I decided to loose a lot of this excess me that is hanging around my waist.I am going to be going very slowly because of not being able to exercise the way I used to.So I know that it will take me some time to take it off but that is the way it got there in the first place.It is like it just sort of kept getting worse to the point that I don`t know the guy looking back at me in the mirror.Some of it was because of the drugs that I have had to take for my many problems and I know that it will take a while for me to get rid of it but I have to start some where and some time so why not now.I have had a hard time lately with my blood pressure being to high and my cholestral is getting higher but not yet in the "treatable range",what ever that means.But I do know that I have to do something or I am going to have problems later on,so it is up to me to start and to keep going no matter how hard it gets.I did go to the colledge and join up for the P.E. class but it is one of those that is like going to the gym.You have to do it yourself and there is no grades you just show up and start doing what you feel you need to do and can do to get fit.It count `s for a credit so I am already doing for me.And it is a benifit that I like to exercise and use the equiptment.Who knows maybe it will help me to not hurt so much.I do know that I have all of my doctors ok to do this because every time I go in to see them they are suggesting to me to get into physical thearpy and then thearpy always tells me that I know more about what my body needs than they do so I am going to do this just for me.And I still have my bike so on the days that I am not working out I will be riding my bike all over town ,hopeing that I can get back up to 5 miles a day like I used to.At least it is all flat land around here,if I was back in Denver it would be a lot of up and down and no air to breath.Wish me good luck and Happy trails.Monte