Back In The Water

For the first time in about 12 years I went swimming on Tuesday night.

It was the most fun I have had in a very long time!!!

I can't wait to go back and do it again. I have heard people talk about enjoying exercise and this has always been a strange concept to understand for me, but I finally get it.

One of the things that I have found the hardest about being overweight is that I was too embarrassed to go swimming. Growing up, swimming was always such a huge part of my life and since I stopped I have always felt like a piece of me was missing. I don't want to go on and get all weird, but when I stepped into that pool and dipped in the water it was almost like a spiritual experience. I felt more like myself again.

My brother, his girlfriend and a friend were sitting by the pool watching me and they couldn't get over how happy I was. They just kept exclaiming "Look at you, you look so happy!"

So now my brother's girlfriend and I are going to swim and do exercises in the pool twice a week. Eventually when I get my confidence up I want to do a water aerobics class. I need to re-teach myself how to swim, I was fine with breast stroke, but I found myself struggling to do freestyle because it felt so strange to keep my head under water.

Hopefully I'll get as good as Marshmallow eventually!