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Originally Posted by canagirl
As a child I took all the swim levels and passed with flying colors. I continued swimming until my early teens but it's been about 15 years... It all came back like riding a bike!
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It's great that you were able to jump right back into swimming. (I tried when I was young, but never learned to swim a stroke. - well maybe I could sidestroke 1/2 the length of the pool if it was necessary to save my life).
Still, I have to believe that after 15 years of not swimming, months of nasty SFN symptoms, and a 15% gain in your body weight - you should get back into it very slowly. Do what you can do without causing too much discomfort, then increase in very small increments.
Just don't get discouraged. It's not a race. None of us have the same bodies that we used to have. We can only do what our bodies will allow.