Listening to a podcast this morning at the airport talking about health/weight loss. They were talking about how most obese people will lose a significant amount of weight in their lifetime.
The problem for most people isn't losing the weight, it's finding out how to keep it off. Most people when they are losing weight view the process as a "diet", meaning a temporary change to achieve a result. Weight regain statistics: 50-75% of obese people will regain what they lost in one year. When you go out 2 years that gets closer to 85%, and at 3 years 90%+ have regained all their weight (if not more).
If your diet has an end point, and you stop doing the things you did in order to lose the weight you will regain the weight. It is hard enough to lose weight but it's even harder to keep dragging those old habits (or often times people) with you. That can be a really hard change to make, and can come with a grieving process. It isn't just about swapping out food, it is often about changing how we spend our time each day, how we handle stress, how we prioritize things, and who we spend time time with!
The 5% of people studied who lost weight and kept it off didn't follow the same diet (you have to find the diet that you can stick to). However they all followed some kind of restriction (calories, or carbs, or time restriction etc), they exercised, they self monitored (weighed/measured occasionally), but surprisingly almost every single person in this study stated that in order to keep the weight off they had to form a new identity.
This has been a huge part of my journey, figuring out who I am now. Who is the healthy person I am now? What are her habits? What is the lifestyle she lifestyle she lives compared to the old obese person I once was?
Do you feel this is accurate? What is something that is a new habit or a new part of your identity that your old unhealthy self would never have imagined? Or on the opposite side are there habits or things that are dragging you back into the unhealthy lifestyle and preventing you from keeping consistent?
That might be a little heavy for a Tuesday morning but it definitely had me doing some reflection this morning as I walked around the airport for an hour (when old me would have sat the entire time right by my gate). 🤔🤔
Yesterday we surprised the kids and brought home a puppy!! They have been begging for one for years and we felt like the time was right to bring one home.
Meet Angus 🐕 He's a Golden Retriever/King Charles Cavalier Spaniel mix. He's 11 weeks old and currently weighs about 8 pounds, he should be around 35 pounds fully grown. I know it will be an adjustment for a while as he gets potty trained etc but we are so excited. 😂 Wish us luck! 🤪
Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.
What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?
Happy Sunday! Sharing a video today from our week, one of the highlights. This was Wednesday evening church, normally they have a more casual prayer meeting where someone plays the guitar, but they were doing some construction in the fellowship hall so they had their prayer meeting in the sanctuary. No one was there to play the piano so my my Grandma did it, she's been playing the piano in church for probably 80 years.
For context, she's 88, she had a really bad fall 5 years ago now and hit her head and ended up with a lot setbacks, similar to having a stroke. She has a lot of dementia like symptoms also (I am sure related to her Type 2 diabetes), she really can't read music anymore, and she has trouble seeing well, and she needs to wear hearing aids to hear but hates wearing them, so on this night she didn't want to wear them. My 93 (almost 94) year old grandpa takes care of both of them on their farm. Anyway, on this night she sat down on the piano and led worship as people called ...
Happy Monday! We made it to Big Sky, Montana yesterday, WOW it's so beautiful!! It just feels like you are in a movie all the time. We grilled steaks and just spent lots of time outside enjoying the beautiful weather.
The house we are staying in is owned by LMNT, so it has all kinds of electrolytes and wellness goodies everywhere. Plus all kinds of natural soaps and laundry soaps etc. They host a lot of meetings here so one of the walls upstairs is a huge dry erase board so the kids are having fun drawing on it.
We sat in the sauna 🥵 and took turns doing the cold plunge. 🥶 Today we are going hiking and white water rafting.
How was your weekend? What is your non-negotiable for this week?
Happy Sunday! We made it to Idaho Falls last night, it was just a stop over place for us and we had no idea that it would be so beautiful. We got here early in the evening after the hot springs and had a really lovely walk along the river. The weather has been so nice!! We are only 3 hours from Big Sky so headed over there this morning, we are staying in a house there for 5 days. I am excited to stay in one place for a few days. 😂 We are super excited because the house we are staying in has a cold plunge, a sauna, and a gym.
What are your plans today? You doing any prep for the week ahead?
Yesterday we had a PACKED day and some really amazing experiences!! We started the morning in Page Arizona looking at the Glen Canyon Dam, which opens up to the beginning of the Grand Canyon. It looks like you're on a totally different planet!
We then headed up to Redmond, and stopped along the way to take a hike up to some Salt Caves. The drive alone was just amazing as well!
In the afternoon we took a tour of the Redmond Salt mine, WOW what a cool experience!! We went down 700 feet and were completely surrounded by salt! They have 29 miles of tunnels through the mine! I will tell you all about it on a future Livestream! But we all licked the walls and the kids got to mine for their own salt rocks!
We ended the day just south of Salt Lake City. It was a super packed day but thankfully everything went very smoothly.
Today is going to be much more relaxing, and the kids planned the perfect "Mom" day. A slow morning followed by a soak in some Lava Hot Springs this afternoon. ...
