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>I started doing one mile and worked up to two miles. I use the machine 5 days a week. The machine tells you how many calories you burn, time, speed, etc. It is funny (not really - just a basic law) but the more you weigh the greater the number of calories you burn. By maintaining the same speed and distance as your weight comes down the number of calories burned decreases. This means you have to work harder to loose weight as you weigh less. :)
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>Now I am going to go back to weight lifting three days a week and walk two days. It is good to shake up the body as it becomes used to doing something.
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You motivate me! Almost two years ago I turned 40. Not a big deal, I know, but it sure changed my life in ways I never dreamed of. All my life I was healthy and energetic. I was always slightly underweight, very active, low blood pressure, low blood sugar, low cholesterol, etc.

Well, in the almost two years since I turned 40 my cholesterol shot up from 145 to 309! (I think that is really due to my Norwegian and German ancestry and eating fatty meat and potatoes all my life!) Needless to say I am on the fitness bandwagon! Changed my diet and I exercise 6 days a week now. I have not lost any weight--in fact I gained 10 lbs! I do an hour of aerobics 3 times a week (rotate 3.5 minutes aerobics and 1.5 minutes lifting weights) and an hour on a glider the other 3 days a week (had to add the glider because the aerobics/weight training was making me too muscular). Now to just keep it up for the rest of my life! Actually I've found that the stress reduction from exercising has made it all worthwhile in itself.