Back on the Treadmill
I have been trying to keep my weight in a five-pound range without going back on the restricted calorie diet I used last fall or exercising regularly. I was curious to see whether or not my daily activities such as housework, chasing after A.J., walking around the office and that sort of thing would suffice to maintain my weight given that I generally eat a very healthy diet. Unfortunately, this weekend my weight passed the upper limit I set for myself, so today I did a half-hour session on the treadmill at a 5.0 incline. The first lap was very easy, but I was breaking a sweat by the last one. I'm going to see if I can get away with just doing a treadmill session each day without restricting calories at the same time. My husband and I also have discussed going vegetarian for a few weeks as an experiment. We probably will continue to have some meat available for A.J. since his nutritional requirements are very different from ours, but we won't consume any ourselves. First we have to get through all the meat that is already in the house, though.
