You bet your sweet bippee it does! (Now I'm dating myself, right. )

I posted a new pic in my gallery last night. I never really thought much about it and how I look. I still feel the same as I always did inside - you know that fat person feeling. <sigh> Then I started comparing my pictures. OMG! The exercise really works!

I took on the 3rd TDC fitness challenge. Now mind you I was not an exerciser by any means. I work a full time paying job from home (on the computer and the telephone all day long). So I don't even go out and drive to work or have to walk from the car into a building everyday. I live on one floor, so don't go up and down steps at all, well there are 2 steps out to the garage floor. I mean, really, the exercise I was getting was going 20 or so paces from my computer to the potty after drinking all the water. So I definitely was not into getting fit.

So the first week of the TDC challenge I was on vacation in Vegas and did a lot of walking there. Not power walking, just regular sightseeing type of walking, but a lot of it. Then when I came home I did 30 minutes of walking around the neighborhood at lunch time. Did that for a few weeks and then finally bought the Walk Away the Pounds video just before Christmas, so that I could exercise in the comfort of my own living room. (Thanks goes to Mischa, Joan & Monika for recommending WAP to me!)

With the video, I was able to do the one mile walk for a few weeks and then started doing the 2 mile walk in the past couple of weeks. (That 2 mile is a real workout!)

So, this is the last week of the 3rd TDC challenge and when I posted earlier to that forum I said I couldn't really tell a difference in my level of fitness. Well, let me tell you something. I really started looking at my pictures and could see a big difference. If you look at the pic where I am posing with those 2 wax models, then look at the full length pic I took yesterday in my new black pants, there is a huge difference. But the important part? I lost only 13 pounds in between those 2 pictures!!! It looks like I lost about 50.

So, I'm not writing this to have you all look at my pictures and tell me what you think of me or my pics. I'm writing this to tell you that exercise really, really, really does make a difference. And this coming from a die hard who swore she'd never do exercising just for the sake of exercising.

So what are you gonna do this week to improve your level of fitness? Me? I'm gonna keep on doing the walking and I'm gonna add something new every few weeks.