I live in a small town. It's a wonderful place to live and I have family and friends here. I have a wonderful job and church and I absolutely love it.
But it's a small town. Not like, Mayberry small. But small enough that we don't have a variety of places to do much of anything. For example, if you're going to shop in town, your options are the mall or Wal-Mart. If you're going to see a movie, we have one movie theater with 4 screens. If it didn't come out 5 minutes ago, you're going to have to drive to a nearby city.
And when it comes to exercising your options are limited too. We have a Y. We have a 24 hour place that is absolutely awful (I seriously almost spelled it offal). And we have the Fitness Center at our sister campus (I work at a community college for the deaf - our sister campus is a regular community college). But the Fitness Center has been closed for several months for renovations. I'm not a fan of the Y. I loathe and despise and generally hate the 24 hour place....if I'm going to pay $50 a month, could you at least have one working treadmill??? So I've been kind of cobbling together an exercise plan utilizing the little bit of equipment I have at home. And then the track at the high school. Which is kind-of hard to do when there's no light past 6:00 pm and the high for the day is 30 something. It doesn't happen often, but when it does it's not easy to convince myself to get my booty out there and try to walk/run.
So this has been my problem. Until Monday. The Fitness Center has re-opened. And I'm in love. So Monday I went to check it out and exercise. I am now up to almost 2 minutes of jogging and I walked for 25 minutes. I feel like a rock star. Their new hours are great. The new equipment is nice. They've fixed the heating and air conditioning so it'll be warm in the winter and cool in the summer and not the other way around.
So, you hear that? That's the sound of my last excuses leaving the building.
So now if I don't work out...it's just me.
JENNIFER I AM SO PROUD OF YOU. I HAVE DECIDED I WAS GOING TO LOSE WEIGHT THIS YEAR ALSO AND MY BIGGEST PROBLEM IS FINDING A PLACE THAT I CAN WALK THAT DOES NOT COST AN ARM AND A LEG. IT IS TO OLD TO WALK OUT SIDE AND THE ONLY PLACE THAT HAS A WALKING TRACK INSIDE IS 10 MILES AWAY AND I DONT ALWAYS HAVE THE GAS TO GO.
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