Pitter from Pat
The Fitness Resolution!
Every year just like clockwork, when the New Year rolls in, and the silver ball drops down over Times Square; I make a resolution. And, just like clockwork, in February I break it. I believe this breaking of the vow occurs about the same time that chocolates arrive in the stores for Valentine’s Day. Umm, umm…those Fannie May heart-shaped chocolates and those creamy caramels in the Whitman’s Sampler are just so tempting.
I always have good intentions for getting fit, and I absolutely know from reading the material from our Radius physicians and fitness experts, that exercise and weight-control are keys to good health and longevity. So why is it so difficult to jump on the fitness bandwagon and stay there….at least for a couple of months?
Throughout my life, weight and exercise have been an annoyance to my lifestyle. I like to stay busy, but I don’t like the boredom of walking in place for 20 or 30 minutes. I tried walking outside, around our neighborhood but found that I can’t be sociable if I have to look down to see where I am going. Friends may be waving or smiling at me, and I cannot see them because I am watching my feet to make sure that I don’t step off into a hole or catch my toe on an uneven sidewalk. Why…they may think I’m not friendly, and I can’t have that! All other forms of exercise are just out of the question…rope jumping, swimming, skating, and definitely not skateboarding! You see, I was always the last one to be chosen for the teams in gym class, and I am sure there was good reason for that.
Exercise is not my only problem…there is also the problem of those chocolates that I spoke about earlier, and actually the problem is food in general. If someone offers me a snack…isn’t it rude of me to decline? For some reason I just feel unsociable when I don’t take a sampling of what a co-worker or friend may be offering.
“Hey, would you like to try some of these new chips?” my friends may ask.
“Well sure!”
See how unfriendly it sounds to say, “Oh no, I’m on a diet”.
It’s just so unsociable!
All right…I admit it…I am just rationalizing my bad behavior and poor self-discipline. I guess I’d better get on the fitness bandwagon and stay on it this time. Swimsuit weather is fast approaching, and I don’t want to spend another summer wrapped in an oversized sarong, or trying to cover cellulite with tanning creams. By the way, why is it that tanned fat looks better than the paler variety?
Anyway…off I go to get physically trim and nutritionally fit. Wish me luck and come join me if you like…there is plenty of room on this wagon…and we are all sociable!
Till next time...
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Patricia Kirby, Editor
Patricia Kirby brings several years of journalism, editing, and publishing experience to Radius magazine. She is a published writer and former co-editor of Hoosier Outdoor magazine, with a distribution throughout the mid-west. Patricia is also a former Editor and Publisher of the Hoosier Topics newspaper, distributed countywide in Putnam County, Indiana, and the Springs Valley Herald, French Lick, Indiana. Her tell it like it is writing style offers humor and a bit of satire in her monthly columns, "Pitter from Pat." She has done extensive traveling, including a month in the Outback of Australia to accompany a study group of Aboriginal tribal music.
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