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Home » El » Dear Old El

Dear Old El

October 18, 2009 By Cris 5 Comments

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Ahhh El, my dear old friend. Some days she annoys the crap out of me–sitting there–constantly judging me. Subjecting me to the way SHE thinks I should behave. Truth be told, I don’t think Mike likes her very much either. He simply refuses to deal with her most of the time.

Then there are other days–days when I absolutely love her. She is so helpful in meeting my goals (on her terms of course) of losing weight, de-stressing, finding energy and feeling good about myself. And, I just love it when we watch my favorite tv shows together.

Ya see El is my elliptical. (Clever name that I can’t take credit for– a friend of a friend once named her’s Ellie and I loved it!)
I got El years ago and she helped me lose tons of weight –twice (pre and post Monkey). She has been callin’ lately, tellin’ me she misses me. She knows I need her and she is relentless.
She has promised all kinds of things: weight loss, smaller clothes, energy, heart health, smaller thighs, less guilt when I eat that piece of pie…(shh!)
For all that…all I gotta do is give her 45 minutes a few days a week. Ugh.
Well here goes El–I will give you 3 days a week for the next month–so give it a rest already.
I so stink at negotiations…

About Cris
I am the mama behind GOODEness Gracious and the owner of Cris Goode Solutions. Here at GOODEness Gracious, we like to keep it light and fun as we cook up family meals, share our super mommy secrets and chat it up about the GOODe life:) So come on in and sit a spell.

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  1. Destany says

    January 2, 2012 at 12:07 pm

    my elliptical made my hips hurt so i had to get rid of it 🙁

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    • Cris says

      January 3, 2012 at 9:42 pm

      Oh no! So sorry. I have found my like/dislike of the workout really depends on the machine… I love mine (when I am in a workout mind frame). Not sure what I will do when she breaks down. We have been through many a pounds she and I!

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