Scales do me wrong
The thing that
bothers me most about my body is my weight. Now, whilst I cannot say I have
essentially been overweight, that is not the reckoning by the Body Mass Index
(BMI) as the reading suggests for my height, I need to lose a few kilogrammes.
The BMI is imperfect,
but I will not get into the whys and wherefores of it, as far as Brian is
concerned, my weight serves as a reliable anchor in the boisterous winds of Cape
Town that I am not permitted to take it below a certain level that I last
obtained in November 2020. Since then, I have struggled to shed weight. [Medical News Today: Why
BMI is inaccurate and misleading]
Walking outdoors is
it
When it comes to
exercise, I have found that walking suits me better than any other exertion. All
the weightlifting, press-up, or planking activity is more a source of pain than
any other satisfaction, I just need to burn fat and watch some of my
consumption without radically changing much.
I seem to prefer
walking outside to using a treadmill in the gym. A few times I did go to the
gym to get my exercise and steps done. I cranked it up to 7.2 km/h on a steady
fat-burning pace for 50 minutes out of the allocated 60-minute workout and what
I inadvertently did was sprain a thigh muscle that required intervention.
Visiting a sports
injury clinic after 4 days of radiating pain, it was worked on for almost an
hour, with deep tissue massage, hot stones, and acupuncture, short of using a
meat tenderiser on it. The sprain was dealt with, but the effect of the work
has lasted another week, though the relief was helped on the advice of Brian by
keeping the muscles warm with a hot water bottle.
What it would take
Generally, when I go
for my walks that is a circuit of just over 11 kilometres, I look to getting 10,000
steps done in 75 minutes, it means I need to get a steps cadence of around 140
steps a minute. Outside, this can modulate between 110 steps per minute to 150
steps per minute, I did reach 163 steps per minute during my walk this morning,
which was in the pouring rain throughout, and I did clinch 10,000 steps in 67
minutes.
On the weight, it is
coming down, though, not as fast as one would like it. It is a long haul
activity and I have the mind of keeping my steps above the 10,000 step
average for the year.