TheBanyanTree: Daily Exercise

[Maria Gibson]

Well, I'm back at it.  I've had a fun (?) month or so of no exercise and 
not really paying attention to what I eat and now comes the hard part.  
The return.  I have been here too many times and you'd think I'd learn 
but, no.  I think it does get easier to return after you learn to the 
core of your heart that it is possible.  I mean, when you are at the 
beginning and fail, it's very difficult to imagine that you can actually 
pick up the pieces and go again.  But if you do pick them up and keep on 
trucking despite a lapse here and there, experience some success along 
the way, you come to realize that what you do or don't do is a choice 
and you can choose wisely if you choose to.  That's a lot of choosing to 
have to go through, isn't it?  Kinda makes you want to lie down and 
fuggedaboutit.  That would be easy.

Went to the Y this morning as I did yesterday morning.  As I did on 
Monday evening.  Three times feels like a pattern and as I sweated on 
the elliptical machine today and felt like getting off at ten minutes 
and then at twenty, I had to remind myself that this was only going to 
be thirty minutes.  Who can't give thirty minutes from their day to look 
better, feel better and get them closer to a life's goal?  WHO??  Well, 
when I put it like *that* to myself, who am I to argue?  WHO??  No one, 
that's who; I dare not argue with myself when I'm being reasonable. 

God knows there are plenty of times I should be arguing with myself so I 
won't waste it like that.

Maria