Exercising is good for you?

I have decided to act on my, if not precisely New Years then certainly Spring resolution. I am exercising. Put out the flags, blow the trumpets, ring the bells and anything else you can think of to celebrate something surprising!

The thinking behind it is that I am going to UK in a matter of weeks – you may have deduced from the amount of times I have mentioned it that I am looking forward to it just a little! Anyway, in the space of ten days or so while I am there, I will be eating all manner of yummy foods! Fish & Chips, Chinese, Indian, KFC, and my very favourite…Steak & Ale Pie & Chips! So, I need to lose some weight before I go, so that I can afford to put a bit back on! It's logical to me, ok!!

We have a cross trainer, an exercise bike and a trampoline, so every morning I have been working out. I started off easily with a kilometre on each, and I am doing just a little more each day. When we first bought the machines a couple of years ago I did about 5km on each one for a couple of days, and I ended up with severe stomach cramps because I overdid it. Hence the starting easy!

I start off on the cross trainer – 1.5km now, then onto the bike where I also do 1.5km, or maybe 2 depending on how I'm feeling in the morning. On the exercise bike it has a recovery metre – as you are cycling it counts your heartbeats per minute. When you finish, you press the recovery button, and it counts down from 60 recording how fast your heartbeat returns to normal. F1 is fabulously fit, F6 is practically dead! I'm an F4/F5 at the moment, so at least I'm not practically dead! If I ever hit F1 you'll be sure to hear about it!! After the bike, I go onto the trampoline for five minutes and bounce up and down waving my arms around! It's an attractive sight!

After the first couple of days my arms were absolutely killing me from the trampolining, but they seems to have settled into it now. It's getting easier every day. After another couple of days I should be able to go up to 2km on both machines.

Only thing is, I think this exercise lark is overrated because I've been doing it for a week, and I'm still not thin yet!