I don't exercise. Ever. Unless I'm forced to. Then I do it for a little bit and stop as soon as I can get away with it.

This wonderful way of life got me an extra 100+ lbs of fat attached to my skeleton for over 20 years. Wasn't I so clever?

Anyway, I had the surgery and lost some weight. One of my checkups with the surgeon puts me 3 lbs down in 2 weeks. Hmmmm. Not so good.

Next appointment shows me down 1 lb. ONE stinkin' POUND in 2 solid weeks of following the diet!

I'm beyond disappointed and discouraged with this. The NP says, are you doing your exercise?

My mind is whirling like squirrels juggling knives as I search for a way to convey my philosophy of exercise without sounding lazy and stupid. There is no way. I just look down and tell her straight-out. No.

She tells me to try. Start slow, maybe every other day. Or just a little bit each day.

I steel my nerves to get up and get myself on that very expensive treadmill that I just had to own. I did 30 minutes of walking the first day and didn't drop dead. But, I hated every second of it.

Next day I did another 30 minutes. Faster speed. Still hated it.

I'm now on day #8 and I'm almost embarrassed to admit this--I'm kinda liking how I feel and how my clothes are feeling looser. Best yet, my scale shows me down 9 lbs since I started! We'll see when I go on the super-duper surgeon scale next Monday.

I'm done now, just had to share. As Bartle and James used to say, Thank you for your support.

I'm really proud of you. Do you sweat yet? I love to feel myself break into a full out sweat. It's so.... satisfying.

Keep up the good work!

Nathalie

Nathalie,

you are a sick sick girl ... :welldone2:

i am just experiencing the sweating again ... it was there quite a bit when i first started, but now i have to really work hard on the treadmill (more than 25 mins and a pretty big incline) to start sweating ...

until today ... i made friends with Ed (elliptical) ... 5 minutes on that and it looked like it was raining outside. so i went to the treadmill for 21 mins then back on the elliptical ... i could almost wring my clothes out at the end.