Moving my muscles (aka the excruciating "E" word)

Time to move my muscles! That phrase gets a lot less backtalk than the excruciating "E" word - exercise! Jezzie started a thread on a chap who lost 90# walking in his backyard. What a concept! Got me to thinking how safe and smooth my parking lot is (except for the speed bumps I'm easily able to circumvent at my current rate of speed - hobbling on a hinky hip) and how nearby and private it is for most of the time. Handy!

Good thread, Jezzie! Backyard walking for weight loss. Some of us are too shy to hit the bricks, too shaky to try a treadmill. Motivation need not be a passion to walk, as the chap in the article said he was only 10% positively inclined to walk when he started a walk - although he was 100% positive after he'd DONE a walk. That's what got me to thinking that even ~I~ (the most recalcitrant about "just walking" to burn calories by strolling) might lock on to the certainty that I also will be 100% pleased with myself at the END of whatever walking my hinky hip and I can manage. Slow and steady, right? Each step filled with the suspense that a hinky hip brings, as one never quite knows if the hip will hold or if pain will break my gait. So I use a cane to carry some weight when I am on my left leg. Hopefully, I shall be able to depend less and less on that cane as I let go of 221# of excess weight. My current weight of 420.8# is painful on that hip. I'm thinking that I'll be walking better at 199# - and maybe just carrying my cane instead of leaning on it. Chiropractor suggests I resist overusing a cane, that I test the leg, give it a chance to function, build its strength - and my confidence - by encouraging my body to function on two legs. I'll try.

After I reach 199#, and I believe I can do that with the support of my LCFriends, I intend to get serious about refining weight, paring down, to get as close to the ideal 150# as my 5'10" frame can get. Oh, I've got plans!