While I like getting the extra hour in the fall, it always seems like a rip off to give it back in the spring.
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Weighting in everyday for most people is counter productive. They start focusing on the daily number and not the week to week progress or better yet Month to Month. Three pounds a month every month until you reach your target weight is considered ideal. As a diabetic I can tell you it is the amount of exercise we do each day that reduces the glucose number more so than weight loss. Weight loss is very important to allowing us to control the glucose level by diet as opposed to medicine. Both of these are very important to our over all health. I wish I could say I am doing better than you on weight control but I would have to lie. I do good on diet but not so well on the exercise.
Do you do any weight/resistance training? It’s something you could work into your daily routine. 5 mins here and there.
A thought on the exercise – have you considered adding something more related to upper body exercise? Perhaps your legs have acclimated to the point where you’re just not getting as much benefit from the walking?
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That’s good insight to have, John. I know that weighing in every day isn’t the best practice, but I find that if I don’t get in the habit of doing it, I forget when the time comes. It’s not part of my day so it doesn’t happen.
Stephen and Tara: I’m thinking that adding some simple exercises that I can do beside my desk would help a great deal. Ten jumping jacks, ten curls, and ten pushups won’t take much time but will help a lot with core and upper body. I figure that they’ll help over the next few weeks – particularly if I do two or three reps a day.
Just simply standing up and sitting back down (in a slow controlled manner) a few times can do a lot.
Yeah. Something short that you can do whilst waiting for water to boil, etc. Also, squats. Even without weights they are awesome.