question for post op peeps!

I'm as busy as they come. 5 kids Work from 8-5:30 then from 8-10 at night again. I've had my treadmill for a few years and it was great for hanging clothing on. Post surgery I have been disciplining myself to walk together with some weights for as long as I can go. The feeling that you get when a good sweat is going is one of great accomplishment. However it can be tedious. If you can get to a gym they have fun classes or at least T.V.'s by the machines otherwise recomend setting up you treadmill near a T.V. at home. Anything to keep your mind off of the monotony. When I have dome this the time flies by.

I wouldn't say that I enjoy exercising, but I absolutely love the way it makes me feel. It energizes me and there hasn't been a single day I've regretted doing it.

I decided I had to make the commitment to myself that I would exercise after surgery, and 10 months out, I'm sticking to that.  I got a stationery bike, and I go on that an hour a day, for 17 miles, so a pretty strenuous pace. I'm convinced it's helped me lose at the rate I have.

As far as finding the time, I figured I waste enough time on the computer, reading or watching TV that I could cut down on those activities to put the time into exercise. Most days, I jump on the bike first thing in the morning, and then it's over with. 

You're being really sensible to try to think of all these things ahead of time.

Caroline

I'm too realistic and too early in the process to declare myself changed. There's a long long long road still in front of me. But what has revolutionized my life in recent months is challenging all the narratives of my life. Every time I find myself thinking what I can't do, won't do, shouldn't do, must do, need to have, desperately want, hate or love, I stop and have a deeper look at it. I am challenging everything about my thought process and relationship food with a rigorous inquiry where before I was most content when I was avoiding it as fast and hard as I could - so I didn't have to look at what I had done to myself, to see how small my world was, to see my active participation in destroying myself.

It's a crazy journey, and I'm trying to reconstruct the narrative, to try things I have never done, to nudge my limits, to challenge my habits and learn how to become a new me.

I've always loved the 'idea' of exercise LOL but like someone else said, I'm pretty much allergic to it =)

The only thing I Really do is walk...walk walk walk and ...WALK! I do enjoy fresh air so I pop my music into my ears and just go-a-walkin'!

I'm just two months and 2 weeks post op, so the long term stuff I can't get there yet. I will say, as a mom of three children, it's been a nightmare trying to find me time to exercise. I have an exercise bike, and the wii fit (etc) to do some at home. I do them when the boys are still sleeping. I got up today at 5:30 (normally I get up at 6:30) and did wii fit and had breakfast before they got up.

Just an idea.

Teri