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Milkyway · 07-14-2008, 03:56 AM

I, like many of you, just could not vote. None of the choices were my response, they seemed more like excuses,but I think that was the point.

Anyway, in my own life I know I cannot lose weight without exercise. Period. I cannot maintain a healthy weight without some sort of exercise/activity in my life. I eat pretty well all the time, I love most healthy foods and enjoy cooking, and found found ways to cook healthy foods quickly. However, I can not resist candy, cookies, and cake, I don't buy them often but sometimes I am exposed to them and find resisting impossible. But my daily activities and exercises keep my body in check. BTW, I am still loosing weight after my second baby and I am doing it the healthily way so it takes awhile, but I see steady decreases in my weight and increases in my health. (Unfortunately I was on bed rest for both of my pregnancies, and craved junk food so I did not get to maintain my healthy eating or my exercising which caused more weight gain and harder weight loss than I wanted.)

But after the second and final baby I am back to eating well and exercising. Some people think that all exercise has to be running on a treadmill at a gym, that is not true. Exercise can be taking the kids to the zoo. Walking briskly around the mall "window shopping", swimming with the family, taking walks in the park, running around the backyard with the kids, walking to the bars, walking to the bus stop, walking to work, walking the dog, walking on your smoke break (hubby does that, I'm a recovered smoker), walking up and down the stairs caring loads of laundry, and so much more. I am one of those weirdos that loves going to the gym, but I don't always make it there because of childcare issues, yet there are tons of things I can do that I also enjoy that give me my needed exercise/activity level.

I am not a lazy person, IMO, I do spend a lot of time on the computer for work, and I work at home, but I am still quite active.

Let's think back to the beginning of time, human beings evolved to walk upright and walk all over the place. Are we fat because we have cars? No, I am just saying our bodies were made for walking, plain and simple it is in our genetics. IMO if we don't move our bodies like they were made to be moved we will suffer the consequences ie. be overweight.

Congrats to anyone who can loose weight without exercise,

I know I can't.

07-14-2008, 03:56 AM	#55 (permalink)
Milkyway Tilted Location: Ohio	I, like many of you, just could not vote. None of the choices were my response, they seemed more like excuses,but I think that was the point. Anyway, in my own life I know I cannot lose weight without exercise. Period. I cannot maintain a healthy weight without some sort of exercise/activity in my life. I eat pretty well all the time, I love most healthy foods and enjoy cooking, and found found ways to cook healthy foods quickly. However, I can not resist candy, cookies, and cake, I don't buy them often but sometimes I am exposed to them and find resisting impossible. But my daily activities and exercises keep my body in check. BTW, I am still loosing weight after my second baby and I am doing it the healthily way so it takes awhile, but I see steady decreases in my weight and increases in my health. (Unfortunately I was on bed rest for both of my pregnancies, and craved junk food so I did not get to maintain my healthy eating or my exercising which caused more weight gain and harder weight loss than I wanted.) But after the second and final baby I am back to eating well and exercising. Some people think that all exercise has to be running on a treadmill at a gym, that is not true. Exercise can be taking the kids to the zoo. Walking briskly around the mall "window shopping", swimming with the family, taking walks in the park, running around the backyard with the kids, walking to the bars, walking to the bus stop, walking to work, walking the dog, walking on your smoke break (hubby does that, I'm a recovered smoker), walking up and down the stairs caring loads of laundry, and so much more. I am one of those weirdos that loves going to the gym, but I don't always make it there because of childcare issues, yet there are tons of things I can do that I also enjoy that give me my needed exercise/activity level. I am not a lazy person, IMO, I do spend a lot of time on the computer for work, and I work at home, but I am still quite active. Let's think back to the beginning of time, human beings evolved to walk upright and walk all over the place. Are we fat because we have cars? No, I am just saying our bodies were made for walking, plain and simple it is in our genetics. IMO if we don't move our bodies like they were made to be moved we will suffer the consequences ie. be overweight. Congrats to anyone who can loose weight without exercise, I know I can't. __________________ Yes you can get off on the same sexual experience for 24 full hours!!!!! Last edited by Milkyway; 07-14-2008 at 04:08 AM..