In the hustle and bustle of my busy life sometimes I forget to take care of myself. Everyday it seems like my to do list gets longer and longer and time for me gets pushed farther and farther to the bottom.
Winter is especially hard, I get a little depressed in the winter, nothing bad, just a little SAD (seasonal affective disorder) but one major downside is that I get very lazy.
Everything becomes just too much work. My house falls apart, I don’t cook and I certainly don’t exercise. All I want to do is lay on the couch until it’s time for bed.
This is especially bad when you are a single mother, there is no one else to pick up the slack. The only thing that really helps is exercise. I know it sounds like it would just make you more tired but for some reason it seems to have the opposite affect.
If I exercise right after work I get so much done in the evening, I have much more energy and life doesn’t seem so overwhelming.
When I was first a single parent I didn’t exercise, I just couldn’t find a way to fit it into an already over scheduled day, then one day I took a walk. That night I finished most of the things I needed to do, which was unheard of for me.
Now I try to make exercise a priority. Not only is it good for me but the rest of my life seems more manageable when I take the time to exercise.
I am not a diehard athlete, for me exercising means taking a walk but it does the job. When I walk I have uninterrupted time to think, I have worked through many problems on my walks. It’s my alone time, something that is scarce as a single parent and it makes me feel better about myself.
I’ve fallen off the exercise wagon but today I walked and it reminded me how much I’ve missed it.