I was able to visit Bo this past week and step on the Tanita scale again. The results for the first 18 days...drum roll, please...9.80 pounds! (I'm an accountant and like to round my numbers, so 9.8 sounds a lot like 10 pounds!)
The breakdown of the weight loss is: 3.8 pounds of FAT (picture chicken fat, blechk), 4.6 lbs of water (remember, I guessed that about 5 of my first week 7 pound loss was water), and the remaining 1.4 pounds from muscle and bone.
Since the diet is pretty high protein, and since I am moving a lot more than I used to, I doubt that much muscle will be lost in the long term. Maybe I need to add in some strength training to make sure? (Strength training sounds impressive, but really, I have to start with very light weights...like tuna cans!)
Breni, here's what I posted on Medical Weight Loss Center FB this morning and it would be a great place to start!
ReplyDeleteDo you have 3 minutes? Your core will thank you!
1 minute of push-ups
1 minute of sit-ups
1 minute of the plank hold
Do as many as you can for 1 minute, write it down. Make this 3 minutes a priority everyday, along with your 10,000 steps and your whole body will thank you!
Do you have 6 minutes? Mix these in between your upper body core work.
1 minute of squats
1 minute of lunges
1 minute wall sit
Add your cans of tuna bicep/tricep curls to the lower body workout!
You can do it!
Sweet! I'm going to try this.
ReplyDeleteGood job, mom! I'm cheering you on!
Or, I could spend a couple hours pulling weeds! That works my arms pretty well, at least judging by how sore I am afterward.
ReplyDeleteBrenda,
ReplyDeleteI think you are making great progress and I love following your blog. Keep up the good work.
Tonya Ashbrooks Strocsher