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Weight loss ups and downs - 800 Calorie - Newcastle

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I agree, terrain makes a big difference to the pace you can set. In trainers on roads and pavements I can nearly manage 5mph even with my short legs, particularly on the flat but if you factor in hiking boots and rough, muddy, uneven footpaths where you have to choose your footing and steeper inclines and descents it has a significant impact your overall speed.

My point was to push yourself a bit when out walking rather than just stroll as many people do. Walking with purpose rather than just as saunter as many people walking dogs do.
 
rebrascora said:
I agree, terrain makes a big difference to the pace you can set. In trainers on roads and pavements I can nearly manage 5mph even with my short legs, particularly on the flat but if you factor in hiking boots and rough, muddy, uneven footpaths where you have to choose your footing and steeper inclines and descents it has a significant impact your overall speed.

My point was to push yourself a bit when out walking rather than just stroll as many people do. Walking with purpose rather than just as saunter as many people walking dogs do.
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Walking with purpose (or if you’re near the sea then maybe with porpoise) makes all the difference.
 
rebrascora said:
I agree, terrain makes a big difference to the pace you can set. In trainers on roads and pavements I can nearly manage 5mph even with my short legs, particularly on the flat but if you factor in hiking boots and rough, muddy, uneven footpaths where you have to choose your footing and steeper inclines and descents it has a significant impact your overall speed.

My point was to push yourself a bit when out walking rather than just stroll as many people do. Walking with purpose rather than just as saunter as many people walking dogs do.
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Agreed @rebrascora and @ColinUK walking with purpose really makes a huge difference rather than just plodding along. Check out articles on walking speed "Walking speeds predict longevity - slow walkers die younger"

www.considerable.com

Walking speed could be a good indicator of longevity | Considerable

When it comes to your long-term health, slow and steady may lose the race. The speed at which you walk may be an indicator of your long-term health.
www.considerable.com www.considerable.com

abcnews.go.com

Walking Speed Predicts Who Will Live Longer

When researchers at the University of Pittsburgh pooled the data from nine large studies that involved more than 34,000 seniors, they were able to correlate walking speed in people 65 or older with expected longevity. The faster an older person can walk, the longer they can expect to live and...
abcnews.go.com abcnews.go.com

www.boomercafe.com

Health benefits of walking for people over age 50 - BoomerCafé

Walking is healthy, especially if you are over 50, and here are 6 facts to prove it.
www.boomercafe.com

Likewise walking up incline may not help your speed but you sure do get a great workout, strengthening muscles, bones, the whole lot. Also longer the distance aids endurance, also beneficial. And a recent article I read said dog walkers are healthier and have a longer life expectancy than non dog-walkers because they walk everyday. I use this to persuade Mr Mac2020 to let us move to the beach and get a red or golden retriever. He's still not convinced though!
 
94.1
 
I have just read an article in this week's New Scientist, Metabolism Myths exploring the exercise, diet, weigh enigma. The gist is the human body has ingenious ways to confound the logical. Hard to know who to 'blame'.
 
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A quick Google suggests that being able to walk a mile in around 16 minutes at 70 is good. So you're not far off that.
I know I walk quickly and I walk with intent rather than just for the sake of walking. That said I really ought to get out and walk more.

This makes interesting reading.... (it's a study into the impact of walking for distance or for time)

Europe PMC

Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.
europepmc.org europepmc.org
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This maps with what I've been doing. I've been trying to power walk* for 4.5-5 miles for round trips to things like appointments. At the 4 mile mark, I can feel that I've exhausted all the immediately available energy and it's tough doing the last 0.5-1 mile. A shorter walk of, say, 3 miles or for a 60-90 minute amble just doesn't seem to clear out the BG's anything like as effectively. Mind, my quads hate me this evening.

*loosely applied term to mean 3 mph at the moment as I am v. unfit. I used to walk everywhere until my 20s where 4.5 mph+ was power walking. I'll get there again.
 
94.1 (still. And willing it to break through the resistance level and get into the 93s - target is 86...)
 
I've just got Tom Watson's 'Downsizing' out from the library 'how I lost 8 stone, reversed my diabetes and regained my health' in an effort to gee me up a bit as struggling at the moment. Keep going @ColinUK 🙂
 
@Ditto That's a good read. And I'm not stopping until I get there!
 
Broken through the plateau it seems.
93.1 this morning.
5kg to drop to get me back to before Christmas weight.
 
ColinUK said:
Broken through the plateau it seems.
93.1 this morning.
5kg to drop to get me back to before Christmas weight.
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Best of luck Colin!

I have also slipped in the past couple of months, thanks to some planned relaxation over Christmas; the cold weather; and Lockdown blues & boredom

I was about 83kg on Christmas Eve, now I'm about 86kg, but have re - started the diet

I'm hoping that I will soon be 85kg again, and my plan is to get to 80kg
 
Great news @ColinUK 🙂 I'm getting nowhere fast. :D Good luck with your diet @zuludog 🙂
 
Diabetes review weigh-in next Thursday. So going to be ridiculously strict for the week.

Although I did just have a tiny Lindt lindor egg. But eggs are low carb right?!
 
Thought my HbA1C might have ticked up a little given that it covers some awful months just past and it has indeed ticked up to 40.
Next one will be down and better than it was before.
 
As you all know I’ve been struggling. Mental health has taken a real battering and sleep is non existent.
Standard stress response is to eat so I have been and I’ve been avoiding the scales.
Yesterday I had a good day food wise (scrambled eggs, smoked salmon for brunch and a spicy broccoli, cherry tomato, courgette ribbons with a tiny piece of chicken stir fry thing) and today I’ve had three of the good old exante shakes (from the supply I’ve already got) plus a handful of almonds and some cubes of cheddar.
No walk today as I honestly didn’t really feel like engaging with the outside world at all. Tomorrow I’ll walk and then later I’ve a Survivors group on Zoom.
I’ve also told work I’d like to do two half days next week and then four the week after to ease myself back in.
Oh and have to head to the doc’s on Friday to have blood drawn as there’s an “anomaly” with my kidney function results.

So the least I can do is do my best to avoid the temptation to comfort eat and to drop weight again.

I’m hoping that it’ll be easier this time but of course I know that’s possibly not the case. What is easier is that I’m different to how I was last time. I’m starting at a lighter weight and I know I can do it.

I’m not going to rely on the shakes entirely this time as I feel that’s not best for me so I’ll be cracking open the cookbooks and making real food as well as using them.

I’ll weigh myself in the morning and won’t be overly shocked if I’m 100kgs. Until then, good night folks.
 
@travellor took longer than 8 weeks to get the weight off last time but I did basically stick to the shakes.
 
100kg on the nose. Let the feelings of inadequacy and self recrimination for putting on 15kg be just loud enough for me to lose each and every one of them again.
 
Sorry you're having a tough time! Dealing with stuff without comfort eating is really hard - like a major support has been removed.
 
Just signed into the exante site to see what new flavours they’ve got and BOOM! D5211CCB-FD27-4CB8-9619-72E70773DAF3.png
 
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