So, my husband and I joined a gym. Yippy. For those of you who know me, you not only heard the sarcasm in that "yippy" but you felt it too. Hubby likes to be active, so this is going to be good for him. Plus he says he wants to lose weight and get back into shape. I get that. There's a daycare for the Little Man so that's good for him.
I don't like working out. There, I said it out loud. I don't like to sweat. I don't like to breathe hard. I don't like to "work it." I do not understand
why anyone would want to "feel the burn" and it is
not a good thing to feel sore the next day. Deliberately hurting yourself is called masochism. It is abnormal behavior and psychiatrists can prescribe medication for that condition. However, I do want to lose weight. I'd like to be the size I was when I got married, which yes, ladies, was the size I was in high school. I'd like to drop my blood pressure so I can be around for the Big Man and Little Man for another 30 years. God knows they need me. So, I'll try this working out thing.
This gym may not be so bad. First, it doesn't smell like a gym. Nothing worse than walking into a place and smelling sweat and bad breath. Yuck. This gym is air conditioned. I don't like to be hot, so I was pleased to see the A/C set at 63 degrees. They offer yoga at normal temperatures and best of all, they have treadmills and elliptical machines in a
movie theater! So, I think I'll be able to find things to do and going there won't be too depressing.
While we were being sold on the gym, the
salesman health consultant said that if we made just 3 hours a week a priority, we'd see results. I guess he thought my priority was
results. Actually, the 3 hours per week is what got me. I still don't know where I'm going to find 3 hours a week. If you know me, then you know that time is a
HUGE issue with me so I started thinking about all the things we are supposed to spend time on during the week. After a little research, here's the list according to the pundits:
- Sleeping = 56 hrs.
- Personal hygiene (showering, teeth brushing, etc.) = 7 hrs.
- Food (cooking, eating, clean up for 3 meals per day) = 21 hrs.
- Work = 40 hrs.
- House Work (includes laundry) = 21 hrs.
- Yard Work = 4 hrs.
- Budgeting (includes paying bills) = 1 hr.
- Planning (setting up the next week) = 2 hrs.
- Errands = 6 hrs.
- Entertainment (TV, movies, etc.) = 14 hrs.
- Socialization (parties, conversation, etc.) = 4 hrs.
- Interactive time with the dogs = 15 hrs.
- Interactive time with the child = 21 hrs.
- Working out = 3 hrs.
Grand Total is 215 hours of things to do each week. The down side is that there are only 168 hours in a week so I'm short 47 hours each week. I guess I'll just have to give up sleeping to fit everything else in. What? You say I'm a stay home mom so I don't work? Wrong. I do work. I write, edit, do revisions, teach crocheting and knitting and we are days away from launching a literary magazine. I work from home. And I try to do all the other things I'm supposed to do too. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail. What do you do during the course of the week? How do you spend your time?
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