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I just wanted to give a little update on my previous posting about my new treadmill desk setup. It’s still set up the same way – my husband hasn’t been able to actually create a better working desk than the current prototype, due to an unexpected garage emergency involving electrical wiring and discussions about suing the dude who did the house inspection before we bought the place because we’re seriously lucky our house hasn’t burned to the ground by now. But it’s okay, because it’s still working terrifically.

It’s been so great in fact that I feel I can share with you a few things that you probably might want to know. Now, I have a health disclaimer in the footer of my site, and I’ve actually had a couple of people ask me why it’s there. Well, this section of my blog is precisely why. So I’m going to reiterate it in plain English – I am not a doctor. What I’m telling you here is what I’ve done for myself, and it works for me. If you’re gonna try this, be sure you talk to you doctor first.

I was on Weight Watchers once, back in the day. Worked really well for me, and I picked up some really good habits from that. One habit was drinking my water – 8 glasses a day, minimum. The best reason i’ve heard – by the way – for drinking your water was not the regular run-of-the-mill reasons: it’s good for you, cleans out your system, makes you less hungry, blah blah blah. The best reason pandered to my vanity. You know how sometimes you meet people who have lost a lot of weight, and they have “wings”? 9 times out of 10, you’ll find they didn’t drink their water. Water provides elasticity to your skin – essentially moisturizes you form the inside out. Drink your 8 glasses a day, and your skin stays really elastic, and when you lose the weight (albeit like your supposed to – which is 1-2 pounds per week) your skin doesn’t have much trouble keeping up, and snaps back into place. Good tip.

But anyway, another tip I’ve learned is how your body will fluctuate from day to day – even hour to hour. So WW does “weigh-ins” only once per week, at roughly the same time every day. That way, you get a pretty accurate reading on how much you’ve actually lost. So that’s what I do – I weigh myself every Wednesday, at around 10 am.

I’m very happy to report that doing this “treadmill desk” thing has been pretty cool. Over the last 2 weeks, I’ve dropped 5 pounds (and lost about 5 pair of jeans because when I put them on, they just fall off.) I would also like to note that, previous to this exercise in exercise, I my energy levels were down, I had insomnia a lot, my back hurt all the time, and I was showing signs of carpal tunnel. In only two weeks ALL of that is gone.

I’ll be damned if this wasn’t one of the best ideas I’ve had in a long time. I’m so glad the hubby was all for it and wants to make this work. One of the things about exercise before – which is always a BIG thing for me (that I need to learn to get over) is to take time out for myself to take care of myself. I always felt guilty about doing that because I felt like I was shortchanging everyone around me – my family, my clients, etc. But this has alleviated that, mainly because I still get to be a workaholic AND take care of myself at the same time. So now I have no excuse at all

Now I have to figure out what to do at Christmastime – I’m going to my mother’s for a week, and I know she won’t let me spend 6 hours on the treadmill every day.