lnr | Healthy You - second session (Reply)

Weight loss talk

So Tuesday was a) my birthday and b) my second online class with the Tier 3 Weight Management "Eat well, move more" Healthy You programme.

We have a workbook to accompany the course, and I was somewhat surprised to discover us jumping ahead to session 4, which was entirely about exercise. So this fortnight's session didn't contain anything about food at all. We had about half an hour talking about exercise recommendations, and about half an hour of gentle exercise. And a suggestion at the end of making another SMARTER goal around exercise "snacking" again. I did mention that last week's goal had made me cross, and the course leader for exercise sounded surprised, but did ask why. I explained that the goal did not seem very relevant to me, as I already meet and exceed most of the NHS exercise suggestions, and that this was adding 5 minutes a day, burning around 17 calories, and not getting my heart rate into even the moderate zone. With an inadvertent pun I said that while I'd done it anyway it felt like a bit of a pointless exercise. So, I have suggestions of things to do this week - increasing the time or distance of my existing exercise, or to increase the intensity of my cycling if it's safe to do so. I can also up the weights or intensity of my "snacking" but if I do I should make sure I had a proper warm-up and cool down to make sure I don't cause any injury. Which I suppose is fair enough.

So at the moment I don't have a SMARTER goal (I can't remember the ER anyway, Evaluate and Review? Something else?) but just a woolly thought of OK, I'll add 5 minutes throughout the day, I'll try to add something flexibility and something balance and a squat or similar for legs and something with weights for arms and something like their seated plank for core muscles. But 5 minutes a day still feels pointless. I think what would *actually* be good would be finding a pilates class, preferably on a Friday late morning or early afternoon! Plus trying to actually notice when my watch tells me I haven't moved enough this hour. It buzzes at xx:50 every hour during the day time, and I ignore it.

Second dose of Wegovy taken. No effects or side effects noticed yet. I do have a bit of a stiff neck today, and I think maybe he was right about not waving round a pair of 2kg weights without warming up. Or maybe I'm just not very well, I have a slight headache too.

I've also noted another new change bloody Google have made to the Fitbit app. As well as removing the web pages where you could look at your data they've now also update the weight tracking bits of the app itself. It no longer has a BMI over time chart (which I liked to use/screenshot when sharing information with health professionals) but also it's changed the number of points it displays on the "All time" graph. I've got weight numbers going back to 1994. Sometimes only one or two entries a year, but sometimes a reading every week. It's showing about 30 or so points in total, and the rounding as a result means some things you could point to on the graph are no longer visible. You can't see my sister's wedding any more (losing weight to fit in my bridesmaid dress). It's hopeless! So I'm going to have to export all the more recent data which isn't also recorded elsewhere and start constructing my own graphs again. Gah!