PCOS and Rebounding exercise update

Woohoo!! The scales have budged and in my favour!

I don't have any rules set in stone. That's really the best part. There's no instructor telling me I have to complete a certain set or reach certain milestones. There's just me, my rebounder and some music. I vary my moves, my pace, my arm movements, my leg movements. Whatever makes me happy. Whatever makes me comfortable. I know hubs makes fun of me (and we really laughed and laughed because he was mimicking my moves one night) but I don't care as long as I am having a good time while exercising. Why should exercise be painful, right? No pain, no gain? No thanks! The last time I tried to go to my public exercise 'playground', I tore the meniscus in my knee and had to spend more than a year going through physiotherapy and recovering. Rebounding works for me. You need to find something that works for you.

If I do lose a substantial amount of weight, I will accord credit to K.C and Jojo's song, "All my life"!It's my absolute favourite. I start with that song. The tune just hits me at the right spots. I need about 4 complete fairly long songs before I start to drip sweat (about 20 minutes) and that's when I know the exercise is 'working' for me. All that bullshit crap about warming up. I don't warm up. I just bounce straight away and it's sooooo fun! It's kind on my knees and I don't feel like it's a chore to do so that really helps me stay motivated.

I KNOW one isn't supposed to look at the scales to judge if the exercise is changing you for the better. But I cannot help myself. Can't help but be gleeful when the readings move downwards. There's not an apparent change to the way I look (to me, that is). However, my pants are slipping lower down my hips. I'm not sure if I should be happy or not since I had just purchase a mother load of new pants!!! (Pants because I'm sick and tired of mossies eating me alive and also because I will need it when I drive a cab. Yes, it's on my mind all the time; changing my job, that is. Will talk about that later).

So anyway, let me get back to the scales. The all important weighing machine. It moved. It really moved downwards. That has motivated me to extend my exercise time. Not because I have to but I really want to see evident results. I also have a bet with hubs which I am gonna win of course!

I understand that when you start on any exercise regime, you might gain weight due to water gain. Simplistically put, your body holds onto the water because your exercise has put a strain on your body parts and the water is required for 'repair'. I also kinda think your body thinks you are losing water when you perspire and so it holds on to more water as a kneejerk reaction. Don't listen to me, okay? I only know that it's weird but I can feel puffy after exercising and not so puffy when I do not exercise. So if you do not at least attempt to understand the science behind it, you're gonna give up your exercise because you think it's not working in the direction you want it to work!

A few things motivated me. I must have mentioned this before but I fell sick a few months ago and lost my appetite. My weight just dropped and so did my blood pressure. Although the doctor said those were not realistic readings because I hadn't been eating, it showed me that it was not impossible for me to lose weight, insulin resistant or not. Do I still have PCOS? Probably. PCOS doesn't usually just go away (although I know Jesus can make it go away completely!) but you can do things to eleviate the symptoms. Since my cycles have finally become beautifully regular (how good is our God?), I don't see why I cannot beat this insulin resistance rubbish. I have to give exercise and a substantial weight loss a try. If I don't try, I will never know.

It's like I suddenly woke up and decided, I want to be a new ME. I want to be fit and healthy. I want to eat less carbs and sugar. I want to treat myself right and that includes others treating me right. I've just cut out sugar and creamer from my coffee (yucks, I know) and it's getting easier on the palate. Just small steps which I hope will help me shed the pounds (ok, it's KGs. we do Metric over here but it just sounds better).

This is only the start of my weight loss journey. I do watch exercise for weight loss videos on Youtube for motivation and someone mentioned that a tip for starting on the exercise for weight loss journey was when you got totally fed up. Fed up with not being able to look good in your clothes. Fed up that you have nothing to wear. Just fed up. Someone else mentioned that you are ready for the exercise /weight loss journey when you KNOW it in your heart that you are ready. I heard all that and thought, BINGO. I was never ready but now...
I AM READY.

Now, if only I can drag hubs onto the rebounder...


(No time to edit post so pls forgive any typo or grammatical mistakes)