Exercise isn't Fun

I've been bad lately about exercise.

I haven't gone to the gym for some time. I've not been carving time to go there.

I have reasons that I find valid. Parent meetings after work, feeling blah after getting home as the sun is falling due to this stupid time change crap, circumstances surrounding having to get a new car after totaling my old car in an accident...it just plain sucks.

I have been trying to ride my exercise bike instead in the basement a few times a week to keep from totally falling off the bandwagon, reducing the impact instead to something more like holding on to the back of the bandwagon by one arm.

Exercise is something that is rather hard for me to justify. I didn't see visible results from going to the gym. I feel stupid going without having someone there to "hold my hand", so to speak, and verify that I'm doing things properly. The primary reason I was exercising was to try losing weight, even though I know there are other reasons to do so, and my research shows that the plain 300 calorie cheeseburger easily takes an hour on the treadmill to burn off. An hour?! Better off just not eating the burger...those reasons alone are really big demotivators balanced with the whole having to get changed, drive there, exercise, come home and shower and redress and in the process get a nice change of clothes that now needs laundering.

It just seems hard to justify when exercise isn't exactly an item on my "Hey, I have an hour to myself, what can I do that's productive and fun!?" list. It's lonely. It's boring. The only thing I do that seems immediately productive is burning through my collected downloaded podcast items on my iPod.

Again, I've not been adding much to the bariatric blog lately, and most of that is because I've been spending more time on my editing of a novel draft rather than running around the gym or having blood drawn. The only real change I've had lately to my routine was avoiding the gym and instead doing more with the bike. We finally had a snowfall outside, so I'll probably end up eventually taking the snow blower/thrower out to clear off our rather large driveway, and somehow justify that as an exercise.

I still browse blogs (Hi Lee!), I still occasionally get some work done (Hi novel! Oh, and day job, there you are...). I still stick to a pretty routine diet for simplicity, and haven't had any blood removed recently for testing.

If you're interested in my occasional blathering, there are other blogs. My profile should have them listed. The most active...even though it, too, has been quiet as I've been working on editing more than creating new material, is my New Author Chronicles blog. Check it out or my other blogs. My updates dwindle as I'm filling time on other projects, but I am still very much alive out here!