In the name of the father......

So for today's blog, I am going to give you a little of my religious background. I am not getting preachy, just telling you where I am coming from. Please stay with me.

I was not raised in the church I belong to now. I was raised Catholic. I even went to catholic school,but I no longer consider myself catholic. There is nothing wrong with the church, it just was not for me. So, growing up we had little prayers we said. Before we ate, at mass, before bed, etc. We also made the sign of the cross. Forehead, chest, shoulder, shoulder. ALL OF THE TIME! I no longer say those prayers or make the sign. Just me again. Just my own personal decision......

ANYWAY, So I have been getting to a point in my workout where all of a sudden, In my head pops a prayer that I used to say as a child! Our Father, who art in Heaven, give us this day and so on and so on.......

WHAT THE HECK??!!! I am regressing to my childhood and praying for God to give me the strength to PEDAL a BIKE??? He must have other things more important to do than to help this fat lady move her legs up and down!!! Shouldn't he be making babies, or striking a blasphemer with lightning? I am sooooo wasting his time I am sure! I have even made the sign of the cross just to make it 2 more minutes to hit my goal! My grandmother would be so proud to know that in "my time of need" I fall back on old catholic habits.

I think my point is that what ever gets me to finish my workout for the day is what I need to do. Whether it is praying an old childhood prayer, visualizing myself in my goal outfit, giving the lady on the treadmill with the skinny legs, great tight booty and huge boobs who isn't even sweating the evil eye (from the back of course!)and cursing her with a colicky baby or cellulite thighs, or even screaming in my own head and cussing out everyone in my visual distance, or making a pact with myself to hunt down the creator of exercise and to do an aerobics workout on his throat. (I do ALL of it during my 20 minute bike time).

Exercise is not a fun thing. It is something we all know we should be doing, but most of us put it off and put it off until it is more than just a healthy thing to do, it is something we HAVE to do to live. We can come up with any and every excuse as to why we can't right now, but it really does need to be done. Like shaving your legs, who WANTS to do that. It is tedious, you can cut yourself, it takes time away from anything else we have to do, but it needs to be done. If you ignore the hair growing, then you become a yeti! If you ignore exercise, you become.....Grimace from McDonald's! Well, that secured me going back tomorrow! Off to shave my legs......