Anybody taking their improvement for granted?

Something just fell off a shelf. No...it just fell one foot or more of a potential five-foot drop...AND I caught it - no sweat.

WITH my slow left hand! Bad part is I'm 46 and  almost took it for granted.

Being thin has allowed me to take part in strength, coordination, quickness and balance exercises that I could not enjoy, often even DO, before.

I can move better and faster than I ever could as a kid. Yet, I'm just taking it for granted.

Regular runs on the balls of my feet on icy roads - I'm able towill my feet not to slide, regardless of uphill or downhill grade - because I got thin.

Yet I'm forgetting every day to be thankful for the gift of thinness.

Anyone else down the road and starting to take it for granted?

Dave

I've heard people say they have a hard time realizing they are no longer really fat.  I'm having the opposite problem: I'm having a hard time realizing I was ever that fat before.  Today I grabbed a shirt to play racquetball and realized it was a 4X I had somehow missed throwing out.  It was hard to comprehend that I ever used to pull at that shirt because it was too tight. I'm not sure I'm taking it for granted, I've been really satisfied lately.  But satisfied is starting to seem normal already.

Exactly, I'm starting to forget I was fat and forget what it was like directly before and after surgery.

Sounds like the knee has recovered well! Good news.

Dave

Thanks for remembering the knee.  In terms of pain, the knee is great.  I'm still a bit hesitant on certain moves, but it's all in my head. I'm quicker on the sprint than I was before the injury, but I fear stopping quickly or jumping while running backwards.   Unfortunately, I've lost a lot of upper leg strength and I haven't gotten back into the swing of lifting yet.

Weight loss has a way of quickening you and improving balance, even with the addition of the injury, doesn't it?  What I've been enjoying in the run is trying to stay on the ball of the foot, keep the ball of the foot under the hip joints and focus on bringing the heels to the butt. Take a look at all fast runners, and they do this.

One of the best on line running coaches out there, Jim Cady of Stride Mechanics did this video analysis of a world record half marathon runner. I'm amazed at how most of this guys forward motion is done while he is still in the air. Anyway, the narrated analysis is excellent and quite a valuable freebie:

http://www.stridemechanics.com/sample.html

Dave good post since I work construction for a living some times I forget how hard my job was 2 years ago. You are a teacher and imagine not being able to read anymore that is how hard it was for me to do my job at 330 lb carrying castiron pipe up 4 floors and praying my knees would not fail me and I would fall down and have poeple make comments about me being to fat to do my job. Now I can out work my 21 year old apprentice and  I thank god every day for this RNY.

Hi Matt,

I've done construction work at 300+ too. I know what you mean. I helped a friend put a RR tie retaining wall on his property line the other day. It was like, "okay, when does the work begin?" Fitness is something that knows no age boundaries. And there's nothing that can take fitness, balance and even flexibility away like excess body fat.

Enjoy the newfound freedom,

Dave