Dog FOOD and Exercise

How would you feel if you carried around four 20-pound bags of dog food all day? DOG TIRED! 2 years ago, I used to weigh 80 pounds more and that’s how I felt. Run down. Exhausted.

Now I feel marvelous. Did I take a quick-fix pill or follow a fad diet? No, I just ate less and exercised more. That’s the only thing that really works.

Now that Beth is off to England, I’m getting back to business. I have 30 more pounds to go. It’s time to get busy.

I’m tweaking my exercise routine.

-- Monday and Wednesday, I’m on the treadmill.
-- Tuesday and Thursday, I take Pilate’s. It’s not as tough as last fall. I’m improving … slowly. When we’re on the mats, I can even touch my feet to the floor above my head. Not bad for 55.
-- Then (weather permitting), I’m walking 4 miles a day on Saturday and Sunday.
-- I get Fridays off. (I LOVE FRIDAYS!)

I want to push myself further on the treadmill.
First 5 minutes … 15% incline … 3.7 mph
Second 5 minutes … 15% incline … 3.8 mph
Third 5 minutes … 14% incline … 3.9 mph
Fourth 5 minutes … 14% incline … 4 mph
Fifth minutes … 13% incline … 4.1 mph
Last 5 minutes … 13% incline … 4.2 mph

Not bad for someone who used to be ready to die at 3 mph on the flat.


Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Gravel Road FITNESS




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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