Swimming but obese

[Anonymous]

I have swum all my adult life (I am now 58). It is the best exercise, hands down. I learned in college and have never stopped.

One weird thing: swimming makes me absolutely ravenous. I can eat everything in the house after swimming. So i always have a peanut butter sandwich on hand for post-swim. It fills me up and i do not reach for the first available treat.

TMI: It also makes me "regular" unlike other forms of exercise. So it is very "cleansing".

[Anonymous]

I highly recommend swimming for you! I have been there and I swam 75 lbs heavier than I am now. Diet was the key to losing but exercise is the key to mental health and physically feeling good.

Be really, really kind to yourself as you start. Make your goal somethinge easy -- like you will get in the water x/times/week. Not how much you will do. And just build. Swimming takes some endurance. You feel relativley weighless but laps aren't easy. I see people quit b/c they get tired and discouraged.

I started with water aerobics to build some fitness and then some laps.

[Anonymous]

Good for you! Swimming is wonderful exercise, especially if your weight is making other exercise painful. When I was super pregnant, it was the only thing I could do, and it was actually more comfortable than sitting on the couch.

My only advice is to heed those telling you to take it slow at first but to stick with it. The first time I swam, I did one lap and felt like I might die. The second time, I did a lap and a half. I just kept adding laps/lengths one at a time, and was up to a mile in no time. That distance seemed literally impossible the first time I went out, but it takes a minute for your body to get used to using all of the different muscles involved.

[Anonymous]

I remember a few things from swimming when I was obese p

- Get a good kickboard bc pp are correct and when you first start you will tire easily. I would swim maybe 2 laps at first and then I would go a few with the kick board and then a couple more laps swimming to start

- I agree with a pp in being very hungry afterward. If you are trying to lose weight you might want to consider first changing your diet and doing some lite walking and after losing 10 lbs or so the. Start swimming. If you start swimming, overeat bc you are so hungry, and don’t lose weight it can easily make you feel worse since you are working so hard.

- I got really thirsty even at the indoor pool so brought a water bottle to out near the lane.

[Anonymous]

On the leggings, I'm in shape and almost always wear leggings and a rash guard to indoor pools. And I have been approached by countless other healthy-weight people asking where to buy them. Many people are uncomfortable wearing what amounts to underwear in front of strangers.

[Anonymous]

I am a fat swimmer myself. I wear a rash guard and swim shorts because I find that when I plan to wear w normal suit I go swimming let because I have to shave my legs and armpits every day. So I wear shorts that go to my knee and only have to shave the bottom half of my legs which I can do quickly vs my thighs and bikini area which I have to do really carefully or I get ingrown hairs like crazy.

[Anonymous]

Read wheat belly and undoctored. It’s wheat on your body. No other reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read wheat belly and undoctored. It’s wheat on your body. No other reason.

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