Hi Jam! YES, I'm totally up for the challenge! It's so hard for me to stay motivated to workout and I have to limit what activities I can do because of a few health issues. I would like to workout 4-5 times a week. I just started doing Kelly Coffeys START HERE DVD (the strength training part, 30 minutes) and then 30 minutes on the treadmill the goal being Monday, Wednesday and Friday and then just cardio on Tuesday and Thursday. I love yoga but I'm not able to practice it at this time. Hopefully, we can encourage each other to stay on a routine!
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Strangest thing happened when I moved. We lived in the same community for 14 years while we were raising our kids. We had a beautiful rec center that we belonged to and my kids went there all of the time to play and work out. I tried going but I would always run into people that I knew and I felt funny exercising in front of people I knew. Especially because I was unfamiliar with the equipment and was worried about feeling foolish, so I ended up dropping them off and picking them up. When we moved my kids got a two week membership to a gym near us while they were home from college for their holiday break. After they went back to school my husband and I decided to check it out. It is a great gym and actually quite affordable. We joined the first week of January and I go at least 6 days a week. I don't even know half the time what I am going to do when I get there, but I just walk in and pick something and since I don't know anybody I don't worry about making a fool of myself. My weight loss seems to have leveled off recently so I decided to try out some of the classes that they offer. Many of my friends have asked me how I have lost weight and I give a lot of credit to MFP because that has been key, but if I wasn't exercising while losing, I think I would have a lot of excess, wrinkly skin to deal with.