August 01, 2008 - 235 pounds. Joined the Jewish Community center in order to use the gym.
January 22, 2009 - 220 pounds - after many HOURS on a treadmill. Started with 15 minute sessions at 3.5 mph, reached 20 minutes at 3.8 mph and an incline of 3.
May 10, 2009 - 200 pounds. I have been doing 45 minutes daily, at speeds from 4.3 to 4.8 mph and incline 11 (15 for last 5 minutes.) The coach wants me to add something besides treadmill, so I will be using the Cybex machines to build strength and muscle balance, and starting on the “Arc Trainer”, which has an elliptical motion. I could not reach 15 minutes on my first Arc Trainer session. When I can do 20 minutes, I will drop 10 minutes from the treadmill time.
August 2, 2009 - 175 pounds. 60 pounds lost, 15 to go. I am doing 35 minutes (each) on the arc trainer (incline 4, resistance 27) and the treadmill (incline 11, spd 4.3-5.4).
October 01, 2009 - 165 pounds on my 70th birthday! I am doing 35 minutes daily on the Arc Trainer (4, 29) and 35 minutes at 4.9 mph (average) and incline 14 on treadmill.
October 13, 2009 - 165 still! Add time and pace to ArcT, and increase treadmill - incline to 15 (maximum) and speed to 4.6-5.5 mph.
November 24, 2009 - 160 pounds, my target. Those last five pounds were REALLY hard to lose. I had to increase both intensity and duration to finally break through.
Thanksgiving (3-day break, plus overeating) added 3 pounds back, but I worked them off again in a few days... and then put back a pound! But now I intend to make 160 my ceiling weight, and try to stay UNDER it.
Before I started, I was taking 10 mg quinapril (ACE inhibitor), plus 50 mg metoprolol (beta blocker), and 8 mg Doxazosin (alpha blocker) for hypertension. Also, I took 40 mg Lasix, along with 20 Meq potassium for swollen ankles. I still need the quinapril, 2 mg of doxazosin instead of 8, and triamterine/HCTZ instead of Lasix and K-Dur. And I don’t need support hose any more!
Excellent!
Up until about 20 years ago weight wasn't an issue for me.I was,for example,165 lbs (6 feet tall),on the day I graduated from BCT.I looked like a red headed string bean wearing olive drab! But in the last 20 years I've gained...and lost...and regained...and re-lost...about the equivalent of 3 grown adults.The last time I lost a lot of weight (about 7 years ago) I went from moderate doses of several BP meds to a minimal dose of one med and my A1c went from quite high (can't recall the number) to completely normal.But then my hip went and therefore couldn't exercise...and,therefore,got very discouraged...
And now,I'm back on medium doses of a half dozen BP meds plus glucophage (oral diabetes med).But my hip is just now starting to feel OK (had it replaced last year) and I just resumed my old exercise regimen (less vigorously,per order of the orthopedic surgeon) and we'll see what happens.Both my primary care doctor and my cardiologist (both on the staff of a large Boston hospital) have told me that *my* diabetes and *my* BP issues are caused largely,if not entirely,by my weight.
It sounds like *you* have done a lot of work and have reason to be proud.You're clearly doing *your* part in lowering health care costs so we can afford to pay for all those millions of abortions under HusseinCare.
Sorry,just had to get a little politics into the mix.