OMG Do We Really Wanna Do This?

Well now Peg wrote a comment congratulating Barb and I on our weight loss program.  But she raised the question of "what about the exercise program?"  Well dear friend, the exercise program is something else indeed.  We went out on a beautiful Spring day and (ahem) drove around the neighborhood to map out a one mile course.  And we did find a nice route that measured somewhere between 0.9 and 1.0 miles .... close enough.  The weather turned mean and snarly so that has been put on hold.  We do have a treadmill at home and that represents another tale to tell.

Since we both have knee problems... I with both mine replaced and Barb with a split meniscus in her knee, so you can see that we want to ease into anything of that kind.  Me, being the older, decided to test the treadmill first.  So I decided to take it in 5 minute bites.. after all Romans weren't built in a day ya know.  I got onto the tread and turned the machine on at the slowest possible speed.  I looked and felt like Gary Cooper walking into Dodge at High Noon.  Anyway that proved to be toooo slow.  I only walked something like a quarter mile and burned all of four calories.  The next time I cranked it up a notch as Emeril says and got a slight bit further and burned all of 10 calories.
Sooo I have got to ease this baby up to where I am walking for a half hour and covering a real honest-to-god mile.

In the meantime, I am swinging my dumbbells around like a champ.  The first day I did three sets of 5 reps each for the waist, chest, arms and shoulders.  This way I can re-build those muscles that I originally awakened some sixty years ago.  The idea being that they will help me burn calories even when I am sleeping.  At least this is what the internet Gurus tell me.  The second day I increased to 3 sets of 10 reps and I died.  Too fast, too soon.  Luke tells me that I should do stretches before I made that comitment to kill myself.  He is right I was so sore the next day that I decided to start all over at 5  reps per set... aaaah much better.

Anyway to sum it all up.... after 21 days on this diet and so-called exercise program I have lost
12 pounds and an inch or so around my... circumference.  Too soon to call it a waist for now.