Weight loss, exercise, toning muscles, trying to get into shape….have all gone out the window in the past 7 mos.

‘Had to drop my horseback riding lessons back in Jan 2008 due to A- a 3 wk case of bronchitous, then B- just not having the money to continue anymore…

Since the last job ended in Dec 2007, i’ve mostly spent my days hanging around the apartment, looking thru Monster.com postings & the like…so i’m not longer getting even the mild activity that having a regular job provides

I located a dance studio with a really great monthly rate: $85.oo for all the classes you want to take,,,,but yet each month i cant scrape up enough to sign up with them

i SHOULD at least take some daily / weekly walks….my knees and one hip hurt alot due to the weight i’m carrying,,,,but then my knees hurt and the humidity gets so oppressive that i dont feel like venturing out at all…

Thus from all this inactivity, my weight is starting to inch up abit. Not much, maybe between 6-8 lbs. But enough to sqeeze me back out of some of the clothes i’d been wearing; enough to put me back on the size 16W/18 fence, where is next to impossible to find cheap clothes that fit.

Arrggh! i hate it, i hate my current weight, i hate how i look in photos, because i can no longer blame the weight-inducing drugs that got me here—its up to me now to get this damned weight off

too bad i’m a mostly lazy, fat slob
:P

I do not drive. I do a lot of walking, some running.

The difference is palpable, sensible. The difference is visible.

Life is much more humble, not having a vehicle of your own. But I’m getting in shape.

I am walking over a mile several times a week and also lifting weights to try to get back in shape. My heart doc says “yes.” Over the past several weeks I have been able to push my MHR to 110% of my stress test done back in March. I am feeling better and have more energy.

just cuz i’m spending time this evening, switching over my calendar’s,,,i thot i’d jot down all my notations of weight loss this year… It’s not strictly progress toward the “tone muscles & exercise heart” goal, but it IS moving towards health. And, besides, after four years of having no control over the GAINING, i’m going to truly relish the last 8mos of LOSING

_{wheeeeeeeee !!!}

Meds Change: April 14 2006

initial weight: somewhere over 250lbs

_{(honestly, i’d stopped looking…)}

• july 10 2006: 228lbs

• july 31 2006: 224lbs

• august 13 2006: 221lbs

• october 26 2006: 219lbs

• november 22 2006: 210lbs

• december 26 2006: 205lbs

...i was a TAD vain in hoping i’d clear the 200lbs mark by the end of 2006,,,but all & all…thats about 50lbs lost. Not bad at’tall. ‘Cant wait to see where i’ll be a year from now!

without any real effort on my part, but because of medication changes in apr 2006,,,,,i have, as of this week, officially dropped 40+ lbs woo hoo!

i was somewhere over 250lbs (kinda just stopped looking after hitting 250lb, because there wasnt much i could do about it) Now that i’ve been taken off the “Weight-Inducing” meds, and put again on a “weight neutral” med, the artifical weight has been steadily coming off. I dont have any set routine about checking my weight, just whenever i happen to have the time and am ‘sans clothing’, i’ll check the scale. Yesterday’s read-out:210lbs

yay yay yay!

if things continue as it has in the past, i should drop down to 180lbs w/o any effort. Then’s when i’ll have start mindfully whittling off the additional 30lbs. I think being a 5’6” woman medium build woman in her 40’s, that weighing in the 150lbs’ would be a pretty healthy weight for me. I’ll never be “buff”; just want to focus on maintaining health… I have gotten horseback riding and walking back into my weekly life—perhaps then i could add back the strength training and dance lessons….

if for no other reason, i’ve Got To get this weight off to salvage my KNEES! Theyre being pulverized by carrying all this poundage around….
;D

required to maintain health…

• Walking—ideally, 10,000 steps per day

• Strength Training—30mins per week, to increase metabolic rate

• Cardio—a sweating workout for 60mins/week, can be broken up into 20minute workouts

• Stretching—5mins worth each day

• schedule the time necessary to exercise daily

Go away, extra pounds! Run! Be free!

Made it to the gym tonight, for the 2nd time in a month (this is an improvement; before it’d been since xmas & my illness) I not only got on 8 of my 10 assigned strength training machines (about 9800 lbs lifted), did 17 mins on the treadmill, and 6 laps in the pool,,,,,,but the scale in the gym said i was 203 lbs – - when i last weighed in at 231 lbs! i couldnt quite believe it, & checked it again After my workout, & it read 195lbs (loss of fluids). I’ve been doing accupuncture treatments for a digestive disorder since June, & had not realized that my food absorption & metabolism had improved that much (tho i’ve been feeling Much better..!)

So yea!! Progress on Two Fronts!!