One of the biggest \u00a0perils of being an Author is sitting daily\u00a0upon a chair for\u00a0hours upon hours.\u00a0 Those of you who work in a office or sit behind a computer,\u00a0I am sure\u00a0you can relate\u00a0and would have to\u00a0agree with me, but for those of you who are young and\u00a0lucky enough to have active jobs;\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0would like to\u00a0reveal to you\u00a0our concerns. It’s the dilemma of the increasing span of our rump.\u00a0A lot of junk in my trunk\u00a0 is not something that I personally care for\u00a0and as\u00a0each year passes, I have to be very careful that my lady humps\u00a0do not expand into lumpy bumps. That is why I\u00a0grudgingly wake up every morning and force myself to\u00a0walk\/run ( Honestly I\u00a0walk\u00a0more then I run) \u00a0three to five miles\u00a0 and then hit the weights and finish up with laps\u00a0in\u00a0our pool. Besides\u00a0being intent at\u00a0keeping\u00a0the gravity gods at bay, it clears the cobwebs from\u00a0my head, so\u00a0I am able to have a\u00a0perfectly\u00a0lovely\u00a0day\u00a0being scantly mischievous and filling \u00a0my pages with \u00a0murder, and mayhem.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now, as I had written in\u00a0my last blog, I was very curious over the benefits of the fairly new Skecher Shape up Shoes\u00a0and ran out to snatch up my own\u00a0pair. I wore them with great enthusiasm, expecting my forty year old cheeks to perk up like those of a twenty year old, but after only one week of walking in those evil\u00a0little devils,\u00a0my left hip hurt so much that I was hobbling around the house like a ninety year old woman. If I sat for any length of time I was hardly able to get out of my chair. The constant pain from my hip joint and lower back was so excruciating that I could hardly sleep\u00a0and Advil became my best friend, leaving my poor husband out in the cold. No snuggling\u00a0for him\u00a0or scratching his back until he fell asleep, as I was unable to lay upon my left side. For over thirty years I have\u00a0either walked or ran\u00a0and never once had\u00a0 any of the physical\u00a0problems like I did from wearing those\u00a0nasty little buggers\u00a0for only that\u00a0one week.<\/p>\n
After great discussion with my husband, I was curious to see if anyone else had this problem, so I began\u00a0my own\u00a0inquisition. I \u00a0Asked several of\u00a0my friends and family who I knew\u00a0had owned their own pair,\u00a0if they had any concerns.\u00a0To\u00a0my surprise, as well as theirs,\u00a0all off us were having the exact same back and \u00a0hip problems. A couple of them were so bad, that they were receiving medical treatment. Becoming even more curious, I expanded my inquiry on the computer and was astounded to find that there was a class action law suit against the skecher shape up company. There were several women who actually had hip fractures and even one young woman in her twenty’s who\u00a0had to have pins put into her hips. Needless to say; from what I read on the computer Skechers had never done a test study upon the shoes before making their revolutionary claim.<\/p>\n
I was one of the lucky ones; even though I still have pain, I was smart enough to discontinue the\u00a0use of\u00a0my shoes early enough for no permanent damage.\u00a0 I am happily back to wearing my Nike running shoes in the morning and my\u00a0 strappy heels at night. I am\u00a0sorry to\u00a0say,\u00a0that my own vanity made me fall into a marketing trap. Take my advice,\u00a0if you are out shopping and you see the cutest pair of shape ups\u00a0and think to yourself; I wonder if these things really work?\u00a0\u00a0Just\u00a0run….. run far\u00a0away… leave them behind.\u00a0\u00a0Your hip and back with thank you for it.<\/p>\n
T. Marie Benchley,<\/p>\n
Author of\u00a0 “Once Wicked Always Dead”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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