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 Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 3:10 am
I'm trying to lose weight, especially around my stomach, because I'm worried about the health risks of being overweight. I'm trying to do this slowly, in a manageable and healthy way, so my diet and exercise programs aren't as extreme as they could be, but should allow me to lose about a pound a week. My final goal is to go from 185 pounds to 140, which is my ideal weight, since I'm 5'3". For the diet part of it I'll be restricting myself to about 1200 calories per day. As for the exercise part, at the moment I'm doing
50 reverse crunches
50 baby pushups (the kind where you lean on your knees instead of your feet- I can't do normal ones)
500 jumping jacks
40 minutes walking at about 4 miles per hour.
On alternate days, I'll be doing the running program posted above, and supplementing it with extra time walking when necessary (for example, I started it today, so I did 1 minute running, 4 minutes walking x5. That's only 16 minutes walking, so I did an extra 24 minutes after that).
At the moment, I'm not really capable of jogging, but it was encouraging to learn that what I am doing will still burn a lot of calories because of how much I weigh. I'm also planning to start lifting weights soon (but I don't have any yet).
I'll keep this up for a week and see how it goes, probably modifying it a bit to add more exercise, which, of course, I'll need to do overtime to compensate for the fact that I'm losing weight and thus burning fewer calories with the same activities.
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:24 pm
Good luck! Let us know how it goes. biggrin
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:09 pm
Well, about five days later, it's succeeding so well it's a little creepy. I've been able to stick to the running program (much to my astonishment it is in fact possible for me to run for two minutes at a time) and to the 40 minutes of walking on alternate days, although I've discovered that I can't actually do it if I don't have 5 minutes of warm up first. I amended the baby pushups to pushups done with my feet on a bed or other relatively high object so as to exercise my arms better- I got the sense that the only thing normal pushups were doing was making my pectoral muscles sore- not even the muscles I was trying to strengthen. The jumping jacks were just a pain in the neck, so I dropped them after three days.
The end result of all this is that I seem to be losing about a pound a day. It makes no sense, given that I've always had a pretty slow metabolism, I don't think I'm growing, I'm eating a decent amount, and I'm not exercising THAT much.
Oh well. I guess I'll take what I can get.
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:46 am
first of all, WELL DONE!!! it's great that you've been sticking to this programme, and stay motivated whatever you do because it's great. i'm overweight, especially around the belly, so i have a similar situation to you. the reason u seem to be dropping about a pound a day si taht in the first week or two of a diet u seem to lose lots of weight because ur body is losing water weight, but after that if u keep to the lifestyle changes u've been making and keep up with ur exercise, you should be losing 1 or 2 pounds each week. some weeks u'll plateau and not lose any weight, which is perfectly normal aswell, u just have to keep going.
i've been struggling to lose weight for years, but i always lose commitement after a day or two, or a week at most. the longest i ever lasted was a month.
feel free to PM me... maybe we can help each other seeing as we're in similar situations?
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le-half-blood-princess Crew
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:30 am
Good going, just keep at it! Like Half-Blood said, you are probably losing your water weight which is okay so long as you stay hydrated. When I first started out I made the mistake of not drinking more water even though I was exercising more. It really takes a toll on your body.
At any rate, if you are like me and lack a lot of upper body strength then it really does help to start off doing push-ups at an incline. Chairs are good but I've found that it's easier to do them on a staircase, that way you can gradually work your way until you are doing them on the floor.
Good luck!
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:15 pm
Hi! Back again!
It was quite a while, but I assure you that although I was discouraged when it turned out all the initial weight loss was water weight, that I got started again pretty soon afterwards. I've now lost 35 pounds, and I can jog at 5 mph for 25 minutes at a time, although I generally don't. I'm on the running plan that's stickied here, and it's worked really well. I'm almost done with it for running 5 mph (Tomorrow is an off day, but I'll be doing 15 minutes running 1 minute walking x2 the day after), and am starting to restart it with running 6 mph, which, incredibly, I can barely do for two minutes even now.
I also joined the fencing team, which means pretty brutal strength and sort of gentle endurance training every day, whether I like it or not. I started fencing foil, but never really got the hang of it, and switched to sabre, which seemed much more natural to me. Foil still seems like a weird weapon to me, but I'm a near-decent sabreist for my age now- I can win most of my bouts at meets with other highschools, although I lose every single bout I fence at the fencing club. I fence 4-5 days a week after school, have a lesson on Saturdays, and generally go to the club in the evening once or twice a week.
As for today in particular, I ran my 15 minutes run 2 minutes walk x2 and still felt good, so I went for running 6mph 2 minutes running 3 minutes walking x5. I had wanted to do 2.5/2.5, but I found myself physically incapable of it. I think part of it was that I was unused to the new speed and my usual waddling gate wasn't working, so I had to figure out how to use my legs all over again. Maybe I can do 2.5/2.5 tomorrow.
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