This is another common excuse in the list of excuses why you are not being good to your body. You need to exercise and eat right in order to stay healthy. Not having enough time during the day is not an excuse. Your body needs water, so you drink water. Your body needs food, so you eat food. You do not have a problem making time for that. Maybe you do not make a dinner every night, but instead pick up something already cooked at the supermarket, but you are making time for eating. And why? It is because you feel the physical effects if you do not. You may feel or hear your stomach growling or experience hunger pangs. You may just have a craving for something good to eat or drink. Most of you will succumb to those needs. Just in the way that you must eat, you must exercise.
Not exercising will result in a lack of muscle tone, a feeling of weakness or feeling tired and a generalized “dumpy” feeling. Listen to your body. Wake up your body by giving it what it needs. You will be surprised at how much better you feel after you exercise. You will feel tired, but just for a while. This tiredness will be replaced with renewed strength and pretty soon exercising will become something that you look forward to. Pretty soon you will not “feel right” if you do not exercise.
I found out quite some time ago that you have to make time to exercise, just as you make time for appointments, activities, working, hobbies and going out. You may even have to put one of those things aside and replace it with exercise, as exercising should come before many of those things previously mentioned. You may have to modify and adjust your schedule to fit exercising in.
Be good to yourself and stay healthy. Try to get in approximately 30 minutes of exercise 3 to 4 times a week. Always check with your doctor before beginning any exercise program for his approval.
Angel Lynn writes in fitness, weight loss, single parenting, media and health.