During the first ten months or so of controlling my yeast condition and weight loss, I did not exercise losing the first 125 pounds with no set or regular program of any kind of workout. After I acquired my horses, I worked hours daily caring for and training them. I do not recommend no exercise weight loss,: however, if you are very overweight, as I was (I was morbidly obese), I understand how tough it can be to get started. Controlling my yeast problem gave me more energy and made going to work a lot easier. Starting easy and working your way up to carrying more weight, working longer, and working harder is the key to putting together a program that works for you without setting you up for too-much-too-soon failure.

I don't mean to suggest that I recommend not exercising; in fact, I wish I'd started a program right away, and built up slowly as suggested above. I'm sure the weight would have moved off faster, and, even though there was too much skin for exercise to fix, it would have strengthened my muscles and left the body under the skin more toned. It would also have made me stronger for the skin removal surgeries, and recovery of muscles afterwards would have been faster.