After counting my calories for three weeks and watching how quickly some foods add up and how easily it is to go over the amount of calories you are suppose to eat in a day I am dreadfully disapointed in the calories burned during exercise versus calories eating enjoyable food.
Its complete crap.
I suppose if I recieved more enjoyment from exercising I might feel a little compensated. But I don't like exercise, not really. I like the idea of exercise and even the theory behind it, but when it comes right down to it - I would rather sit down and read a book and perhaps eat a bowl of ice cream. (I realize some of you are hands raised "Oh, Oh I know your problem!" - Don't bother. I am fully aware its better to exercise than sit with yummy ice cream and a good book and I am trying to do more exercise less ice cream, but you (Royal) informing me that I can't eat ice cream doesn't help, just pisses me off - and I accept all childishness) So anyways, I'm sitting here wondering why exercise just doesn't pay off in my mind - workout for an hour burn 300 calories, eat wheat pasta and mozzarella cheese gain 300 calories...
Thankfully I have discovered the Wii Fit which is not exercise, but likes to tell me how many calories I burned after I'm done playing. I often am gross and covered in sweat when I'm done playing so I feel like I did something worthwhile and enjoyed myself at the same time. Still not as good as reading a book, but much better than exercise.
So... do you do anything special to trick yourself into exercising? Or are you one of those truly disturbing people who like exercise (more power to you - I only wish I had that kind of mojo!)
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So something strange happened and the world blew up and for some reason my comment didn't comment. So here I am again.
Now, what I said before was something along the lines of I enjoy running, but I do not enjoy the thought of having to start running. But as an exercise I find it very gratifying and I have read that it really can help with creativity. I am thinking, as I have been for the past forever, about starting it up again.
The Wii Fit is something that we did here for awhile, in fact the week after we bought it Stephen had all of us, except myself, on there doing an exercise on it. He even managed to get Becca doing it. Mom really wanted to stay with it at first, but like most things it kind of disappeared.
A bowl of ice cream is one thing that I would not give up lightly. It truly is mana from heaven. I think I am going to stop with that train of thought now before I encourage any counter-productive actions on the readers part.
Now I think I had more to say, but I really must get to reading a Sociology article (test on Wednesday and I still have 6 articles to read).
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