I am now into Week 3 of adventures at Weight Watchers - and so far I'm down about seven pounds.
These days, they have you counting "points", with each food having a certain value. And I'm only allowed 24-points per day and an extra 35 "cheat points" for the week.
Then exercise has a certain number of points, depending upon how long you do it and how long whatever you are doing takes to make you sweat.
So here' the thing. Tonight I have my book group. There are six of us and each one brings something delicious to eat. To stay withing my allowance, I need to accumulate about five or so extra exercise points.
I just previewed a couple of houses, both with the air conditioning not on. They are here in my neighborhood, so I walked. I began to sweat rather profusely the second I walked out the door. Each house was three levels and an attic, to that was like being on that stair stepper contraption. By the time I left House Number 2 and walked home again, I was soaking wet. The whole thing took about half an hour.
It counts as a "high" activity level if I break out into a sweat after 3 to 5 minutes. Sounds good to me. And it lasted for 30 minutes. So it should give me an extra 5 points.
This will be good for about 12 ounces of wine, or a lot of veggies dipped into something fat free.
Geeze! I'd better head for the gym!
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