Sunday, February 24, 2013

Diet AND exercise?!

I don't do New Year's resolutions.  Except for the year I resolved to never make another.  That has worked out well for me in the past.  However, since I've been with my husband I've started "observing" Lent.  He does anyway.  I go along with it.  For Lent this year he has given up beer, is following the paleo diet and exercising 3-4 days a week.  The funny thing is, I wanted to do all of this before Lent.  Actually, since last summer.  Really.  And I still do.  And I'm doing two of the three.  The one that I don't seem to be able to get started is the exercise part.

Just the other morning I was lying in bed daydreaming about working out, going over the exercises in my mind.  They were all things I could do at home and eventually it came to me that I should just get up and do them instead of thinking about them.  So, I jumped out of bed, went downstairs, made myself a wonderful cup of coffee and sat down to read a good book.

Here's the deal.  I want to exercise, but I HATE to exercise and I just don't have the energy.  The only times I have had any success sticking with it is when I've had a friend to exercise with, a personal trainer, or when I joined Crossfit Springfield.  I started going to Crossfit last June and loved, loved, loved it.  Until I hurt my knee, then my elbow, then my shoulder, then my back (the last three areas of injury happened at work).  I'm finally all healed, but can't really afford Crossfit right now.  That is a major bummer.  So, I'm a member of the Meyer Center.  Hopefully, one day soon, I'll throw on my gym clothes and go to the gym instead of just thinking about it...


1 comment:

  1. Update: I'm still just thinking about it. But, I'm thinking about it more seriously.

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