Well, August 28 marked one year since I started trying to lose weight AGAIN. I lost 15 pounds in 10 weeks, then quit exercising and gained 8 of them back by January when I found this website and was encouraged to try again. I'm not where I had hoped by now, but I still lost 45 pounds this past year. (260 last August, 215 now) Not as quickly as I would like, but definitely a start in the right direction.The first exercise we started with last August was swimming, but by October the water temp was down to 70 degrees and it was just too cold. So we started walking 10 minutes at a time--5 minutes away from the house, and 5 minutes back. We increased it a little at a time before we quit walking. At the end of January, we started walking again and started with 15 minutes, and added about 5 minutes to our daily walk each week until we got up to 40 or 50 minutes. It's hard to find much more time than that to exercise! Some days we do Leslie Sansone's Walk Away the Pounds: Walk & Kick DVD. Some days we don't manage to exercise at all, but we're moving much more overall. Every now and then, I even count my "weekly home blessing" or shopping and running errands as my exercise if it's been a really busy day and there wasn't time for anything else. (Have you ever stopped to think how much exercise you get rushing through the grocery store?!!) August ended with 24 exercise stickers out of 31 days.
My weight hasn't been dropping much lately, so I'm trying to watch what I eat a little more. Some days I decide not to eat past 4:00 or 5:00 in the evening, and I think that has helped the past couple of weeks. Staying busy and drinking lots of water till I go to bed helps. I've been having fun flinging clothes lately. My closet is beginning to get empty, since so many things were too big for me. When the weather begins to cool off a little more and the temp stays out of the 90's, I'll shop for some jeans and a few other things. Shopping is definitely more fun now than it used to be, though I still have far to go. Dawn and Angel, hope you are both doing well and still flying!
