After talking about it for several months, this morning, I finally did it. It wasn’t easy, but I did it.

“Could Kev possibly be more vague,” you are all likely thinking.

Yes, I probably could.

But since reader comments lately at SKOS have been about as rare as pro-America quotes from Obama while he’s been touring the world, I’ll drop the vagueness.

This morning, I woke up 90 minutes earlier than usual. I put in my contacts. I stretched. And then I went to the gym and hung out with my favorite elliptical machine. Then I came home, showered, dressed and went about my work day as usual.

(In short, I went to the gym before work this morning.)

Now, I am NOT a morning person. Getting out of bed to exercise before work isn’t easy for me. On my difficulty scale, I would rank it just above “not going to the restroom after drinking four cups of coffee while watching it rain outside my window” and just behind “making time stand still with my mind.”

But like many people have said before, the hardest about going to the gym is getting up and going to the gym. Once you get past that hurdle, everything is golden.

I always feel better after exercising. No matter how out of shape I might be, I feel good while working out and I have more energy afterward. Plus, getting up at the butt crack of dawn to exercise makes it very easy to avoid food temptations during the day. For example, take the following conversation I had this morning:

“Would you like a doughnut,” a co-worker asked me. “I bought three dozen for the office to share.”

“No thanks,” I responded.

“Are you sure,” my co-worker shot back. “Do you like glazed or chocolate?”

“Thanks, but I’m trying to eat healthy,” I insisted.

“Healthy? Come on, one doughnut won’t hurt,” my co-worker, who clearly is a demon sent by Satan to tempt me, responded.

How did I respond?

Well, I’ll give you three potential choices. One of them is correct:

“Want to see me make this pencil disappear?”

“I am ignoring you now.”

“Do you get a bonus if you give me diabetes or something?”

That’s right. Don’t mess with me, evil co-worker. My tongue is as sharp as a very sharp object of some kind.

Anyway…

The only negative about all of this is I have to do it all again tomorrow.

Lord give me strength.