Ecto,
Meso Endo … Say what?
Well the
summer is almost over and I have managed to lose exactly 0 pounds. Well to be
honest I haven’t been trying really. But with all of the gluten free scramble,
and the craziness of getting kids here there and everywhere, I haven’t done
much exercising. I have been outside a lot, and wanted to walk the new walking
path around the schools when I drop Bug off for soccer practice. I just seem to
have twenty things that need done NOW and that is a trip to town I can’t waste.
Tiny is
becoming adjusted to her new food choices. I am going on the gluten free roller
coaster along with her. One for moral support and two it takes a lot of carbs
out of my diet and that has to be good right. We have discovered that no-bake
cookies are everyone’s new favorite desert. Cheap, easy and yummy! Pasta is the
tricky one. Corn pasta seems the best but leftovers are a NO. And I only buy
cereal that everyone can eat. That way sleepy kids don’t eat the wrong thing,
and there is no “that’s mine only” fight with the cocoa crispy rice cereal
(they all like that one!).
I recently
read an article about body type. I hate mine and thought maybe I should try to
get a better perspective. Might boost the want to exercise, or at least help me
understand what I need to do and why for best results.
Here is
an excerpt of that article:
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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to
Love My Body Type, July
15, 2014 By Justine Harman https://www.yahoo.com/health/i-asked-a-professional-to-diagnose-my-body-type-91310276707.html#
[Many resources suggest that there are three main body
types (or somatotypes): the ectomorph (delicate frame and bone structure, low
body fat); the mesomorph (rectangular-shaped with a tendency to pack on
muscle); and the endomorph (rounder or curvier shape with a high capacity for
fat storage). Many people are a combination of two somatotypes.
Mary Jane Detroyer, a Columbia-educated
and New York-based exercise physiologist: "A mesomorph naturally has more
muscle and will be able to build more muscle," she tells me. "If you
came to me and said, ‘I don’t want to get any bigger,’ I’d say, ‘Well, don’t
use weights. We’re going to do exercises with your own body weight.’ And endomorphs
have to do cardio. Tons of cardio because they look at food and they gain
weight."
"Some people are just like that.
It’s their genes,” Detroyer says of the poor endomorph. "Is it fair? No.
But some people end up getting cancer and some people don’t. Some people lose
their hair and some people don’t. It’s part of who we are. Some people
get acne some people don’t.”
I feel a bit helpless. “Why do you think
it’s important that people accept their own body’s limitations?” I ask. “So
that you don’t have unrealistic expectations,” she says. “Everybody wants to be
something they’re not.” And fitness professionals looking to make a buck, she
says, further bolster a lot of these expectations: “There’s understanding your
body type, and there’s understanding what’s realistic to try to change. Most
trainers don’t sit down and have that conversation with their client.”
“But how do you know if you’re at a
healthy weight?” The picked-apart image of me vs. Megan getting blurrier by the
second. She breaks it down for me—and her answer has nothing to do with the
scale: “If you have to starve yourself, if you’re thinking about food for most
of the day, if you over-exercise, which means feeling guilty if you haven’t
exercised, or exercising more than you’re enjoying…” she pauses to make sure
she has my full attention. “If you’re not enjoying life because you have to
give up all eating, all drinking, and going to nice restaurants, you’re not at
a healthy weight.”]
After
reading this I understand the issues I have with exercising now. I cannot
change my genes and need to deal with the things I can change. Walking 10 times
more than I do, eating healthier and doing some kind of cardio weekly will
help. The only thing she didn’t address is…motivation. Where do I buy that?
The one
thing I have found is if you have an accountability partner you are more likely
to not flake out. Just be sure that you are not both procrastinators…then no
one will be accountable.
Look at
the time. Goal 1: Walk on lunch breaks. Got to get moving!
Till next
time…
