You live a hard life, Joy!

Trying to talk myself into doing one of my exercise vids (Callanetics - I think) once I have got the house sorted. Also busy trying to track Ray down to see if he's sorted out my car yet - boy is that man driving me up the wall and he's not even here

Got up this morning and did 30 minutes of callanetics. Sounds good but to be honest I only did the warm up, the 3 stomach exercise and the cool down stretches. I was not very good to be honest, but practice will make perfect. If I’m very frank I was cr@p at the stomach exercises, all that rolling up quarter of an inch was no good for me, I kept tightening my neck – a habit I need to get out of.

But at least I got up and did it. Onwards and upward!!. I’m looking forward to go out for a walk at lunchtime as the sun is shining and it looks lovely out there. I may even try and sneak in an extra ten minutes, depending on if the boss disappears before then or not. And then beyond that we need to do a little shopping this evening so I might even walk up to the Co-op and make sure it is only a little I buy as I’ll need to carry it back – does that count as weight lifting

right ive grabbed the (virtual) bull by the horns and im exercsisng .....finally........anyways ill share what im doing , baby steps for me or ill end up injured i been doing 5 mins on rebounder then 5 on rowing machine then 5 rebounding and another 5 on rower also every 2nd day im doing 100 sit ups with the ab frame also with the better weather im doing more walking , something i never thought id do, im not enjoying any of it yet though but im sure i will one day

Well done, Kim! That sounds like a really good plan - nicely balanced - but don't overdo those sit-ups.

I'm am TRYING to learn to like it - I do enjoy the walking and the rebounding - but I am not so keen on the exercise videos, I am now rotating a callanetics video, a yoga one and a Richard Simmons one from the US that my diet buddy sent me, its called Sweatin' to the Oldies and its very funny. I am also doing about 15 minutes rebounding/jogging each day to VERY loud music - works off all sorts of aggression - almost as good as making bread.

you see i even have the easy way to make bread ........a machine does it all, ill tell you what made my arme ach more than anything the other day though ....doing the garden, im no way green fingered at all but thought i better make an attempt at tidying it up , spade out and away i went ouch ouch ouch.....richard simmons is very camp isnt he , my type of funny person can you get his videos here do you know?

No - I don't think you can - at least I haven't ever seen them. I was surprised that an American video actually worked on my VCR, I know the UK ones don't play on American VCRs.

Perhaps they might sell Richard Simmons' videos on Amazon - they are worth getting because he is good at working to a novice's ability - and, of course, they are hysterically funny, but they give you a good workout. He is definitely a camp Leo Sayer look-a-like in lycra!

This callanetics video is AGONY! I did the whole thing yesterday and you would never think that 55 mins of such small controlled movements could cause so much pain! I think Carol did the right thing by doing just a bit of it.... too late now! Carol - did you get cramp in each of the muscles she was working on when you were doing it??

my god 55 minutes!!!!!! how badly were you fighting the urge for a bit of chocolate, i couldnt do it for almost an hour id get bored , surely if your muscles are aching though you know you have worked them so at least your doing it properly

Ahem...I have been for two channelside walks this weekend thats exercise isn't it?

Sarah your video recorder is probably all regions ie play US as well as UK.

I like Richard seen him on Ricki.

This is the cover of the Richard Simmons video I got sent - the actual content is pretty much like the cover looks... I just checked and you can't get it on Amazon over here but there are loads of his videos on Amazon.com.

No.... I haven't been having any REALLY bad urges for chocolate this year. I only ever really liked white chocolate or really expensive milk chocolate and so I made sure that all the eggs I bought as pressies weren't made of white chocolate and the certainly weren't expensive this year. I did have a BIT of a lust after a choccie egg when I went looking up a Thorntons website to show my American diet buddy what a chocolate egg ought to look like. They looked so good I could almost smell them......

Try again......

I've got that one as well. Don't you just love those people in the Chorus line!! They're real party animals.
I wish I could remember to put on the earrings and paint the nails, have a hairdo and do my makeup before I start to exercise!!
Funnily enough some of them look as good at the end as they did at the beginning - doesn't happen to me like that. Does anyone else look well groomed at the end of their exercise session? or am I the only one who looks like something a large dog brought home?

shad i look that bad after working out even a dog wouldnt take me home

Sometimes I look like that BEFORE I workout!

They are a tad on the strange side on that video though - I don't do it often because it gives me the giggles and I have to stop.

Not sure about this callanetics one - did it again today and now I have got a shooting pain running down the back of my right leg from just below my waist to just above the back of my knee - it reminds me of a nagging pain I had when I was pregnant....

(Don't even THINK it - I had a hysterectomy 18 months ago!!)