Who the hell is really so busy?

I'm not gonna lie, I used this excuse last week. But, I also worked five 17 hour days back to back. I was so tired that there was no dragging myself out of bed in the morning at 4 am to hit the gym. I wanted the extra sleep.

But you better believe I have been to the gym every day this week and have busted my butt to make up for it.

I used to be one of those people. My excuse was that I had an hour drive each way to work. My other excuse was that I had a young son who needed me to play with him and care for him. Those are the excuses I remember. Once I hit my breaking point I found time. I realized that the time my son got to spend with my husband while I was exercising was just as important for them as the exercise was for me.

It is all about what is a priority for each individual. If it is that important - you will make the time :noway:

LOL im going to venture to guess you're not a full time working mother

*kitten* is easy when youre childfree

I work 40+ hours per week, two kids, clean house, happy husband....I still manage to workout 6 days a week

Hi. I am at work. I just got in a killer workout on my lunch break.

I have a full time job, six children including two sets of twins and they're all under 7.5 and am going to school for my masters and I still find time to do p90x.

My good friend has a 40hr a week job and comes home saying she can't work out cause she's exhausted.

I call some major BS.

TWO sets of twins O M G!

People with kids are not necessarily busier than people without kids. Just saying.

Finding time can be challenging, but it comes down to how bad you want to get in shape/lose weight. I work about 70 hours between 2 jobs, volunteer at my Church and do all the odd and end jobs that come with being a home owner. I put off working out for many many many months/years because of my schedule. Well.... I finally had to just suck it up and DO IT!! I decided that I want to live a healthly life and will do what it takes. I too, have a mother that has been in and out of the hospital (so I know what it's like to care for a parent who has been ill), but I also know that I do not want to have the same heart problems or stroke that happened to my mom. If there is a will, there is a way!!!!

I hear this all the time "I'm so busy..." "No time these days" "Can't do it too stressed/busy" WTF is going on with people these days really? Nevermind just exercise, what is everyone else up to that is keeping them so horribly occupied? We can't all have 18 hr work days... I think it's mostly BS.

O gosh, I dunno, working full time, raising and guiding children into useful young adults, cleaning the house, doing the dishes, cooking, laundry, walking the dogs, worrying about how to get all those things done and still appear to have interest in the things that make life fun. Nevermind keeping everyone in the household nudged forward out of their comfort zones so they can learn and grow. How about being mentally exhausted from keeping your family's world moving forward instead of being mired in old ways. O and let's not forget the parental units who's (god bless their little hearts) minds have seemingly moved backwards in an odd way. They believe all the weird stuff 10 year olds hold dear and (being immigrants) growing the absolutely most bizarre superstitions about food one could *ever* hear on yahoo questions. I swear they were weird when I was growing up but never this weird. :huh:

If I had a nickel for every time I had to say 'google is your friend dad'...I'd probably not be rich but be far from as annoyed as I currently sound :laugh:

Did I mention the DH?...he never knows where his socks are & every eyeroll from my kids elicit this response from me, 'I swear, he was the coolest, funniest, most bad *kitten* guy in the whole world when I married him' :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

edited to add: Since our kids are now 24 and 17, we now have more time to put more effort into weight training and eating well. Happy to say, we're more successful at it now than we were when they were small & I was working 50 hrs per wk, DH working much the same.

People with kids are not necessarily busier than people without kids. Just saying.

Do you have kids?

At one point, I was out of my house 4 out of 5 week days from 4:45am-10:00/10:30pm (including gym time in the morning). Getting out of bed very early was my only option to get healthy. Besides, in the midst of such a stressful schedule, i believe you NEED that physical release to help you keep it together. Getting up so early isn't fun, but the pay off is worth it!

it's bs.... and laziness. I think we make time for what's important to us, so what they are basically saying is that whatever they are too busy for isn't important to them.

When you put all of your time and effort into the job that you do (I was a veterinary technician at a 24 hour Animal Hospital on the 2nd shift) and then come home to doing the same for your children & SO, giving the household all that you feel they deserve, it's no wonder moms and the like end up last on the 'to do' list.

Way to go making an often thankless job even more thankless. O, and while I'm at it, PTA mom who looked me up and down with disdain because I showed up in bloody scrubs to pick up my sick 7 yr old from the office in the middle of the day, just DON'T even....:noway:

edited: gosh. I'm angry today :laugh:

Did I mention the DH?...he never knows where his socks are & every eyeroll from my kids elicit this response from me, 'I swear, he was the coolest, funniest, most bad *kitten* guy in the whole world when I married him' :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

R.O.F.L.


Ok ok, so the consensous is that there are people who manage to work out even though they have truely demanding schedules, by making it a priority, by making it one of those things in their day that takes up the time.

There also some exceptions who very *literally* (that is to say, mathematically) don't have the time to work out. Sucks for you, lol, thought I think it's great that you are staying busy and trying to diet.

Conclusion: Unless you cannot mathematically make the time after your other life or death/money earning activites, you are almost certianly hiding behind the phrase "I'm too busy". :drinker:

agreed :drinker: now make me a mararita on the rocks, salt please, none of that sissy slushy peachy stuff, juice them limes like ya mean it. Feels like I've been throwin' 'bows all damn day.:laugh:

When I hear " I just don't have time for that." I realize it's not important to them and I don't give it another thought. That's just how people are. We don't all make the same things priorities in our lives. It's not right or wrong...just different.

Well said!

People suck. Who cares. lol

ziiiiing