I’ve half assed planned how i was going to lose weight before. I joined websites, created food trackers, planned exercise routines that I KNEW I would never stick with. I want to change all of that right here and now.

My first goal is to start eating healthy. I don’t want to “go on a diet.” I hate that term. It seems like that’s instant failure right there. I want to change my way of eating. But how? Where do you start when you live in a house full of people that say “Why should I stop buying what I want to eat just because you’re dieting?” It’s a test of willpower and I KNOW I need to improve my grade on that particular test.

I went to the store today and got a few groceries. Some sandwich thins, fruits and smoothie fixings and lunch food for work. I’ve found the lower calorie way to make a smoothie in the morning that fills me up at least through my first break. I have an idea of what I’ll take for lunch so that I am eating healthy but still feeling full.

These aren’t my main problems though. It’s once night time rolls around! What do I do about the severe night time food cravings? How do I manage these?

This is my health goal #1 for the wek. My 2nd goal is to get in to the gym and sign up. I have said I was gonna do it all week. I never “got around” to it. No more of that! I NEED to do this.

I’m going to get back on Spark People and start tracking my food. Not paying attention to the stats at first. I just want to create the habit of tracking my eating.  Once I have my gym membership I will be heading out to aqua aerobics at least twice a week and trying a spinning class once a week. Yoga will come twice a week.

But it’s baby steps I need to take.

Question – What are your healthy eating and fitness tips?

So what do you do when you are feeling out if the loop when it comes to exercise?
I’ve started going through podcasts and looking for a really good, motivational, not full of ads podcast to motivate me to get moving.

Not only through the ITunes store, but on BlogTalkRadio as well you can find a number of great podcasts and radio shows that focus on losing weight and getting healthy.

Debra Mazda has a great show on BlogTalkRadio called ShapelyGirl Circle Time. She is SUCH a great motivator! Her shows and her website are just AMAZING!

The reason she is such a motivator for me is because she lived the struggles of weight loss. Debra Mazda once weighed over 300lbs and lost weight through diet and exercise. It’s great to do workouts and listen to podcasts from pro fitness trainers but many of them never lived as an overweight person. How can I believe a person who is 120 lbs and has always been that weight that I CAN lose the weight and get healthy? It’s hard.

Not only are the website and radio show awesome there are ShapelyGirl workout videos! What I like about the DVDs is that she has her group of ShapelyGirls with her doing the workouts. It’s not a bunch of super skinny toned women running around. For me, it is so much more inspiring to see people like me working out and losing the weight.

If you have a hard time with workout DVDs because of your vision impairment I’ve got another great website for you.
No Excuses Workouts has not only a whole workout system you can purchase but also free workouts right on the website. The free workouts come in a PDF format where you can use your screen reader to hear the directions outloud. Or if you use a zoom program you can make it larger. No more pause/start over and over again on a DVD!

the workouts are great and Jonathan Roche is such a motivation! He also had a BlogTalkRadio show No Excuses Weight loss is the name of the show and it’s actually on the FlyLady network!

I’ve known a few visually impaired people who have done the program and loved it! I’ve listened to the show and am really thinking about getting the whole program!

Now it’s your turn. What do you do for your health? Do you have a great website you want to share? Is there a workout that you love doing? Comment here and let me know!
Next week i’ll be testing IPhone apps that can help in fitness and again update my progress!