BFL – D09: Feeling Good and the role of exercise
For many years I convinced myself that I was born without endorphins. It was a good personal strategy for sitting out PT sessions at school and not being very active for the large majority of my life. I could never understand how people could actually enjoy exercise and do it voluntarily. And yet here I sit, on day 9 of my Body For Life program and I’m not only enjoying going to the gym every day (except Saturday) but I find myself wanting to do additional exercise. What? [insert shocked expression here]
It could be that I am already beginning to see some physical changes to my body. Belly seems to be getting less prominent under my shirt, pectorals are ever so slightly shifting from masses of fat to what I can only assume are larger muscles and those guns on my arms are taking shape too. But I think it’s more than that. I actually feel that my thinking is shifting away from my usual malaise to something resembling (dare I even think it?) a positive attitude. I’m sitting here listening to some old music by The Eurythmics, remembering what life was like when it was first popular, the friends I had, the things we did as young people and it pleases me. Since I began this program I find that I am sleeping better and when I wake up I don’t even think about the humidity that I will face during the day. Doesn’t seem to phase me in the slightest, even though as I am writing this my arms are sticking to my desk and there are literally streams of sweat escaping from my armpits (yeah, gross, isn’t it).
So there’s a fire for life growing in me now. It does take work to keep it going, but as long as I keep putting the right fuel in the tank and running the engine above idle I see no cause for concern. I only see the road ahead and the places it will take me.
I feel good. Are my endorphins late bloomers? Must be. 
