I am creating WOW moments almost everyday...how you ask?

Walking...

For the last year and a half, battling hypoglycemia, I haven't been able to do even light housework, much less exercise.  Trying to keep my weight down and keeping my blood sugar stable has been difficult to say the least. 

About a year and a half ago, I was walking about 3 miles a day and sometimes 6 miles a day, training for a half marathon walk. Then one day I couldn't get walk a mile without a drastic crash in my blood sugar levels...

Within the last month, I have been taking medication and have been able to resume walking again...yeah! This sounds strange but it feels really good to be able to walk again...I have really missed it, something I never would have guessed I would say! But I really do like to walk, it is my preferred activity of choice!

I have been able to resume walking by staying with the 15 to 20 carb limit, eliminating certain foods, low sugar, higher protein, medication and walking within 30 minutes after a meal.  Actually, walking helps regulate my blood sugar levels once I get them under control...it's crazy and complicated, but for now it's working...

The good news is the calories we burn is based on our weight. The more you weigh the more calories you burn. For some of you that's good news...it may be the only good news about weighing more, hey, I'll take it...

If you weigh 300 pounds you are burning 200 calories a mile. So when you first start exercising after weight loss surgery your weight is actually helping you burn more calories...so get out there and walk, hurry! The more weight you lose the less calories you burn per minute or per mile...but the good news is, the more weight you lose the better you feel and walking gets easier and easier.

So in the beginning if you can only walk 10 minutes...then walk 5 or 10 minutes, you're lots of calories...go check it out!

The one mile message sign above is based on a 160 to 140 pound person. (and also based on a 20 minute mile). So cheer up...if you weight more than 150 you are burning a lot more calories per mile.  My husband is burning 40 more calories a mile than I am and we walk the same distance and time...because he weighs more than I do...go figure!

You can check how many calories you are burning per mile by at HMR website, just plug in your weight and find out how many calories you burn per minute and per mile.  The calorie values are approximate and vary depending on the intensity of the activity. 

It is interesting that on the chart of physical activity calories per minute that walking, mowing, tennis, weight lifting, biking, light aerobics, in-line skating, calisthenics are all listed under the same category of medium intensity...walking sounds better all the time!  

www.hmrprogram.com...then go to walk-o-meter! 

Yes you can, I know you can...you have many more miles to go!