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Originally Posted by Jenny38
I have exercised, sweated all thru my IP journey and it may have slowed lbs but the inches have been good and so is muscle tone. For the most part I have lost over 3 a week, just slowing down now. I think that building exercise into your routine will ultimately help you reach your goal and maintain.
Muscle tone is real important esp if you are trying to lose the kind of weight that is going to leave behind loose skin. My IP site advocated exercise after the second month if it was clear you were not having any health issues with the protocol that might indicate your body was not adapted to the program. As an older woman..I lost just under 3 lbs a week for the first 4+ months. It dropped later in my journey to 2.5...then to about 1-2 lbs a week. I never had a stall..and always lost something except for 1 week when nearly at goal. However, the inches were steady at coming off. My sizes dropped quickly after the 3rd month...and I had to buy new clothes (resale in some cases) fairly often during my journey from Jan 10- August 19th of 2013. I began light/moderate exercise 1st week of April...which was about 10-11 weeks in.
My "excess" skin has continued to tone and shrink...and I'm going to be OK with sleeveless this summer...(LOL...if it gets warm enough....ever again)...Do love my spanx...but at nearly 66 now..who doesn't love them?
For me exercise was absolutely one of the best lifestyle changes I made for myself. That was a tough sell for me...and I still don't love it...but wouldn't dream of stopping and no way second guessing myself. It was a very good thing to help the muscle and strengthening as well as balance and flexibility. This is about overall health for me...not just the scale. And I am sure my size is considerably smaller than if I had not exercised most of the way through. Now have continued and actually increased duration, intensity and frequency of exercise. Not sure that increase is something that would have been easy to do if I was still trying to make exercise part of the lifestyle changes. By the time I hit goal...I was in the groove.
There are enough landmines
for the rest of my personal weight control life...exercise won't be one of them now!