I’ll bet that diabetes would be a less serious (perhaps *much* less serious) problem if we,as a people,vowed to stop being fat slobs.Being overweight is a *huge* factor (in this country at least) in the diabetes problem.
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!