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I hate to exercise...

I don't know about you, but I don't exercise. I should. But I don't. Maybe I'm just lazy, (and I do have a gym membership) but I am in the middle of two books with another one in the works, and am trying to do some graphic design side jobs. All sitting jobs. Along with planning and making dinner, I just feel like there's not enough hours in the day...

And they all sound like excuses. Well, they are. But it's how I've always been. I am not an outdoor person, and I hate sweating, lol.

So I concentrate on the food aspect. I do my best to watch what I am eating and count calories. Drink my water. And careful not to drink my calories or eat my emotions/stress eat.
(Ever wonder what happened to my quest to cut the unhealthy flavored coffee creamers out of my diet? Well, I found out that the ingredient that supposedly is bad for you is in almost everything we eat - granted I buy as little boxed, processed, and frozen processed foods as possible - but there are still snacks that we do eat that all contain those ingredients. And I really like my coffee creamer - and am too cheap to buy the healthy one that is $2 more for less product... so, I'm over that quest for the moment.)

But exercise? Not so much.
I need to change that, but somedays peri-menopause kicks my ass.
But I am determined to not gain weight just because I am getting older. So I keep counting calories, and turning away the junk food that haunts me.

Having to cook every night, that's a downside of trying to eat healthy. I wish there was a healthy deli around me that I could order a few times a week, a healthy salad, smoothies, or healthy sandwiches. (anyone looking to open a business out my way? lol...)

I planned a healthy Chef Salad for dinner last night, and when the teen asked what was for dinner, and I told him, his response was "if I had money, I would just eat at work" - gee, thanks, lol. (he did come home and make a Chef Salad, btw)
He may not like what's for dinner, but if he's hungry, he'll eat it.


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