Sunday, April 12, 2015

A new start

When I first began this blog last August, I hoped that writing a blog about exercising and getting back in shape might just give me the motivation I needed.  Of course, that didn't work.  I exercised for two weeks and wrote four blog posts.  I stopped exercising because I had a bad cold and just couln't exercise.  But once I recovered from the cold, I didn't start exercising again.  Oh, I thought about it from time to time, but mostly gave in to depression and ordered pizzas.  I even set start dates, but always found some excuse to not start on the date and to eat more pizza.  Fortunately, I am still riding my bicycle to work and back home many of the days that I work so all the pizzas and junk food didn't add more weight.

Ah, of course, exercising was so much simpler back when I taught exercise.  Then I never had to worrying about being or staying motivted or what I ate.  But once the job ended, so did my desire and motivation to workout at all.  I've started this blog again because I plan to start exercising again.  I was motivated by a conversation last month with a good friend.  We were talking about depression and she asked what I really enjoyed doing.  I told her that I enjoyed, but hadn't been writing.  I also told her that the job I enjoyed most was teaching aerobics and group exercise.  I told her that I wanted to get back to exercise but I just couldn't seem to get motivated.  I  keep sitting in front of the television watching reruns of reuns.  She said that I needed to get myself up and exercise.  I really do want to do that.  I've already missed yet another start date.  But I don't have to miss another one!

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