One Step At A Time. Week 2

Rita - for a few reasons I'd like to wait. I would like you to start getting into the habit of more movement, and ultimately I'd like to build muscle (the greater proportion of lean body tissue we have in our bodies = the faster the metabolism) but let's really one step at a time through this. I'd like to know first where your eating is at before we start confusing things with the physical activity.

Often people try and change too many things at one time. Then if something doesn't work right, we don't know which element is being measured incorrectly.

I'll tell you what - once you've lost a reasonable amount of weight three weeks in a row - we will set up a baseline for you in terms of strength, cardio and flexibility. Ok?

How This Week Went

Well. We did another weigh/measure and despite a great start no pounds were lost, however, we DID see an impressive loss in inches. Particularly in the legs.

More importantly for Rita, she is FEELING better. And that is/was one of her secondary goals.

Her habits are definitely getting better. And her attitude is positive. So we talked about upping her daily physical activity plus one more week of "cleaner" (getting there) eating. If the numbers on the scale don't show more positive results next week then we need to look more closely at her caloric intake. Rita has admitted that its not the food itself, but the portion sizes, so we may have to go to learning to measure portions next.

Great job though Rita - I am pretty proud!

One Step at a Time

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