ooh yes, the "e" word...! Yikes...

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: : Greetings fellow 4's :) : : I am interested to know who among us is into exercise. I know Hal is a health freak (I mean that in a loving way Hal:), and, up until recently, I listed exercise along with any other allegies I had - but I am now a convert! (someone better get a chair for Hal). : : I have mentioned recently that I had been in hospital shortly after Hal went back home. I was due to be operated on in the early hours of a Tuesday morning, but (luckily for me) things righted themselves on the Monday night. At 7am the next morning when I should have been on the operating table, the surgeon came to visit me with all my medical results and x-rays and announced that he and I were going to have a little talk. He then laid out the bare facts - which in a nutshell said loud and clear that I was in terrible shape and would likely be looking at an early grave. Talk about a big wake-up call. He said that I could avoid all this by paying attention to "the big W's" as he called them. Walk every day, drink lots of Water and fit in a Workout every opportunity I got. : : So....I have been walking religiously and drinking more water than the average fish - and do my regular Tae Bo workout....and I'm loving it! : : Whodathunkit! Me - enjoying exercise! I've blown my reputation so far out of the water that I'm gaining a new one. My poor friends say that their whole cosmos is out of whack and they have to adjust their thinking! : : What surprises me is that I'm not only loving it - but it's having all kinds of other benefits that I hadn't even thought of. I mean, sure - I'm losing weight, which is very nice I suppose (I don't really give a pair of fetid dingoes kidneys about it though) - but I can't believe how expending energy actually energises me more. Not only that, but I can concentrate better, I handle stress better and I even feel more emotionally and spiritually 'in touch'. : : I've read all this before - but to actually experience it....wow! : : Just for the record, though....I'm still a night owl (I frequently go for my walks at 4am when I get home from the studio before I go to bed) - and I ALWAYS stop for a smoke about halfway through my walk. I'm doing it on my own terms, Hal :) : : So come on guys....spill it. : : smiles : : Amanda :) : : Exercise...ugh.... I really don't enjoy it..! : I like activities where I happen to do some exercise (walking, swimming... ) but I never do it for the sake of exercise! It's like a happy accident when it happens :) : I have a static bicycle here at home, and am now trying to do it at least half an hour a day. (Trying means that I do it every other day :) : I'm home all day, working on the computer... A very sedentary life... And I know it's simply not good. I need to move! : Plus, since I'm pregnant, my doctor told me it's especially important now for me to do a little excercise and watch my diet... :( : (I never thought that NOW of all times, I'd be doing exercise, and I'd be on a diet... sniff...) I haven't had chocolate in 2 weeks! No cookies, no desserts... wow. I don't know how I'm still functioning... : I think the idea that exercise is something I *should* do, puts me off... It's dumb, but I am a bit stubborn that way.. If it's not my idea, if I'm told I should do it, well... it loses it's charm...! : heatherb

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