I recently moved things around in the house again. My bedroom is now shared with the washer/dryer, but that’s fine. It makes for a nice cozy little room. And let’s be honest… I spend far more time elsewhere in the house. The living room, office, kitchen… my bedroom doesn’t need to be all that big.
One of the advantages of moving rooms is that it opened up space for my sorely-neglected treadmill to be set up again. I bought that treadmill last year, and in pure Stephen-fashion, I haven’t exactly been a faithful user. So today I pulled myself out of bed, and threw on my sneakers and went for a 20 min walk. I wasn’t exactly a stress-walk, but you have to start somewhere. I watched an episode of The Sports Show With Norm MacDonald, so it was far from a boring tread. (I’ll say “tread” rather than “workout” because, let’s be honest, there wasn’t much of a workout… although yeah, I did sweat a little… or as the ladies like to say, I glistened)
They say that you should reward yourself to stay motivated, so after I was done, I immediately ate the remaining 3 pieces of Twix that had somehow been forgotten last night, and polished them off with a glass of Coke… effectively nullifying (and then some!) any calories that I might have lost on my 20 min tread.
But at least I can look my doctor in the eye on Friday when she asks me if I’ve started to exercise after our last meeting. “Oh yes, Lisa… I’ve gotten back on the treadmill”
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Woohoo; you literally got your ass in gear! Seriously, though, it’s a lot more than most of us can say. Here’s to hoping you stay on the bandwagon for a good long stretch
Yeah, I think that band wagon blew a few tires…
Weight limit will do that, maybe if you stuck with a DIET
Hahah! SOOOO mean! (yet so true)
I was reading and I was so proud of you until I got to the twix and coke after the exercise, gave me a good laugh, but keep in there you can do it:)
At least I wasn’t eating the Twix while on the treadmill!
Hey at least it is set up and now you have a place to hang your clothes
I was impressed to read that you even own a treadmill, you live out in the middle of nowhere, GO FOR A WALK 
Hey, I go for walks too… but my weather isn’t nearly as good as yours.
Hey, do not hate, we have been in the pool last few weekends, and it is getting warmer every day.
I picked up the last chunk of ice that somehow managed to survive yesterday… a two-hander… I’m hoping that it’s gone today… but the weather still blows…
OK….I’m sorry….but am I the only one that noticed that you ONLY put your sneakers on when you got out of bed to get on the treadmill??? Hoping you had clothes on too. Hehe.
Baby steps…you tried getting rid of the Coke completely, that didn’t work. So now you’re trying the treadmill, then you can slowly decrease the Coke…don’t cold turkey quit, just slowly.
Apparently you’ve never seen me on a treadmill….. flapping in the wind… weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Ummm….nope! I haven’t seen you….and I think I’ll opt to only keep a mental image of that. K, thanks!
Aren’t you sorry that you opened that door?!?
I bet that I made ya laugh, though!
Oh gosh no! I got a good laugh out of it.
Then my work here is done!