Exercise: Yuck!!!
Anyway, in the beginning I was big on going to the gym and getting in at least an hour 5x's a week. Then on July 6th something happened and my right knee went bad. Then later my left knee went bad. I have not done a lick of exercise since July 4th. I have lost more weight since I stopped exercising! It is nuts!
If I could exercise would I? Heck yes! but I can't so I don't and I lose 2-5lbs per week. You will lose with out exercise. The question then becomes, will you keep it off with out exercise? I think that depends but I bet it is better in the long term if you do find a way to get some kind of activity in, even just walking. It will help you in the long term and that is what this is all really about.
So as long as you are "active" and not eating a bunch of Twinkies I think you will still lose weight. I tell myself that maybe when I lose some more weight I "might" wanna exercise...
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Good luck to you!
Jamie
Maybe you could take your kids on walks and walk on your breaks at work, that would be a start. If you go grocery shopping by car, then maybe you could park your car a block or two a way from the store. I don't know all the details of your life cir****tances, but these are the kind of things you can do to incorporate activity into your life. I'll admit that I'm a single woman with no kids, so it's easier for me to make time for exercise than it is for someone like you, but whatever exercise you can fit in is better than none!
I think exercise is very helpful for getting and keeping the weight off, but mostly to make me healthier. A recent study showed that just 15 minutes a day of exercise adds 3 years to your life. Just imagine what exercise plus the weight off could do!
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I'm pre-op but my surgeon asks us to find some exercise to start doing now and I'm exhausted all the time. I have a toddler that doesn't sleep through the night and I'm also at work around 50 hours a week. So we dance. My boyfriend did buy me Dance Central for the Xbox 360 and we put that on...the toddler gets exercise too because he is "learning" the dance routines. It's time spent together. But sometimes all I can do is a simple game of tag...maybe 10 minutes worth but it's still us moving. Oh yah, another favorite is seeing who can crawl the fastest around the house...me or the toddler! OR he rides on my back while I "horsy" him around.
See I think you'd be surprised. Exercise doesn't have to be a specific structured thing. Some people thrive on that. Some people don't.
I've exercised some but not very much since surgery and I am below goal.
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Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
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