Jun 20 2008
You snooze, you lose
If only that could be a weight loss solution! I’ve been feeling really drowsy during the day this week, I could lose a bunch this way. 
Yesterday, AJ tried to avoid going to school by claiming he was sick. But he wanted to eat. And he couldn’t keep his hands off his sister. And he was driving me insane! I finally told him that either he settled down and was sick, or he was going to school. By 10:30 we were on our way. It turned out that he was “sick” because his best friend didn’t want to play with him on Monday. They had a good day together yesterday though and AJ was well-behaved.
Last night we finished reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and this morning we started reading The Adventures of Captain Underpants. AJ’s enjoyed Tales and after we finish Capt. Underpants, we’ll go back to reading about Fudge—I’ve got Superfudge and Fudge-a-mania hanging around waiting for him.
John’s been running, which is great—for him. For us, it’s been a real problem. He wants to run after work and before dinner. That meant that last night, we didn’t get dinner until 6:30 and the kids are usually in bed by 7. It’s just not fair to them to have to wait that long. I told him he either needs to run after his dinner’s settled (it’s light until 9pm for heaven’s sake!) or he needs to get up early and run before work. We’ll see what happens, but what’s going on now just won’t work.
DH has to squeeze in workouts before or after dinner… no time in the mornings. We end up eating late or starting without him most of the time. And I get stuck making dinner!
If John has the time in the mornings, you can tell him that “I” was a total lazy butt in the mornings, and could not even fathom the thought of getting out of bed early to go for a run or a walk. However after years of realizing that I cannot find the time after work, nor the energy – that I needed to get it out of the way for the day. So I enlisted my neighbor who is even worse about getting up than I am, I mean, really, seriously, WE HATE IT - I mean really, really, really hate getting up. We get up at 4:30 am, and meet outside my house at 4:45 and begin our walk. We walk until 6 am and then come home and shower for the day. Let me tell you , it is bad enough that I open the door some mornings and say “god I hate you….and I hate this”, but by the time my feet hit the pavement, it is fine and when I am done, I feel soooo fantastic. I could never have imagined I’d be the type who would get up early in the morning and exercise, I would be the last person you would ever dream would get up. But the feeling I have when I am done, is beyond amazing. I have more energy on the days I do the walk, then the days when we skip – when we skip, I feel horrible. When we walk, I get so much more accomplished during the early morning, I have so much energy and I feel great
I feel so sad when we don’t walk cause I feel groggy all day long. So, I am a total convert. I love morning exercise, but HATE to get up. If you can just drag yourself out of bed, and pull on the shorts, and sneakers and hit the pavement, in mins you will be ok, and by the end you ‘ll be bouncing off to work, whistling a song and a smile on your face, seriously. That is how I feel every morning and I am a total morning grump