Hmmm...I could walk to work I suppose, but I am about 17 miles away. In heels and a suit down a major highway might be kind of tough. I do try and walk remster (my dog) as much as possible. I must say though i am partial to my running. I can't get enough of the 'runner's high'. I agree though if you can walk do it!!! Grocery store, drug store, movie store, etc...I am fortunate enough to live in a small city so everything is in the vecinity or nearby, so walking is very doable and easy to 'kill 2 birds with one stone' perse.

I do a round trip 4 miles to work. I live 2 miles away. I change my shoes when I get to work. I would rather die then work out in a gym. There are other excerise....cleaning the house, burns plenty, walking up stairs instead of the lift. On the Oprah show , another women claimed vigorious sexual intercourse. Possible I suppose, I'm not sure how much fat that will burn off. Perhaps as much as plowing the lower 40. I should start a seperate thread on that.

I work at a major universtiy. I walk through a residential neighborhood to get there. I am rather lucky, if you want to walk to work. Some years ago, there was an article on people who walk to work. Much more then you think. One wormen walked 5 miles each way, sometimes on the shoulder of busy roads.

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Funny you should mention that. My girlfriends always comment on how very active and creative my sex life is (sorry if tmi). Maybe there is something to what that woman said on Oprah. Well aside from maybe burning a few cal.s (not sure on the fat either), I know it def. helps my mental well-being and puts a big smile on my face

You're right though, that's a whole other thread.

Oh BTW, I was thinking (I don't know about you) the reason I feel more confident about my self now is because I am a decade removed from the teen years. I was very thin as a teen (and teased). I was also a late bloomer. When my body began to change in my late teens and early 20's, I tried to hold on to my overly thin body image. In the 90's when heroin chic became all the rage , the body I was once teased for was now in style. I wasted a lot of time chaseing some stupid ideal.

Anyways, for me it was the whole coming of age thing. My body was changing and I wasted my 20's trying to revert back to the me of my childhood. The issues with food stemmed out of a cycle of famine and the inevitable feast. It really messed with my head.......[/QUOTE]

You know I never thought about that...it is true now a days it seems it is ok and preferred for a woman to look like a woman....not rail thin, but curvy...interresting. Look at Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears (although not a fan), Jennifer Lopez, and many more in the public eye...they are curvy beautiful women and most of the men I know drool over those types than the waifs. Images of women still in some ways are distorted by the media(magazines are airbrushed, touched-up, etcc.), but things have definetly changed. The change in the decade could've assisted my growing confidence. Not taking away from the fact that me maturing and becoming comfortable with myself took alot of self-reflection and work on my part.

I was amused to find that on Fitday, in the activities section, where you note your specific activity and length of time spent, one of the categories is sexual activity......! My husband is the official timekeeper...

Most curvy women are that, but also thin. Underwear models most certainly are...many actresses too. Many obese women describe themselves as curvy. (I call it the obesity backlash). Afraid to lose weight because they might lose their curves. How obesity and curvy got to be one and the same is beyond me. Jessica Simpson is curvy, but she is also 103 lbs. Britney Spears is not thin, just dumpy. When she gets older, that will come back to haunt her. Lopez has one curve, her bottom, yet she is thin.Tastes have changed for a long time in the description of curvy. We certaintly don't want to be the plump milkmaids that was the height of female beauty in the 19th century. Obesity is a disease, not a curvy body.

Exercise to me is about strength, endurance, health and that glorious feeling of moving your body thru space. The trimming my butt and thighs is merely a bonus. Whether it is vigorous housework, yard work, biking, running or walking, whatever
you are challenging your body to expand its limits. We all do the same with our minds and our spirits..but we tend to neglect the body.