Journal 3- Getting Fat or Getting Fit?

I think the title is pretty self-explanatory this week: I am going to be talking about eating lots and being lazy or working out and getting fit.

At the beginning of this quarantine, I thought, "Hey, now's a really good time to work out, be active, and get fit!" I saved a bunch of workout videos and routines, and I almost did workout one time. But that's it. Just the one time. I haven't been working out like I was planning to, instead I've been eating junk and sitting around all day. Now, I do go on walks with my mom and my dog every couple days, but that's about it. I've eaten some fruits and vegetables as snacks, but most of the time I have chips or candy instead. I think they should make fruit less expensive, because then I would probably have more.

I've talked to a couple of people and they said they saved workout videos and routines too, but still haven't done them. I feel like it's either you work out everyday or every other day, or you don't work out at all except for maybe going on a couple walks, or not even going on walks.

Sometimes I feel motivated to get active, but then something comes up, like chores, helping my sister with her homework, or even my own homework, and by the time I've finished that task, I'm not motivated anymore, and so I go right back to sitting on my duff doing nothing. 

While I've just been sitting down, though, I'm not just watching TV, though I have been watching quite a bit of that, too. I do my homework, do chores, I paint and draw, I read (I've read the entire Harry Potter series again since the first week after the already two extra weeks after March Break), and I painted my bedroom by myself, my mom's bedroom, and my mom's bathroom. I could probably count the painting in as a workout because I got a nice arm workout, and I stepped up and down and up and down, on and off of a chair a LOT, and that definitely felt like the equivalent of squats.

I did a survey of my family and a couple of friends, and only 1 out of 7 works out during quarantine, other than walks, like me. I think a lot of people are going to come out of quarantine looking just a little bigger than they were when we went into quarantine ;)

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