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[lusciousfool]

It's been a while since I've written in here.

School
School is going very well. I love my classes. My Media Studies professor is very experienced and enthusiastic and the class is based around several interesting, "real-life" projects (you may just catch a familiar voice waxing poetic about the importance of staying active in the winter if you

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[astrogrrrl]

I've heard that people have good success with weight watchers. I think a program that helps aid someone in portion control and choosing healthy meal options is a good thing (just for basic health reasons, not even weight loss reasons). That being said, you're absolutely gorgeous and don't "need" to lose weight, but I understand the whole not "feeling" healthy b/c of time away from working out and stuff. I'm feeling that same thing right now! I can't wait to dig the car out and go to the gym since it's been a week, and back in MA I used to go to the gym 3-5 times a week, and now (since I've moved really) it's more like 1-2, and sometimes 3 if I'm really lucky. makes me feel a bit on the blobby side.

but, if you want a program that doesn't involve having to pay $$ and weekly meetings (sometimes these are really helpful to people too! so this could be another incentive to doing WW), there's this Body for Life diet that I did back in college for a little bit and it helped me lose like 10 lbs. It's basically the whole portion control eating thing plus a workout plan which involves going to the gym 6 days a week, but only 20 minutes a day (one day cardio, the next lower body weights, next cardio, next upper body weights, etc.) I think it's good for overall weight management, but I don't feel the workout plan to be suited to someone who's more serious about working out. (i.e. someone who runs 3 miles every time at the gym; I know I can't do that in 20 minutes!) but anyway, the eating thing is very weight watchers-y in that it's about portion control and eating healthy options. plus there's this one day off where you can pig out and eat whatever you want which has 2 benefits: obviously, a day to look forward to in the week when you're craving junk food, and also it helps to prevent the body from going into "fight or flight" mode b/c when you reduce your caloric intake, your metabolism slows down as part of the evolutionary defense mechanism; let's face it, your body doesn't realize you're trying to lose weight, it thinks, "hey less food! maybe there's a famine and I need to slow down the rate of my processes to survive" which I'm sure has served our species well during times of scarce food supplies. but having a day to pig out, your body is like, "oh ok, metabolic rates back up! here's more food!"

ok, that's a lot of babbling. anyway, as I said, your beautiful and don't need to "lose weight" but there's never anything wrong with trying to eat healthy and be physically active :)

[lusciousfool]

hey-thanks for your v. informative response. It's not so much a matter of "losing weight" as "feeling less blobby." My job offers a WW reimbursement, so it would only be $20 or so for the whole program. Still, I'm leaning against it at this point. I'm pretty busy with work and school these days, and the though of adding counting points to my daily to-do list makes me a little ill :-p. The program starts on Monday, so I'll give it a bit more thought this weekend.

I think I just need to focus on eating healthier and making exercise a priority in my life. I've been a stressball lately, and exercise seems to be the only thing that helps.

Thanks again--hope you are well!