#Exercise

Warning: this one is pretty personal and slightly dramatic if you can't respect that then you should not read this.

I cant emphasize enough how important excercise is, and also how important leisure is, to every individual's lifestyle.

These past two weeks have been really hard, I fractured my ankle (I thought I sprained it but I guess not) and so I couldn't run on the treadmill anymore. The first two-three days were itchy, I just itched to workout. The next week I had symptoms similar to depression. One day I sat in my room and just felt awful about everything. I didn't see the bright side of anyone or anything. To be honest with you, sitting around my apartment for that long made me feel lazy and fat. Before you go thinking this is all really dramatic for not working out for a week I want you to know this isnt unique to these past few weeks. Sometimes I do get feelings of depression and hello I'm a girl, I am very concious about whether I am doing things to help me gain or loose weight. But none of these things are ever clinically significant enough to diagnose me with anything. These are just feelings that just happen.

I want you to think about your everyday feelings and really notice where you tend to average, most of us (yes even including me) average around ok. Now I'm telling you when I started working out regularly I started averaging "good" better even, closer to "great." But I didn't notice really until it changed, until I couldn't work out anymore. Eventually I made it to the pool and worked out there instead of running and I felt the difference immediately after I finished. Breathing felt better, I felt happy, I felt good about myself, my stress levels went down, and I felt sexy and heathy. It was fantastic

Exercising is so good for you it makes you feel better and cope better with everything you're facing. It is a small change in every aspect of how you feel that feels like a huge difference. Oh and I think it's supposed to be healthy or something. Please just try it it will make you feel better even if its just for one day, you'll be glad you did!

~Birdy