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Well, I have to say, the following read on another blog just totally got to my emotional head space, particularly after my previous entry.

When you’re more than 100 pounds overweight, exercise HAS to be optional. It is REALLY, REALLY hard to do much of anything. Getting off the couch is extremely difficult mentally and physically. Performing exercises can be impossible, because you can’t make your body get into some of those positions. Floor exercises are tough because you are often on your knees (ouch!) and again have to get up off the floor. Even walking can be too much for some of us.

I can’t tell you how highly I dispute this! I’m not 100 lb overweight. I’m currently about 150 lbs overweight. When I started walking, I was 275 lbs over my goal weight. that’s right… TWO-HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE POUNDS.

I don’t know folks… here are the choices that I read on the other blog compared to what I’m promoting on mine: Start a diet that will eventually get you “comfy” enough to eat 600 calories a day OR, have a more balanced diet with light exercising to start. Which one would you prefer?

I realize this is just someone else’s ‘honest opinion’. And while I’m under 40 and relatively healthy, I’m not a youngin’ who had a lot of vitality and strength when I started exercising in the first place.

Whatever your options, going slow and/or consistent is the best, if you’re serious about maximum weight loss and successful maintenance. I’m not saying losing weight *slowly* is the only option. I didn’t lose my weight slowly, in fact, I had dramatic weight loss for a while, then remained level, then started again. What’s important here are taking steps, one by one to change you life.

I’ve yet to hear any long time maintenance success stories from those who are/still on Kimkins, I’ve yet to here mr. Viva la Low Carb actually start talking about a food plan to maintain his weight loss or any of that nature.

Beware of naysayers who whine that exercising “has” to be optional.

I’m going to put myself out there as someone who has gone through the pain of exercising with a balanced diet. Within 5 days of my walking regime, I went from using 1000 mg of Advil and walking with a cane for pain management and only completing a 1/4 mile walk, to 200 mg Advil, little to new use of a cane, and completing a 1 mile *hike*. By the end of the summer, I was averaging 2-3 miles walking per day with no cane, and no advil for pain management. all this, while still very morbidly obese. I’m not some super hero here folks. I’m just an ordinary joe who was and remains determined to do something that results in *permanent* weight loss.

Read more about diet craze controversy

Ok, I’ll be the first one to admit that even I get a little caught up on celebrity gossip. How exactly is this diet related? Well, really, although any news of any celebrity is reported, the most reported celebrity gossip is usually about someone’s weight problem, or exercise regime. Celebrities are obsessed about that, and in turn, we’re obsessed about them. So take a break from your exercise bike, and read about Lindsay Lohan needing butt implants, or Jessica Simpson’s Workout frenzy. Yeah for fun, I like to see celebrities in just as much pain or obsession about their bodies as I am. It kinda almost makes them a little more human, doesn’t it?