update - back again

OMG where was my head?  Not posting on here was the dumbest  thought process I have ever had.  Thanks so much everyone for the support and encouragement.  Everyone has been so kind and so understanding and so supportive.  This truly is a family.  I am an only child with no brothers or sisters to support me, to turn to but here I have this wonderful family of supportive people.

I have been under a great deal of stress this summer and now as though it never ends, my mother has to have surgery.  As an only child my elderly parents rely on me so much.  Mum is in a nursing home and Dad lives next door to me.  So they are both wanting me to do things like go to the hospital with her and taking him up to visit cause he does not like to drive after dark etc.   Add that to an already full schedule and I end up feeling kind of stretched thin.  So how do I even find time to exercise let alone find the desire to exercise?  I say it here and I feel like I am making excuses and I suppose I am.  However  by the time I do all I have to do, add in all the things I need to do to get from one end of the day to the next and then say oh I should go for a walk or get on the treadmill or get in the car and 15 minutes to go for a swim or crank up the Wii – my reaction is  - UGG not now, maybe later, maybe tomorrow, on Monday I will start fresh. 

It is also not good that my hobbies are sedentary.  I knit, crochet, sew and I give handmade gifts for Christmas.  So I am busy now in my down time trying to get things made for my grandchildren and kids. 

Any how.  At some point I have to just sit down here a figure a way to MAKE time, MAKE myself exercise.

Its Saturday, I should at least try to find time today to exercise.  Maybe while my lentil stew is simmering I will get on the treader for 15 or 20 minutes.  No NO NO – no maybe about it I am gonna do it.  So there

Thanks again guys, you are one and all awesome and wonderful friends.

Ann

Have you thought about walking on your noon hour? I eat my lunch at about 11:45 and they walk for mu lunch hour. If I didn't do that I would almost never get my walking in.  The other benefit is that it reduces my work day tensions.

Thank you Ann for your kind words and I'm happy you posted how you feel.

Waiters like me need the real side of the story.  The good and the bad.

I like what Charline said- it's give and take.   Thank you also for reminding me on my post about the magic bullet.   I forgot about that!!  See, thank God you came back!!!

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