Exercising history

Exercising and me don't go well together. Or rather we haven't had many good times together in the past. As a child I roamed around like any other kid and didn't have any weight problems. When I entered third grade I decided to start soccer. This was also the beginning of my weight struggles. Even so soccer was my hobby until sixth grade and I really enjoyed it. Then I had to quit because of the horrible team spirit in my team (or the lack of thereof actually). I still loved soccer, but playing in that team had become impossible. I was a little round even then and after I quit soccer my weight problems got worse. My dad dragged me swimming once every week for a year or so "because I didn't do any other sports." When I got rid of that school was the only place I was forced to do any kind of exercise.

Physical education in school was horrible. I hated it with passion, always. The exercising itself wasn't that bad but the way the lessons were carried out was. Especially when they would measure your performance: how fast you run, endurance, how far you jump etc. I sucked at them all. Running a mile took me around 3 minutes longer than anyone else. Needless to say those humiliating experiences didn't boost my self confidence or make me develop a passion for exercising.

Our high school PE was a joke and after that I haven't done much of anything. So here I am not having exercised in 5 years and the 3 before it weren't much better. Oh I would try to start exercising every now and then, but it'd be horrible and I'd drop it after a couple of times. All my previous attempts at weight loss I have done without exercising, just cutting back the calories. I drew reassurance from articles and specialists statements that claimed you can lose weight without exercising. Which is very true, it's probably easier to lose weight by cutting back calories than just exercising. However I'm beginning to suspect that the combination of those two bring the most stable results.

This time I'm determined to correct the mistakes I have made in the past and I'm convinced that not exercising is one of them. As I have grown into an adult I have also had to acknowledge the truth that my body won't stay young forever and not exercising is going to either take me to early grave or at least give me constant pain when I get older. I don't want that so I have to do something and now is just about the time. I hope doing exercise will have the desired effect. I hope it will be the key, the missing piece that I have lacked before. And maybe the traumas from PE lessons have worn off enough that I can also keep at it this time :P

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