Not that anybody reads this anyway, but just because I haven't been writing here lately, doesn't mean the workouts have ended. Far from it...I'm up to, on average, working out 6 days a week. I alternate mostly between workouts on the elliptical trainer at the gym and videos at home. I've upped the intensity of my workouts and I'm noticing big differences. I feel so healthy and strong compared to where I was this time last year.

But I've missed having a record of my workouts and I don't want my other blog to become focussed completely on my health, my workouts, etc. I started this with the intention of keeping a record of my road to health, and that's what I want to make this again.

So, yesterday, after a week off because of a nasty cold that made it impossible to walk up a flight of stairs without gasping and coughing, I made it to the gym for the first time in 2007, and it felt amazing. I did the weightloss course on the elliptical for a 33 minute workout. This morning, I used my new Walk Away The Pounds Walk & Jog video, which was not as hard as I thought it would be, but was still an excellent workout. And then at lunch I took a half-hour walk. It feels so good to be active. I was lamenting to a friend last week when I was sick that all I really wanted to do was go to the gym. She laughed and asked if I ever would have thought that would be my biggest frustration when sick. And no, I never thought it would. But it was. And it just reaffirmed what I've come to realize. I've changed my lifestyle and in doing so, changed my life. I am an exerciser. Who would have thought?!