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 So, I was at this thrift store by my house the other day and I saw this brand new looking book by Denise Austin about toning up your stomach.. I was all for it, man! I thought for as cheap as it was it was worth a read. I found it pretty interesting actually, about the different types of fat and how to combat it. The only thing I didn’t care for is that she kept calling it a ‘tummy’.. I don’t know about all of you but I haven’t called it a ‘tummy’ since I was about 6 and a half…

Here is some basics of what caught my attention.. 

*according to Denise Austin’s book Tone Your Tummy Type*

#1-Subcutaneous- This pinchable fat lies just beneath the skin. It’s the fat that you can see when someones stomach sways and jiggles. This type of fat does not tend to affect health as adversly as other types of fat.

#2-Visceral- This is deep fat packed around the internal organs and is not as noticeable as subcutaneous fat. Many relatively slender people have dangerous amounts of this fat and don’t know it! Visceral fat surrounds your liver. Due to it’s location, it more easily breaks down and releases fatty acids into the bloodstream- where they can clog your arteries and can cause other havoc than subcutaneous fat. Research shows that this fat breaks down and is resynthesized 4 to 5 times faster than fat in the other parts of body and abdomen.

#3- Liver Fat- Your liver stores fat and sugar for later use. As a result, when you are overweight, the cells inside your liver can start to fill up with fat, creating a “fatty liver”. If your fatty liver is caused by obesity- and not alcoholism- it usually does not lead to liver disease and usually can be revearsed with weightloss. If enought fat accumulates in the liver, liver disease can occur.

#4-Omentum Fat-Omentum is an organ that hangs beneath your stomach. It stores the excess fat calories from food. When your body stores calories in this pouch it has easy access to it. The more easily fat is mobilized, the more easily it can enter the bloodstream and end up in places where it shouldn’t, such as inside other body organs.

* Then she goes on to say that Japanese research shows that dieting shows to burn off only one type of ‘tummy fat’- the dangerous Visceral fat. Exercise on the other hand, tends to target the jiggly, more noticeable subcutaneous fat stored just beneath the skin.

Yesterday I decided to get back to counting WW points. I just woke up and decided I was ready. I did great the whole day.. (sure, i felt hungry.. I could’ve gone for a nice family size bag of potato chips and a family size thing of dip *lol* but I didn’t, I held myself back) I logged every bite I took in a leftover notebook from the kids school supplies.

I did end up having to use 1.5 of my 35 flex points, but that’s not too bad ~for me! I cleaned all day, and by 4 we ended up getting in the car and driving to my inlaws that live an hour away from us, for a few hours. By bedtime I was beat, and went upstairs to read and then fell asleep after my younger son fell asleep.

My younger son JJ is all stuffed up.. probably from me running the fans at night. My older son is still at my parents house, I’ll be picking him up today. I had to stop there last night after we got back from my inlaws and drop off his meds. He asked me what I was doing there, so I said “I’m picking you up, and taking you home!” he was like “no, I wanna stay at nana’s house!” then I smiled and he knew I was kidding. I hate when they say Autistic people can’t pretend, or don’t understand expressions and stuff like that.. they sooo can! I always goof with my son BECAUSE they say that! Everyone at his school loves his sense of humor and his personality…

I read some interesting things in this book I got at my local thrift store (the best store in the whole universe!) by Denise Austin and she was talking about abdomenal fat.. four different kinds. It was unbelieveable.. I’ll post about it all tomorrow.. right now I am off to play the role as “the maid”. My house is all kinds of messed up at the moment. I tripped on the stairs coming down at 4am.. turned out to be a wooden snake and a matchbox car, exactly where they are supposed to be, on the staircase!~

I finally hopped back on the treadmill yesterday while my sons were at school. I only did ONE mile, but I will slowly build back up. It was so nice to be able to do the whole time without having to stop for something!

My younger son’s preschool only has a half day on Fridays.. so I had to get him off the bus after lunch. I had gotten up at 4am yesterday, so by the time he was coming home I was soooo sleepy.. but I decided to take him to my parents house for a few hours.. that turned into a complete nightmare! He has a power wheels dump truck there, and he was overly tired so he was riding it but throwing a fit.. I finally picked him up and told him it was time to go home for a nap.. he bit me and wet his pants.. all over me!!! UGHHHHH!

He was screaming, kicking, and biting me.. people going by on their bikes were shocked to see him throwing such a fit.. I brought him home and he never did nap. After my older son got home from school we had dinner early, like 4:30 ish.. I took the kids back to my parents to visit. This time I took a change of clothes for my preschool demon.. lol. This time he was much better behaved and when it was time to leave, he left quietly.. LOL

 My older son spent the night there, he will prob be there the whole weekend.. that’s his thing.. he works hard during the week so that weekends he can go to nana and papa’s house. My younger son won’t spend the night, he is a mommy’s boy. I reread my Leslie Sansone Walk Away the Pounds book last night before bed because my friend April and I are going to start that six week plan on Monday. I am all set, and have lots of free time to make sure I actually complete it this time. I have started that plan atleast three other times but never finished it, she said the same.. so now we are both determined to complete it together.

It is supposed to rain here all weekend, so I probably will just continue cleaning and clearing clutter.. I have gotten rid of lots of stuff the last few days.. well, bagged up the stuff anyway.. my sister wants the stuff.

I just found this site yesterday, and am still figuring things out.. I think it’s really awesome though! I have lost nearly 25 pounds, but still have alot further to go. I am trying to reach a mini goal of 200, down from 245, but my overall goal is 145.

My husband bought me a treadmill this past Spring. I really love it, but when the kids were home it was nearly impossible to use it for very long.. either the kids were fighting, they wanted something, or they were just being too quiet! I would have to keep stopping and restarting and it was just a pain. Now both my kids are in school, my older son is in 3rd grade (he has Autism), and my younger son just started preschool. Now that the first two days have passed I think now is the time to get myself back to losing weight, and exercising daily. I wear my pedometer no matter what, but eating is where I really don’t have full control. I have to work hard on this…