Stubborn extra weight/fatigue

[shootingstar]

Re exercising daily: It helps if you consider that our bodies were built for daily activity, almost constant movement, and thrive on it. Thinking of "exercise" as yet another daily chore that has to be done makes it sound so depressing. The truth is that we weren't made to sit around on our butts for very long and our bodies deteriorate if we do so...

Certainly I don't view cycling as a chore, but more as a "drug-inducing" activity because of the endorphins. Even if I have to do an errand, my attitude does tend to be: it's alot faster to get there no matter how slowly I cycle and I can carry more weight effortlessly coming back home. Bike is a necessity for us folks who don't have a car.

True that our bodies need physical activity daily. I've had several jobs where my work included getting up from computer desktop several times each hr. or at most nearly every hr. and it never bothered me. I welcomed it since jobs have been client-focused which accounts for multiple interuptions throughout the day and doing something/demonstrating something for them.

Over the years, I tried to encourage other staff in the department to be grateful that their jobs isn't just data entry, but much more diverse where it requires them to vary their tasks and change their physical activity/get away from prolonged viewing of the computer screen to do something else on the job.

[Crankin]

Shootingstar, I could have written your post. It takes SO much more to "look the same" as I did 15 years ago. I made a big adjustment in my eating about 5 years ago; while I never ate "badly," I was still eating the same high carb/low fat diet (good carbs) I ate in my thirties, when I was teaching 5-7 aerobics classes a week. I started looking pudgy at around age 45, even though I was still active. Started cycling a couple of years later and also found that changing up the routine also is necessary now.
I taught aerobics at 5 AM for 5 years and continued working out early in the AM until last year. Since I no longer have to get up that early, I exercise when I want to... I have to be disciplined, though. And all those 6-7 mile trips on my bike for errands add up. As long as I am moving for at least 30-40 minutes, it's good.

[lph]

Certainly I don't view cycling as a chore

No, I meant your friend who sounded like she was surprised or put out by the fact that you "always have to exercise".

but more as a "drug-inducing" activity because of the endorphins.

Yah, me too