Re: My first time here may be my last.

[Guest guest]

Jane and , you are both doing so well. I'm glad for both of you.

I walk in a pool and while I feel I can walk hours and hours while in

the pool, if I overdo it i really feel it when I get out. Also, if I

don't take that 7th day off I tend to get so very tired. So I've been

walking one hour, six days a week and feel good. Can't imagine how

Steve did it every day like he did.

I've lost 40 pounds since the beginning of the year. Yet I seldom

feel well and can do less than before. It's so hard.

Take care.

Elaine

> Good for you ! I am so happy your knees are improving!

> I just read an interesting fact about weight and knees. They say for every

> pound you lose, it takes 4 pounds of pressure off your knees. Very

interesting!

> I am also told that my weight loss will accelerate any time now. I believe

> it may be happening as I have been averaging 2 to 3 pounds a week and the last

> 2 weeks have averaged 4 to 5!

> Wahoo!!!!!!!

> Jane

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[Guest guest]

Way to go ! As Shirley said, fall is coming and beautiful walking

weather.

Re: My first time here may be my last.

In a message dated 8/31/2006 1:15:35 PM Central Standard Time,

labtrek1941@... writes:

Wonderful what a cup of cofffee can do for our world outlook.

Good morning

All you dear hearts

Have a wonderful day.

I have walked daily 9 out of the last 10 days.

Knees much better

Hugs

[Guest guest]

Wonderful, Jane. What I said to about fall walking weather goes for you

too. What wonderful treks do you have planned?

Re: My first time here may be my last.

Good for you ! I am so happy your knees are improving!

I just read an interesting fact about weight and knees. They say for every

pound you lose, it takes 4 pounds of pressure off your knees. Very

interesting!

I am also told that my weight loss will accelerate any time now. I believe

it may be happening as I have been averaging 2 to 3 pounds a week and the last

2 weeks have averaged 4 to 5!

Wahoo!!!!!!!

Jane

[Guest guest]

Elaine, I think you are right, I stand corrected, and I apologize to

the many positive members in the group. I was really disappointed in

the way Steve was nit picked by the media right after his walk. And

the Backpacker article, well, it just was not what it could have been.

The posts I read seemed to demanding and critical. I follow several

cross country bicycle journals and every year I follow three or four

Appalachian Trail thru-hiker journals. I think when someone takes the

time to write and publish a journal that the reader should consider

themself as a guest in that persons' life. An observer, not a critic.

Can I come back?

[Guest guest]

You are welcome here. We all sometimes respond to something in a way we wish

we had not. That is life. And life is what we all have. Sometimes it may

seem the only thing we have. But even if it is, that is an incredibly wonderful

thing. Ourselves, friends, the basics, those are the things that are an

incredible gift and that sustains us. And we can always grow and change. I see

this group doing that. I feel that we are becoming more then a group of caring

people but now a group of friends.

Hugs to all

Jane

[Guest guest]

Hi

what AT journals have you read? I am a huge fan of Jan Liteshoe and I am

starting to read her AT journal for the second time I also read her Long

Trail journal too.

Good to have you here. don't worry about that post, it is all in the past

take care

Lindy

>

> Elaine, I think you are right, I stand corrected, and I apologize to

> the many positive members in the group. I was really disappointed in

> the way Steve was nit picked by the media right after his walk. And

> the Backpacker article, well, it just was not what it could have been.

> The posts I read seemed to demanding and critical. I follow several

> cross country bicycle journals and every year I follow three or four

> Appalachian Trail thru-hiker journals. I think when someone takes the

> time to write and publish a journal that the reader should consider

> themself as a guest in that persons' life. An observer, not a critic.

>

> Can I come back?

>

>

>

--

" Adventures free your spirit, let off steam and break up the monotony that

is the trap of life. May they be simple and ordinary or extraordinary and

grand, one should have adventures and have them often. " ~Lindy

[Guest guest]

Welcome to the group!

Elaine

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> Can I come back?

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