GET YOUR BODY MOVING: SHE TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND LOST215 POUNDS
LisaKay Wojcik was so overweight and out of shape that even 2 minutes’ worth of exercise left her so breathless that she feared she’d have a heart attack. But finding the way to breathe correctly helped put her at ease to do the exercise that eventually helped her lose 215 pounds and regain her self-respect.
LisaKay, of Romulus, Michigan, watched her weight climb to 325 pounds through two tumultuous marriages. The combination of personal upheaval and unhealthy weigh gain left her an emotional wreck. “I had no self-esteem left,” she says.
But LisaKay believed in an old but true cliche. When things get that bad, there’s only one way to go: back up.
“I wasn’t emotionally prepared to tackle the problem with my marriage, but I believed that I could improve myself,” LisaKay says. So she went out and bought a low-impact aerobics tape, slipped it into the VCR, and started following the instructor. “After just 2 minutes, I was sweaty, beet red, and breathless,” she says. “I thought I was going to die.”
Convinced that she was having a heart attack, LisaKay called
911. “When I got to the hospital, the emergency room doctor tersely told me that I was merely out of breath,” she recalls. “And he told me to warm up next time.”
Too embarrassed to try aerobics again, LisaKay switched to a seemingly simpler activity: walking. Her first time out, she walked one-quarter mile so slowly that it took 40 minutes. Three months later, she could do 1 mile in an hour.
Six months later, LisaKay was ready for a more intense challenge: a “fat-burner” aerobics video. With her legs kicking high in the air and her arms moving nonstop, she was unaccustomed to such high oxygen demands
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