ok - don't roll your eyes at me......I didn't say I did it all the time - I just said that I love it! I love the way I feel after I've accomplished what I've set out to do.............can you tell I just got back from the gym!
I also love dreaming about the gym - dreaming that I'm there for hours working out and getting fit - and then I wake up!!!! ROFL
Let me lay this out for you................I haven't always been an exercise fan. I have pretty much been "pleasantly plump" my entire life. As a child - I was chunky and as a teen I was chunky. When I graduated high school - I wasn't bad - not too chunky - but not too skinny either.
As my life evolved - I made some bad choices and gained quite a bit of weight during some of that - mostly from depression from making the bad choice - and then one day - a good friend of mine name Wendy ask me to go to the gym with her. I'm thinking - yeah right - that's going to happen. I felt like most overweight people feel - too fat to go to the gym. Isn't that an oxy moron since that is what the gym is for??? I knew that skinny people went there and great looking guys with nice bodies went there (I was single at the time people - give me a break! LOL) and I was having no part of it! However, the gym that she was inviting me too was little gym called The downtown fitness center.....doesn't exist these days - but was a godsend at the time. It was a tiny gym - only a few people there at the CRACK of dawn when she went - 5:00 AM before work! I thought, ok - I'll give it a try. I went for a few months - walked on the treadmill every morning for about 45 minutes -then took a shower and went to work. After about 3 months of this, the owner, Randy, asked me if I had ever thought about lifting weights.....I'm sorry - but I LAUGHED IN HIS FACE. Ok - do I look like I have ever lifted weights???? He talked me into letting him train me 3 x a week........it was hard, hard, hard - but it was so worth it!!! I was never as in good of shape was I was during that time period. I became OBSESSED with working out. I would go into the gym every morning at 5:00 - train with him for 1 hour and then cardio for 45 minutes.............wow - it was awesome.
Then came the marathon running. My friend Janet conned me into training for my first one. 1999.......I couldn't believe I said yes....I mean - who in their right mind trains for 26.2 miles of running??????? I loved it!!! I ran 5 marathons.....last one was October 2001. I was obsessed with running (ok - do you see a pattern here?)
Then came Marine Bootcamp. 2 weeks of HELL! And, to top that off - I PAID SOMEONE TO YELL IN MY FACE!!! It was a 2 week class at 4:45 in the AM by real drill Sargent's from the marine corp........I became obsessed with this............(pattern, pattern, pattern).
Ok - I was skinny and LOVING IT.
June 2002 - married. June 2003 baby
exercising???? what is that????? skinny????? again - what is that?????
5 years later.........ok - baby is now a kindergartner and I'm heading back to the gym. Went today and LOVED IT again. Of course, let me tell you that I hurt in places I didn't even remember there was a muscle - but hey - no pain no gain - correct??? I have a feeling - it's going to take a while for me to work up to where I was - in fact, I really have NO intentions of becoming obsessed - reality - I don't have the time nor the same amount of energy as I did prior to Jake - but, I do have 3 days a week - 1.5 hours to spare and with that time - I'm going to spend at the gym. I have a friend, Debbie, who is going with me. It helps me tremendously to have someone to "report" to at the gym. If she is there - I'm for sure going to be there - don't want her thinking I'm a slacker or something. My biggest problem is - I want to go in there and lift the same amount of weight that I did 5.5 years ago and guess what - that "ain't" happening. I'm doing good to start out at 5 pounds......1 rep.....ROFL.....but I promise you - I will stay at it. I don't want to be skinny or obsessed - I just want to be healthy.
I hope that you all have a blessed day and if I can get out of bed and walk tomorrow morning - I'm going again at 8:30 AM.......I may be crawling by tomorrow night - but at least I will be one cellulite cell lighter. ROFL
love to all
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Hi Karen! I used to love exercising, too. *grin* I used to walk 3-4 miles every day, lift weights, and floor exercises. Then I began having trouble with my hips. I've just come through two hip replacement surgeries and I am so hoping to be able to exercise...MODERATELY....again. Nothing obsessive like before, because I did get pretty obsessive about it. I just want to feel good and be healthy again, so I do understand what you are saying. I've signed up at a gym before and for exercise classes but I usually end up not finishing the course, so I do better here at home.
I remember one day in particular....I was trying to talk myself into going walking and I was having a little difficulty convincing myself. My son suddenly spoke up and said, "But, mommy, just think of how good you will feel afterward. That's what you always say when you get home..."I feel sooo good." It was precious! *smile*
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