Since Gina has been in the hospital for the last few days, I've been trying my hand at single parenting, and man it's tough. My hat is off to all you single parents out there. I have no idea how you do it.

But while on my new found single parenting adventure I found out first hand something I have been telling people for ages. If I skip working out, I'm more tired.

It happened the second day Gina was away. I looked at my schedule, crammed full of clients, bootcamp, kids school, daycare and dentists appointments and said, "I can't fit it in today."

That's not like me. I'll move heaven and earth most days to get in a workout. But I just felt overwhelmed and thought I'd better skip.

Well I was about as tired and cranky that days as I have been in a long time. Wow, it was no fun. I really had to work to be nice to people.

The next day I worked out, and I felt like myself. Even with all the running around, kids arguing over the Wii, making time for clients etc, I felt normal. Like I could handle it all.

I've been saying to people for years if they workout they will feel better and do better in all parts of their life. I always knew it, but this week brought it back to me ten fold.

Next time you want to skip to save time, don't. You'll be happy you fit it in.

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