What is your excuse for not exercising?

I don't make excuses. If I don't want to exercise, I don't, that's it. If other people don't like that, I figure it's their problem. I simply say, "I don't want to exercise" and leave it at that, no elabortions, no excuses. They can take that however they want.

I pack around 50+lb boxes, 5 days a week. I consider that sufficient exercise.

I've got too much to do, and exercising is downright BORING. I don't even like TV much, and I'd rather watch TV than exercise. At least with TV, I'm taking in new information.

I'm lazy, pure and simple. I'm a Hedonist. Exercise is not fun so it's not at the top of my to-do list.

Survey Central before exercise!

I'd exercise more if I knew how to dance....

> I'd exercise more if I knew how to dance....

Dance is the only exercise I do. I can not be still listening to Alice's music.

It's easy... just start out like this:


then gradually move up to this:

I don't have an excuse, I just hate it.

I actually have a pretty good idea of how a stuffed turkey feels right now.. I'm too bloated to exercise... mmm more food you say?

Tired, Too much to do, don't like to get all sweaty, my feet hurt too much, and I would rather read, and watch TV.

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> I'd exercise more if I knew how to dance....

Have you ever danced along with that Captain Feathersword song? That's quite the workout right there.

Too cold...During the winter I hibrinate..I think it's a crime for them to make me go outside for class..but eh...That and when it's warmer..Such as, our one day of fall, summer, and the summer half of spring..I run alot and play soccer...So..Yeah..too cold..heh

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That is just atrocious!

I'm sick or I have too much else to do. I usually go four times a week, but if I'm feeling sick or have too much work to do, I will skip going on a weekday. On Saturdays, if something else comes up to do, I will do it, because I have a limited enough social life as it is. But if I'm free at "gym time," then I go.

Until now, it was that I didn't have any equipment to exercise with. We just got a home gym for Christmas, so I'll actually start exercising more often.

What Captain Feathersword song?

I'm lazy or I don't have time.

A lot of these..........and they aren't excuses

I have a gym membership.........but haven't used it since Rod left..........I've been very busy with overtime at work and spending very little time with my daughter.

I recently got a new day shift, so it should be easier to go after work now.

I don't have nor make any excuses for not exercising. I exercise regularly and, at any rate, don't have anyone to whom I could or would make excuses.

I probably get more exercise on a daily basis then anyone here just doing my work and the ways I have fun. Probably not to many people that could keep up with me and I'm 43 years young!

www.geocaching.com - got me exercising via geeky cool scavenger hunt!

> www.geocaching.com - got me exercising via geeky
> cool scavenger hunt!

I would love to afford my own GPS!

Oh, I guess you've never seen the Wiggles? Or just that segment with all the kids dancing on the dock?

, good survey.

exercise is a dirty word and every time i say it, i must wash my mouth out w/ chocolate

Exercise is a dirty word. I find that I'm just too busy nowadays. I really do need to make time though. The holidays are kicking my ass! Maybe I'll make a resolution and actually stick to it for once. Yeah, right.

Dirty word. We were both thinking the same thing.

This implies that I make excuses for not exercising, I don't. In fact, I ride my bike 5 miles to and 5 miles from work, 5 days a week. I don't know about you, but riding a bike 10 miles per day is exercising to most people.

Forgot the obvious one: I don't care.

I choose ALL OF THE ABOVE lol

I've already performed physically demanding chores.

I'm going with the nap.
My excuse really is that I have exercised my whole life up until a few years ago and I am resting. I am taking a nap.

In descending order: I hate exercising. I'm too tired. My (insert body part) hurts. I don't feel like getting all sweaty. It's too cold/hot to workout. I don't have anyone to workout with. I don't have the time. I'm too stressed and I need to relax. I might be doing "something". AND, other: I'm too fat and lazy.... or more to the point, I'm depressed about being fat and feel powerless to do anything about it. I hate to exercise because it's almost always painful for me, with an old back injury. Where I live, there is no such thing as 'temperate climate'. It's always very cold or hot. I also hate to sweat for no reason. Drives me insane. I am one of those people who can't see the forest for the trees... I don't want to exercise for weeks on end to lose a measly ten pounds. Excuses, I know. I am currently doing some light exercising, trying to get myself in a little better shape, and changing my eating habits, but it's hard for a mood-eater.

Would you like to know my "cheat"? Cabbage soup. I eat a big pot or two of it weekly. It not only "cleans you out", but the more of it you eat, the more weight you will lose. You burn more calories in the act of digesting the cabbage than there are calories that are in the cabbage itself. I love it. I think if you tell yourself, right now, that you love it too, it's something you can easily incorporate into your diet. (Mental conditioning is key to making weight-loss successful. Start now!) Let me know if you want my recipe. Also, I change it up from time-to-time by putting it in the blender to give it a different texture - it's great for a thermos.

WELL?? Post your miracle recipe, Solo, don't leave me hanging! I've heard of cabbage soup before. I tried to grow cabbage in my garden this summer, but the catepillars got 'em. My hubby and I like to put it in bierocks.

AMEN sistah!! Dark chocolate, it's better for you.

I'll bet your eyes water when you take a leak!!

I used to do extremely demanding physical labor, moving appliances. But then one day, moving a small, light box with a garage door in it, my back just popped; it was my muscles tearing. Basically the equivalent to someone throwing out their back while reaching for the toothbrush. Messed my back up something fierce.

I've heard the same thing about celery

> WELL?? Post your miracle recipe, Solo, don't leave me hanging! I've
> heard of cabbage soup before. I tried to grow cabbage in my garden
> this summer, but the caterpillars got 'em. My hubby and I like to
> put it in bierocks.

Cabbage Soup Recipe (I tend to double up these ingredients and make a big batch)

6 large green onions
2 green peppers
1 or 2 cans of tomatoes (diced or whole - I prefer two whole cans b/c I'm a greedy guts)
3 carrots (or some baby carrots will work too)
1 container (10 oz. or so) Mushrooms (although I often skip the mushrooms)
1 bunch celery
1/2 head cabbage
1 package Lipton soup mix
1 48oz can V8 juice (optional, but I've never done it)
Season to taste with salt, pepper, parsley, garlic powder, etc.

> I've heard the same thing about celery

You're probably right, but the only way I can eat raw celery is with peanut butter. And I can't just eat a little bit of PB. It's my favourite food... I can just sit with a jar of it and a spoon with a nice tall glass of milk next to me and go to town on the stuff.

Yeah... it's not cute. Especially when I have to dig for it, as well as lick the back of my hand for getting PB on it. I love it that much.

No way! I don't even know what you're talking about there.

You also have to take into consideration that I'm half Samoan. My musculature is a bit more dense than that of most caucasians. Ugh... I can only imagine what it sounds like to hear your muscles tear.

excellent

i prefer the dark over the milk anyday

well, if you chop up the celery, you can't get the PB on.

I DO excersize. I walk my stupid dog at least 3 times a day. I am pretty sure that counts.

Outside of that, once in a while I go run the threadmill just to feel better. Its not even for health purposes. Generally speaking I hate excercising. I dont even see the point. If you excesize 15 minutes a day for the rest of your life, you get to live maybe 2 years longer, but then you end up spending 2 years of your life exercising when you could be doing something anyway.

...then that just means no celery for Solo. Raw celery? Blahhh.

Oh. I like celery better than cabbage.

I grew up hating cabbage. It's something that I think I had to convince myself to like. It was definitely an acquired taste.

Now why would you ruin a perfectly good recipe by putting a little bag of chemicals in it (lipton soup) it's msg, and a fun assortment of toxic poisoning with too much salt.

I don't have one, I exercize.

I exercise my OWN way from necessity or just because my hobbies take me outdoors -- walking outdoors, walking up/down hills, walking up/down stairs to my third-floor walkup, carrying a heavy backpack (weight-bearing exercise). But I would never buy any exercise equipment nor go to a gym. I don't like THAT kind of exercising -- in a room full of people or just doing something over and over at home -- because it's just too boring. I would not have the patience and I like being outdoors too much. Other reasons might be too tired, too much to do, no time -- but on the weekends especiallly I make time to take long hikes and do necessary exercise in the way of walking to groceries or doing laundry, which is very GOOD exercise because of where the stores/laundry are located. I don't drive and walk to work 25 minutes each way every day where I'm working now also -- rather than have to wait for a bus.

> Now why would you ruin a perfectly good recipe by putting a little
> bag of chemicals in it (lipton soup) it's msg, and a fun assortment
> of toxic poisoning with too much salt.

Nuh uh... it's the magical part of it all.

Hey, WHICH soup mix? Fresh or canned mushrooms? A ten-ounce 'container' could be either. This recipe sounds like a huge, smelly fart waiting to happen. Does sound good, though.

You don't know? Cabbage is notorious for either giving someone gas or causing their urine to reek. My muscles tearing actually sounded and felt like a pop, like one of my vertebra moved, but it was in the wrong location, and I immediately felt this odd sensation like warm water running down my back in that area (instant inflammation setting in). I knew something went crapty back there, dammit.

What is your fave? My hubby's grandparents give us a little thing of Godiva for Christmas every year, and this year's batch had quite a few squares of their dark chocolate. They must have changed their recipe, because this time it was really good. My fave is Hershey's Special Dark. The pretty wrapper was what got me to try it as a kid, and I've loved it ever since. I recently tried Cadbury, and it was decent, but for me Hershey's is better. Any suggestions?

Lipton Onion Soup Mix... canned has worked for me, and yes, smelly farts do happen from time-to-time, but if you do not allow yourself to eat anything at all after 7pm, you should be safe. It's not good to eat after 7pm, for me. It's a bad habit that I recommend breaking to anyone. Folks that eat right before they go to bed, don't get a recuperative sleep. Their bodies have to stay up and digest that meal before it can slow everything down for rest. Many folks don't realize this is a key reason why they don't feel invigorated after a full night's rest.

Hehehe... You must've forgotten. http://surveycentral.org/survey/23013.html

Nothing phases me because it's all just BAD.

Genetics. A mess. Me.

Makes sense about the sleeping thing... I have always been a late-night snacker... like now it's twenty to midnight and the ice cream is screaming my name, along with the next CSI Las Vegas episode in my season 2 set. But if I don't put something on my tummy, I get woke up at three in the morning by the growling of my stomach.

Then you eat cabbage soup and go back to bed and slowly kill your husband with your "silent, but deadly's": B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B.

> Makes sense about the sleeping thing... I have always been a late-night
> snacker... like now it's twenty to midnight and the ice cream is screaming
> my name, along with the next CSI Las Vegas episode in my season 2
> set. But if I don't put something on my tummy, I get woke up at three
> in the morning by the growling of my stomach.

Okay... you've made me hungry, so I'm going to go to bed now!

G'nite!

> Genetics. A mess. Me.

A genetic mess? At least you know all of your ancestry, and it's only two "breeds" of people. I am a true American mutt. My great-great-great-great grandfather on my mom's side was a Scottish fur trader who was living in what is know Georgia and he stole a Cherokee slave girl from a tribe, and she had a dozen kids with him. My dad is Dutch and Irish, with a little more Native American thrown in. My mother's mom was a barfly and got pregnant with some guy somewhere, supposedly a Cherokee man from a reservation somewhere. Oh, and mental illness runs in the family. I'm a freakin' cabbage soup genetically.

And he would deserve it too!!! He has nearly killed me with his ass gas so many times, I lost count years ago!

I say, go for the double batch then! Tee hee!

mmmmmmmmaaaaaag-ick.

even though it's become quite popular, i'm really fond of dove dark chocolate...it's just really silky and smooth. good stuff!!!
i like the hershey's special dark as well, (was always my mom's favorite), but if i had a choice between the dove and hershey's....dove all the way.

I do exercise

I was participating in a gym, but now I can't have the time, so I say "I don't have time".

Thanks for the input. I'll have to try it when I find some.

i do so hope that you happen upon some soon....it's so good, that i could say that the stuff is life altering

First of all I hate exercising since it is boring... Secondly, I have health problems that make it very hard for me to exercise such as walking or biking or lifting weights...

My best excuse is I am online with Survey Central and how the heck' is am supposed to exercise?? duh hah' I put my legs and I put them down again then I run into the kitchen grab some coffee and snacks and I am here back online again with Survey Central so duh'

> First of all I hate exercising since it is boring... Secondly, I
> have health problems that make it very hard for me to exercise such
> as walking or biking or lifting weights...

Sure' excuses excuses what a better reason for not exercising'

I don't have an excuse for not exercising. Exercise is something that I do every day as a basic part of my lifestyle. It doesn't involve going to a gym. I get exercise simply going about my daily routine. I haven't gone out and purchased a lot of labour saving devices so that I can be lazy. If I want to get things done, I have to exert some physical effort.

Besides, my treadmill is up in the attic and I don't have time to drag it down, I have to drive the kids to McDonalds...

i think id do well if i had someone to egg me on/egg on.
otherwise, i dont have a SO right now to care. when i do get one ill probably start doing pushups so i have some chest muscles... lost sight of my six pack a year ago...

I WOULD FRICKIN LOVE TO MAN!!! DO YOU KNOW ANYONE POSSESED BY THE DEVIL?

I love to exercise if I only had the motivation, but I think I am skinny enough with out the exercise any way. Hey right I need exercise!! :)

"was i that bad that even during 'it' you asked me to exercise?"

About a year ago, I became inspired, lost 40 lbs. in two months....by exercising only 10 minutes a day, breaking a sweat on the treadmill for only 3 minutes out of the 10 minutes. I hate fruit and nuts with almond milk in the morning....ate my main meal at 1:30 to 2:00PM, meat, steamed veggies, and salad....at around 6:00 I drank an Atkins shake. I felt great, had no cravings. BUT, then I left my diet at holiday time, and through stress, eating wheat and corn products, I gained some of the weight back. I'm back on a good eating regimen, but haven't started exercising again. Having to live with a weight issue, is a living hell especially living most of your life slim.

medical condition prevent me from doing so

Unhappy...I want to lose weight to get my health back, wear pretty clothes,, but I guess I don't care enough...