After hearing friend Lisa bemoan how sore she was after running when she hadn't run for awhile, I found affirmation in my recent spate of aches and pains. No wonder! When I'm not exercising regularly, the exercise I do is more painful and makes me think negatively of exercise; when I'm exercising almost daily, I'm feeling relatively good, not a lot of aches and pains, and that makes continuing to exercise something that isn't a painful enterprise. The problem is, it's a time-consuming enterprise, so if that is what causes the exercise to stop, or be limited, then the pain starts due to the intermittent exercise.
I think the lesson here for me is to keep the exercise part of the routine, like brushing my teeth. It's not like I notice how healthy my teeth are all the time, but I will notice that they're not if I stop brushing my teeth since that's when the cavities will begin.
Side-note, the gain here is not pounds, but overall gain in feeling good, looking good, dropping weight, etc. And in a related fashion, perhaps it's less money = more gain. I tend to spend far too much at Kroger, thinking I'm going to eat all that food, even if it's good food. Well, I'm not! I can't eat as much as I used to and I'm not cooking for more than 1, so I have to get used to buying less. It'll save me money, but also the temptation to eat more so that I "don't waste" what I buy and make. Trouble is, wasting is the better option if the opposite is that I consume and gain pounds.
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