Today I only did a 2 ¾ mile walk. I did Leslie’s Power Walk with Friends with strength training, using 2 pound weights. Goodness, it kicked my butt.
I also went to a WW meeting and weighed in. I’m down 5.6 pounds this week, no doubt thanks to the extra exercise I’ve been getting. That’s a grand total of 10.4 pounds so far! Go me!! I did get a warning from WW that’s I’m losing weight too quickly and that I need to slow down. I believe this to be true for most people, but I’m very overweight, so I expected to lose weight fast. I went from almost sedentary to walking up to 3 miles at one time!! Impressive! Any ideas or thoughts on this?
Of course with my weight loss, my WW points came down. I don’t know how many of you know the WW program, but basically you have a set number of points for the day to eat. Different foods equal different values. Fruit is completely free. In addition to your daily points, you get FREE weekly points. It’s not hard to stay on the daily points plan for me right now. Sometimes I do go over, but that’s what the weekly points are there for. You can use them or not, but you can’t bank them. Each week, the points start over. So if I’m going out to dinner, I can dip in and use those weekly points. In addition to that, I get activity points. Each time I work out, I add that to my tracker. It gives me points that, if need be, can be traded in for food points. Yesterday, my first day on my new points plan, I went over by 5 into my weekly points. Go figure.
I also am going to participate in WW’s Walk-It Challenge! Every day that I walk, I’m training by body to take a 5k challenge in May!
I didn’t exercise this evening, because I was too tired and achy. Today I’m feeling strain in my stomach muscles. That’s a good thing though, I’m not going to be negative about it, because that just means that I’m doing the exercise right and am starting to feel the benefits.
I have to say that I am on your side with the whole "losing weight too quickly". Under normal circumstances for normal people, the safest and healthiest way to lose weight is no more than 2 lbs. per week. But for someone who has a large amount of weight to lose, they can, and often will drop more weight quickly. Especially if you go from eating poorly to eating really well and from sedentary to active. Those things will definitely make a big change. Keep up the great work!
ReplyDeleteYeah, Kevin said the same thing. I emailed my doctor, just to get her opinion too. She thinks I'm fine..she did say that with rapid weight loss, you can get gallstones. WHAT?!
ReplyDeleteNever heard of the possibility of gallstones due to rapid weight loss. Hmm...hope you don't get any!
ReplyDeleteYeah...scary. I'm a BIG baby too. Let's hope I don't get them!!
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