TERRE HAUTE — Have you signed up for INShape Indiana’s 10 in 10 Challenge program yet? (You can do so by going to www.in.gov/inshape.) The goal is to lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks.
However, this isn’t about the challenge, it’s about how you’ll look after losing 10 pounds. It seems there’s a Web site for everything, and this is no exception. Go to www.weightview.com, sign up, upload a photo of yourself, and it will generate an image of a new, lighter you.
You can then take that image and “print out results, save it on your screen, pin it on your wall, post it on the fridge, keep it in your wallet, even download the results to your cell phone,” says the Web site.
It doesn’t have to be just 10 pounds, either: You can choose how many pounds to (digitally) peel off, from 5 to 50.
Unfortunately, you then have to lose the weight to look like your new image. And that’s not so easy. For that, you can get some help from INShape Indiana.
One way to cut back on calories is simply to control your portion sizes. If one package equals one serving to you, buy smaller packages. (Yeah, like that’s easy to do in today’s super-sized world, but look around and see what you can find.) Choose a regular hamburger instead of a double or triple; get small — er, make that child-sized — fries, and so on. If you’re dining out, put half your meal in a take-home container to have for lunch the next day before you dig in.
At home, serve the meal on plates instead of “family style” and freeze the rest in the form of portion-sized meals.
One easy way to portion out food “is to use a standard 8- 9-inch plate and divide it in half,” says Tracy Arini, a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator at Union Hospital’s Diabetes Education Center. “Fill half the plate with [non-starchy] veggies. The other half should be filled with [half] lean protein and [half] starch. The meal can be completed with a serving of fruit and milk.”
To help you visualize portion sizes, Arini offers the following:
• 3 oz. meat: a deck of cards or, for thin filets such as fish, a checkbook cover
• 2 tablespoons: a Ping-Pong ball. That’s for things such as peanut butter and raisins
• 3 oz. potato: Small computer mouse
• 4 oz. apple: tennis ball
• 1 cup fruit (such as berries or melon) or non-starchy vegetables: tight fist
• Length of a one-dollar bill: ear of corn or banana
• 1 oz. nuts: 3X3-inch post-it note or a shot glass
• 1 oz. cheese or meat: 9-volt battery
• 1 teaspoon (i.e., for margarine): small postage stamp
Come to think of it, forget what I said about saving half of your dining-out meal to eat for lunch the next day: With today’s serving sizes, you should be able to get at least two more meals out of the one you order, so ask for two to-go boxes.
Mark your calendar for 6 p.m. Jan. 29 for this year’s kickoff for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. The event takes place at The Ohio Building and it’s free.
“Anyone interested in getting involved in the fight against cancer is welcome to give us a call and we’ll plug them into helping,” says Dawn Clinkenbeard, community programs manager for the local office. “We extend a special invitation to cancer survivors and their loved ones as it’s a great way to use their own experience to fight back against this disease.”
At the kickoff festivities, folks interested in helping out will learn the basics about the function, which is set for May 17 at the Wabash Valley Fairgrounds, and given tools about how to get involved.
While the event is free, room is limited, so call (812) 232-2679 and make a reservation.
Relay for Life raises funds for any kind of cancer and is used for education, advocacy and patient services.
The following information was released a little while back, but I just ran across it. Women with ovarian cancer have reported having persistent symptoms before their diagnosis. A consensus statement issued by the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists urges women to get an evaluation, preferably from a gynecologist, if she has the following symptoms “almost daily for a few weeks.”
• Bloating
• Pelvic or abdominal pain
• Difficulty eating or feeling full quickly
• Urinary symptoms (either urgency or frequency)
Having the symptoms doesn’t mean you have ovarian cancer; just that you should be checked out “just in case.” The earlier cancer is caught, the more likely you are to be cured.
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