Originally Posted by katvert
Originally Posted by irishrose
kayvert, thank you for your story. It's encouraging to hear of a 13 pound success from someone not who's not pounding the pavement for hours on end. Congratulations.
Lol. My body would yell at me if I pounded the pavement. After a knee surgery 4 years ago and an ankle surgery this past June added to the arthritis I have to be pretty sensitive of my joints or I end up on the couch for a week. Hopefully as the weight comes off I can do more types of things. I have heard that every pound you loose is like 3 pounds if pressure on your knees.
I think my ortho dr said each pound was like 6 pounds of pressure on my knees...regardless it made sense for me to drop some weight too AND I liked hearing that from you because I kinda thought it sounded unbelievable when the dr said it. I started out this January really gunho & I ended up on that couch as well. Took me forever to get back where I could just walk without pain, so I am going slow & steady now.