And a little bit on life...
Lately, I have been a lump. Not completely. I work on Sundays and if I get 15 minutes at a time to sit down to myself it is a blessing... because usually I am jumping up to help #1 with math, #2 with reading, and #3 get a snack, sometimes within writing the same two sentence email... but for voluntary activity, this girl gets a failing grade.
For a while I was walking every morning. My neighbor and I had been walking a 2.5 mile route for about 2 months when things started getting hairy and stressed in our relationship. Which is fine... relationships wax and wane, but what I didn't like about it is I stopped walking. I really feel I need that extra person to get me going on any sort of physical routine. I have no motivation myself.
My main issue is, before this last two years, I have never needed anyone to help me get my butt up out of my house and move. Never. Maybe it was hitting 30 (6 mos ago), maybe it was #3 becoming super toddler (very likely actually), maybe it was the change in the weather with our bleak and cold summer, maybe it was homeschooling 3 kiddos. Maybe it is just the fact that I think about being active and don't actually do it. lol... I plan, and then don't act. But this year, I haven't even gardened. I planted things... and then let them do their own thing. I even mowed my pathway... I didn't weed it... I mowed it. I didn't even plant beans after my peas had died.
Nothing has changed... not even my pants size. I don't see that being true for many more years however. I can't imagine that being sedentary is good for anyone. But I am not 'sedentary'... I do things... just not active things.
I have always been a big "Earth Gym" kinda girl... the kind that takes lots of walks, that gardens in the sunlight, that likes good shoes so she can run in the rain.... but maybe I just need to get a gym membership or something.
Thoughts?
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A bleak cold summer probably isn't the best for the mood either...
On the bright side though, I do keep super busy at home and with this daycare thing Im doing. I dont sit down much so I think that helps. I sweat sometimes because Im doing so much so thats good. I think that means Im burning calories. So maybe it evens itself out if you just keep busy at home and running around doing chores and errands; anything to keep busy and moving...
So true Sandi. I have to get back into it. It felt so good... esp on mornings where I wouldn't really get out for the rest of the day because the kids and I were doing something for school inside.
Sadie... the bleak cold summer really killed the mood for walking. At first it was great... wasn't too hot, could walk pretty much any time during the day, so we got to it at least once a day for a while... like three months... where we were walking 3 miles a day at least. I miss it. I think part of why I posted was for motivation. Like Beth said, sometimes you just have to take the kids with you... just to do it, and do it no matter what.
Love Val
I'll make one for ya! ;P
I am emailing you... I have a thought. ;)
Val