Excercise

I am another exercise hater. I was hoping I would trade my food obsession for the exercise one, but no such luck. I also had spinal fusion, plantar fascitis, torn foot tendon, and arthritis, etc...BUT I have been going to an arthritis based pool program since September and I love it! I feel cheated if I have to miss a day. It has made so much difference that I have even started doing laps on the days I don't have to rush out to go to work. I figure there will be enough flabbiness to deal with losing weight without making it worse by not exercising on top of that.

I really don't excercise. With two total knee replacements and four total hip replacements I am doing good just walking. I have increased the walking. For most its nothing but from where I have come from it is a lot. If I hold on to a shopping basket I can now walk all around the store. I can now even reach on the bottom shelf for things with out fear of breaking something. When I go into the stores I walk around instead of just going in and right out. I can get back to my car with out crying. I still have to sit there and let my metal shift from a standing to a sitting position before I go to the next step. As that ad on TV says. "Baby Steps" But hey I am moving.

Thanks everyone for responding and your encouragement. I am going to commit to this group that I will do something every day even if it is just walk around the building and hopefully even more. Have a great day! Sherr

Hi Sherr, I live in a town with two colleges. The smaller one, SUNY Canton, has a wonderful fitness center. The private college, St. Lawrence University, is also open to the community, but is quite expensive. However, SUNY Canton's fitness center is only $17 a month if you pay for six months at a time. They have treadmills, elipticals, steppers, a weight circuit, free weights, a walking track, and so on. I have been going three days a week since mid-February, and this week I hope to make it four days. So far, I have worked myself up to 14 minutes on the treadmill at 2.2 mph and seven minutes on the exercise bike at about 14 mph. Each week I increase this. I also do all of the weight circuit machines, doing double reps on most of them. My weights vary from 20 lb. up to 70 lb. for some of the leg exercises. I spend about an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes each time I go. I am very pleased with it. Quite a number of community, faculty, and staff use the center, as well as the students. Everyone is friendly and helpful. I even have a free locker and could shower afterward if I wanted to. I had a little trouble getting started, but now that I am mostly in the habit of going nearly every day, I do enjoy it. I feel bad if I don't go. I also track my exercise on fitday.com, which really helps me see how many extra calories I burn every day! I am also thinking about taking water aerobics again at a SUNY campus about 10 miles away in Potsdam once it is warmer. I took one class last fall before surgery, and I really liked it, but it was at night, which was hard for me to do, as I have other activities at nigh****er aerobics is a great way to get started. Everyone there was friendly also! So get your buns moving!!! Once you do, you will feel better and lose more inches... BTW, miraculously is right. Exercise was the wrong one!! Take care, Pat

Hello since one month out I have joined Slender Lady I do that 5 days a week and on top of that two days a week to a water arobics class. I love it!