My New Addiction

 Well, you know they say that when we have wls, sometimes, we sustitute one bad habit for another.  I like a glass of wine but not nightly, and I like to shop but am not a shopoholic.  I also like sex, but I don't really go out of my way for that either, but I do like to walk.  It started about a year ago.  I'd been walking every single day about a mile.  Then, I realized that walking was easy for me and what used to hurt like hell now invigorated me.  So, over the year, I began to supplement my outdoor walking with the indoor treadmill and soon I was doing over a mile on each and then two milesand then three.  The truth is I'm a walkoholic and my husband is getting frustrated with my time walking and that I can out walk him, but that is another post.  Well, my point, yesterday, I ran.  I didn't just like walk fast, I freaking ran and it didn't really hurt.  My goal, to run a mile.  It's raining here a little but later I'm going to the gym and am going to run my butt around the track.  Hopefully my students won't see me.  My husband said I didn't look awkward, just surprised. 

Jeanne,

Just don't turn into Forrest Gumpette ok! 

It's a great addiction to have if you ask me. . .  and in order to change up my workout, now that I have to do it indoors and the treadmill and eliptical get boring to me, so about 2 months ago I started using the Alpine Pass routine on the treadmill; you put in your weight, the fastest speed you can safely do, the incline level you can do and the time and it randomly gets the blood pumping and burns a good amount of calories in the process, well I've had the speed up to at least 4.5 as my highest, which gets me running on my "chota, chota legs", as Tony calls them, meaning short, short legs.  So I'm averaging about 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile everytime I do this workout and I do it at least 2x a week now, so I know how good you are feeling. 

Have a great day!  Laureen

Laureen,

I'm going to start playing with the treadmill.  I work out at the Univeristy gym and their treadmills do so much.  The trainer has been trying to get me to increase my cardio by uping things but I have always been afraid of hurting my knees.  I've had three surgeries on my right knee trying to put off the knee replacement as long as we can.  But I'm going to do dangerous things now that I have actually ran.  I ran.  I use my iPod and put a little joplin on and just get into this place where all I do is walk and breathe.  My husband thinks that I hypnotize myself, but I disagree, I think I am just concentrating on my body and off I go.  Glad to have found a fellow walker.

Gee

I feel bad ( Not) I am sooooooooooo lazy

I like to sit and read and have my coffee after work near a fireplace  ya that me over there reading and drinking my coffee

But I love to hear how yoiu all haver the drive I wish I did but I ok with this

Good for you Girls

Boo

You know when I walk on the treadmill, I put a book on the bookstand.  Most read magazines, but I take a research book and read while I walk.  For while, I would put books on my iPod, but there isn't a good selection to pick from.  What kind of books do you read?  I know this is going to sound silly, but I have been reading the Twilight books.  I know, they are totally romance/adolesent aimed, but I cannot help myself.  I am in book three now and have intentionally not started to read it cause I know I want put it down until I'm finished...even with the bad writing.  I'm hooked.

I just love to read I will look into The  Twilight books I love a good romance novel

Reading is what I loke to do best 4 -6 books a week I am hooked

Boo

Jeannie

If you want some fun reading while on the treadmill, try Janet Evanovich.  The "numbers" books are great.  Most of them are on CD, so you can listen to them as you walk, instead of trying to read them.

I listened to all of them on audio in the car, back and forth to work.  Sometimes I almost had to pull over because I was laughing so hard, and they sure kept me awake on those long drives home when I worked till midnight.

Candy

Jeannie,
Since my daughter got her lap band in 5/08 she too started walking.  She's enjoyed it so much she has joined a group who are training for a half marathon in May of 2009.  She walks 5 miles like they are nothing now.  She's also down 80+ lbs from her highest weight.   And on top of it all she is training to be a jazzercise instructor.

Now if only I could join her.  I know when I used to walk I really enjoyed it.  Go for it.

Look at your daughter go!  Walking is what keeps me losing.  I have never really had a stall; I mean, sometimes I might only loose a pound or two a month, but I have never stopped losing and Iknow it's because I walk.  My son, like your daughter, has been successful. He started out at 480 and lost down to 400 before surgery and had surgery and it has only been a year this month and he is down to 220.  He's 6'5" so he is a bean pole now and he works out every single day with weights and stuff.  He also walks but not like I.  Hopefully you can find a program that works for you. Walking isn't for everyone.  My friend does a modified yoga where she sits in a chair and stretches her arms and legs and it works for her.  Moving is the key for those of us who are older and who have past the honey moon phase. 

You have inspired me!  I am going to up my treadmill time to 2X a day.  I have a meeting at 6 this evening, but when it finishes I am getting back on that treadmill for another 30 minutes! 

Thanks,

Jeane