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September 2, 2004

i have been having problems getting out of bed in the mornings this week. i can hardly get up in time to shower and get to work, let alone go for a bike ride or long walk with the dog.

my alarm, sitting at the other side of the room, goes off at 7. i get up, turn it off, stand in the middle of the bedroom for a few seconds while the dog blinks at me like, "you must be crazy - its not even sunny outside." so i crawl back under the covers and curl around her tiny body of heat and dream of old high school friends.

what makes this very not okay is that i often forget to do my 15-20 minutes of exercise in the evenings. yes, there have been a few days this week where i have not ridden my bike or walked the dog further than the back yard.

i need some sort of bigger incentive.

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That sounds exactly like me.

what do you do to combat that?

I blame the weather and its decent into fall. What I do is when the alarm goes off you just have to get up, don't roll over don't hit snooze. I've actually broken my snooze button. But thats just me.

Sounds like a good reason to get an ipod... make yourself a deal that you can never use it if you aren't excercising...

Another idea is to give yourself permission to get back in bed, but only after you've put your exercise clothes on. That'll at least give you a few more minutes to combat the rationalization.

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