I’m totally psyched about my “lifestyle change”, as far as the dietary part goes. I’m having a real hard time with the physical part. I am by no means sedentary, although I don’t know what is considered “active”. I work full time at a job I despise, but i’m moving the whole time. There are times that I am standing in the front of the store, by the door, “supervising”. The rest of the time I am walking the front. Getting change for cashiers, getting tape, giving manager overrides. I walk the front, to the garden center, to lumber, to contract sales, and back to the front. I bag. I load purchases. Whatever, but I’m almost constantly walking. For nearly 8 hours a day, and usually briskly. I’d like to find a way to incorporate fitness into that, somehow without looking like an idiot in front of 15 cashiers. lol. Anyway. The point is, I get home, my feet hurt, my legs are swollen, my back hurts, my head hurts (my daily headaches are another story altogether), I just want a shower, and some ice water, and some peace and quiet. I cannot make myself get up and go exercise. I’m beat!! If I try to make myself do it BEFORE work, I never make it. I tell myself it will wear me out to much before work, and I need all the energy I can get to make it through a shift. I am trying to find some better shoes. Right now I wear skater shoes at work. They aren’t very supportive. I’m trying to find some good solid walking shoes, and inserts that can stand up to 10 hour days of walking, that can also double as WORK OUT shoes. Blah. But more than that…the shoes and the inserts and all this is just an excuse. I mean, it’s all true, but I have to do something.
Does anyone know what is considered “active”? I also thought of getting a pedometer, just so I can get an accurate idea of how many steps I do take in a day. I read that under 7,000 was sedentary, and anything over 10,000 was considered active…I don’t know if that’s at all accurate.
What I do know is that on my days off I hardly move. I get dressed and that’s about it. And THAT is basically recovering from my work days. Hopefully exercising will give me more energy and i’ll break this cycle.
This week has been ****. I work at Lowes, if anyone is curious. And SPRING is in the air. This past Saturday we did $207,000. (just an idea of how busy I was) There have been times this week that I have been running back and forth from cashier to cashier so much (especially with change and what not), that when I paused last week to gather my breath, I noticed my hair was dripping…. So it’s not like i’m just sitting around playing video games. I am moving. I just need to move.. more.
Tell me to stop justifying my laziness and get off my heiny.....
Please.