[NefCanuck]

If someone doesn't want to do something, they'll find every excuse in the book not to do it, it's human nature.

I started my exercise program back in Jan '03 after the doctor basically pointed out a 15lb gain in weight since my last physical a year ago. With my bad knee, more weight = bad news.

So I was left with "okay where do I start and when can I do this exercise thing?"

Nothing really clicked until it hit me like a brick in the face "Hey, I have a gym in my condo for crissakes" and so I began going to the gym directly after I came home from work.

Initally it was only 20 minutes of biking a night 5 days a week, but I began to expand my repetorie to include the eliptical trainer instead of the bike, adding the butterfly press and leg extensions, upping the weight and number of reps slowly to the point now where I have a 4 day a week workout that lasts between an hour and and hour and a half depending on which exercises I do. Sure it means I don't even start cooking dinner some nights until as late as 7pm, but for the weight loss and the increased muscle tone its a small price to pay.

Sure I don't eat as well as I could, but I've cut down on the greasy fast food a *lot* (Not eliminated, that just encourages overdoing it) and I try to cook using whole wheat pastas and rice whenever I can.

But the whole thing boils down to a want to do it. Sure it took the doctor verbally punching me in the face, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna go down without even trying to help myself :P

NefCanuck