\u201cI need to get in to shape.\u201d<\/p>\n
Have you ever heard someone say that?\u00a0 Have you ever said it yourself?<\/p>\n
I never did.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always been a curvy woman, and I like the shape my curves make.\u00a0 I never felt a need to change the way I looked because I liked the way I looked.<\/p>\n
Then I hurt my back and had a baby, and everything changed.\u00a0 After my back injury I went from a curvy size 14 to a plump size 18.\u00a0 When I had my daughter I went up to a size 22.<\/p>\n
For years I\u2019ve been trying to lose weight associated with my injury and my pregnancy.\u00a0 My injury was four years ago, and my daughter is two years old.\u00a0 I changed what I ate years ago, but all that did was stall the progress of further weight gain.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t decide to make a change until I went to buy a new coat this winter.\u00a0 I went to three different stores before I found a coat in my price range that also fit me.\u00a0 Though I had experienced the same difficulty buying jeans, the thought of something not fitting the top half of my body\u2014what I considered my \u201cskinny half\u201d\u2014broke my spirits.\u00a0 I knew in that moment that I needed to address my weight gain.<\/p>\n
Since I had already changed my eating habits, all that was left to change was my activity level.\u00a0 Unfortunately for me, that meant exercise.<\/p>\n
You see, I hate<\/em> exercise.\u00a0 I enjoy playing sports.\u00a0 I enjoy swimming.\u00a0 I enjoy being active.\u00a0 However, the minute that joyful activity becomes \u201cexercise\u201d in my mind, I refuse to do it.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure why I\u2019m wired this way, but I am.<\/p>\n I am left wondering how to handle this.\u00a0 How do I improve my health when I so strongly dislike the activities that help me reach my goal?\u00a0 The short answer is research and experiment.<\/p>\n This week begins the start of my blog \u201cHealthy the Hard Way.\u201d\u00a0 Every week I will examine a myth, tip or tool related to overall health and wellness.<\/p>\n If you have ever felt the way I feel, I invite you to join me in my little experiment.\u00a0 Check it out every week at www.sinclairclarion.com to share stories, leave comments and see for yourself what it takes to get healthy the hard way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cI need to get in to shape.\u201d Have you ever heard someone say that?\u00a0 Have you ever said it yourself? I never did.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always been a curvy woman, and I like the shape my curves make.\u00a0 I never felt a need to change the way I looked because I liked the way I looked. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[477,1400,883,884,1976],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-healthy","tag-lose-weight","tag-meagan-ewton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-10i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3920,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions\/3920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}