Exercising---blehhh.

[Jwife22]

I hate exercising...I just do.....I know people say, once you start doing it you'll never be able to live without it, you'll look forward to being able to exercise everyday but I've done it in the past for lengths of time and hated it.....YES, it does make me feel better once its done and I sleep better if I exercise but I HATE starting it.

The temp around here is high and the humidity level is higher. Today's high is 92 with high humidity. The air feels heavy and its hard to breath....

I am going to force myself to start exercising again and get this stinking weight off by Christmas.....I don't eat an extravagant amount of food each day, sometimes I don't eat the right things but I think alot of my problem is that I am sedentary. I work in an office not moving and I go home, cook dinner and watch TV or clean. Right now, with my surgery being so recent, I can't even lift anything heavier than a phone book, I can't do anything like vaccuming or mopping etc. I just want to be able to lose the weight......

I am a person who feels like I need instant gratification. If I don't see the weight coming off or my pants don't feel loser, I start to give up, quickly. my husband works on his feet all day and is outside sweating all day so if he wants to drop 10 or 15 lbs its no problem.....that makes me SICK...it makes me want to give up MORE>....

I don't know, this is all rambly and doesn't make very much sense but I am just tired of being heavy. Especially in the summertime with all the little skinny girls walking around in their skirts and tank tops...THAT SHOULD BE ME....it USED to be me, 5 short years ago. I WANT it back!

So, here goes....I'm going to do it.....will you guys be my encouragement?

[cali]

Hi Jwife

my husband works on his feet all day and is outside sweating all day so if he wants to drop 10 or 15 lbs its no problem.....that makes me SICK...

LOL I had to laugh at this cause I sure do relate!
Your post DOES make sense to me! I have no room to talk--I am way too busy to exercise--I have wasted "years" in gym membership payments etc and never had the time to go.

I am eating really well for the past 33 or so days, so I am starting there and will see where it goes. I totally have more energy just from that.

I support you and maybe this will turn into an "encouragement thread" and good things will unfold!

[Jwife22]

Thank you Cali! I hope so...I hate that I want instant results...it didn't take me 2 months to get where I am now so I don't know what possesses me to think like that but I do.

I shouldn't be jealous that my husband can easily lose weight..but I am...and then he tells me how to do it...that just makes me even more mad.......SHUT UP!

I am doing okay on my eating...I stay beneath a certain calorie count the majority of the time. On my bad days, when I feel like giving up is when I eat bad things.....

Yuck....

I sure hope it does Cali and thank you for your support!

[raerae6]

It's so hot and humid here, too! I like to go swimming at the lake. It cools me down and it gets at every body part, plus it's aerobic.

[Biscuits]

Hi Jwife

I had to laugh when i read your post because i too hate exercise with a venom. I too hav a husband who has zero fat on his body but is able to eat what he wants whenever he wants.

For me i had to find an exercise i enjoyed and for years i did the gyms and aerobic classes with young fit nubile young things and used to just come home deflated as i was the one at the back in track pants and t-shirt who was sweating like a pig lol.

Anyhow i found that although most exercise repulses me there are cetain tihngs that i love to do so for me it didn't feel like a chore to do it. I bought myself a bike and use that at weekends when i can, also i enjoy swimming and walking but as the weather in the UK is so unpredicatable i invested in a rowing machine that i don't mind using and i do that on days that i can't get out of the house.

What i have learnt though is that this program is more about self love and self acceptance of where i am today, so if i have a day when i've done no exercise i don't let all the negative crap come into my head that used to lead me to the food instead i choose to love myself as i am exercise or not.

[Jwife22]

Hi raerae--

I love to swim....I've started swimming at my moms in her pool.....I also need a tan...I swear I am as white as a ghost. sometimes its just hard to get there....

Hi Biscuits

What i have learnt though is that this program is more about self love and self acceptance of where i am today, so if i have a day when i've done no exercise i don't let all the negative crap come into my head that used to lead me to the food instead i choose to love myself as i am exercise or not.

I've got a long way to go on this....I can do it about projecting other people's negative junk on myself....but not my own, not when it comes to my body image....I WANT some exercise that I love and I do love to hike and things like that but where I live, its flat and full of cow pastures....I don't know...sometimes I feel like I make up excuses subconciously in my head to avoid exercise.....sheesh.....i need to get it together.

[kelliegirl]

Do you have someone you can work out with? It helps to have someone that will hold you accountable.

Exercise has been hard for me as well. One thing that's changed for me this time around is that I joined a gym near my office. Several of my coworkers are members and we're trying to encourage each other to make this change stick once and for all. I like the variety that the classes offer me and while I know I have a long hill to climb at least I've taken the first few steps. Everytime I catch myself in the mirror in the classroom I have to try to look past the overweight woman I see and try to see the person I know I am inside. It isn't easy though.

[cali]

I actually have a desire to "get moving"! That's at least a step in the right direction today!! As soon as the heat breaks here I will try to get a walk in everyday!
Have a good weekend everyone

[Jwife22]

I don't really have anyone to be accountable with now. My walking partner is pregnant now and can't be out in the heat like it is now. I can't afford a gym.....not even the Y. Hubby keeps saying he will help me but by the time we get home, all i hear is "i'm tired, I've been on my feet in the heat ALL day." Well, then stop freakin tellin me your going to walk with me in the evenings.....he doesn't really want me walking alone because our subdivision has no street lights....its really dark cept for the moon and the stars.

I wake up with that desire Cali but it fades toward the end of the day when I could actually have time to do something. You must be near me....were going through a heat wave too.....Mid nineties today with the ozone level at dangerous and humidity that will cover you in sweat in a matter of minutes.

[cali]

How about either driving/parking somewhere "safer" and take a walk by yourself?
Or maybe hook up with another friend?
This is great because these are two suggestions that I am giving to myself right now!
I have some of the same circumstances as you going on right now so I could really use one of my own suggestions LOL

We'll get there!!

[stringer belle]

jwife, you know that you can do it, because you've done it before! i am sort of the same as you - like.. i hate cardio exercise right now because it's been about 2 weeks since i had a good workout.

but -- i only hate exercise if i've stopped doing it for awhile and have to get back on track. and even then, i don't think it's the exercise itself that i hate as much as the fact that i've let my "good" routine go slack and i "hate" the process of getting back to a place where i feel really good about myself again.

once i'm doing it reguarly, on schedule, etc.. i am fine with it and enjoy it.

[Jwife22]

Cali---those are good suggestions and I NEED to take them.....I need to find something or somewhere to go that I can walk.....I'm about to say screw it and walk as soon as I get home, in the heat.....Even if I only make it 15 minutes in the heat, its so much better than no exercise at all....

stringer---yes I know if I really put my mind to it and set my goals and NOT GIVE UP, that I can do it....its that not giving up part that's hard for me. If I don't see instand results, I get down, like why am I doing this, I'll never be 130 again.....I really want to be but it just seems so far away...........I printed out Shaq's Big challenge workout, that he had those kids do 5 days a week.....I want to try it....I am going to try it...

[cali]

I am also ready to just GO! I have had "life's issues" hitting one after the other in the past 4 weeks-some coming with high price tags.....you all know what I am referring to in one way or another!!!!

It is healthy to want to get it out this way than any other way that I am uesd to!
Thank you SO MUCH for this thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nina Kay]

When I lived in a subdivision, before I moved back to my old house, I would actually walk in the back yard. We had a privacy fence and I was a scaredy cat to walk at night alone. We only had a small back yard, but I could walk it anytime, day or night, cold or hot, alone, but sometimes my dog walked a few rounds with me. It was boring kinda, but I felt so much better afterwards, that I would do it anyway. I also got that wonderful outside air and sunshine that made me feel so much healthier, mentally & physically. Of course, this was just my situation and my experience, but I thought that I'd just throw it out there, because it sounds like I was in the same position as you where my husband was concerned. The few times that he did keep his word and walk with me at night, was just wonderful. I will never forget those nights. Just walk in the house or do the stationary run. It's alot better than nothing. And try to remember to do what you can just for today, instead of doing what I used to do and making the big plans and then when I couldn't do that, I'd just quit or procrastinate, at least. Then I started to just stay in today. If my hubby would walk with me, I was glad and if he didn't, I'd improvise. If someone else could I walked with them that day and if I wasn't home, I'd get someone that I was with to walk with me somewhere. Just for today.