well how about you are you an exercise fanatic
no i'm definitely now i do like to walk
no me either
do you
yes since TI has uh uh instituted that um
uh walkabout i have gone out and started walking even more bought me the you know the proper proper shoes and everything to get started and uh park out there you know way out there in the boondocks
yeah
wonderful
uh-huh
and it was so funny the other day i took some guys to to lunch
and when we came back they said oh there's a parking space real close and i parked way out in the boonies and i said you can walk off your lunch
way
that's the way to do it
yeah
i'm kind of like you i've never really gotten into it it's just a it's just a chore you know and i finally decided one semester i'm in college and i'm taking night classes and
um um
i still don't have any of my PE classes and so one semester i thought okay that's what i'm going to do and that will get me where i'll have to do it you know
oh
uh-huh
and they were offering a a walking class where you you know you have to walk you know that like for every mile you walk and every so many minutes you get you get points you know and then you have to go in once a week and log your points so it's not like you can do the class like anytime you want you know
um um
um um
and at the end of the semester you go back in and your like your final exam is a three mile walk and if you walk it in this many minutes you get an A this many minutes you get a B
oh
uh-huh
and i thought oh this will be an easy class and you know and i did it and i did it for a long time like about the middle of the semester i ended up having to have surgery on my foot and this has been a couple of years ago
well
oh no uh-huh
and you know i had i did that and i just ended up having to drop the class you know by the time the final came around i wasn't even where i could wear a shoe yet let alone walk three miles you know
oh
oh no yeah
but that was the only time i have ever been able to like start an exercise program and really stick to it
um um
because then i had to i had to go every week and log in what i had walked and my teacher looked at it every week and it was you know
right
uh-huh
but other than that i just you know i kind of get in the mood every once in awhile say okay i'm going to start going to aerobics now you know and and i'll go for like two weeks and go this is for the
uh-huh
there you go
birds you know this is too much work
well you know i have noticed too that uh uh when i started the exercise uh not the exercise but the walking program uh that i did tone up you know like all over but it didn't get the upper part of my body and uh so
uh-huh
uh-huh
what i do is i bowl i am a fanatic when it comes to bowling and i used to bowl five times a week so i really loved it and i still bowl at least once a week now on a league on on a and i'm bowling on the TI league
wow
yeah
uh
uh-huh
um but i've noticed that what i do is that i have my towel that sits on the floor so that every time i get up to bowl i have to bend over to pick up my towel and that way i get the little extra exercise
uh-huh
i'm always explaining to people i do little things like that like you know take the stairs instead of the um the elevator and
yeah
and i do silly things like that versus a a regular program that you would have
but that's you're amazed at how much that adds up i was on uh Nutri Systems for a while and that is one of the things that they really stressed doing you know
it sure does
uh-huh
when you come to your Nutri System meeting don't park in the parking place outside the front door park at the other end you know i mean and they stretched stressed things like that too you know during when you're sitting in sitting watching TV at night
yeah
right
uh-huh
during every commercial get up off the couch
there you go
go to the living room and get a glass of water go to the bedroom and make the bed go do something
uh-huh
um-hum um-hum
but get up during every commercial and things like that and you'd be surprised at how much just that little bit adds up you know just gives you a little more activity so
uh-huh
that's true
that's true yeah
especially when you're like us and don't really want to do it anyway you know
hum-um no i used to i really did uh years ago and uh i was thinking about that not too long ago that
really
i used to walk and not only did i walk but i used to watch all those exercise programs on TV and i would tape them
yeah
and then i would do them like two times a day but i don't do any of that kind of stuff anymore i think having children everything just kind of everything goes by the wayside
well i can't use that as an excuse because i didn't do it before i had mine either so
i've never been i just i'm more into you know sitting than i am
yeah yeah me too
so but you know i have found that with i have a two year old and i have found really though i'm kind of the opposite i'm more active now with him than i was before
uh-huh
yeah
because now you know he'll i want to go outside and i'll go outside with him and we'll walk up and down the street and we'll go to the park and i'll run around with him and stuff like that that
so i'm getting more you know more exercise that way than i ever did before i had him you know so
um-hum um-hum
i think i think that has helped a little bit i don't know
yeah yeah running
just chasing him around the house you know will be plenty for you
oh yeah that's that's enough
well mine are older now doing uh their own things so
right right you've kind of gotten out of that little stage there
oh yes yes i have a thirteen year old and an eleven year old so yeah yes
oh lucky you you're getting into even more interesting stages hm
yeah yeah see we're actually going through the same stages the two year old and the teenager
uh-huh yeah
yeah same thing huh it repeats repeats
yeah you watch it'll be exactly the same
the terrible twos repeat at about thirteen
it does it does it it absolutely does so
how interesting i can hardly wait
yeah i i i know i just know you can't but no i don't get as much exercise as i used to but i at least since TI has implemented that program i do i'm more aware of it
yeah
and you know that i'm need to do this that and the other and uh so i try to do combinations of things but not like go down to the President's Health Club like i see all these people do
right that that walkabout's a good program it really is you know when they first started it i i got all the information of course
it is it is
but just like everything else i was real gung ho with a friend of mine oh we're going to do this we're going to do this and we did do it for a long time
yeah
and then i started school you know and like two nights a week i was going to school and then the other two nights a week my husband worked so i had to pick Ryan up you know there's always an excuse you know to to not do it so
um um
oh yeah
oh yeah
and it gets worse it doesn't get any better
yeah oh and i'm sure i'm sure
yeah because i'm constantly running my children around someplace and that's where i actually get my exercise
yeah
is running them from here to there in the car
here to there and here to yeah
yeah
to the mall to the movies to the friends to the
there you go that's it that's it
sounds like fun well it was really good to talk to you
well it was nice talking to you yeah well okay we'll talk to you later um um bye-bye
take care okay bye bye
