zootMutant wrote:Welcome Rodger and Daz!
Been out of touch for a while... but that's a subject for a different post.
Glad to see my mates have been taking care of you.
Well done to you both for starting and sticking with your programs! =D> =D> =D>
Thanks zoot, and thank you for an excellent thread too =D>
As a little side note about the monitoring stuff, I am not doing it to try and obsess over my performance as such...I don't think you can call my level of fitness anything close to "performance" lol but for someone looking to lose weight, overhaul their health, change their lifestyle and generally enter a new world of trying to take care of themselves, then the more monitoring the better, in terms of charting progress, increasing motivation as a result of that progress and monitoring what effect, good or bad, diet and lifestyle is having, if for no other reason than to know when to change course and try something else to carry on with those improvements.
I am monitoring and recording my weight, food intake, exercise taken, blood glucose levels (under control via diet without medication to almost non diabetic levels 90% of the time) blood pressure (on a downward trend), resting heart rate during the day (6 months ago this was 90 bpm, it's now between 70 and 80... proper resting heart rate in bed having just awoken was 56 but I have no personal benchmark as such for that figure) and heart rate during exercise. I am doing this also, in the hope that I can go to my doctors in 6 months time and say look at this data, improvements (hopefully) are coming, I don't need medication for this that and the other (I have a few health concerns that I would rather tackle through lifestyle changes than medication if at all possible, taking data is part of evidence gathering over time to demonstrate tangibly those changes and subsequent improvements, as well as the reasons stated above).
I can see how monitoring of some things, in some ways can shift the focus from some people's goals and perhaps serve as a distraction, but my goals are enhanced via the monitoring for a myriad of reasons.
Additionally, I have been offered this past week, medication to help me lose weight. Why I would need or want such medication now I am well into my journey I have no idea. I do know you get more help the more you can demonstrate your own commitment to changing your lifestyle, but to my mind, the help should be during the dark days where the patient can't seem to tackle their demons, not once they have took control and showed good progress, but I digress lol