Never thought I would say this

in a million years.   I went back to exercise class today. and actually found that the 40 minutes passed very quickly, with minimal creaking of the joints and objection from my muscles. Still no endorphin high but cant have everything now can I.

 Apparently shedding some weight has made a difference. Who would have thought that, certainly not I. Kind of funny when I think about it.  Duh moment. Of course it should make a difference less weight, less stress on the body organs and joints.   Guess I was in what you call Denial.

 We did a fast 3 mile Leslie Sansone walking tape.  We started doing this class about 2 yrs ago. The participants have come and gone as the time has passed. We usually meet in one of the conference rooms that have been cleared for exercise after work.  Pop a tape in the DVD and away we go. Sometimes we  did a Taebo tape, once we did a Dancing with the Stars tape but too may steps to learn. Richard Simmons has entertained us several times when someone brought in a few of his tapes.

My usual comment was at the one mile mark, I would say " Just leave me where I drop" " Feel free to step over or around me, please no CPR, I have no regrets in life.. " Once the Taebo tape started with a 6 lap around the room jog.  My mantra was " are you guys trying to kill me. "  You see I was probably the heaviest person in the exercise class.  So I was moving some bulk around that room. Thus your trying to kill me comments. of course we all know it was just in jest cause I do like to make people laugh.

I am not sure that I am ready for the Taebo tape yet. Here is why-  a little back ground first, the lap band has a port attached to it, so it can be filled with small amounts of saline, first weekly x 6, then monthly. At some point the "fills" stop and then my understanding is if I reach a plauteau and my weight loss stops, before I am at goal.  I can have another fill. Of course that would be after I have upgraded to another level of exercise.  Something to look forward too.....not so much-giggle.  On with the story

  I am a little worried about some of the bending exercises of the Taebo tape because of this port. I know there is nothing I can do to damage it. I should really just get over the mental concern and do a tape and see what happens.

 How do I know I cant do any damage to it?  Well.... I got so excited about a pair of jeans I haven't worn for years that I wore them to the range for a morning of target practice with my Sig Sauer Mosquito with the fuchsia handle. One of the things we do is" police our brass" (pick up the empty shells that exit the firearm after you shoot a round) when we are done. I went to bend over and found the jeans to be pretty tight at the waist, to the point actually where I couldn't bend over so I got creative and did some lunge type movement to pick up my brass. Exercise right?  Feel free to laugh cause it had to have looked pretty comical for anyone watching. Then the thought occurred to me. Oh crap the port !!!!! hope I didn't do any damage to it. It was pretty tender for a day or two after . I will say from time to time I do feel some tenderness, so at my next "fill" I asked the surgeon, leaving out my story of course" He said no its to deep for me to do any damage.  Phew.   I will update you on the result of the Taebo experience once I do it. 

Thanks for reading.


Spoiler Alert:

 if your faint of heart or hate pictures of medical type stuff- close your eyes now. Or hit the scroll button and scroll really fast past these pictures.  Seemed easier just to post a couple of pictures so you know what I am talking about.    Here goes:  Thanks to Google Images for these pictures and the web sites they lead to, which I did not explore. .