I hate to say it, but to me the amount of exercise you get in your day-to-day life doesn't seem all that much help in the weight department (i'm sure it has to help in the cardio and respitory depts). I actually went one time from living on one floor and driving everywhere I went to living on the 3rd & 4th floors and walking everywhere I went (to and from work, to include walking home and back for lunch, to the grocery store, and when we'd go out at night) and even w/a reduction in food -- gained weight. Oh, yeah; I worked on the third floor of a building and was the only person in my office young enough to lug up the boxes of reams of paper from the basement to our office. Oh, yeah, I also would walk to supply points when people needed pens and stuff. AND I took 2 Jazzercise classes a week. AND I did extra abs workouts most mornings before work. Needless to say, somewhere around there I gave up on the concept of weight management and just went for overall health. I still workout quite a bit, and walk a lot (and Galena is a very vertical town -- walking actually means climbing here). But I threw away the scale years ago. I'm never going to be thin, and who gives a poop?
