First of all, I don't actually eat foods I hate - it was just an example.

Suppose I try to explain my reasoning here. First of all, I am fairly healthy, but am trying to treat my body as the temple of God that it is, and am therefore trying to take care of it to the best of my ability. Exercising is within my ability, I did enjoy it at one point and felt better than at any other time while I was doing it - I just don't have the will power (yet) to do it on my own. Also, I am planning to become a mother in the near - far future and want to have my body in its best health before that time comes in order to do the best job possible. Therefore. . . .

Actually, I used to really enjoy jogging! Can't do it anymore, but remember when my friend and I would go out and how great I always felt.

Perhaps the trick is that you truly need to enjoy whatever it is that you decide to do. Maybe I just need to find that niche that I can really enjoy doing and helps me feel better at the same time. Truthfully, if I hate it I won't do it . . . although I also know that I should and once I get started I'll probably find that I enjoy it.

Sure can't wait until spring/summer comes . . . get out on the bike, walk, do more period. Next year I plan on skiing . . . I have big plans, hopefully I can follow through with them.

Actually, I was talking with my cousin last night, and she had to let me go to do her exercises - I miss her a lot. She could get me going and we always had fun together . . . anyone live in Winnipeg that wants to work out with me????

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Sarah Moss
*Prayer Changes Things!*

Mrs. Moss

You have made my day much brighter. I had gotten the idea from your posts that you were engaged in a life style that was completely non-enjoyable to you. I would not enjoy life one bit if I felt I had to eat what I hated and do what made me miserable. By the way, it is obvious that I have never been a mother, but I have lived with two of them for several decades, although not at the same time. No physical exercise you do will prepare you for parenthood. You just have to do the best you can, enjoy each stage of development, and realize the kid or kids have the right to make choices, just as you made you own choices. Its the best of times and the worst of times. Good luck for the next many decades as a parent.

By the way, enjoy your meals today. Do the limbering exercises for skiing. And can you really tell me that you smiled and laughed when you were running!

Honestly, I did smile and laugh when I was running - with my friend. We smiled and laughed a lot together no matter what we were doing - guess you're looking at the wrong runners!

Thank you for your kind and encouraging words, I think I needed to hear them today. I will definitely have to start on the limbering exercises - I am NOT limber!

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Sarah Moss
*Prayer Changes Things!*

DrD, If you are going to be a good parent, then you need to exercise even more.
Walking clears the brain, any Mother knows she has to have the ability to think one jump ahead of the little darlings!
You are also going to have to be fit inorder to chase them round the house at times.
Besides, having a good exercise program gives one a better pregnancy and easier birth.
However, I suspect that you wouldn't know anything about that being a male

Three weeks of enforced reading at a time does tend to get rather boring

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Be Still, My soul.
Zita

Zita - Been there, done that, except for the pregnancy thing. Three weeks of boredom? Not reading books, but forced three weeks on the treadmill would do it! Or walking the same boring trail every day. Or doing situps over and over again! That's not boring?

But each page of a book brings new information, new experiences and new insights. How could that be boring?

By the way, has anyone seen the lady in the above picture?

DrD, you should live where I live - down under. There are so many tracks and trails it would be months before I repeated any of them - just like the pages of an exciting book!

Infact the Council has printed a book showing you all the trails, there are so many I have yet to explore.

You know there is so much variety in God's great outdoors.

Cathy is around, I was talking to her today.

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Be Still, My Soul
Zita

I think you are blessed to have so many divergent trails and paths with which to spend your time. I have books sufficient that I do not have to read any of them more than once also.

By the way, I have often wanted to ask someone from down under - which of us is walking upside down? Does the blood rush to your head while exercising down there?

I know Cathy Sears is around, but I have not seen anyone that resembles the lady in the picture!

Hi DrD, I was thinking about you on my walk around the hills overlooking the harbour this morning. So, as I was walking on my feet with my head in the air! I figure you are the one upside down!
What I was thinking was that I had become a living book!:reading:
All the things that I had seen in books I was actually physically experiencing, the sounds, the smells, the sights have come alive!

Now I acutally went into the library last week, and the sight of books really excite me! So I came home with 3 wonderful books on fishponds and container gardening......

I used to be a real bookworm DrD, but since I developed Menaires Disease, I have been unable to read for long periods at a time. I really miss my reading.

Oh, by the way I met some walkers this morning and learned about the new tracks they were cutting in the hills.! What fun - more tracks to explore...............
Indeed, we are very blessed here with much variety.

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Be Still,My soul
Zita

Take a good look at the picture, in about 6 months, I plan to send Daryl a different one.
A skinnier healthier one.

I, for one, enjoyed walking while I could do it, and if all goes as planned, I will start walking in about 3-4 weeks.
Waiting for arch supports so I can walk normal [whatever that is ]
I like to walk 2 or 3 different paths here, and each time I return to one, it's like reading a favorite book over again.
I see so many different things each time.
I did what DrD suggested for 25 years, my reward? CHF, osteo-arthritis, diabetes and apnea.
I think I'll do exercise, I'll still die eventually, but, I'll be a healthy corpse and will have lived a lot better for it.

You'll feel better while you are still alive too, Gerry.

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The Lord is the strength of my life and my portion forever.