Thanks for asking!
No, I had to give it up... I cut back in the summer because my full time job went bananas and I had to change jobs. I'm a dental hygienist. I ended up working in a whole bunch of different offices. Well, the stress of everything different every day (the driving, the equipment, the hours, the waiting for the dentist each appointment) was much more than I was accustomed to.
Meanwhile waking up at 4 to work out an hour started to just take too much out of me. I started "sleeping in" to conserve energy. Now, I have not exercised daily since around October. I still get up and out occasionally...
Another thing is that I have started back to school. Fed up with my career totally dependent on a dentist. I am getting a BA in Business Mgmt from St Marys College of Calif. I go to school from 6pm to 10pm every Wednesday night. It is intense, with lots of writing assignments. Degree expected Aug 2006.
Now I'm working on my senior project (I took half the program in 2001, now I just jumped into the last half) and it will be a big project at another new job, sales-repping dental technology for a brand new small company...
I'm not saying I'm too busy for exercise, I'm just saying I have a lot of excuses. I miss feeling as good as I did when I exercised every day.
To make a long story short I quit the YMCA... another stressful thing was the room at the Y was as echo-ey as a gym. Like an indoor pool. I could hardly hear my music.
I tried a step class at another gym and the sound was great! I would love to work there (or just work out there) but I just have too many other things going on right now.
*Today* I think, I start to have a regular schedule of just 2 offices. ...And the tech rep job which I'm starting out slowly... well it's a long answer and I said I'd make a long story short but I lied!
I ordered the low impact step DVD with the other workout on it because my level has diminished, I think. I have hardly tested it! I will need workouts that just get me back up out of bed at all.
Fondly, Connie