So I have been doing Weight watchers for 1 year 9 months.  Part of WW is you are suppose to work out. At first you loose weight just from changing the way you eat, watching your portion sizes and upping your intake of healthy foods.  Then comes a time you need to start working out. 

For medical reasons I can not do high intensity work outs. Last summer I chose walking as my exercise.  First I started out using a tread mill. Can you say BORING! Oh my goodness. You can't even really watch TV while doing it to alleviate the boringness ( is that a real word?)because it is so loud! 

So I decided to start walking around my neighbor hood like the other old ladies Oh wait I'm not an old lady yet.  Me being me didn't bother to stretch and all that good stuff. I ended up with Plantar Fasciitis. I kept at it for a while but decided the pain was just to much to keep on.

Happy to say after ummm months and months of resting my foot I have healed from this rather painful affliction! 

I have come to a point that I really need to ad a work out to my weekly schedule.  J.C. Penny's had the Gazelle Edge on sale for half price.  WOW what a great deal I think to my self. I go and clear the purchase with the Husband.

This item happens to be on back order so after waiting like a month for it to get here. I open it like a child on Christmas morning. WOOHOOO my package is here. 

I take all the peaces out and get the instructions out and read them, look at the parts and look at the instructions again. I can do this! I am Woman Hear me Roar! or something like that LOL OK not really I'm know for using tools and actually know what end of a hammer to use .

It took me about  an hour and half to get it all together! WOOHOOO I'm panting and sweating up a storm! WOW that counts as my work out! It raised my heart rate and I was sweating it has to count as my work out! It just has too!


I fold it up all nice and neat and lean it against the mantle of the fire place.  Then Family came in from out of town, there set my new toy for the nest week ............. or so


I mentioned Sunday I mowed the neighbors lawn. I counted this as a work out as it was very physical and well it was a work out LOL

I decide it is as good as time as any to start my work out this week. We count Sunday so we skip a day and on Tuesday I get up at 7 and get the Gazelle out. I do stretches ( I think I may have learned something after that pain full foot thing!) I do a 5 minutes warm up  thing. I speed up and do ten minutes, don't want to over do it the first day.

I could feel the work out, in the since that I was warm and my breath was a bit heavier but not completely out of breath. WOOHOOO I worked out and it didn't kill me! ( will life never stop to amaze me?) Now I do a 5 minute cool down, then another session of stretching! I feel great jump in the shower and start my day.


At some point last night My calves started to feel my work out.  Why is it our body must wait tell the middle of the night to say HEY YOU! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING????? Yeah  so every 20 minutes or less I'am drawing my toes back toward my knee to stretch and relive the pain that is burning in my calf just below the back of the Knee.


OY! I get up this A.M. and  can hardly walk because my legs are stiff just below the knee.  So know I'm stuck stretching my legs before I get up. 

Today is my day to volunteer at the school, I'm thinking how am I going to make it. I always seem to end up doing a lot of walking when I'm there.

So while I'm thinking about this, I take David to work I discover another soar spot! AHHHHHHHHh my upper thigh right below the hip area LOL it only hurts when I turn or go around a tight curve.  I never realized that you use you upper thighs to stabilize your self when driving I DO NOW!  By now I'm thinking maybe I should just bit the bullet and tell Coach I will be in tomorrow give me another day to rest. NO that won't work because I am going to make my self work out again tomorrow!  So I go in, and to my very pleasant surprise the more I'm up walking around the better my calves feel! OH how much can I do walking around the school???? Not near enough.



Wish me luck tomorrow! LOL  I will get past this! I will make this a habit! But could someone make my body realize it will get better?????

I do have to say the Gazelle is easy to do and very quite compared to ther exercise things. I was able to use it while the family watched the news that am.  Now I will have to invest in the DVD's so i can very my work out.  NO they will not just sit on the shelf and collect dust! Really!!!! Fine don't believe me! LOL