Most of the diet and exercise advice here is quite good, applause for the FReeper health bureau.
In addition, may I humbly recommend a few minutes every day of prayer? Miracles happen, all the time and in every place under the sun, but only when God wills them.
I will keep you in my prayers, you are the age of my youngest sibling. Thank you for your service. You have many things yet to do. May Our Lord grant you good health and good spirits that you may live to see all of your tasks completed.
I’ve lost almost 20 lbs in the past six months. I’m 48 and losing weight was never easy. I’ve still got about 40 to go.
I started by counting calories. The Jillian Michaels site is good because you can do a food log. This is imperative as you sometimes have NO idea of the calorie counts of what you are eating.
Know your calorie requirements and calculate how much you need to cut back to lose a specific amount.There are a lot of these type of calculators on the internet. I had to cut down to 1200 cals per day to start losing.
Then WALK. I started on my treadmill — first 20, then 30 minutes, now 45 to 50 per workout about 4-5 times a week. I’ve increased my speeds and tolerance over this entire year. I loaded up my favorite tunes on my I-phone and just walked to what I enjoyed listening to. I have a treadmill that tracks calories.
So, it’s good calories out and calories spent exercising — all leads up to pounds lost.
Once you get the weight off the HBA1C will come down, and so should the blood pressure. Also try to cut down on stress ... if you can. This is huge. Stress makes our bellies just expand.
I’m still working on it —shooting for a proper BMI. Look that up also. You need to be in the proper BMI range.
That’s it. I’m a cardiac RN and a fellow weight loss comrade. Will be working on it throughout this year to reach that golden BMI. Maybe we should start a Freeper weight loss group.
We need to be lean and mean to fight off the libs. :)