No posting last week - my computer crashed and it took two days of intense effort by a friend to get it up and running again. OK: First the bad news.
After two weeks away from the gym and without my usual long walk(s), I gained two pounds to check in at 157.8. The doctor weighed me in at 159, but I was wearing a long skirt at the time. A skirt so he could check the leg easily; long because the leg was a hideous sight. As I told him, "You have to make allowances for five pounds of skirt!"
Hearing about the gym, he urged me to return and do what I could that didn't affect the leg, to go in for aquatics, and to use the exercycle (a machine I thought the injury made impossible.)
Yesterday's weigh-in: I lost a pound, for 156.8. The exercycle worked out extremely well.
If anyone wants an incentive to walk a whole lot more, let me recommend two books,neither of them about exercise. James Howard Kunstler's "The Long Emergency" and Jeremy Leggett's "The Empty Tank." For an extremely quick & dirty summary of what they're saying, just go to fill up your car and look at the prices posted.