| This "Bed-Dancing" concept often gets a few | | | | announced to the household, "Don't bother me for one |
| chuckles… but I want you to stay with me on this one | | | | hour….no matter what," then shut the door. As I |
| as I explain exactly what it is (and isn't) and how you | | | | began to "dance" to the tunes, OH MY GOLLY… I |
| can incorporate this in your exercise routine today. | | | | couldn't last more than five minutes! My incision hurt, |
| I'll begin by expressing how essential Bed-Dancing was | | | | my joints hurt, and I collapsed on my bed, falling deeper |
| in my life right after I had the RNY gastric bypass | | | | in disappointment that I could not see myself achieving |
| bariatric weight-loss surgery: VERY ESSENTIAL. | | | | an exercise routine. |
| That's shooting straight from the hip! | | | | Most Recommended Tips for It Starts with |
| Most Recommended Tips for It Starts with | | | | Bed-Dancing |
| Bed-Dancing | | | | But soon, as the Latin CD kept spinning, I found |
| Definition of Bed-Dancing: "the exercise activity | | | | myself "moving" to the music while I was in bed… |
| that incorporates established exercise movements | | | | WOW… I then thought, "Hey, I can DANCE on my |
| while positioned on your back in the bed to minimize | | | | BACK!" So with legs and arms in the air flailing like a |
| the stress and strains on joints and muscles when a | | | | floppy fish… I discovered how someone who |
| person is morbidly obese." This is the best brief | | | | weighed 317 pounds COULD exercise… but not the |
| definition I could come up with since I am nowhere | | | | traditional way… but by Bed-Dancing! Thus, the birth |
| near a Webster genius. | | | | of my newly-found method launched me into a very |
| Right after my surgery, I knew that it was important to | | | | SUCCESSFUL exercise routine that I could do often |
| MOVE MY BODY and begin to exercise. The | | | | without putting stress on my joints! |
| biggest benefit I saw at the time was that it increased | | | | But be cautious when you talk about Bed-Dancing to |
| my blood circulation that was necessary to help my | | | | others… they automatically begin to chuckle at what |
| surgical wounds to heal. This was my main | | | | you call the standard "bed activity" now. (blushing |
| motivation. And when I weighed 317 pounds, there | | | | yet?) |
| was no way I was "eager" to incorporate an exercise | | | | What you need for Bed-Dancing: |
| routine because my body was so large, and my | | | | • A bedroom with a bed and a bedroom door that |
| arthritis so painful, I just could not bear putting such | | | | you can shut so you can bed-dance in private. Be |
| stress on my joints and muscles at that heavy | | | | sure to announce to the household that this is YOUR |
| weight. | | | | TIME and they are capable of getting along without |
| I had a master plan to put on my favorite "high-spirited" | | | | you for at least the length of a CD. If not, they are |
| CD (Latin music makes me feel like dancing), put on | | | | far too dependant on you! |
| my sweats, and I went into my bedroom as I | | | | |