Diva In Action!
Marvelous Monday to you!
Here we go! I need to make a lifestyle change! I need to eat healthier and move! Exercise, exercise and exercise! But here’s the thing. I don’t want to! I don’t want to sweat (I’m a black women with hair that doesn’t appreciate sweat!). I don’t want to eat crunchy raw foods with antioxidants that reduce build up of this or that. I don’t want to twist my body in an awkward position and hold it for five seconds! I don’t want to walk for a minute on the treadmill and then run for three minutes (only to need resuscitated!). I don’t want a closet full of sports bras, spandexy pants and running, walking AND gym shoes. I don’t want to do any of it! I want to go to work, sit at my desk, take as few steps as possible and then go home. I want to get home, cook high cholesterol/high caloric foods = tasty meal, eat dinner and then relax in bed while watching Project Runway! But the truth of the matter is, I can’t continue that lifestyle or I will die!
Currently, I have no diagnosis leading me to believe I am anything but moderately healthy.  I just know, if I don’t change, that diagnosis will change. I took a reading of my blood sugar levels Saturday and I am good. My cholesterol levels are excellent. I do take meds for high blood pressure that are working to control it and keep it in a safe zone. I have enough hair products and face products to help keep my appearance appealing and hopefully be a detourant from my full figureness! But again, the truth of the matter is, all that is subject to change overnight! No amount of glam can clean out my arties if they become clogged or rejuvenate my heart if I continue to squeeze it with my upper belly. I am not in my 20’s or 30’s and being beautiful, thin and attractive is no longer top priority! However, if I change my lifestyle and do the right things, the sweet look of loveliness will begin to reappear on my body and I can dust off my black dress with the white fringe and wear it like a champ! In the meantime, today’s goal is to become addicted to all things HEALTHY!
Two things happened recently that gave me pause. Last week my college girlfriend accepted my Facebook request to be her friend. When I saw a picture of her I was so sad. She looked fabulous! Thin and cute and in great shape! We are the same age within months of each other. Trust and believe, if we stood side by side in the mirror, I would be so ashamed! The other thing happened yesterday at church. I wore a dress that I bought in a size bigger than normal. I really liked the dress but always wear it with a sweater to kind of hide things. So why was clapping my hands to the music a chore?! I couldn’t just do a natural clap and enjoy myself. No siree! I had to stop and think every time I clapped! Why you may ask? I was bound up in that dress! It was too tight across my clapping area! I was mad too! Mad at the dress. Mad that they kept singing clapping music. And mad because I am fat! There I said it, fat! How mad am I? Mad enough to share this with you in efforts to make myself accountable to something and someone (you)! I know me and I am not in denial. I know I am low on will power. I know my get up and go, got up and left and I am without drive and determination! Oh yes, I have all of those things within me in the logical place in my mind; they just never come to fruition in my real life! That’s where you come in!
I don’t need anything from you except to listen, cheer me on and pray for my success! But… if you would like to join me, I’d love to have you! This may be the most important and crucial thing I ever do with kleverkathy.com….save my own life!
Because I am too embarrassed, I can’t tell you how much I weigh or what my measurements are. As I begin to loose weight and gain confidence, I will tell you all of that. My goal is to loose 40 pounds, several inches and have Angela Bassett arms. My timeline to accomplish my goal (just my goal as far as the numbers go because the rest of it is a permanent lifestyle change) begins now and ends October 24 when I board the ship for The Kleverkathy Caribbean Couple’s Cruise. I plan to not only be slim, trim and in better health, but I am striving for sexy and smoking hot! (that last one is for my husband, lol)
So begins operation D.I.A.! If you don’t know, the women I work with know. I have started a club. I am the club’s founder and the first proclaimed Diva In Action! The original basis for DIA was just daily living as a Diva. Now Diva In Action denotes my new life of action: exercise – Pilates, yoga, cardio, strength training, running, walking, jogging, skipping, breathing, lifting, lunging, squatting, etc! I will become a true Diva In Action! Join me if you like! If not, that is fine, but please, pray for me, cheer for me and keep your fingers cross it will all take and I will be a changed, healthier woman, with enough energy to keep up with my three year old grandson!
I’m meeting with my personal trainer today and my nutritionist next week. I will be keeping a journal on Kleverkathy.com for your perusal and my accountability. Any comments, constructive criticisms and good advice are welcomed! Let the games begin! Holla back!
P.S. – The skirt I’m wearing, as we speak, is about to squeeze the life out of me! And I am wearing my Spanx to boot! (heavy sigh)…
Go ahead!!! Being one who has the issues plus you are attempting to avoid, I cheer you. I say to everyone: Eat to eliminate. Eat what will pass through you and break up solids and mix with sugars etc. Meat, combined with the side effects of my medications, conflicts with elimination. Not only does it feel horrible, but since my family is given to bowel and colon cancer with eventual death, I need be on the offensive rather than the defensive.
Fish passes through as well as fiberous vegetables and grains. Other meats are compact. Even without exercising, people are commenting on my appearance. EAT TO ELIMINATE!!!
Bishop Clifton Jones convinced me to get on wheat Germ as a supplement. Read up on it, everyone! It supplies most all of the nutrients your body needs daily and has an unbelievable plethora of benefits.
Now, I need God to help me to have a healthy attitude towards food consumption.
3Jo 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth
Hello people!
Kathy has been know to get a little upset with me if I talk about having a fat belly and needing to loose it and exercising. I say, “fat is fat, an extra 5 pounds is an extra 5 pounds!”
Everyone knows I LOVE good food. I would love a job where I secretly go to restaurants for dinner and give a review. I should have put this on my bucket list. Anyway back to the subject, I feel exercise should be a part of everyone’s life. No, I don’t feel like doing it but the benefits are awesome. This was a topic for one of my school papers and I found it to be really interesting. Do you know that we Americans are so overweight, doctor’s are starting to say fat is another organ. Yes, another organ just like your heart. Come on now!
I applaud Kathy for making this commitment. The hardest thing after making the commitment is self-control and dedication and we all have problems with that. But you can do it! We all can do it! We can hold each other accountable to get rid of the belly so we don’t crush our heart.
Kathy, you should post what you learn from your personal trainer and nutritionist to be a help to those of us who can’t afford all that fancy stuff. And maybe we can share what we know with you so we all can be healthy, sexy, and fabulous!
@Bishop Fonzer – First, I am so happy to see you visiting KK. Seriously, this is a struggle but I mean to change! I have already changed many of my eating habits and the kinds of foods I am eating. I have eaten more fish lately than ever! I will read up on wheat germ and more than likely, add it to my diet. I once was and have returned to being an avid label reader. I will pick up and put down in a hurry. Unfortunately these changes are time consuming and costly. What used to be a 30 minutes grocery shopping experience is now an hour and 15 minutes! But eventurally it will be second nature.
I wanna live and not die! I will change and prosper in health!
@Karen – Absolutely! I will tell you the name of the exercises she is giving me and my regiment. Although I have done much of these things before on my own and am slightly passed the beginning stages, she has me starting at beginners and taking it slow. My favorite thing of all is sitting in the sauna at the end. Love that! I am also going to take pics (even tho I am doing this, I am still going to share the most flattering ones) and hopefully the progress will start to show soon! Stay with me!
Ooh, I so feel you on that sweating thing. I just feel I take too much time working on this thick hair for it to turn back to what it looked like right after I blow dried it. Plus, I have some clothes I really like. I know that is some shame, but I be meaning it. I’ll have to buy all new clothes, like I don’t like to shop anyway. Good luck with that though. I thought about taking that Alli pill, but then again, Treva is picking up our dresses for the wedding today. Would I lose too much weight before the wedding? It is kind of a shame that we worry about some of these things more than our health.
I just went to the doctor Thursday, and my blood pressure was 90/58. I guess I’m pretty healthy, despite the plus size look. Like you, it won’t last long if we don’t do something about it.
@Trina Fonzer – (I have tried so many things but…) I think I tried the Alli pill. Here’s the thing with those products, you still have to watch what you eat and exercise so are the pills really doing anything? As Oprah so often says, weight issues are not just about eating. I have circumstances and stressors around me that I know have prevented me from loosing weight. Recently I have been popping 800 mg of Motrin like candy due to stress headaches/baby migraines. I probably need to add 15 minutes of daily meditation to my regiment for my nerves. When the atmosphere (and those in it) suck the energy from you, it is hard to achieve anything of value and stay true to it. But Imma try!
This is great… I’m aboard since I have completely stopped my walking and I KNOW that 20 to 30 minutes of aerobic exercise 3x’s a week should change my life!!!! I also hate it now that I can pinch at least 3 or so inches around my mid section when I sit down. I need to do something!!! I have a goal of doing a 3 day Breast Cancer Walk this year and do the Disney Marathon next January. Kathy I applause you and totally support and pray for your success. I do know that as we start and begin if we continue for 21 days it will become a habit!!! I’m going to go walk at least 3 miles today!!!
Let’s go!!!!!
Also, how about the D.I.A’s doing the Breast Cancer Walk together later this year?
Auntie Kathy, I know you can do itttttt! That’s funny because I was just talking to a customer a few days who was trying to lose weight. I told her about you – I remember how you used to wrap yourself in a trashbag and take walks so that you could lose weight by sweating it off. I think that’s Genius and the lady thought it was a good idea too.
Of course I already think you’re beautiful just the way you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Kaymani Banks – Thank you my Sweet Kandace!
@Karol Ann – tell me when. My trainer is trying to get me marathon ready! Pray church!
@Kaymani Banks – (shhh… not a trash bag, saran wrap. lol)
Go on AvonBreastCancerWalk.com or SusanBKolmancancerwalk.com I think…we need to pick one for later on this year!!
Hi Diva-in-actions! Where are you in posting something new? I know you are not feeling your best today, however, I want you to get back into actions. I’m waiting on that interview with you and Oprah. Please post something new and exciting soon. I love you. You are another pride and joy in my life. Talk to you at home. Smooches!!!
@Wesley Curry, Sr. –
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