Silverlady --

This thread has been sooooo useful to me.

I thought I walked that way because I'm fat. (I am fat, though I've lost ten inches around my waist since I've been very careful not to overdo or hurt myself so I can keep walking around my garden. Less than 5 minutes a day is what's made the difference... so I really take issue with Oprah when she says we have to exercise for an hour a day... was that what she said? half an hour a day? I don't remember, except that it was way beyond what I could do.

Also, I'm so grateful to all those who described how they walk -- it took me soooo long to "get" that a "wide" step was not a very long one. I take such small steps that I was thinking they aren't "wide."

But now I realize that I keep my feet much further apart than I used to.

It just bums me out to no end that there's so much stress.

I get sooooo much better, then stress hits and I lose so much of the ground that I've gained.

Well, thank you again for a Wonderfully helpful thread!!!!!!