Losing Weight and Feeling Great

Archive for April, 2008

Just a quick post, because I got excited about this.  A few days ago I started the Facercise challenge, where I took the before picture, would do the Facercise exercises for 2 weeks, then take more photos — hopefully there would be a change.  (Here’s the original post.)

There’s a change alright — after just 3 days!  Let me explain how I can tell.

There are three exercises for "hooded" eyes — you know, the kind of problem you want an eyelift for.  Saggy upper eyelids is another way to put it.

Of the three exercises, I have a problem doing two of them well with my right eye.  I can do them, but just barely (left eye is fine).

I looked in the mirror this morning.  I see a definite difference between my left eye and right, as far as the sagging/hooding.

After just three days of Facercises!

Of course, I still have a problem — how to coax my right eye muscles  to be able to do the exercises properly without involving my left eye muscles.  Gotta work on that.  But now I’ll be excited to show you the difference when I reach the 2 week mark!

I saw something interesting a week or so ago, and it was an article about how dieters who kept an online blog were more successful in losing weight.  More successful even than people who kept a journal.  Why?

Public accountability.

Sorry I can’t post the direct link to the article; I meant to bookmark it but it slipped my mind…and now I can’t find it again. 

Anyway, the whole idea is that blogging about your weight loss makes you more motivated.  Of course it could be that people who decided to blog are more motivated from the very beginning.  A chicken and egg proposition I guess.

I’ll raise my hand to be a poster child of how this can be; here’s the scoop.  In January 2005, I started a weight loss blog to give me some accountability, and hopefully give others some information.  I think I blogged pretty well for a month, then less and less.  And yes, that kind of paralleled my weight loss success.  The less I blogged about it, the less motivated.  The less motivated, the easier to go off the diet.  Which I did, in a big way.  You can see this old blog here.

Fast forward to Summer 2007.  I finally decided to lose weight again.  And this time keep it off.  I really needed some accountability, seeing as I had (gulp) 135 pounds to lose.  I’d need a ton of motivation and accountability for that!  You can see in the above blog that I had 7 posts from that time, then I quit the writing.  Why?

To start building my Losing Weight Over 40 website.  And then of course this blog as well.

No, you don’t have to build a whole website to get the weight loss benefit (although if you want to, contact me for some information).  Blogs are much cheaper (free, even) and much easier to set up and use — takes 10 minutes or less.

If you want to try this route, why not go for a free blog over at WordPress.com or Blogger?  Start up a blog and post.  You’ll not only help keep yourself motivated, but also perhaps help someone else with your writings.

If you think this blog you’re reading has helped you, why not put me on your blogroll of links?  Just use the address http://blog.losing-weight-over-40.com when you do (thanks!).

Maybe we can all help each other in our weight loss journey.  To our success!

By the way, is there anything in particular you’d like to see me cover in this blog?  Post a comment and let me know.