In my last entry, I talked about motivation and determination. Once again, without those two, it will be very difficult to do what you want. In this entry, I will talk about eating habits and my workout plan that got me started.
Just because these two strategies worked for me, doesn’t mean you have to follow them.
I asked one of the strength coaches for Michigan State and received this advice. Little did I realize, he told me if I remained committed to making a change, overtime I would be successful.
It was August 8th, 2010 I told myself the TIME IS NOW! August 9th, I went to work!
Shortly after I started, I hated it. I would be on an elliptical or treadmill for 45-60 minutes a day, while friends were playing videogames or hanging out. Once I finished working out, I would crave Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, and other healthy foods. NOT ANYMORE!
I had to cut down on the foods I loved.
After a few weeks into working out, I told myself I could treat myself to junk food once. The same went for drinking with friends. I cut down on going to bars and drinking. Instead, I got a job at a local bar, to help me prevent from gong out, plus some extra cash in my pocket. Monday thru Sunday, I would be on Facebook, watch TV, text, and call people.
Now, working out, became a part of my daily routines. Something as little as 45 minutes a day consistently made a huge difference.
Eating habits were changed too. One key habit I realized is DO NOT eat many calories at night, before going to bed. Make lunch the largest part of the calorie intake. This allows the body enough time to process them throughout the day. Therefore, I would enjoy a large meal during the day, before heading to practice. I would be starving by the time I was done, and that’s where my friend cottage cheese and almonds came. If one is thinks weight loss is easy, think again.
I’ve taken exams before, but those you can cheat on (if need be). I’ve interned before for companies, and you can get through a project or task via colleagues.
Who can help to lose weight? YOU. NOBODY else can control the results but YOU!
To recap, I committed myself to working out 45-60 minutes day, avoiding large dinners, and eating real late. In the beginning, I still ate food from outside. It didn’t take long for Subway and I to become friends.
Yes it became costly, but I relied on Subway for breakfast/lunch/and dinner. In my next entry, I will talk briefly about what other foods I made part of my daily routine. Some sound awful and tasted gross.
But, I was on a mission and committed to losing weight, thus I had to stick to my word.
Rikin Shaw is a friend and a new graduate of Michigan State University. I appreciate a young person sharing his quest, it takes guts and honesty, keep it up stud, I am rooting for your success!
Many know Will Smith simply as the former rapper and actor of the famous TV Series “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and blockbuster lead for movies like Independence Day and iRobot. But to many of us Will Smith is much more than that. He is extremely intelligent and as a young man turned down a full scholarship at MIT to pursue his music career. As a devoted husband and father Will has demonstrated through various interviews that he relates a person’s success to their work ethic and has discussed at length his desire to go above and beyond what some people believe are achievalable.
I find Will’s interviews and speeches to be very motivating and wanted to show you one that brings together a few of my favorites. I am reaching towards achieving many goals that I have set for myself in 2012 and love watching videos like this to help me stay motivated and peak that determination to push forward and go the extra mile when frustration or fatigue is getting the best of me. I hope you enjoy this segment of the motivational video of the week and encourage you to pursue and find the videos, scriptures, or books that motivate you day to day.
“If we get on a treadmill together either you are getting off first or I am dying, it’s that simple.” ~ Will Smith
This is an email that was sent to me, and I find it important enough to share!
NURSE’SHEART ATTACK EXPERIENCE
Iam an ER nurse and this is the best description of this event that I have ever heard. Please read, pay attention, and send it on!
FEMALE HEART ATTACKS
I was aware that female heart attacks are different, but this is the best description I’ve ever read.
Women and heart attacks (Myocardial infarction). Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have when experiencing heart attack.. you know, the sudden stabbing pain in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest &
dropping to the floor that we see in the movies. Here is the story of one woman’s experience with a heart attack.
I had a heart attack at about 10:30 PM with NO prior exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might have brought it on. I was sitting all snugly & warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in my lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually thinking, ‘A-A-h, this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with my feet propped up.
A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when you’ve been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich
and washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried
bite seems to feel like you’ve swallowed a golf ball going
down the esophagus in slow motion and it is most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn’t have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water to hasten its progress down to the stomach. This was my initial sensation–the only trouble was that I hadn’t
taken a bite of anything since about 5:00 p.m.
After it seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE (hind-sight, it was probably my aorta spasms), gaining speed as they continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses rhythmically when administering CPR).
This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out into both jaws. ‘AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about what was happening — we all have read and/or heard
about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven’t we? I said aloud to myself and the cat,
Dear God, I think I’m having a heart attack!
I lowered the foot rest dumping the cat from my lap, started
to take a step and fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself, If this is a heart attack, I shouldn’t be walking
into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else…
but, on the other hand, if I don’t, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get
up in a moment.
I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next room and dialed the Paramedics… I told her I thought I was having a heart attack due to the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws. I
didn’t feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She said she was sending the Paramedics over immediately, asked
if the front door was near to me, and if so, to un-bolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they could see me when they came in.
I unlocked the door and then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness, as I don’t remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting me onto a gurney
or getting me into their ambulance, or hearing the call they made to St. Jude ER on the way, but I did briefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the radiologist was already there in his surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like ‘Have you taken any medications?’) but I couldn’t make my mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again, not
waking up until the Cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral artery
into the aorta and into my heart where they installed 2 side
by side stints to hold open my right coronary artery.
I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home
must have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the paramedics, but actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before
the call, and both the fire station and St Jude are only minutes away from my home, and my Cardiologist was already
to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and
the procedure) and installing the stints.
Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail? Because I want all of you who are so important in my life to know what I learned first hand.
1. Be aware that something very different is happening in
your body, not the usual men’s symptoms but inexplicable
things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act).
It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn’t know they were having one
and commonly mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox or other anti-heartburn preparation and go to bed, hoping they’ll feel better in the morning when they wake up… which doesn’t
happen. My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING is unpleasantly happening that you’ve not felt before. It is better to have a ‘false alarm’ visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be!
2.Note that I said ‘Call the Paramedics.’ And if youcan, take an aspirin. Ladies, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!
Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER – you are a hazard to others on the road.
Do NOT have your panicked husband who will be speeding and looking anxiously at what’s happening with you instead of
the road.
Do NOT call your doctor — he doesn’t know where you live
and if it’s at night you won’t reach him anyway, and if
it’s daytime, his assistants (or answering service) will
tell you to call the Paramedics. He doesn’t carry the
equipment in his car that you need to be saved! The
Paramedics do, principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP. Your
Dr will be notified later.
3.Don’t assume it couldn’t be a heart attack because you
have a normal cholesterol count. Research has discovered
that a cholesterol elevated reading is rarely the cause of
an MI (unless it’s unbelievably high and/or accompanied by
high blood pressure). MIs are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts
of deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up in there. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let’s be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance
we could survive.
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we’ll saveat least one life.
*Please be a true friend and send this article to all your friends (male & female) who you care about!*
So in this piece you can get the feel for all of those, and I mean everyone who loses there ambition, just remember to just get started, everybody, (mostly anyway) has the rollercoaster effect in life.
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In his second entry Rikin goes deeper into his feelings of helping others, nice work, good guy! Motivation and determination: two words I hear all the time in the world of sports and business. Those who are motivated and determined can succeed and do well in nearly anything. For those out there who want to . . . → Read More: Rikin Shaw- Chapter two
Rikin Shah pens this honest and true account of a young persons quest to loose weight.
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