like_mike (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} like_mike) wrote,@ 2006-12-24 22:42:00 |
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Weight consciousness
It sucks.
I found last summer that I could loose a little weight. I wasn't trying to loose weight, just trying to become active. I lost a good amount. I lost a good amount of my unwanted fat as well. I would say that in the last year I have cut out about 1/2 of the distance between my weight as of a year ago and the maximum of the healthy weight on those charts the doctors have. Not that I ever gave much creedence to those charts before. (Working at my office has given me a new perspective on health. It seems like 1/2 of the people I work with have diabetes or high blood pressure or high cholosterol. Most of them are 10-15 years older than me. Most of them because of their health have very restrictive diets or perhaps seem to work out out of serious health concerns. It scares the shit out of me. Not to mention that my father has serious heart problems).
Here is the thing, though. I think that I haven't lost much since at least September. I didn't really try in October or November. I have been stuck where I am for the last month of going to the gym, trying to restrict my diet, etc.... I look back and see the weight loss of last summer and see it as easy. I figure I can loose just as much weight and that would be ideal. However, now I feel stuck. I'm not sure how to get down further. I'm 1/2 way to my goal, but I can't move past that 1/2 marker.
Right now I am walking 2 miles a day w/ my mother. Then I do another 3 or so of walking and jogging intermixed on a treadmill at night. I'm not even expecting this to loose much weight because of holiday eating--which I'm trying to restrict greatly. I'm not even sure what I expect to loose in a month. I would like to see some progress.
It sucks.
I found last summer that I could loose a little weight. I wasn't trying to loose weight, just trying to become active. I lost a good amount. I lost a good amount of my unwanted fat as well. I would say that in the last year I have cut out about 1/2 of the distance between my weight as of a year ago and the maximum of the healthy weight on those charts the doctors have. Not that I ever gave much creedence to those charts before. (Working at my office has given me a new perspective on health. It seems like 1/2 of the people I work with have diabetes or high blood pressure or high cholosterol. Most of them are 10-15 years older than me. Most of them because of their health have very restrictive diets or perhaps seem to work out out of serious health concerns. It scares the shit out of me. Not to mention that my father has serious heart problems).
Here is the thing, though. I think that I haven't lost much since at least September. I didn't really try in October or November. I have been stuck where I am for the last month of going to the gym, trying to restrict my diet, etc.... I look back and see the weight loss of last summer and see it as easy. I figure I can loose just as much weight and that would be ideal. However, now I feel stuck. I'm not sure how to get down further. I'm 1/2 way to my goal, but I can't move past that 1/2 marker.
Right now I am walking 2 miles a day w/ my mother. Then I do another 3 or so of walking and jogging intermixed on a treadmill at night. I'm not even expecting this to loose much weight because of holiday eating--which I'm trying to restrict greatly. I'm not even sure what I expect to loose in a month. I would like to see some progress.
