feeling good again...

I feel old. It's not because I just had a birthday, and it's not from the white strands of hair that no longer resemble "highlights" on my head. I actually physically feel old. My body aches most of the time. When my knee or hip or lower back aren't hurting, I'm usually suffering from a tension headache. I used to worry about how much Ibuprofen my husband consumed for his own migraines. Now, we are both popping pills like they are tic-tacs! This, coming from the girl who purposely tries not to take any medication unless entirely necessary. A couple of weeks ago, I bought a 500 count bottle of Ibuprofen from the drugstore. I mean, really? 500 pills? Come on! Today I asked my husband if he packed the Ibuprofen before we left the house to run errands for fear that one of us would either get a headache or I'd feel the aches coming on. Not good!

I need to lay off the meds and in exchange replace it with exercise. I've been really neglecting any form of exercise for a while now. I'm not talking just for the past few weeks, but more like "months". It's not about just losing weight anymore, it's about feeling good again.

My body has been one big tangled knot of stress for far too long! I say that I've been neglecting exercise, but bigger picture is that I've been neglecting myself - plain and simple! It's not just showing in my cranky emotions but it's wearing on me physically. That's a problem and one that only I can fix. So here it is. I'm going to stop writing about what I'm going to do and just do it. In the meantime, tonight the $9.99 box of hair dye is my first baby step to feeling younger. Tomorrow morning, the gym!