Hi guys,

I have a confession to make. :phanvan I do not exercise.:think

I did my half hour per day last summer during my pre-op diet...but haven't got off my butt since then...

I spent thousands on this, travelled across the country, relearned how to feed myself, dropped 75 lbs, etc... You'd think I could take that extremely important step and EXERCISE this new body.

I have no excuses. I weigh so much less, moving should be 10 times easier...why am I so lazy?!!

I'm ashamed of myself. I need a kick in the butt. Seriously folks. Wind up those kickin' feet. I've been reading dozens upon dozens of threads about what everyone is doing, and how they are taking care of themselves...and secretly hoping it will motivate me enough, but so far all I feel is guilty and LAZY.

I love you guys...

...does anyone have some tough love for me? lol

why are you not taking your cute dogs for a walk???

I have posted about this before but here goes....

I used the Dr Phil method. Accountability.

He suggested if you do not do your exercise on Monday , you could not wear makeup on Tuesday.

I used no TV until exercise is done. It worked for me.

Tuff love.. Now get off your lazy a**

edie

Ha! I love it! No make up would scare the hell outta me...I'll try it.

Hope I don't feel like hiding in the house...just cuz I look so bad.

I do walk my sweet little pooches...but they are so tiny, it hardly counts as exercise for me. And if I dare venture farther than 2 blocks or so, they wimp out and want mommy to carry them. (Lazy like me, maybe?)lol

I spend hours and hours down in my basement, on the computer working...and it seems like when I come upstairs the day is wasted.

Need to be creative, I guess. :cry

Its much easier to make yourself go out for a run than to make yourself not eat in my opinion.

You really do have to just do it.

CanadaSunshine...I know how the day can get away from you...especially if you are holed up in the basement working on the computer....my advice: get up and do it FIRST thing in the morning (have a lil' something to eat first) ....make it the first thing you do BEFORE you start work etc. That way it is done and over with before you feel your day starts, type of thing. If you have to get up earlier....than so be it. Just try it and see how that works for you. Remember, you'll likely hate it at first...but don't let that stop you....you have to do it several times to get used to it and make it part of your routine and habit. If you keep it up, eventually you'll find yourself "lost" if you don't do it.

Good luck!

In tried to kick my butt into exercise, it didn't work. I hired a trainer to kick it for me, and I made sure we were doing things I would like doing. It is expensive, butI know 9 times out of 10 I would have made an excuse had I not been accountable to her. This morning we are off to go kayaking....it is my frst time so I am really looking forward to it!

You can do it, just decide! And Yoda is right, do it first thing in the morning. Now get out there...are you still reading....do it now!!! Hehe.

Yep first thing in the morning is the key!! I get up and go pee and brush my teeth have a small drink of water, dress get the dog and I am gone!!!

I am on pre-op so I don't eat anything till I get back when I have my optifast. Once I am banded and able to eat something I will. I find that if I do it right away like the others have said it just works better. I go for about an hour with my pooch. Hey what about making a litte tummy pack to carry yours in??? when they get tuckered?

Also big thing for me is doin something I like, dancing is also a good exercise and lots of fun. Even alone.... lol

-=points to the music player...lol=- turn it up baby!! and get moving!!

ps... I wanna go kayaking too!!! That is actually one of my goals I hope to do this summer!! Tell us all about it when you get back, bandiva

I would love to give you a kick in the butt but I only walk as well. Granted my walks are at least an hour long but you are right... with a bunch of weight gone it should be easier to get out there and exercise. I have no good excuses for being lazy. I think I will take some of the suggestions posted here to help me out too!!

Kayaking was fun but really heard on my back. I am feeling it from the waist up today tho, so it must be a pretty good workout. I think I will stick to canoeing.

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A speaker at the bash said get a resistance band and when a commerical is on do some resistance on arms ,inner thighs etc.

Hi guys,

I have a confession to make. :phanvan I do not exercise.:think ]

Exercise? Isn't that when you get up and take a walk to the fridge?

All kidding aside I'm no different. I really have to motivate myself to do something active and I have spurts where I'll exercise for a couple of months and then get lazy for a few months. I know once I'm banded I'll have to start exercising or all that skin will start flapping in the wind! You don't want that do you? I certainly don't and, after the cost of this operation, plastic surgery is not an option - unless I can sell my

mother!!