Exercise

Exercise; I know I should be doing it but why is it so hard? I have tons of excuses, mainly my bad knee. Then there is the DVD player isn't working. It's too hard to get up early as once the kids are up, I'm busy the rest of the day. If I take them walking, I can't keep up with them. The Y is too inconvenient (still haven't brought in my registration and I'm debating again). It's too hard. I'm too tired. Blah blah blah.

I know I need to. I think I will start slow in my home. I'm buying a new DVD player today so I have no excuses. I'm going to start out again with WATP 1 mile (walk away the pounds) and work myself back up. I am going to have to find a way to get up earlier even if it means going to bed earlier. Shaylee was up between 5am and 6am all week since she was sick, plus some through the night and a couple all nighters but now she is better so I can start counting on getting sleep again.

Yesterday it was so nice we went to Ellenwood Park. The kids had a lot of fun in the water and it was 25 degrees! That is practically mid-summer weather here. After a while I noticed the family wasn't around and realized Mark took the kids for a walk. I sat there a few minutes with my aching bones then I got up and went around the other way to meet up with them. It felt kind of nice to walk since it was so warm (and the bugs don't swarm around so much when you're moving, lol!). I need to get active. I want to be able to run and play with the kids.

I also need to stick to my no excuses induction plan a little better. I've been under a lot of stress for reasons I can't write about and have taken comfort in a couple of ice cream sandwiches and some tortilla chips and salsa this week. It has taken a ton of restraint not to go into full fledged binges but I've been doing better about not keeping a lot of junk around (except their ice cream) and it usually passes before I get to the point of going out for binge food. I'm hoping exercise will help with the stress and I think I'm going to have to go back to counseling to work on things. Sometimes things just really suck and don't seem fair when you can't do anything about the hand you are dealt with in life and can't talk to anyone about it :(