Sue's Healthy Lifestyle

Monday Weigh In

It was time for my weekly weigh in and since I got my new scales I am down 8lbs to 230lbs. It was pouring with rain this morning so could not do my walk so made up for it tonight by using my exercise ball and stepper for 30 mins. It feels great once I am done and the ball is so much harder than it seems. I love it for effective sit-ups, I am up to 15 but boy do I feel it the next day! Sometimes I think it would be nice to know what my exact weight was, but then I think I would be mortified, I feel bad enough to be over 200lbs, I never gained that much when I was pregnant!

My husband brought home red wine to go with our home made beef stew tonight. So I counted all my calories, reduced my protein to 2oz and enjoyed one glass with dinner. I am currently keeping to 1200 calories per day, on the weekends I might go to 1300, but this seems to be getting me results with my exercises.

I also started walking up and down my basement stairs. I started at 50 reps and at 1 set on my next work out day, I am leaving one day in between for my muscles to recouperate. Again this takes me less than 10 minutes but the cardio is very effective and 500ml of water goes down with no efforts once I am done. I am currently at 54 reps and recovered much quicker last night, so I all ready see an improvement.

Off for my herbal tea for the evening.

Sue
Monday Weigh In

September Update

Well it has been over two months since I began my weight loss journey. At first I wasn’t seeing any results, but I felt so much better, so I continued on my way.

I started getting my husband to drop me off at his sister’s house and I would have breakfast with her. Then walk across town to my Business classes. We measured the walk and it is approximately 4.5km and takes me about 50 minutes to complete. It was really difficult at first, my shins would hurt and I felt like I couldn’t breathe properly. But I didn’t give up and slowly the walk became a little better, the hills seemed more like a steep slope instead of a mountain. I did this 4 times a week, unless it was really humid outside, as I just can’t handle the humidity.

The biggest benefit was the way I felt, I just had more energy and was more motivated to do things on the weekend, gardening, more walking…I just started feeling good.

Then a friend at my class, Anna, said that she had started bike riding and was loving it and that you get a big bang for your buck, fitness wise. Well Matt’s bike was sitting in our garage, so I took it out got the tires pumped up and went for a ten minute ride. Boy was I sore, in places I never expected, my arms and chest muscles, but again it felt wonderful afterwards. So I decided to add this to my routine as much as I could. I aim for about 5 rides a week for 30 minutes each.

A couple of weeks ago I started getting compliments about how I looked, but honestly I hadn’t noticed a drop on the scales! I measured myself and saw that in total I had dropped about 6 inches in two months, so that was great motivation in itself. I have noticed now that some of my clothes are starting to feel really baggy, so much that I start to feel uncomfortable and can’t wait to get home and change.

I am not sure how many pounds I have dropped as I found out that our scales weren’t working properly…so I was probably another 30 lbs heavier than I thought, which makes me feel terrible!! But I am on the path to a better, healthier lifestyle and nothing is going to stop me now.

I am going to start posting more often and share my successes and my doubts with you, please feel free to add your comments about your own weight loss or lifestyle journey.

Sue
September Update