Laurie2

You are doing alot of cardio from what I see. Might want to cut back on the walking or the jogging...whichever you prefer.

To help your tennis game, you might what to include some strength lifting to build the upper body. This will also force your body to burn more bodyfat and keep your metabolism up longer.

Try for a three day split lifting moderately heavy weights for 4 sets of 10 reps. This for a hour to 90 minutes. Stretch/warmup first. Rest for a minute between each set. Include the cardio (walking or jogging) after the weight training or on the offlifting days.

To most people, to "lose weight" means losing bodyfat. You do build lean muscle with lifting and this is denser than fat. A tangerine size portion of muscle weighs about the same as two grapefruit size portions of bodyfat. So you can weigh the same on the scale but wardrobe wise.....be smaller. This is what I found out after losing 62lbs of bodyfat after over a year of strength lifting. I am 5'6"/largeboned and 52, postmenopausal woman. I had been 245lbs and more for nearly 33 years of my marriage. Can now wear pre marriage clothes sizes but on the scale, I am 178lbs and not the 165lbs I was then. The difference is muscle gained from the lifting.

By the way, I was never skinny as a teen but had kept fit by riding a 10sp all over my city then.

Also what has your diet been like? Keeping to a proper diet and eating 5-6 smaller meals will also help lose the bodyfat and keep your metabolism up. Just do not get too low with the calories or else your metabolism will slow down into "starvation mode" as your body starts to conserve it's fat stores. The idea is to burn more calories than taking in.