My name is Melissa and I’m a lazyoholic. OK. Perhaps that’s not the exact and appropriate word to best describe me. I like to think of it more as a lack of communication between my mind and my body.
My mind will be screaming at my body to hop on the treadmill. After all, my husband so generously stole food from my childrens mouths and heat from our house in order to buy this wonderful piece of workout equipment. And what does my body do? It completely ignores my mind and stays at the kitchen table, click click clicking on the keyboard, engaged in some twitersation or another.
My wee little mind will try to get my ginormous bodys attention by looking at those lovely workout wii games and that nice little boogie board. My body, however, flips my mind the bird and chomps on a bowl of cereal or a handful of cheese its.
I could go on. I won’t.
It’s actually pretty bad.
Now that I’m on this anti-thyroid medication that, I SWEAR, made me gain 3 pounds overnight. I MUST start doing something proactive. The thought of getting even heavier? It scares the shit out of me…as I’m binge eating on sushi from the grocery store. Well, at least it’s wrapped in brown rice. That makes you poop…well, so I’ve been told.
Also. I have never, ever, in my entire life, been so out of shape. I’m the Stay-Puff Marshmallow (wo)man. All muscle tone I ever is hiding under mound of blubber. By now, I don’t even think muscle and tone can be said in the same sentence when it comes to describing anything about me.
But? I’m so freaking lazy and it’s getting worse.
I get worried about my health. So I sit and read or go on the computer.
I get anxiety about my kids. So I sit and obsess.
I freak out about bills. So…I sit and obsess about that too.
When I know, from years of actual physical activity in the form of ballet, that movement relieves stress and anxiety. Yet, I’m a perpetual vicious cycle.
Now though. I’m getting older which makes it harder to shed down to the svelte. I’m going to have to be on a life long medication that slows down my thyroid, thus slowing down my already dead metabolism. I have major awful cardiac genes. I’m an anxiety ridden mess.
I have GOT to stop being lazy.
I just am not sure I remember how.
It’s just so much easier to be like a slow moving glacier and then complain about it.
Only, that isn’t going to help my matter much.
I just have to remember how to motivate myself again. It’s been so many years that my motivation has gone into atrophy along with my muscle and my tone.
In the immortal words of our friend Susan Powter, I MUST…”Stop the insanity!”
OhMyGosh! I can so relate. I quit smoking last November…and promptly gained 20Lbs. I haven’t been this fat since I was pregnant with my 9yo. Ok if you hold me accountable for 1/2 hour of exercise a day, I will do the same for you. If you don’t get up on that treadmill, I will @ you on twitter for the entire day….ok maybe not, I’m too lazy to even do that. (and can we reduce that 1/2 hour to 15 minutes instead? Thanks).
Ugh! I know what you mean. I have so much that needs to get done, but spend so much of my non-work day still tied to the computer or my iPhone. I have to find a way to drag myself away and do something more productive around the house or for myself! If you find the secret, let me know!! 🙂
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I once turned my treadmill into a laptop desk by laying a piece of board across the hand bars and tying my laptop on with shoe strings, double knotted. This is called desperation. It worked for about a week until I figured out that if I tied the shoelace in a bow, the laptop could come right off! I’ve since bought a sectional recliner and today, the fabric of my jammies is permanently embedded in the cushions.
http://www.myhandbasket.com
We are all guilty of it. You need to find something you really like. Yoga, Pure Barr, a walk with friends. I run because that is the only time in my day that the kids aren’t barking orders at me. I could run and run and run.
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Remember you can always post on accountablility. 🙂
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I know exactly what you mean! The Internet is so easy and comfortable and exercise is so… not (for me anyway). But you can do it! Set yourself a date, be brave and just go for it. And I agree with Stefani – pick something you really enjoy to start with.
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I once turned my treadmill into a laptop desk by laying a piece of board across the hand bars and tying my laptop on with shoe strings, double knotted. This is called desperation. It worked for about a week until I figured out that if I tied the shoelace in a bow, the laptop could come right off! I’ve since bought a sectional recliner and today, the fabric of my jammies is permanently embedded in the cushions.
http://www.myhandbasket.com
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good luck…every time I get started, something knocks me on my (very large) ass.
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Tone? What’s Tone? You speak of something of which I am not familiar. My tone went away, along with my ability to go on road trips at the last minute and the days I used to sleep til noon.
I am so with ya on this post. I have so much motivation in my mind, but actually acting on it is a different story. I was super motivated for the first few weeks of the year until my kids and I got sick and it’s been back to the same old story. My 20 yr reunion is this year though so I’m hoping that helps me get back to the gym. Good luck to ya! I’ll be thinking of you when avoiding the gym.
You are NOT lazy. You have a thyroid issue, and that can knock the you-know-what out of you. It’s HARD to overcome this type of exhaustion. I gained weight because of my med issue, too, and dragging my heinie onto my exercise bike is exercise in and of itself. The exhaustion is something else, isn’t it?
Don’t stress yourself out over this, honey! Do what you can. Stress just adds hormones that prevents you from losing weight. So does lack of sleep. It will take even more time, but you will be able to get back into shape. Just take each day as it comes.
And, just for the record, your opening line is very similar to my opening line for the post that’s going out tonight. I think this has happened before. I’m not stealing your ideas, honest!!! 🙂 (My post topic is different though.)
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I’m right there with you, sister! I have lost about 15 lbs. so far, but I’m losing my focus. I just love junk food too much!!! And the gym seems to get further and further away… Okay, let’s promise each other to work out…starting tomorrow!
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OK this will sound like a commercial but I started doing the 30 Day Shred DVD by Jillian Michaels. She is a hard ass and it is a very basic quick (she says 20 min but it is more like 30 from warm up to cool down) workout. I freaking HATE the gym so I have no excuse because rather than sit on my ass I can pop this in and do it while the girls watch Disney Channel in the late afternoons. I turned 40 last August and oh MY GAWD my metabolism has just disappeard. My stomach? Blubber. I have done the Shred 20 times and I honestly can now see some definition to my waistline…YEA! I’ve also cut out Cokes for Lent. I like the regular stuff, not diet. I gave up drinking for 4 weeks in January.
Baby steps…if I can do it you can do it. Seriously I LOATHE exercising. Would much rather sit on my butt and blog. 😉
I’m also a worryaholic.
I just found my inspiration. I know in my head I’m a runner. My life just FLOWS better when I’ve been running. I get addicted to it.
I found an old playlist of running songs from when I was training for a triathlon. Last night I did a 5k. This morning I woke up and did 2 more miles. I wanted to get on again tonight but my muscles need rest so I did some Wii boxing.
Melissa, it feels awesome and everything else seems to be coming together. Try to find a something that makes you happy, that puts you in a focused frame of mind where you finish wish a sense of accomplishment. You’ll be so much happier.
Also? remind me I said this next week when I don’t want to get on my treadmill. I hate running inside.
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Why is it so easy to get out of the habit of exercising and so hard to get back into it? Aggggh! I’m always secretly glad when skinny people gain weight. That’s not nice is it. I always tell myself that tomorrow I’ll start, but tomorrow is always tomorrow. Maybe should start today huh?
It’s so easy to be lazy.The glow of the computer screen is too powerful to ignore. And wouldn’t we all rather surf the web than do chores?
Don’t be so hard on yourself. It’s quite likely your lack of energy could be health-related or a side effect of medication. (Don’t laugh: I was once on meds that made me so tired I feel asleep on the weight bench.) All that aside, too bad we can’t form a bloggers workout club. We could job/walk together with our laptops strapped on like the drummers in the marching bands! The best of both worlds.
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I’ve been having almost exactly the same thoughts – that I need to exercise more discipline. I read an article yesterday about “lowering the bar,” as in … we have to stop beating ourselves up. We all start from where we are, no matter where we are. We have to ease into where we want to be, bringing ourselves along with compassion and understanding.
Think about it this way: If your child came to you and said, “Mom, I want to be healthier,” (STOP LAUGHING, it could happen), would you talk him down about how fat he is? Remind him how many times he could have exercised in the past week and didn’t? No. You’d ask him what you could do to support him. You’d offer to help him. You’d praise him for just HAVING THE THOUGHT.
Lots of people don’t even recognize they need to get better.
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Well, you know what you need to do and you know how to do it. The mental component is the hardest. My suggestion is to just effing do it. If you just effing do it for long enough, you’ll be able to leave the effing part out. Good luck!
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I don’t call it laziness. I call it an insatiable need to relax.