Hey awesome ones. As a former eighties model
I remember obsessing about being thin. Being thin was a daily ritual that I
obsessed over right to the point of bulimia. The video I'm going to do right
now is not about body shaming, it's about obsessing.Obsessing about
your weight. And I remember I was doing fad diets too and all kinds of crazy
things. So this video is about five kind of things that are out there that seem
to be weight rules that I'm just never going to obey again.
So I admit it you know weight loss and keeping it off it's not an easy thing.
However I've managed to keep my weight pretty well the same for the past 20
years. Now at 63.... there's some people who'll probably say to me, Heather you know, you
could lose another 10 or 15 pounds and that's all right that's their opinion.
Maybe one day I'll decide to lose 10 pounds, but for right now I'm just not
obsessing anymore and the number one thing that I'm not obsessing about is
the thigh gap. Do you guys know what I'm talking about? Like for a long time it
was all about the thigh gap. Now here I am over here.....it's a little
miniskirt....on no I don't wear this little miniskirt all the time, but basically
what I'm showing here is where they say you have to have this thigh gap basically
what you have to have is....Bill you can come back here now....where they can see the
other side of.....you know you see the blue wall behind me through your thighs and
if you don't have it....man.... like you know, you got a problem with your weight. I
just really feel that if you've had children, probably if you're over 30,
obsessing about this one every day and checking in the mirror to see if you
have a thigh gap....forget about it. I throw that one out the window. I'm not
obsessing about it and I'm kind of suggesting that you don't either.
So the number two rule I don't obsess about anymore is....to be yourself and know
what your weight is....and always know what your weight is....know if you're gaining
weight....da da da da da. Well I'm gonna show you.....so I'm not the worst
housekeeper in the world, but this is underneath my
bed and it's my dusty scale and I just went...for this video, went underneath
the bed and there it was. All kinds of dust. I'm gonna put a little heart here
cuz I just love all my subscribers, but I don't know how it gets dusty under a bed,
but oh well the reason I wanted to show you my old dusty scale, is because I now, I
weigh myself about every 3 or 4 months. Honestly I used to weigh myself twice a
day....like that is obsessing about your weight and sometimes I'd be going oh my
gosh I must have drank too much water or maybe I had too much milk today or I
would just be freaking out because it looked like I had gained some weight or
maybe it was you know certain time.... anyway it was just wrong. So now I have
some skirts and pants with no spandex, no elastic in them and even a pair of jeans
too. And if I want to check my weight out I
just pull on those babies. If I can't do them up, man I gotta go for longer walks,
exercise more or whatever I need to do, but standing on that scale every single
day and monitoring is not something I want to do anymore. Hey you can look in
the mirror and see if you're....you know with these other pants and that sort of
thing are you gaining weight or are you not.
But obsessing with that baby twice a day no more. So my number 3 rule, but it's
broken now. Is denying myself dessert. Youbsee a lot of women and men too that no
longer eat dessert and you know what? Hey if you got a situation where you're not
allowed to have sugar or something like that, I totally get that, but denying
yourself dessert I don't think it's a good thing. However on the flip side when
I first met Bill.....Bill.....Bill you are a dessert junkie. Drives me crazy
because he exercises a lot, he walks the dog three times a day and so you know he
can eat a lot of desserts.But I was eating desserts with him every single
night and he would make, as you know ,that amazing French press coffee. Hey I'll
even put how he does that French press coffee up there with the video we did.
You want to have an amazing dessert. So I was going through this time where I
gained 20 pounds and I said what am I gonna do? That's when I decided I'm
only going to eat desserts on the weekends. On my, or on somebody else's
birthday or celebration and I've been doing that for years now. Sometimes
little cookie maybe, but anyway oh I don't eat those cheese cakes and all of
that sort of thing. No if it's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday it's
not happening. I'm not eating dessert and how does that work for me?
Well I had my birthday celebration a couple of days ago and this is the
dessert that was spread out on the cruise that we went on. And this is my
little plate of desserts that I had and I think it was a Tuesday or something. I
indulged in that dessert and I enjoyed it and I savored all of the....the
chocolate and everything and I went, it's my birthday! Happy birthday to me and I
think you should have some fun with food too!
So the fourth rule was to weigh your food or make sure it's in these little
containers or something like that. That's a lot of work to do. Mind you I remember
a few years ago, I don't know what happened, but plates went from these
normal plates to these kind of platter looking plates and they were really
really all the rage. Well I've definitely gone back to the smaller plate and I
will also show you here that I'm now taking probably about two-thirds of a
portion, maybe even a half of a portion of what I
used to take. Now this is a really healthy kind of meal. Really enjoyable. It
happens to be Sunday night tonight. So I'm making a little bit of a nicer
dinner, but my portion size will be small and well smaller than what I used to
take. And I think that that really helps, but another thing is to remember that
you've got to have three meals a day. So to start off I usually start off with real
fiber intake for breakfast. Usually I've got some kind of a granola with
cranberries and that sort of thing. Also my multivitamins which I think are very
important as well to take and then at around three o'clock I may want a little
snack and I'm doing a video on that to show you the snacks that are at my desk.
And you know maybe a little bit of a light lunch maybe a smoothie or
something like that, but make sure that you're not just going to say, oh you know
what I'm just gonna have a really small portion at dinner. We need to take in
some calories. We absolutely have to and if you're cutting yourself down to what....
800 calories a day or something like that. It's absolutely not healthy and
also measuring and all that, it gets boring after a while. You're probably
going to give it up so just make those plate portions a little bit smaller and
throw out the measurings. So number five is....can you tell by this? Going on a fad
diet! Oh my gosh, like do you remember the grapefruit diet or what other ones were
there? I wrote them down here a little bit, how about, oh yes....
The all liquid diet or even the baby food diet. Like forget about it. I know
some friends that have gone on these diets recently. I haven't been on one of
those since my modeling days, but and yes they lose the weight, but then because of
all the restrictions, are eating the same old boring, boring food all
the time, they just quit and then they yo-yo most of the time not back to their
weight that they were before they got into the the diet, but to more weight and
then they really have a problem taking it off. So my suggestion to you would be
as I mentioned you know, exercise, eat right, watch your portions and if you
really want to lose weight and hey a lot of us do want to lose some weight or at
least maintain our healthy weight, you want to lose the weight, do it really
gradually over time. Don't, please don't resort to just these. So
don't get me wrong I'm not saying that all weight loss programs are wrong. As a
matter of fact there's some remarkable ones out there. You know I really like
the ones where you're sort of helping each other and it's a friendly kind of
atmosphere as opposed to, you know, pointing the finger at people and not
allowing them to maybe lose the weight gradually. I think that for men and women
if you're in a group and it's a very comforting group and you....you like
working out a little bit, good for you and good for those weight loss programs
that are healthy and keep you happy. That's one of the things that I think is
very important. The other thing I think it's so important is that you're
enjoying life. You know this is awesome over 50, this isn't just you know being
thin over 50. No no this is about living an awesome life and so eat those foods
properly, exercise, enjoy yourself, but make sure you're savoring, savoring those
moments. If it's your birthday, it's somebody else's birthday, if there's a
nice piece of cake there, that you know has your candle on it, go ahead and enjoy.
And something else to be savored are our subscribers you guys, oh my gosh like,
when we're reading the comments we're just savoring every moment, you're
amazing and you're helping each other there too. Right Hurricane? They're
amazing aren't they? Yeah and you know there's something that I learned too and
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care about weight and what you look like and that sort of thing. If you're a
beautiful person and you're just fine with the way you look, well then that is
amazing. I'm just so happy for you. All I'm trying to say here is for those
people that are getting into some of these weight loss fads and that sort of
thing, I really care about you, I want you to stay healthy. I don't want you to
obsess. I certainly don't want you to go anywhere where I went with my bulimia.
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