Warning:  This entry is probably not of interest to men.

From time to time in this blog I update the status of my 70-something body.  There was never good news on this subject.  Until now.

About six months ago, I had a leg pain that I reported to my trainer/physical therapist Kathy.  I was sure I was doomed to have my second knee replaced.  Kathy did not think I needed a knee replacement.  So she gave me a set of exercises for my legs involving something called a “foam roller”.

Since I always do what Kathy says, I started the regimen of exercises she prescribed—about ten minutes, three times a week.  Basically, I roll my body back and forth from my knees to hips on the foam roller, on my stomach, back and both sides. As usual, Kathy was right. 

I kept up the foam-roller exercises when the problem went away as a preventative.  Six months later, anticipating a vacation to the beach with the kids this summer, and facing my “I hate bathing suits dilemma” again, I took a look in the full-length mirror.  And then I took a closer look.   Those ever-present skin dimples, aka cellulite, in my thighs had miraculously disappeared. 

In the morning, they were still gone.