April 16, 2008
Fit is Hard
you know that song about Major Tom and he just goes off into space ... do you ever feel like that? No? Okay, moving on then.
Getting Fit is hard.
I got a new exercise video and the person was talking about helping me become an athlete. I don't want to become an athlete. At this point I don't see how that could ever appeal to me. I've always been very unathletic. But I do want to be fit.
You would think switching to eating healthy and getting in a regular exercise habit would pay off quickly. And maybe it does in some invisible way. But you know, most of the time it's just hard. Pressing on, seeing slow changes, hitting plateaus. Sometimes it seems like not making progress at all.
I thought I was over the hump of healthy eating, settled into my groove, but it's hard for me to stay in my groove. I keep bumping up out of it, trying to get down into it again, finding it a rough and wobbly ride.
And some days when I look at the results in the mirror of all the extra walking and the wobbling and trying to press on eating healthy, it doesn't look much different than before, eating junk and not really trying. I know it IS better, but ...
It's hard to persevere.
Posted by Kim at April 16, 2008 12:59 PMAmen, Sister! It IS hard. Let me know if you figure out how to stay in the good groove, because, my goodness, but I'm still in my "why bother" mood from Winter.
Posted by: Chris at April 16, 2008 2:03 PM....heeere am I sitting in my tin can.... far above the world....
yeah, I'm in my tin trailer in front of my computer getting fat and lazy "and there's nothing I can do"... I think it's the right song to describe me. And now it's playing in my RIMH. Maybe that will motivate me to do something else.
once the church newsletter's done, anyways. And the book. Yeah. Oh, and those emails I need to answer... sigh.
Posted by: kelly at April 16, 2008 2:32 PM4, 3, 2, 1....
obviously I have the wrong Major Tom song stuck in my head.
I've got a good article for you to read about fitness and body changes. I'll e-mail it to you...once I find it again....
Posted by: Rosanne at April 16, 2008 4:26 PMYep. Know whatcha mean. But we shall persevere!
Posted by: Barbie at April 16, 2008 6:00 PMAre you sure you don't mean "Rocket Man" as sung by Bill Shatner?
Posted by: gl at April 16, 2008 6:04 PMKeep on keepin on! Good for you for making the effort-- that's more than I'm doing. I keep telling myself that "one of these days" I will quit coffee, begin regular exercise, and eat a little better, but the day never comes.
RYC on my blog-- I'm kind of decorating-challenged too, actually. The mantle is about the extent of it. We've been in our house 2-1/2 years, and despite all my great intentions to frame favorite family photos and create a lovely and pleasing arrangement and blah blah blah, I still pretty much just hang the same old pictures we had up at the old house-- and I hang them on the nails left by the previous owners... Anyway, I decided that a mantle (something I didn't have at the old house) was doable and not likely to overwhelm my fragile brain connections, and I was actually right. Taking a pic of each season's mantle helps, too. I'm hoping my 'success" w/the mantle eventually will spread to other areas of the house.
If it makes you feel better... I finally got around to making some scarecrows for my front porch around the very end of October, and there they stayed until well into February. And the only things decorating my front door are a Sunday school paper and a plethora of smudges.
Posted by: 40winkzzz at April 16, 2008 11:02 PMIt's a faith thing for me. I have to have faith that what I'm doing is working (maybe on the inside?) when I don't see the amazing, glorious results on the outside. Of course, now that I'm mere weeks away from 50, it's even slower going. Two pounds used to take me a week, now it's more like a month. Cheat once? All bets are off.
Posted by: Peggy at April 17, 2008 9:20 AM
