I don't like to exercise. I do it nearly every day in some form or fashion. I walk on a treadmill, I go to the gym. But I don't enjoy it, and many days, I have to talk myself into exercising at all. I could reward myself with food, but that would defeat the purpose, now wouldn't it? lol
It has occurred to me that exercise should burn calories in proportion to how much we enjoy it. If you have a terrible cold, but you go to the gym anyway - the calories burned should be double the normal calories burned! If you hate painting, but you paint a room anyway - double calories for you. If it worked that way in real life, we would lose a lot more weight, because we would be a little more eager to do the exercise we really don't enjoy.
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I just wanted to add to the above comments that good intentions should also count! I meant to go to the gym, I just ran out of time - that should count for something!
ReplyDeleteI think it should count too.
ReplyDeleteI am officially adding yard work - especially pulling weeds and trimming bushes to this list. double calories - maybe triple when the bushes are so tall you have to stand on a bench to trim them!
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