saetum's Journal

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Nov 04 2009 07:10

A few more reasons why exercise is great:

-I've had at least a partially stuffy nose for about... four or five months now. I have year-round allergies, and from about July through February I will be stuffed up, and then from March to June. It's annoying. There are very few days when I don't snore the house down because I just can't breathe out of my nose all that well. But, for whatever reason, exercising clears out my sinuses. I actually enjoy exercising when I'm sick because it's about an hour out of the day that I can actually breathe well. So this morning I started my workout at a little after 5:00, and I am just now starting to get backed up again. It is great.

-Also on the topic of breathing... for the last few days or so I've felt like I've been having an asthma attack. I wasn't, because I wasn't wheezing, but my airway just felt kind of tight and burn-y. I suspect it has to do with the cold weather more than anything else. I do have cold-induced asthma as well as exercise-induced, so it could have been a precursor to a major attack. But this morning... nothing. My lungs actually feel so good right now, it's a little insane. I love it.

-And the this one of my favorite ones: my hair. Again, for whatever reason, when I exercise, my hair curls. It's naturally curly/wavy, but most days it falls flat after I brush it unless it gets wet again. I've given up trying to figure it out, actually. But on mornings when I wake up and exercise and then take a shower, even after brushing my hair, I'm curling up. It's so pretty today. I need to put on some makeup and go stalk that guy upstairs. It's that pretty. I need to remember particularly how pretty my hair is after I workout -- it might be the motivation I need to wake up on time to workout in the morning.

Ah, yes. I woke up early this morning. About five minutes after I wanted to, but it was still enough time to work out, get ready, get the boy ready, and get gas at a particularly uncooperative pump before getting to work on time. Actually logged in to the system at exactly 7:00. It was beautiful.

Weight is still up this morning. I haven't been very good with my sodium lately. I'm sure I'm retaining a ton of water (because I didn't eat 6 pounds worth of calories in the last three days). Oh well. It will decrease eventually. I'm sure today isn't going to help that any -- I plan on having turkey franks for lunch (two franks, one hotdog bun split in half with one side each = 240 calories for lunch). Again though, oh well. It WILL decrease eventually.

On the food front, if you have never had hummus as a sandwich condiment, you need to. Right now. Go. I don't care that it's 7:30. My turkey, Swiss, cucumber and garlic hummus sandwich was SO good yesterday. I am going to have another for lunch tomorrow. And it was so FILLING. AND I got my veggies in. Yummmmm. Today is not nearly as exciting. I guess I will just have to BS something tonight and make it all gourmet and crap to get me creative cooking issues out, lol.

I got my brother addicted to TBL. There are shows that I introduce him to that he doesn't want to admit liking. Stargate SG-1 was one of them (oh, I'm so lame I own the entire series boxed set). TBL is going to be another. He actually said he was going to come over next week to watch it too. It helps that we like to goof on TV shows together, and TBL is a great target because some of the stuff they say is just so SAPPY it's hard not to make fun of it. I don't know. Maybe it's just a me-and-my-brother thing, but it's more fun when he watches it with me. Oh, and then I don't cry. I usually cry at the end (I'm not a cry-er but they overdo the emotional aspect I think), but I didn't cry last night. Whether that was because my brother was there or because I would kind of like to run over the person voted off with my car, I'm sure we'll never know.

Behind on nanowrimo! Need to catch up at lunch today. Seems to be writing itself, though I'm sure a lot of it is crap and will need to be heavily edited.

UPDATE: Another reason to love exercise: it makes me about ten times more conscientious about what I eat. I pass up the candy in everyones cubes because I think about all the work it took to exercise and about how I don't want to ruin it and have it all go to waste over stupid candy.