Week three

Week 3 might be an unusual way to start a blog, but it was only tonight that I was asked to do one...and I thought....why not?

I started 2017 having put on over a stone and a half in 2016. I can explain the weight gain. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia early in the year and could barely put one foot in front of the other. Walking was painful so I only did the minimum I could get away with. Medication eventually managed the symptoms but by then I'd already started to put a bit on. I've since been told that the medication can cause weight gain. Then, in a typical reaction to getting bigger, I didn't try as hard and put a bit more on.
Holidays were another excuse and Christmas was the final cherry on top of the cake (almost literally). I told myself that I'd get it together in the new year. I'd almost made myself sick with the amount of rubbish I'd eaten.
Coincidentally I met Debs at our  Marina craft group and she'd been looking at Slimming World.
That was the start.
My husband John had been going to the gym three days a week for ages. I'd stopped going when the pain started and I just hadn't gone back.
So New Years resolutions were to lose weight and to get fitter.
Seven of us from the marina started going to the Willington Tuesday 5.30 group, led by Toni on 3rd. January, the day after I'd started back to the gym and decided on a walking regime.

I am now going to the gym thre times a week as much as I can. On Mondays I'm doing a 5k walk on the treadmill. The first time I managed to do the 5k in just over an hour. I now have got it down to just over 55 minutes. I'm  unlikely to get to run, because the last time I tried it my knees and back suffered. But never say never.
On the other two days I do 20 minutes on the treadmill, 1000 metre row and between 24 or 30 repeats on various machines to build up different muscle group.
As well as that I'm trying to walk at least three times around the marina every day, which is about a mile each time. I've got a Fitbit and have upped my target from 10,000 to 12,000 steps a day.
As for food, it's basically cutting out fats and sugars and eating LOTS of fruit and vegetables.