dominodreams
06-03-2009, 10:15 AM
Ok... so it's been a number of months since I've even been on this forum. February, to be exact (I think?)... I've been struggling with medication and my schedule and the scale. For awhile I'd weigh myself every morning and every night, just to see how much weight I gain during the day and lose at night. But that just got infuriating. When I lost I'd get happy, but for no reason whatsoever I'd gain it back. My "diet" really isn't... It's more like "don't eat lunch, eat lots of fruit"...
I started dating a great guy at the end of February, which is fantastic, but I stopped working out. We spend entire weekends together, usually hanging out with our friends, which usually involves eating, cause people have to eat, right? Well we used to order Chinese every Friday night, but now, for money's sake, one person each week brings something to grill and we have a mini-cookout. This usually involves burgers, or steak, or barbecued chicken. I mean, what can you grill that's going to be THAT healthy?
During the week I tend to stick to plan, though. When Eddie comes over we have dinners that are small and good (grilled chicken, veggies), and I don't overeat very often at work... The problem is that I've left no time for exercise. I've been hovering between 143 and 150 for the past 4 or 5 months, it seems, and I feel like I can never get any leverage. I know I need to start working out again, but most days I barely have the motivation to get off the couch and make myself dinner after work. And the rest of the days Eddie comes over.
When I was single and had no life to speak of exercise was easier. But now that I have other things pulling at my attention I just can't seem to make time to get off my butt. I can't work out at work, because there's no time and no place to do it. I can't work out in the morning, because I can barely get out of bed to get to work on time as it is. So how do YOU force yourself to make time to exercise? How do you negotiate a relationship, a career, pets (I have 4 animals), and everything else that's going on in your life with the need to exercise?
I started dating a great guy at the end of February, which is fantastic, but I stopped working out. We spend entire weekends together, usually hanging out with our friends, which usually involves eating, cause people have to eat, right? Well we used to order Chinese every Friday night, but now, for money's sake, one person each week brings something to grill and we have a mini-cookout. This usually involves burgers, or steak, or barbecued chicken. I mean, what can you grill that's going to be THAT healthy?
During the week I tend to stick to plan, though. When Eddie comes over we have dinners that are small and good (grilled chicken, veggies), and I don't overeat very often at work... The problem is that I've left no time for exercise. I've been hovering between 143 and 150 for the past 4 or 5 months, it seems, and I feel like I can never get any leverage. I know I need to start working out again, but most days I barely have the motivation to get off the couch and make myself dinner after work. And the rest of the days Eddie comes over.
When I was single and had no life to speak of exercise was easier. But now that I have other things pulling at my attention I just can't seem to make time to get off my butt. I can't work out at work, because there's no time and no place to do it. I can't work out in the morning, because I can barely get out of bed to get to work on time as it is. So how do YOU force yourself to make time to exercise? How do you negotiate a relationship, a career, pets (I have 4 animals), and everything else that's going on in your life with the need to exercise?