I think (hope) I’ve found a way to bust through this plateau. It always boils down to “Eat less. Exercise more.” Right now, I’m having a problem eating less, so I’m trying to exercise more on the weekends.
I fractured my diet over Thanksgiving, so I decided to walk 4 miles a day that Saturday and Sunday. Maybe, it would undo the damage. Why can’t I just keep that up? So this weekend, I did the same. At my weight, walking 4 miles in an hour burns up 432 calories. If you weight more, you’ll burn more calories. This is the calorie calculator I used - http://walking.about.com/library/cal/uccalc1.htm It doesn’t consider the incline.
According to the treadmill at the gym, I’m burning 400 calories - 3 nights a week. I’m not sweating for an hour, but I'm walking up hill. All totaled, I’m exercising off 2,000 calories per week. A pound is 3,600 calories. Providing I keep my eating under control, I should lose 3 to 5 pounds a month. Of course, that’s the rub. Exercise more, but don’t eat more.
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