Published: September 15, 2009 03:54 pm      

MISTY: Ahh, it’s back to the daily grind at the gym

I would love to say I missed it, but ...

There’s about one half-inch on my entire body that doesn’t hurt.

It’s just behind my right ear.

The other day I could have sworn my hair hurt, but no one believed me.

As I gimped across the newsroom, one of the reporters said I was the oldest 30-something he’d ever seen.

And it’s not like I can just run away when he’s hurling these insults at me. In fact, I have to hear more of them because it takes me a long time to get past his desk. The slower I have to walk, the more time he has to think of clever one-liners.

(Note to self: Have him fired.)

All this soreness was brought on because I’ve kicked the exercise up a notch — or two — this week. As of late, my commitment to losing weight has wavered. OK, to be fair, it’s non-existent some days.

So to get myself out of the funk, I decided to throw myself back into the gym.

Good idea in that I’m expecting to see a big drop on the scale this week.

Bad idea in that I can’t move, and I’m typing this column using a verbal command keyboard.

I went to the gym before work.

I went to the gym after work.

I went to the gym on my lunch break.

I went to the gym between appointments.

I hate the gym.

All this working out has reminded me how much I just don’t like to do it and why I have been avoiding it.

You have to pack gym clothes and shoes.

You need protein bars to eat before you work out.

You have to come back to work smelling like a horse, making people wonder what exactly you did on your lunch break. OK, I like that part.

And if you’re not working the nutrition aspect, all the exercise isn’t going to matter, so I’ve been watching my food intake as well.

That means you have to buy groceries.

You have pack food for the office.

You have to allot time to run home and cook instead of grabbing something at a drive-through.

I hate watching my calories.

But none of this matters, because I can already feel the difference in my clothes.

Plus, it’ll all be worth it to see the look on my trainer’s face when I step on the scale this week.

• Misty Knisely is the Kokomo Tribune city editor. She can be reached at misty.knisely@kokomotribune.com