about weight loss/fitness, etc., we could possibly do a cross blog conversation sometime.

We hope you all have enjoyed this little banter back and forth as much as we have.  It’s great getting to know others who face the same challenges. We are not alone!  I love that we have so much support out there.

What have you personally learned on your weight loss/fitness journey?  We would love to hear about your challenges and successes!

 
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Fitness challenges-do they help keep me on track?

December 9, 2009 By 5 Comments

We are now on Day 3 of the cross blog conversation with Shannon over at The Shrinking Mommy blog.  This is so fun!  Shannon answered my CBC questions from Monday in this blog post and then asked me another great question.  So here we go….

Shannon asked,

I noticed that you have done several challenges, like Jillian Michael’s 30 Day Shred or the Whittle My Middle challenge you are doing this month. How have they helped you keep on track?

Yes, I love participating in fitness challenges like these.  They help keep me on track because once I put it out there on my blog that I’m going to be doing a challenge, I have to then stay accountable to everyone.  Sure there have been times I started a challenge and didn’t complete it for one reason or another but once you say you are going to do something you are committed to it.  I feel that challenges like these also help give me a boost by showing me I CAN do this weight loss thing and accomplish anything I set my mind to.

Both Jillian Michael’s 30 Day Shred and the Whittle My Middle Ab Challenge are 30 days long so I really stepped out of my comfort zone to do them but it totally feels great to accomplish challenges like that.  I look forward to more!

My question to you Shannon is:

Have you ever participated in any exercise challenges and if so would you consider doing more in the future?  I am in the process of planning a  fitness challenge for my blog readers in February and would love for you to consider joining in but we’ll talk more about that challenge later.

Looking forward to hearing Shannon’s reply to this question?  Be sure to check back on her blog tomorrow where she will also be asking me another question.

You can keep up easily with our cross blog conversations by clicking on our cross blog conversation blog categories

Angie’s

Shannon’s

Hope you’re enjoying getting to know us better!

Do you participate in fitness challenges?  If so, please share more about what you have done in the past and any plans for future fitness challenges.

 
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Stop the soda addiction craving

December 7, 2009 By 10 Comments

Shannon started a cross blog conversation (CBC) on  her blog last night and I’m excited to get started (you can read a bit about what a cross blog conversation is over on Shannon’s 1st CBC post).  This conversation will go back and forth until Sunday so you’ll definitely want to check back to both of our blogs daily so you can keep up with it.  And with that I will answer her first question to me.

Angie,

I noticed on your blog that you have managed to give up soda. I’m really struggling with giving up soda altogether. I haven’t had a sugar-laden soda in 9 months, but I’m really having a hard time with diet soda.

Can you share any tips on how you managed to give up soda?

Great question, Shannon!

I’m sorry to hear you are struggling with the soda addiction craving. I have definitely been there so I understand.  I’m happy to hear though that you went from regular soda to diet BUT you will feel awesome once you can let go of soda altogether because from what I hear diet can be just as bad if not worse than regular soda.

I personally gave up soda cold turkey so I really don’t have a story about how I did it.  It was back in May 2005 that I just decided it was time and I have been soda free since then.  There have been times I had some ginger ale but only when I was sick (it always settles my stomach) however after being soda free for so long even that is very hard to drink.

Soda addiction cravings can be detrimental to your health so I challenge you to start cutting back as soon as possible and I would love to hear in a few months that you were able to totally kick your soda habit. Your body will thank you for it!

Of course, it’s not going to be easy.  As I said, I decided to do it cold turkey and although I’m glad I did, my experience wasn’t fun. I did get headaches for a while and and was just grumpy LOL  I just started drinking 8-12 glasses of water a day and finally started to see a difference after a while with weight loss and my teeth & skin just felt better overall. So worth it!

Now it’s my turn to ask Shannon a question so here we go.

Shannon my question to you is

Have you ever read the Craving Secrets e-book?

I highly recommend it.  I have the e-book and think you might find p. 39 helpful because it shares some examples of how to conquer your craving of soda but it has a ton of great info on how to help stop cravings for so many other things like fast food, salty and sweet things and much more.

We have discussed our struggles with weight loss and I wonder if you would care to share another struggle you might have when it comes to weight loss and/or fitness?

OK, maybe that was 2 questions in 1 ha ha!  Now be sure to head back to Shannon’s blog tomorrow to read her answers to the questions I left above.  This will go back and forth until Sunday so it should be a lot of fun to get to know us a bit better.

Now a question to my readers:

Do you you struggle with the soda addiction craving?  If not and maybe have overcome it, what tips would you give to Shannon?

 
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