The health of a knitter

As I thumb through my knitting books and magazines looking for the newest yarn and wondering what to knit next.  I am very much aware that I live, for the  most part of the day, in my chair.   I would be content to just exist there never getting up to cook or heaven forbid to clean.  As long as I can order off the Internet at my favorite stores and knit... well I am a happy knitter.  But with the new year and the excessive munching that I have done over the holidays and the fact that no matter how much I love to knit I do have to get into my jeans every morning.....which brings me to the point.  All this knitting and no exercise well....need I say more.  But this is just the tip of the iceberg.  You see no exercise also means that my bones are not doing so well either.  And the 10 minutes a day that you are supposed to spend in the sun for vitamin D well lets just say that is not getting done either.  There is a down side to just sitting and knitting away ones life.  I have made a resolution this year and I am going to keep it.  As soon as the holidays came to an end I threw out the Christmas tree and brought back in the exercise machine.   Now it is not the most flattering piece of equipment in the living room but hay at least I can watch the Today Show and do my work out.   This will improve my tone.  My muscles and my lungs and strength my bones.  The last thing that I want to do is look like I 100 when I am only 46.   

If you do Yoga, run,  or what ever,  just do it it makes for a happier healthier knitter,