Good Morning Gang!
that's right - Leenie's birthday is tomorrow - August 7 - woooooooooohoooooooooo - lets see will she be uhmmmmmmm be 29 or is it 39?
Leenie - are you gonna do anything special for your birthday besides going to your friends bd party? I hope you have a wonderful and blessed birthday tomorrow girlie! You deserve a special day because you are soooooooooooo SPECIAL! *smooch*
Hey I just read something that I could relate to. Do ya'll read The Skinny Daily Post listed on the main board? you can find it at
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=109
Today's is called "Lance and Me". I'll copy it here if ya'll don't mind.
"Lance and Me
Lance Armstrong and I have so much in common, too much to dismiss as coincidence. A better explanation is that we’re actually cut of the same genomic cloth. I become more convinced every day. It explains the adoption theory my brothers repeatedly offered when I felt out of place in my family. Yes, I must have been Linda Armstrong’s first-born, a hospital mixup. These things happen.
I arrive at this truth buoyed by intuition, gut wisdom supported by some rather irrefutable evidence. I don’t need medical tests. I have the facts, reported through third-party observations shared through interviews conducted in the News Media that this guy and I are too much the same not to be related. Lance and me. My doppleganger. Peas in a pod.
For instance, we both like Sheryl Crowe and Robin Williams, though probably not for all the same reasons.
We both look fabulous in yellow.
We are both survivors. He has survived cancer, and I have survived some horribly life-shortening meetings along with the various illnesses obesity gave me.
Most importantly, we both take a scientific approach to managing our bodies through diet and exercise: Calories in, calories out.
Observers report he tracks his calorie equation every day, or a team of trainers do it for him. Not only when he’s training for a specific race, but between races too.
Just like me.
Okay, so he is tracking around 10,000 calories per day during his races, to my 1,100 - 1,200. It’s the principal of the thing. It’s the tracking I’m talking about. Relentless.
In an average woman dieter this relentless attention to calories and workouts may be considered “obsessive,” but in a performance athlete it’s called “discipline,” “dedication.” This difference in perception annoys me. Who is to say that what we have to accomplish today is not as important as a bike race? We are performers, you and I. Dedicated, disciplined, relentless.
He exercises every day. I have that exact intention. Like Lance, my body (and yours) becomes the body it needs to be because of the demands I place on it. (A couch sitting body looks nothing like a biking body. A running body does not resemble a sitting body.)
He is never finished. The minute one goal is met, the next is there in front of him. He just keeps going.
Ditto, here. In weight loss parlance we call that goal shifting “maintenance,” but we can take a more exciting view. There are plenty of interesting and worthy fitness goals we can set after reaching a healthy weight. Goals for walking, running, biking, kayaking, goals for comfortably climbing a flight of stairs. Once you get your body back, the more you can ask your body to do. The more you ask, the more it gives you.
Not enough, you say? We all have a little Lance in us, you say? That may be true, but do you look as good in yellow as Lance and I do?
Live strong. I will if you will."
Ya know.....now I don't feel so bad that some people say that I am "obsessed" with my calories because I keep up with it (most of the time) and write everything down in my food journal.
Rather than "obsessed" I think I will call myself "disciplined & dedicated" - sure sounds better. hehehehe
I've got lots of paperwork to do. Will check back later.
I hope everyone has a BLESSED day!
hugs,
Cathy
