What you won't find in here is the latest diets as I've never followed a fad diet in my life and I don't indent to start now. When I have lost weight in the past it's been through a balanced diet and exercise and then more exercise. Not that my diet is perfect now far from it but I have started to exercise more and felt a huge difference in the way I feel.
I've had a lot of people ask me what I do to lose weight. It simple I walk a lot more than I used to and when I can take a longer walk between two places I walk with a walking group once a week and then try to walk another two time by myself. I want to get to the point where I'm walking three to four times a week but at the moment that's all my knees can cope with as I have arthritis in both my knees and if I lose weight there will be less stress on my knees and the further I will able to walk.
I also ten pin bowl in a league with my brother once a week. I personally think the key to exercise is to enjoy it. Once I get better fitness I am hoping to get back on the bike and get some rides in. I also play with my ten year old cat who still loves to be chased around the house like a kitten.
Other forms of exercise I've been told are good for weight loss are.
- Mowing the lawn - It's a high intensity walking workout
- Vacuming the house - If you keep doing it for more than 20 minutes
- Playing with a cat - I know this from personal experience as my ten year old cat still loves to play.
All of the above must be working. I don't weigh myself on scales and I am doing a weight loss group at the moment and have been told not to measure yourself is far more accurate that weighing yourself as there are too many variables with scales.
I went into a shop I haven't been able to fit in their clothes for ages and tried a shirt on I liked and it fitted me a size 22 while it still a big size it was a victory for me as it was smaller than what I used to get into. I think I might have dropped a clothes size already and it was a really nice feeling.
I'm a great believer it not a number on scale that counts it how you feel health wise and how your clothes feel on you is far more important I don't know how much weight I've lost and I don't care my pants that used to be snug on me are now needing belts to help them stay up and a pair of jeans that I used to wear a belt with on the first hole I can almost get to the second hole they are victories for me and the best way to gauge where my weight is at.
If you have read this far I hope my rant was helpful and sorry it went for so long. Thanks for reading and I will write once a week or something new and exciting happens,
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