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The Reduction Diaries
The diaries of a woman shedding 57% of her body weight by December 24, 2006. She'll also be shedding clutter, bad habits, toxic people, and probably a few tears along the way.Age: 30 Height: 5'9 Starting Weight: 381 LBS Goal Weight: 165 LBS Total Planned Loss: 216 LBS
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Exercise Goal: To be walking 65 Minutes a day by December 1, 2005 Current Exercise: Trying To Walk 15 Minutes A Day E-mail: thereductiondiaries at gmail dot com |
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Saturday, May 21, 2005
Weigh In Day 1: The Week In Review Weight: 340 LBS [No Change] Exercise Goal: 35 minutes of walking per day for minimum of 5 days Achieved? Y Exceeded? Y So, no change this week weight-wise, but for some reason I'm not as torn up about it as I thought I would be. I think I thought it would be worse. This has been a very difficult week to work on avoiding emotional eating and I wasn't as good at that as I had hoped to be. At least I managed to keep up with the exercise, and I even exceeded my time today and walked for 40 minutes instead of 35. The other possible reason for the no-loss thing... I think I ate way too few calories this week. I kept thinking I was just hungry because I was so sad and lonely, but maybe I was {partly} really that hungry. What I need to do is find out exactly how many calories I'm eating, and how many I need and should eat, to help me walk that thin line between way too much and way not enough. ;-) I promised a review of the bellydancing DVD the other day, but I'm going to be {ouch} brutally honest. I couldn't do the whole thing, I'm too out of shape. Also, I only did it twice. Not enough for a fair review. There, I admitted it. Please don't think I'm a hopeless numpty. The reason I wanted to add an exercise video to my routine is because I already... already! ...feel my body acclimating to the walking, which means my heart rate is not really getting up there as much (unless I do big hills, but those are also very hard on my knees and ankles) and I'm not really sweating. A little sheen on my forehead. I know from my days as a fit youngster that when I am really in the zone, I sweat like a son of a gun, so that's a sign that I need more. I have found some older workout tapes in a second-hand book store, so maybe some of those will be more to my level. I plan to add workout videos to my routine the week after the next week, for three days a week, as well as walking 45 minutes a day for five days a week. That actually might change, depending on how anxious I get to see some progress! Wish me less! |