Hummusgirl's Blog

I love to exercise.  But I don’t do it as much as the die hard people do.  I try to do something every day more or less.  I dance, walk, bike, swim, and vacuum (yes this counts).  But I mainly walk.  Now, I do drive, but I live with my parents currently, and they live in a town where you can walk everywhere and so I take advantage of that.

I don’t see a lot of people out walking.  I see a lot of cars and people who drive very short distances when they could be walking.  Walking is so easy and so practical too.  You don’t need a gym membership and when you look at New York City and all the walking people do there, it’s no wonder everyone is so slim there.

Sometimes I think if we got rid of cars and started making everything walkable (or bikeable) we’d have a lot more environmentally friendly people.

When I’m at the gym and see an overweight person drinking sugar water while exercising, I feel like telling them, you can’t do that to yourself if you want to lose weight.  You’re not going to get better unless you start caring about what you put into your body!!!

I have always exercised.  I was a pretty outdoorsy type person growing up (still am) but have sometimes had a problem with weight gain.  It was when I started to care about every little thing I put into my body, that I started to enjoy exercise more or at least got better at it.

I read years ago that fidgeting keeps weight off, and if this is true then that explains why I stayed skinny when I worked at a library for 6 years.  I was constantly keeping myself busy and didn’t have time to think about food.  Maybe this is the problem with people who have issues with weight gain.  We’re constantly bombarded with food messages every day and we can’t avoid them if we watch TV or are on the internet.

So if you are tired of all the food messages contradicting themselves wherever you go, then I challenge you to put your frustration into exercise.  Trust me, it works!!