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| Tue, 05-25-2004 - 9:06am |
so yesterday i get home and walk 2 miles in 30 minutes. i was pretty happy about that until i stopped and hunger pains from hell hit and my muscles were dancing.
anyway i get home and i am planning to really do some crunches and what not...yeah ok can we say chores got in the way.
how do ya'll work that extra time in when you work, take of chores and whatever else you need to get done?

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In order to find time to walk I had to force myself to make time, which since I'm lazy and whiney by nature wasn't easy :)
Five days a week, I get up early to walk before my family wakes up and in the evening I walk after dinner. At first I grumbled and cursed about every single step, but then I started enjoying it as "me" time. Its like I'm finally scheduling myself into my day, if you get what I mean.
Vikki
Amanda
285/244/150
Shawna
You're right though, its all about priorities. Sometimes I don't have mine set correctly, Ha!
Dawn
oh well such is life of a single woman
If you think being single is easy, walk a day in my shoes. Except for the last 2 months, I was up at 5 and wouldn't get home until 9 almost every night. I put the a good part of my life on hold just to get in the 30-40 min walks I take now.
I am not going to turn this into a debate, but I have a very full life with more than just work and chores. I have put a lot of it on the back burner and as I said I already walk about 2 miles a day.
I am probably going to take your suggestion of cutting time. It may take a few days to have a faster pace but it's doable.
I "stay at home", while my husband works. I have two kids to chase after, run to and fro between scouts and soccer, etc. I am a room parent, and I am active at my church. I am very active in my nieces and nephews lives. I am responsible for all of the bill paying, errand running, grocery shopping, day to day shopping, cooking, cleaning, sewing, organizing, homework helping, question answering, chaperoning and supervising that gets done. I have to go to the laundromat a few days a week, and I have to be able to alter my entire schedule or plan on a moments notice to accomodate ER visits, early shifts for Rob at work, last minute school projects, not to mention my OWN health concerns. It is, I assure you, hard, whether you get to stay home all day, or not. And I have it easier than some, because my kids are old enough to fix themselves a sandwich or occupy themselves for a while if necessary.
Now on the other side of the coin...I was single once. I worked full time as a pharmacy technician and 32 hours a week as a cashier. I also was taking 4 classes at college, classes Mon-Thur. I still went to church and young singles group through church, spent ALOT of time with my 2 goddaughters, alot of time with my friends, and made time for my family. I also swam 3 days a week and walked every day at the time.
You may not have meant it the way that it came out, but your post sounded like you were being condescending towards we stay at home moms, and that's out of line. I work harder now than I ever did when I was single, and while no one hands me a paycheck for it, it's still very important work. I too spend most of my day "working" since my job is taking care of everyone and the errands, in the car, or asleep. But I work my exercise in where it fits and I look for ways to rearrange my schedule when it needs tweaked. If you want something enough, you find a way.
I don't want this to turn into a mess, but I hope you didn't mean it to sound the way it came off.
I didnt say your life wasnt easy or wasnt full.
Stay at home mom is where I would love to promote to. I know how busy it is.
I think the whole point should be just because one is single and one is married with kids that we are BOTH very very busy. The difference is what we are busy with.
However, being told that because I am single that I have freedom is not the case...with me
Again I said that I have moved a lot of my life around to walk now. I am just trying to figure out if I can squeeze more in.
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