to be or not to be ~ Shakespeare & the treadmill
 

Man.....

I came home today just SPENT (my job's physically demanding & I'm on my feet all day). I got part of my breakfast & lunch ready for tmr at work (I eat my 2 meals there) as in frozen veggies and a salmon patty for lunch.

I couldn't cook an egg-white omelet for tmr's breakfast as I finished up storing the frozen veggies for breakfast/lunch tmr since the kitchen was busy with other family members then.

So, since I didn't have a choice, I went and napped for close to an hr and still felt "night of the living dead" when I woke up. (As in "no way am I rising from slumber for the rest of tonight! :p)

I thought, there's no friggin' way I can walk on the treadmill & cook my omelet for tmr and not drop before evening chores are done before bedtime.

My simple idea to motivate myself to get onto the dang treadmill? (*I started going on the treadmill 2 days ago when ice/snow weather conditions forced me to stop walking several miles outside after work). I simply told myself, well instead of a level 5 incline, go to a level 4 incline. MPH? Go down from 3.6 to 3.4 mph. Because if that was the only way I'd exercise tonight at a lower level, then so be it :D

I did it! Had a new book from the library called "food & loathing" by Betsy Lerner and got thru the first 50 pages (admittedly with checking the exercise clock every 5 minutes or so, lol :D hey nobody's perfect here!) before my thirty minute walk (not counting warm up/cool down) was over.

I then was able to nuke my grilled chicken/asparagus dinner in the microwave. And later finished my evening chores.

Yippie! :carrot: I did it!

Some days, it gets so dang hard with all the pre-holiday craziness, errands, chores, and exercise to actually G.E.T. it all done :)

Just oneeeeeeeeeee day at a time!

That's great success! You're mentally in such a different place than if you had just skipped it.

I had a similar mental battle this morning. I hit the snooze once (not my habit). Dragged myself out. Have cramps, so seriously considered making coffee and sitting in a hot tub instead of doing yoga (another reason this would have been so sad - it wasn't even a "go-run-in-the-cold" morning). But I didn't. I'm still thinking about how good it would have felt :), but I'm glad I exercised, and when the scale goes down again, I'll be even gladder!

Yay for you! Something is better than nothing when it comes to exercise. Some days I'm not in the mood, either--but I get to the gym and at least do SOMEthing. :cheer:

Jay