Jun 13, 2017, 7:17 PM

@Sammi That's what SUVs are for. When we were doing more art shows -- and we're some sedentary sad sacks -- my mother bought a RAV4. We find we need/use it for a lot more than what we ever expected. Sure, it's not my car (I don't have one, my husband has a small sedan), but if it wasn't, something like it would have had to be our car. He does a ton of cons, I do a pile of shows, and we road trip halfway down the coast once a year (and shorter distances with some regularity).

Since she bought it a handful of years ago, the only week we didn't need to collectively use it for something a car would not have worked for without extraordinary hassle was one of the two I was in the hospital -- and that's just us, my folks use it all the more heavily. They live next door; we steal her car rather a lot.

I am a lard lump, barely eat, live on coffee, and make no bones about it. When I can be assed to move around and do things other than glower at yarn, and pretend there's no such thing as carbs, I drop weight like it's going out of style. The husband works out at least twice a week and is out on his bike all the time and works as a massage therapist, on his feet and working with his arms all day, 4 days per week. Despite having one of those 'I could eat the whole cow and still be skin and bones' metabolisms in his youth, he's got a small belly now, despite otherwise being pretty damn solid and having some ridiculous muscle tone. The die+t that makes me lose weight while being a lazy ass makes him fat while he's active, while he doesn't gain an ounce while living on twinkies and taco bell with the same activity level. (Yes, some days I hate him just a littte. ❤ )

Find a thing that works for you. There will be something. Don't get obsessed with it. It's best if it fits neatly into your life in general, you enjoy it, and don't look toward it as drudgery.