Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Sat Feb 02, 2013 10:22 am
OkayK I had a bad week last week too. And no period to blame it on. Starting over today.
My knees knocked me for a loop last week. I stayed off the treadmill for a few days and noticed some improvement but our house is a split level so stairs are a HUGE issue. There's no bathroom on the main living floor (office, family room, kitchen, dining and my desk) so I found myself drinking less so I wouldn't have to do as many stairs. My pedometer numbers are interesting:
Sunday: 5742 Treadmill
Monday: 2445 Knees hurt
Tuesday: 2291 Knees
Wednesday: 3184 Knees were almost better but I took it easy & IKEA lunch
Thursday: 1548 Knees were only sore on stairs, did 30 min on Nordic Trak, paperwork all day
Friday: 833 Knees really sore on stairs and when I got up from sitting. I did paperwork all day
Part way through the day yesterday I switched to sitting on the exercise ball because I keep tucking my legs under the chair and leaning forward which makes the knees worse. That cut my steps vs the day before because 1) ball is more comfortable on my butt so I don't get up to stretch as much, and 2) the ball is hard to get settled on so I hate to pop up 'for a sec'.
The numbers and trend was scary enough that I'm back on the treadmill today. Low incline and no great speed but I don't want to let myself stop exercising completely and it is a long, long drive to an indoor pool and I don't like swimming (which is more 'not drowning' in my case.)
Not sure if the Nordic Trak made the stairs harder or not. I definitely felt the knees as much on it as I do on the treadmill.
On the plus side, the heart rate was way higher, it is a much tougher workout for me than walking.
I ended the month down 6lbs but am tentatively touching the 169, not solidly there (the last few days I alternated 170/169/170/169, had there been 32 days in Jan, I might have only lost 5 lbs!
Goal for this month is just 4 lbs (short month.) Since I've only lost 1 pound in the past 2 weeks, that is a very aggressive goal.
Not sure if I'll give up the gluten reduction. I was desperate for a grilled cheese sandwich (had been for 2 days) so broke down and had it. In general, my eating wasn't too bad yesterday, it was the lack of movement and lower water intake that was off program.
So I'm restarting WW (was off from Wednesday on last week.) And I'm going to try to alternate between treadmill and nordic trak. It isn't as pleasant to do because I'm in the basement and I've got nothing to distract me except music since I can't do my computer while on it and with bifocals, I can't read either even though I have a book holder for it.