Weight loss Mar 1- April 16 = 11.25lbs
Starting my 3 prong action plan today - diet,weight training,and walking.
Diet: Starting slowly,implementing simple things first,e.g no pastry,biscuits,sugar etc.I need to get my head around an eating plan. I always used Slimming World Green plan in the past to lose weight,but I ate huge amounts of carbs,cutting out fats almost entirely, LCHF stands everything I believed in on its head,so I am wincing at examples of the diet lol.Tomorrow will do a grocery shop,lots of protein and veg,but much less fruit. The nurse told me to cut down from my usual 6-7 pieces of fruit a day to only 3
. I am eyeing my overloaded fruit bowl very disconsolately. Will have to step up the veggies instead!
Weight Training: For several years I have been been housebound with numerous health issues,including a stroke and a hysterectomy. Crippled by arthritis I have done no exercise,and I am sure my muscles have completely atrophied.I'm a total weakling who finds it difficult even to get up out of the chair lol.I am going to do some strength exercises 3 times a week,starting extremely slowly. I got weights and even the cast iron dumbell bar alone weighs 1.5 kg,just about the level for my pitiful arm muscles.So I will start with that without weights lol.Only very short session,with basic curls,presses and lateral raises. Ooh,dont I sound like the complete weightlifter,even though that is almost my entire fund of knowledge in the arcane topic.
Walking: My knees were so bad that for the last 3 years I was on two sticks even indoors. I have seen me literally crying with pain just cooking the meals. Now,nearly 5 months after my second knee being replaced,with a very rough and slow recovery I am down to one stick,and have been able to go for short walks for the last week.I am doing 2 15 minute walks 4 days a week,slowly increasing the distance,though the speed is still pitiful,a 40 minute mile. But I am improving,should do better in time.
At least I have got the weights and walking in place,so I need to concentrate on the food. I have 10 weeks to get my HbA1c down from 49 to the normal 45 if I am to keep out of the clutches of the docs.Can but try.
Wish me luck.
