I hate to harp on this subject, but I just really was disappointed in my workout tonight.
The one thing, ONE THING, I like about exercise really failed me tonight.
The absolute only good thing about exercise is that....
well, I guess exercise is helping me to lose weight, and that is pretty important to me.
Let's try this again....
Okay, the 2nd (only) good thing about exercise is that...
well...I guess exercise is good for my heart and other goo-covered body parts inside me.
Sigh...I may have to rethink this...
Alright, the 3rd (only) good thing about exercise (and I mean it this time!) is that...
it keeps me from being hungry!
That's right! If we ignore those first two exercise-related glitches above, the number
Now, to be honest, I've never gone to the gym really hungry. I always try to eat a little something, like a string cheese and a banana to at least have something in my belly before I beat my body into utter submission. Usually I enter the gym a little on the hungry side, but by the time I leave, the hunger has completely subsided. I do get hungry within an hour or so, but the workout gives me a chance to get home and make some dinner before I am completely starving and eating stale, leftover, fuzz-encrusted cheeze-its off the car floor.
But today, for some unknown reason I not only didn't enjoy the benefit of having my hunger alleviated by exercise, but instead, I GOT HUNGRIER! I was ready to eat my own sweat towel by the time I left tonight.
You know, exercise is hard enough for me, but when it makes me feel even hungrier than I already am, it just makes me angry. Hungry and angry is a bad combination. It usually leads to a drive by Taco Belling in my case. Luckily, I had to go pick up Lily from her grandparents, so I didn't have time to make a run for the border.
I'm still pretty frustrated though.
One of my Facebook friends once wrote something that made absolutely no sense to me. She wrote, "A day without sweat is like a day without sunshine." I understand all of those words individually, but put together in a sentence like that, they become some sort of weird, moon-man language. I think my friend is somewhat...how do I put this delicately?.....deranged. That may a little strong. Hmmm, how about deeply misguided. I just don't get why anyone would want to sweat on purpose. I do it because I have to. Not because I want to.
Maybe someday I will want to. And maybe someday giant squid-juggling, Portuguese-speaking monkeys will fly out of my butt.
You never know.
4 comments:
I can't help you to not hate exercising, but something I learned recently from a trainer is that you should eat something 1 1/2 hrs. before exercising, then eat within the hour AFTER exercising. He called it the golden hour where what you eat is processed more effeciently than any other time. Maybe the reason your hungry is that you've simply used up all your body's fuel. I admire you for keeping at it. I'm exhausted from working out 2 days in a row!
Wow, you are a class act, D! Seriously, where do you come up with this stuff? :)
I'm proud of you for sticking with it!
Oooh, Dawna. That's good to know. Thanks! I think I'm usually hitting that golden mean time, so that's pretty awesome.
Dawna's exactly right. You need to get some food in before to fuel your muscles to do the workout. Exercise breaks down muscle tissue, that's why it gets tighter and tougher the more you workout. (think scar tissue vs. undamaged). A majority of what you eat while your meatbolism is up (after the workout) is used immediately for muscle tissue repair.
Keep at it, your monkeys will come along soon enough and then you'll wonder what you ever did without them.
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