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Jean
Ok, this is confession time as well as time to tell what I have really learned during this past week and a half.
I have been overweight ever since chemo(don't ask me how I gained but I did) and then when I was too sick with my valve prior to surgery I put on more. I talk a good story about exercise, but it such a chore to get my butt off the couch after supper and dishes! I do the farm work, but it isn't anything different from day to day most times. I am pretty sedentary in the classroom--you can only walk so far in a 30 x 20 room.
I have had blood pressure problems (140- 160s) since surgery especially during the school year. And I really want to get off all meds.
So I joined Weight Watchers On Line. I don't have time for meetings and stuff like that does not interest me. I really like the on line plan. I can eat what I want within the points. I also need to exercise for the plan to work.
Well--excuse me while I toot my horn--I am doing great. The best part is the 20+ point drop in the blood pressure. I exercised moderately 30 minutes a night for 5 nights last week, an hour walk Saturday and back to 30 min. a night this week. By Sunday, my bp was in the 120s. Yesterday and today it was 117 and 114. And I have lost 4 pounds. And I don't even feel cheated with the holiday goodies I can only nibble. Sunday at our family dinner, I found myself being turned off by some of my more obese relatives piling it on the plate two and three times...nothing like a new convert to be critical...I know I have to watch that.
I feel good and just wanted to pass this on. I still have to talk to myself to get on the exer-cycle or take a walk, but I do it now, because I know it is worth it. I have been walking maybe one or two days a week, but not very religiously until now. I am so happy with the drop in bp and weight.
I'm sorry if I am insufferable.
I have been overweight ever since chemo(don't ask me how I gained but I did) and then when I was too sick with my valve prior to surgery I put on more. I talk a good story about exercise, but it such a chore to get my butt off the couch after supper and dishes! I do the farm work, but it isn't anything different from day to day most times. I am pretty sedentary in the classroom--you can only walk so far in a 30 x 20 room.
I have had blood pressure problems (140- 160s) since surgery especially during the school year. And I really want to get off all meds.
So I joined Weight Watchers On Line. I don't have time for meetings and stuff like that does not interest me. I really like the on line plan. I can eat what I want within the points. I also need to exercise for the plan to work.
Well--excuse me while I toot my horn--I am doing great. The best part is the 20+ point drop in the blood pressure. I exercised moderately 30 minutes a night for 5 nights last week, an hour walk Saturday and back to 30 min. a night this week. By Sunday, my bp was in the 120s. Yesterday and today it was 117 and 114. And I have lost 4 pounds. And I don't even feel cheated with the holiday goodies I can only nibble. Sunday at our family dinner, I found myself being turned off by some of my more obese relatives piling it on the plate two and three times...nothing like a new convert to be critical...I know I have to watch that.
I feel good and just wanted to pass this on. I still have to talk to myself to get on the exer-cycle or take a walk, but I do it now, because I know it is worth it. I have been walking maybe one or two days a week, but not very religiously until now. I am so happy with the drop in bp and weight.
I'm sorry if I am insufferable.
