No kidding. I wouldn't be in the mess I'm in if I had this inner, burning desire to go outside and run somewhere.

Thanks. :) I desperately need to do it. My father died at 62 of complications following a quadruple heart bypass (though he smoked heavily and ate McDonald's food all the time) and my mother seems to have inherited her mother's inability to absorb calcium. I've dragged my feet but I've seen firsthand the deaths resulting from those two problems and it's very painful and drawn out.

I mostly have the healthy diet part down except for my unreasoning love of sweets (which I can control only by not indulging at all) and now it's time to tackle the exercise.

If only being fit and lean were a website! ;)