Mark this Date for Posterity!
It’s the day I start exercising! LOL Well, I’m going to start at lunch. After lunch, I’m going to walk at least 15 minutes around the area where I work. I want to build this to 30 min. a day. NEED to do this because my first challenge (May) is starting Friday. I do have my iPod with my “music to work out to” playlist (all my favorite dance tunes) and my Supah Dupah™ Bose headphones with me. I’ll be the old chick outside rawked out as she bee-bopps to dance tunes! Tonight, after work, but before I start dinner, I will get back to my dancing. Basically doing the same thing (iPod playlist), but this time attached to the TV’s sound system for maximum effect. 
LOL
The GOAL is to do this 5-6 days out of the week. I MUST build up to 1 hrs. exercise a day. Must, must, MUST. The problem in the past 6 months is I’ll start, then one or the other of my knees starts to ache, and I stop for days and days. It’s a vicious cycle; I’m sure the knees hurt because I’m carrying too much frickin’ weight, but I need to exercise to lose the weight. 
So, if the knees start hurting again, unless it’s SHARP pain, I’m just gonna try to ignore it. Maybe scale back the intensity, but NOT STOP. Make sure that I stretch good before I start, too. That’s key.
ONLY TWO MORE DAYS UNTIL VEGAS, BABY!!!!
~ Sunnie
April 27th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Getting into a good exercise routine has been hard for me…I do well for awhile…and then something happens and I stop…so its like two steps forward, three back…it does take awhile to build up stamina, for sure. One thing I am really trying different this time is to push myself out of my comfort zone…you know, that place where you say…I’m done…but I am really trying to get past that…I am hoping this new attitude will help. I DO NOT like to sweat…LOL But I know it is necessary. sooooo….good luck on your walk, and on your vegas trip!!
April 27th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Thanks, on both counts! The weather will be nice for walking, not just parking my butt in front of a machine. LOL I hope your new mindset really works for you, too!
April 27th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
I totally relate to the whole sore-knee dilemma! I tore the meniscus in both knees (menisci? lol) about eight years ago and over the past year-and-a-half I have “reinjured” my left knee repeatedly (once in a car accident) making it almost impossible for me to exercise like I want to.
I have learned to really “listen” to my knees. If they are swollen, they hurt. The four activities that I try to do that seem to bother my knees are walking, elliptical (not too badly that’s pretty low-impact on the knees), DDR (my favorite exercise but the jumps are hard on my knees), and running (which I keep trying to do but it totally kills my knees). Whenever they hurt, I ice ‘em up, give ‘em a rest for a day or so — and then get right back to exercising.
I also ride a bicycle, both an exercise bike and a real bike. The exercise bike doesn’t affect my knees at all (a great investment for a hundred bucks) but the real bike - confronted with real hills - requires me to stand up and pump, and that can have an effect on my knees. Thing is - it also helped a LOT to strengthen the muscles around my knees - which made a difference in EVERYTHING, how far I can walk and how much I can do before my knees start bothering me.
So anyway (gosh this was long!) hang in there! There are only two things you can do to make your knee issues go away: 1) lose the weight you’re trying to carry around on them and 2) strengthen the muscles that support them. And yeah you CAN do both - we both can!!
By the way, I didn’t know if you knew this or not but the 1st and 2nd place winners in the March challenge (and the current leader in the April challenge) were both over 50 yrs old. =D
April 27th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
thanks. more pressure. LOL (re both March and April challenge leaders being over 50.) I can totally relate to YOU re the car accident causing issues; I was rear-ended in my Miata exactly 11 months apart-and I was in physical therapy for the first one for over 6 months. THAT is when I started to real pour the pounds on…no exercise at all (other than physical therapy, and that ain’t the same) for almost 2 years.
I got rid of the Miata (not it’s fault, but I wanted more physical distance between the bumper and me, and something other drivers could SEE better)…but here I sit, with the weight still on. Oh well, it’s only going down, NOT up. Plan is when this car is paid off in another year or so, I just might go back to a Miata (I miss it so!) Except this one will be red like my first not, not that dark midnight blue. They’ll see me, alright! 
April 27th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Thanks for the encouragement on my blog!
Yes, I did make it to my goal but I gained some weight back over the winter. So I can use all the encouragement I can get. Best of luck with your efforts. Your walking goal is a great place to start! I like the FBD stuff that I have read in Prevention. I started eating 2T of peanut butter daily for that reason. I also did sunflower seeds, but I seem to NOT know when to quit when it comes to those. Soooo addictive. Can’t have them in my house! 
April 28th, 2009 at 2:06 am
LOL. I’m that way with cashews. They ARE allowed, but in small doses, and it’s that “small” part that keeps trying to get in the way.
I’ll be sure to check in with you daily! 
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