the downside to exercising

in the last few months i have gone from firmly holding an anti-exercise stance, to now being a 5 day a week exerciser.   i'm paying attention to calories in and calories out and am making some headway toward shaping up my lumpy bod into one that doesn't show overweight on the bmi chart.

i'm sick and tired of that balance board high pitched girl/boy on the wii fit plus telling me that my bmi is in the 'overweight' section.  so i'm fighting my way back to 'normal', one less scoop of chunky peanut butter at a time.

the downside to exercising vigorously, is that i sweat profusely.  my hair is drenched by the end of kickboxing, my face is beet red halfway through step aerobics.  sweating buckets makes me feel like i am really getting a great workout, so it's not the actual sweating that bothers me.   the actual sweating makes me feel like i am alive.

the sticking point is that i now have to shower every day.  this is interfering with at least 15 extra minutes of sleep 3 days per week.  i had some real soul searching to do when i realized gone are the days of showering tuesday, thursday, saturday, sunday mornings with hair left down.   and gone are the showerless hair-bun days of monday, wednesday, and friday.  

this is not me.  when i google imaged 'messy bun of an overweight bmi' i got nothing.  so this will have to do.     i still do occasionally revive the messy bun on the weekends.  i pair my bun with scratched, crooked, too-loose fitting purple spectacles.

um, i just grab a pony and pull all the hair to the back and wrap the pony around it.  i do this all in one fell swoop.  it takes 4 seconds.  

i get salty and stinky nearly every day of the week now.  are buns of steel worth it?  are madonna pipes worth it?    the loss of the messy easy bun.  the loss of sleep.  the addition of hair product.

it was a tough call.  i picked the shape up.  and now i love myself each evening after bootcamp or body reform class, and kick myself each morning when my alarm goes off.