Weight Loss

Well, this isn't really about eldercare. Okay, it isn't at all about eldercare, but I was thinking this morning, at about 6:00 a.m. as I was on the eliptical trainer pushing up my pulse rate , that it is probably really best to come to the gym in the morning.

In the evening, I fully believe, after a full day of people shedding pounds and calories, all of those pounds and calories are floating and bouncing around like atom sized beachballs in a dodgeball game, waiting to find a new home by attaching themselves to unsuspecting gym bunnies and such. In fact, the gym atmosphere is probably stuffed chock full of these things, invisible to the naked eye. While you are trying to lose pounds and limit calories, they are waiting for you--and there is more of them than there is of you. So of course it is harder to lose weight; the faster you drop a pound or calorie, there's another one right there, just waiting to take it's place!

However, by the morning, all these leftover, shedded calories and pounds have either slowly escaped through the air ducts during the night or they have either settled to the floor and thus can be swept up and thrown away. Or perhaps it is the just the calories, which are kind of gasious that have escaped into the atmosphere, and the the pounds, being heavy, have fallen to the floor.

Just make sure the gym staff vacuums before you start. Otherwise you will just stir those pounds right up again. Even so, it will take a while for the atmosphere to fill up, and for those leftover pounds to start floating around again. Think about it--do you realize how much a pound weighs? ( See answer below.) Once they have settled for the night, those puppies won't be easily started up again.

At any rate, if you are going to the gym regularly, but do not feel you are making progress, I would recommend you try going early in the morning.

If you found this posting helpful, you probably need more help than I can give you. Call a doctor.

(Answer to question, above, "Do you know how much a pound weighs?": Well, I am not saying but if you have to look here for the answer, forget calling the doctor. Go straight to the nearest hospital emergency room. Just don't leave the house on your own.)