Getting Ready to HIT PLAY

I keep making up crap on this blog about how I'm going paleo or starting an exercise plan, and then I eat Doritos and brownies and sit on my butt. 

 

When I think about going to the store, I think, "No, no no! I don't want to leave the couch with my duvet and my pants-less existence."

 

This is how it is with everything in life.  The only reason I ever do anything is if I feel like someone is counting on me and that the world is better because I'm there. Everything that involves not sitting around seems like work.

 

Like church.  There is this amazing church I want to go to in my neighborhood that my friend Shirley goes to.  It has all of my dogma and I live five minutes away from it.  Yet Sunday after Sunday there I am on the couch.  However, at my other church, one of the members specifically went on my FB wall and was like, "Oh hey, are you coming? You're invited!" So even though they are much farther away, I spent my Sunday with them a couple of Sundays ago.

 

My favorite thing is couch time.  There is nothing I like more than laying around and watching TV or surfing the internet.  The problem is I do this so much that my body gets sore from not using it. And my stomach bothers me from not burning off stress with exercise and possibly eating things that have gone bad because I'm too lazy to shop.

 

That's when I start making up crap in my head that I'm making a change ... but I rarely change.

 

Except a few times. WAIT JUST A MINUTE.  I changed a few times!  I did!  Let's see ...

 

In 2008 I went back to school and finished my A.A. and in 2010 I decided to try for my B.S.!  I'm still working on that B.S., too!

 

I went on Atkins in 2011.  It was marvelous. Until I got depression and wanted chocolate cheesecake, like, all the time, and gained 50 lbs back from what I had lost. But I was loving my gluten-free self.  BUT ONCE UPON A TIME I DID MAKE A CHANGE AND IT WORKED FOR A WHILE. But then I made another change and now I've stuck to that change ... and I don't like its result.

 

BUT!

 

I made another change this year when I made a budget and figured out I could move somewhere that wasn't rat infested.  Last year I lived in a one-bedroom apartment with my boyfriend with mice in it in a neighborhood that has a history of drive-by shootings and muggings, where someone threw a rock from their car window at my boyfriend while he was going on a jog.

 

This year I live in a two-bedroom apartment with a golf-course view with a husband and a cat. 

 

Oh and did I mention I got married?

 

There are some changes that are easy to stick to, like moving or getting married.  This exercise and eating right thing though is a big big struggle.

 

I have all these plans I'm not sticking to in my head that I just want to get out there and do!

I wish everything was as easy as just hitting "play."

But wait!  It is!

 

Everything is better in a busy graphic, isn't it?

 

It would be super easy to do some quick routines throughout the week and then plan something with my friends, like a gym day with my Joey or a hike with Greg.

 

I feel like when you exercise your body makes you WANT to eat nice things so it can keep moving nicely ... as long as you're not using food as a reward for working out. 

I have all these DVDs and saved Youtube videos for quick 15 minute workouts.  I could just hit play and participate.  And I could cook ... as long as it's not every night. 

We'll see. I just thought of this so obviously there has been none of this in my life today.