Lapse Into Summer

After losing 60 pounds last year, my body was in bad need of an overhaul so I decided to start toning up in the pool. I spent hours working muscle groups to try to put as much as I could back where the good Lord had placed it originally. I was die-hard about it... You know that searing pain that comes in your feet when you have been too long in winter weather? Once, in October I stayed in the pool so long it took 3 hrs for my legs to un-numb themselves to feel like that. I kept it under a half an hour the few times I went in after that.

I had hoped to continue my exercises more in the winter. There were plenty that could be land based, but as the months wore along, my good intentions found themselves sitting on their butt right beside me. I finally made it in the pool the other day, but only to scoop out the dead leaves. Despite the initial pain of a thousand knives burning into my legs, it was great to be back in the water. When I went in the following day, I couldn't believe how it had warmed over night. I just melted into summer break as I stared over the forest & lake counting my reps. I slipped right back into summer-mode & it feels great to be back !!!