Posts Tagged "fat loss"
Saghi: Wedding Shower + Time Out
This past week has been awesome! I had my bridal shower last Sunday. I was certainly showered with gifts and lots of love, but I was also showered with a lot of positive comments about my weight and figure. Some said they couldn’t believe how much I’ve changed and how great I look. Hard work is paying off! I work at Sick Kids and for the month of May our hospital is participating in an Inter-Hospital Health Challenge. Did I sign up? You bet I did! Along with my other Child Life Specialist colleagues, we have created two teams and are determined to win! Every day we log in and track the amount of minutes we’ve been active, the number of veggies and fruits we’ve...
Read More3 Top Benefits of Brown Bagging Your Lunch
Life gets busy, we scramble, and we end up saying “oh screw it, I’ll just buy lunch today” when we’ve failed to prepare. If you need a little reminder of how much smarter it is to invest 5 minutes every evening or morning to pack yourself a lunch, here it is: 1) It’s much easier to eat a nutritious, filling and clean meal. Most restaurant / takeout options have tons of hidden fat, salt and calories that are energy zappers and waistline expanders. Even salads are often served with multiple portions of fat (be them healthful or not – they would be more than we would add at home as consumers like to “get their money’s...
Read MoreSaghi: Impatience and Self-Deprecation
Do you ever have days where you look in the mirror and think: “Nothing I’m doing is working, why am I not shrinking”? I will pause here for a minute and say, as Jess has taught me, “shrink” is not the term we want to use. Reality is many of us are using this term, and we see it everywhere in the media. Perhaps the first step toward change is to reshape our minds in how we describe ourselves. I had two days this past week – okay, maybe three – where I’ve looked in the mirror and felt like my getting smaller was not happening fast enough. At Wednesday night’s workout I literally grabbed my blubber and said,...
Read MoreBalance is the Only Way, and It Will Change Your Life
This past weekend I was fortunate enough to attend the CanFitPro one-day event with Dr. Natasha Turner. Natasha Turner is a naturopathic doctor who is causing a lot of hype these days in the wellness industry because of her successful novels – two of which, “The Hormone Diet” and “The Carb Sensitivity Program” I picked up at the lecture. The reason why I was so full of adrenaline (!) while listening to Natasha’s lecture is because she was affirming the very pattern of nutrition that I’ve been teaching to my clients for the past eleven years, and made such sense of it. Of course, this pattern of nutrition does come from my...
Read MoreSaghi: Patience and Persistence (and a Jess Response)
Thank goodness Jess is back! The past two weeks have been challenging but good. I managed to follow Jess’ program while she was away. The first week I did 3 days of strength training and 3 days of cardio. The second week I did 2 days of strength training and 4 days of cardio (I was too worn out and exhausted for a third strength workout). I was good with the diet, except for one day where I indulged and had a big bowl of ramen and another day when I had a slice of pizza at work for lunch. You gotta have balance right? I have to take a minute and explain that this has not been a walk in the park for me. Changing diet and working out 6 days a week was never in my...
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