Donuts and Bagels

Well, we had a good-bye breakfast a colleague that is leaving our office. So we had bagels, donuts from Dunkin Donuts and coffee. Donuts - one of my sweet downfalls. I only had one and a half a bagel with a shmeer of cream cheese. And this will probably get me through most of the day. I did have usual breakfast very early this morning and brought my usual lunch - but that is now, probably out the window.

I was thinking more about exercise last night - mainly about changing a living pattern - changing time patterns - patterns of personal commitment. As I look at articles and newsy things on the web one pattern is very clear to me - people who loss weight exercise a lot more. Many stories I have read have many of these people becoming runners, doing marathons and 5 and 10K races. While I don't know if I will become a runner - it is clear to me that I have to commit to exercising more - there is just no way around it. Exercising more now helps take reduce my weight - and maintaining the exercise will help keep the weight off when I reach my goal.

Now all this comes to changing living patterns - First of all it is, for me, a question of timing - when to do it. Early morning? After work? So if I want to really commit to this - something in my timing has to change. Knowing me the better time for me is after work. I just move too slow in the mornings to workout and make it work happily. I am just not a bounce out of bed early in the morning kind of person. So after work is the logical choice. Habit and excuses are standing in my way. Here are the excuses:
1. I get home tired - sometimes I just want to cuddle with the cat
2. I want to relax after a day at work
3. I start getting dinner ready
4. If I exercise when I get home then dinner is even later - if I really do decide to get a membership at the Y then it will get even later - but wait - lets time this out - to Y at 6 - out by 7 - home by 7:30 - that isn't too bad. Even when getting home it would take me until at least 6:30 until I was ready to workout. I might finish earlier though.

Here is a positive - if I exercise when I get home then I might not need to make my bowl of popcorn that I love to munch on while watching the news. - and I can skip the news because it is really rather depressing and I get the important news in the morning. If I work out at home I could be done by the time The Simpsons came on at 7.

So now it takes the commitment to make the change to create the time to exercise and to exercise. I have ignore and say no to all the excuses - and say a big YES to exercise......