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**wooclosmercob** · 04-18-2012, 12:39 PM

I've always felt that to lose weight the key is what you're eating. I can lose weight by eating right... I can't effect my weight with exercise. So exercise is NOT mandatory for me (just speaking for myself here) to lose weight. HOWEVER... exercise is critical to my well-being so I do it and I work HARD at it.

Why I go to the gym and live an active life... I'm 52, so some of these are age related (now and the future):

1. balance
2. flexibility
3. strength
4. cardio vascular health
5. muscle
6. mood
7. sense of accomplishment
8. body shape (what good is being at goal if you're saggy-baggy-lumpy and nothing fits right?)
9. companionship (social part of the gym)
10. longevity

Weight loss has nothing to do with it. If it did, then I'd quit the gym once I hit my goal weight.

04-18-2012, 12:39 PM	#10
wooclosmercob Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 457 Senior Member	I've always felt that to lose weight the key is what you're eating. I can lose weight by eating right... I can't effect my weight with exercise. So exercise is NOT mandatory for me (just speaking for myself here) to lose weight. HOWEVER... exercise is critical to my well-being so I do it and I work HARD at it. Why I go to the gym and live an active life... I'm 52, so some of these are age related (now and the future): 1. balance 2. flexibility 3. strength 4. cardio vascular health 5. muscle 6. mood 7. sense of accomplishment 8. body shape (what good is being at goal if you're saggy-baggy-lumpy and nothing fits right?) 9. companionship (social part of the gym) 10. longevity Weight loss has nothing to do with it. If it did, then I'd quit the gym once I hit my goal weight.
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