Weight Reduction status ~ making a good progress!

Trend of my weight last 12 months

Background
As I posted a couple times, a doctor suspected "sleep apnea" and I had sleep study at home in April and the doctor concluded as "sleep apnea" in mid May.   Currently, I have been using CPAP machine for the treatment.  Also, one of reasons for sleep apnea is over weight, therefore, I am doing weight deduction now.

After age 40, I have been running a couple days a week.  However, I also ate too much and my weight is 165 ~ 180 lbs last ten years.  It was not too bad as long as I did regular exercise, however once I stopped regular running, I had some chest pain.  Finally I saw a doctor and found "sleep apnea".

Around last November to this February, there is a symptom for stress-fracture, I tended to take some rests and stopped running often, therefore, the weight trend was increasing.  This happened a couple times a yer and my weight was up and down frequently.

Serious weight reduction

Due to some relationship between exercise and the pain, I started weight reduction after I saw a doctor in March.  First thing I did was reduce the strength of exercise to lower the risk of injury to avoid to stop exercise so often.  Due to my age, it might be tough to continue some high intensity menu, I decided to change the direction of exercise.

The other thing was I tried to eat less especially carbohydrate foods such as rice and bread.  However it might be hard to continue very restricted diet for a long time, so that what I am doing is about 60~70% reduction.

I also take a walk during lunch time for 30 ~ 45 minutes around the office other than running.

I think it started working some time after May.  The weight reduction between March and May was probably due to resuming running.  Now, I am adopted and I can keep a good trend for my weight deduction.   It is close to 155 lbs now!

Impact to Sleep Apnea?

I think it depends on a type of sleep apnea.  In my case, it is obstructive sleep apnea and it might be a good chance to improve the symptom with weight reduction.  I can see some improvement before I started using CPAP a month ago.
Currently, I've been using CPAP and it is expected to get some improvement, however, a data detected by the CPAP machine shows it is also improved.

I will continue the weight reduction to target somewhere 135 lbs.

Here is the trend of an average weight for every week:

159.4lbs -> 158.3lbs -> 157.2lbs -> 156.7lbs

I can make a very good progress now!

(To be continue)