filmlover75
Go for it!!!
Jan 27, 2011
I've never been much on working out. I was even in the Army for a few years and I hated working out even then. Running was the absolute worst thing in the entire world and I hated it. Even after basic training when you're in some of the best shape you'll ever be in ... I hated exercising. I got several stress fractures in my left foot while in my advanced training (as heavy people tend to do) and kept eating like I was exercising everyday but ...I wasn't.
That was probably the beginning of my downhill slide to obesity. I kept eating like I was in the Army, even after I got out, but wasn't exercising like I was in the Army. I've joined a gym before and did the stupid automatic draft/membership and think I went maybe twice in the year my wife and I paid for our membership.
Since my surgery on Oct. 25th of last year I've lost a little over 100 pounds. I'm still about 100 pounds overweight for my size but I feel better than I have in years (of course). My wife and i started talking about joining a gym since the weather has been so bad we haven't been able to do our normal activity of going to the park with our daughter and walking. I was worried originally that we would do the same thing we had done before and sign up with good intentions and end up never going.
Boy was I wrong.
My wife and I have never been the most self-motivated people. We need support and help to keep us doing the right things in our diet and sometimes in our lives. That's part of the reason why we both had the sleeve surgery three weeks apart from each other, so we could be our own support team. I think after all this weight is coming off and we feel so much better ...we're motivating ourselves.
The past two days, my wife and i haven't been able to go to the gym together because she works nights and it's not always possible for us to go together. She went alone one of the two days and I went both. And I didn't short-change my workout. Yesterday I did 11 miles on a stationary bike and walked/ran another mile on the track above the gym. Then I messed around shooting some hoops for a while. Oddly enough...it was fun. I actually ENJOYED going to the gym and working out.
We also discovered that we really enjoy racquetball. We haven't quite gotten the rules figured out and our hand/eye coordination isn't the best, but we're working on it. We bought some inexpensive secondhand racquet's and really enjoy playing/messing around. And may is that a good workout.
I really want to try the indoor pool and do some laps there but I'm still self-conscious about my weight and the way my stomach looks after surgery. It's not anywhere like it was before but I know people don't want to see me take my shirt off. Hopefully I'll work up the courage soon enough and just get in and do it.
I guess that's the way to think about a lot of things in life.
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That was probably the beginning of my downhill slide to obesity. I kept eating like I was in the Army, even after I got out, but wasn't exercising like I was in the Army. I've joined a gym before and did the stupid automatic draft/membership and think I went maybe twice in the year my wife and I paid for our membership.
Since my surgery on Oct. 25th of last year I've lost a little over 100 pounds. I'm still about 100 pounds overweight for my size but I feel better than I have in years (of course). My wife and i started talking about joining a gym since the weather has been so bad we haven't been able to do our normal activity of going to the park with our daughter and walking. I was worried originally that we would do the same thing we had done before and sign up with good intentions and end up never going.
Boy was I wrong.
My wife and I have never been the most self-motivated people. We need support and help to keep us doing the right things in our diet and sometimes in our lives. That's part of the reason why we both had the sleeve surgery three weeks apart from each other, so we could be our own support team. I think after all this weight is coming off and we feel so much better ...we're motivating ourselves.
The past two days, my wife and i haven't been able to go to the gym together because she works nights and it's not always possible for us to go together. She went alone one of the two days and I went both. And I didn't short-change my workout. Yesterday I did 11 miles on a stationary bike and walked/ran another mile on the track above the gym. Then I messed around shooting some hoops for a while. Oddly enough...it was fun. I actually ENJOYED going to the gym and working out.
We also discovered that we really enjoy racquetball. We haven't quite gotten the rules figured out and our hand/eye coordination isn't the best, but we're working on it. We bought some inexpensive secondhand racquet's and really enjoy playing/messing around. And may is that a good workout.
I really want to try the indoor pool and do some laps there but I'm still self-conscious about my weight and the way my stomach looks after surgery. It's not anywhere like it was before but I know people don't want to see me take my shirt off. Hopefully I'll work up the courage soon enough and just get in and do it.
I guess that's the way to think about a lot of things in life.
