Dare I be completely honest? OK - here goes.
I KNOW we have to keep fit and walking is a good way to do it, but I find it very hard to make myself go for a walk, just for the sake of it. I'd have to head for somewhere and my walk would consist of walking along pavements to get to a park or shops and I'd have traffic going by me on the busy roads. It's not the most exciting of walks...
I do try to bend, stretch, move as much as I can around the house, and when I have the grandchildren I feel quite exhausted afterwards as they never stop and I am not as fit as I once was.
I'll also admit that after an extremely stressful and hectic working life, one of my great indulgences now is to have 'nothing days' where I choose just how much or little I'll do.
I confess to days where I'll read, catch up with TV programmes, do crossword puzzles, research stuff online, play Sudoku online, read Gransnet forums, write emails to friends, talk to family on the phone and do very little else other than make drinks and light meals throughout the day. I go to bed feeling quite disturbed sometimes because doing nothing much is such a new and strange way of life.
I no longer feel any guilt at all that I am not busying myself with housework. Me and the man tidy up regularly, clean sinks, loos and floors as we go along etc, so the place never gets dirty really, with just the two of us leading our fairly sedentary lives. Housework tends to be a once every few weeks binge. Suits us.
We get out and about together and like pottering around and have gentle strolls around NT properties etc. We like fresh air but don't exercise, per se.
I know you have to use it or lose it and I appreciate that we should look after ourselves and move our bodies, but I did that for decades and now I like being self-indulgent/lazy.
So, to answer the question, I confess I hardly walk at all some days
Am I alone in this?
Can ask how you motivate yourselves to exercise? What push do you give yourselves because the path of least resistance appeals to me far more these days then putting on my walking shoes and going out to walk along the local streets.