Hi Sandra,
What an excellent thread you started!!! When I first started exercising as a kid I hated it with a passion because I was very overweight and was forced to by my parents in addition to going to WW for kids!!! Then in my teens and early twenties it was to try to achieve the perfect body. It is just in the last 2 or 3 years that I have really truly fallen in love with exercise and now that I've discovered Cathe exercise is like breathing, I just do it and can't imagine ending the day without it. I love how exercise makes me feel so strong...physically, mentally and spiritually! Exercise makes me feel centered and calms all the craziness in my head:7 :+ If I go without working out for more than 2 days I feel like I turn into the Tazmanian Devil! I love how exercise, especially Cathe workouts, constantly challenges me to get out of my comfort zone and achieve levels I never thought I could reach:7 ! Of course I want to look good as well, I would be lying to myself if I didn't admit that much, but it's all the other reasons above that really give me such a passion for working out. Sandra, I know exactly what you mean about wanting to "look" as fit as you "feel", I feel the EXACT same way! Cathe came along for me just in time because now for the first time in a VERY LONG TIME, I feel like I am just starting to look as fit as I feel. Tonight in my step class 3 different people came up to me and told me that I looked like I lost a lot of weight and I look really great...do you have any idea how incredibly good that made me feel?? LOL, I think I floated not walked out of the gym tonight!! I'm still on cloud 9:7 ! Of course I still see lots of areas to improve, especially the lower body but I just need to remember those compliments. Well that about sums it up for me! I just want to thank Cathe so much for helping me achieve fitness levels I didn't think I had in me to reach:7 :7 !