Monday, April 16, 2012

Exercise and Books


We had another weigh in at work tonight.  Although I haven’t gained all the weight I lost back, I did gain a solid 2 pounds back which makes me kind of sad.  However, I’m not going to let it get me down.  As we know, making giant life changes are not something I’ve been all that successful at recently.  Instead, I’m going about making smaller reasonable goals that will be easier to make a habit.   At first I tried tackling my diet but I’ve never been good with food.  Even at my healthiest, I ate whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.  What’s changed the most since my healthy weight is regular activity.

Even after college while working at The Body Shop I was on my feet walking around the store for hours at a time.  Now, I spend almost all of my day at a computer committing seven hours at work and whenever I’m not at work at my laptop.  When I’m not sitting, I’m sleeping.  I don’t think I’ve ever been this inactive in my life and it’s not good for me.   In the past, I spent my time in structured activities, walking around campus, or even my store.   Trying to incorporate activity since has been difficult, even structured exercise seems hard for me to stick with.  I’m not giving up though.  I still plan to incorporate small increments of time daily and slowly increase it.  Hopefully, that will work. 

On a totally unrelated note, I’ve decided that I do like the book that I just finished.  I found myself thinking about it last night before falling asleep contemplating the twist at the end.  At first, the ending almost didn’t make sense but as I thought about I was able to reconcile it within my own mind.  Of course, it’s just my interpretation.  The only one who truly knows is the author herself but I can’t really ask her and now that I’ve come to my own conclusions I don’t think I want to anymore.  Thinking about it more I can completely understand why some didn’t like it but for me, it makes sense.   I’m also not afraid to say it: I liked the book. 

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