Wednesday, August 10

Thanks Bob Greene

Who is Bob Greene?? Well, lovely friends, Bob is Oprah's personal trainer and Bob has just answered my question re: dilemma of not losing weight while exercising 3 times a week.

He thinks you should not weigh yourself for 2 MONTHS after starting to exercise. Now, I am not going to do this but the explanation that goes with it has explained to me why I am staying around the same at the moment.

When you first start exercising after a long time inactive, your body is usually severly dehydrated from lack of fluid intake. So much so, that it is used to retaining fluid to keep your body hydrated. When you start to exercise, you need water. You start to drink more water than normal (especially if you are making a concientious effort to make the whole 8 glasses a day thing). As your body is still in the mode of retaining, it does so with the new water intake until it regulates itself which takes about 2 months to level out. So there you go people!!! Works for me! Thanks Bob.

Will come back later for the Wednesday Weigh In (and we all know: if I put on or stay the same - it's due to the exercise and water thing baby!!).
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