Exercise

So, I think that maybe since I am half way through my journey here, I need to do this by topic.

I think that the topic today will be exercise... yes, a very dirty word I know! My number one form of exercise is walking. The reason why I began walking is very very simple... I became so unbelievably pissed off at my ex husband one evening that I couldn't sit still... so I went for a walk. I walked 2 miles, including up Red Hill. If you are from my area, you know that Red Hill is a very steep hill and it almost gave me heart failure.

I then figured out that walking also helped to relieve other frustrations... if you get what I mean... :) I am now up to 6 miles a day, if that tells you anything at all! haha!!

I suggest that if you have problems with motivating yourself to walk (or whatever your choice of exercise is, I walk so that is the example I will use) that you find someone to walk with you. There were many times that I just didn't feel like walking, but my best friend Krissi pops up on a facebook chat and says... Hey!! We walking tonight? ... Well, of course we are... (dang it). We have had some of our best conversations and most brilliant ideas while walking. We have learned many things about each other while walking... For example: Krissi will do really nice dance moves to avoid stepping on a crack. And she goes all Ninja if she runs into a spider web... for some reason Moves like Jagger just popped into my head.

I also enjoy walking by myself sometimes. I turn on Pandora.... love the Def Leppard station, excellent walking tunes... put in my earbuds and clear my head of all of the days problems and worries and just enjoy the scenery and the music.

I know it can be hard to find the time to do it. Here is my thought on that:

 

I get up at five in the morning to walk on days that I know that I won't have time to walk in the evening. I have had monstrous blisters on my toes and yet I still walked 5 miles... because it is important to me. I walk in the dark just as much, if not more, than I do in the light.

Exercise does not have to be work... make it fun for you... make it work for you.