Postby Harriet » Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:57 pm
Fantastic that you are at 5 miles so consistently, Nancy.
Have fun and success with your walks-to-runs, OKay!
Today I went to my hormone dr and as usual, felt anxious about it all day yesterday, felt like a weight lifted as I left his office! LOL! Oh, how I love being finished with a dr's appt. He is adjusting my thyroid med to a median dose between my previous one and the one I take now. He says no problem to cut a pill in half to accomplish this.
According to his records, I've lost 3.5 pounds in 6 months. So I must have gained a few after that appt., although just clothing and time of day can change things by a few pounds - don't know.
In Nov I lost 2.5 and in Dec I lost 2.5, then in Jan I lost 1, for 6 pounds lost in the past three months.
He has a list of healthy things he advises. Under exercises, one of them is an elliptical, which I was interested to see. Also there's the exercise he does, which is P90X videos, and I mentioned to him that's the one my ds26 does. He (dr) says he has done it faithfully for 4 years, 5 days a week (and he is NOT 26 any more - at least 5 years older than me). I told him I felt it was beyond me, and without actually agreeing with me he said, "It's demanding." Um, yeah, I think that's an understatement. He is a man, though, and theoretically able to do more strenuous or more weight-bearing things. Anyway, if any of our menfolk are interested, that's a definite "man's type" of video exercise with one dr's high recommendation.
What do I need from February? I need to lose a few pounds - I would like to see 2 go. I need to tone up more, so I would like to see consistent exercise - in 29 days of February I would like to accumulate 10 hours of exercise (that is not incidental to housework). I'll be keeping a calendar.
25 minutes tonight: Warm up and Cool down from Biggest Loser DVD, plus Basic TTapp.
I watched the first workout of the Biggest Loser exercise DVD and this is somewhat do-able if I modify it. The problem is all the super-high-impact jumping, which you just wouldn't do in your home. They are at a gym, of course, so the pounding, repetitive jumping-jacks/jump-roping is acceptable. Not for anyone who pays the bills on a frame home, though, or lives with other people! plus I don't really think high-impact is always safe. It's a 6-week program (min of 4 times a week) that is tough even at first (winners of BL are the exercisers, with Bob) and adds 15 more minutes the 3rd and 4th week, then 10 minutes the 5th and 6th week so that you are at 55 minutes, then reduces to 45 for maintenance, 3 times a wk.