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Who Needs More than Cooking for exercise?

Marianne72

I don't know if this is an age thing or general malaise due to this seemingly long stretch of winter. After peeling and coring a pineapple, chunking it then putting it in a dish in the fridge, I feel exhausted. Worse, there is far more in the compost caddy than the dish after all this work! I'm now too tired to eat it Rolling eyes. Any recipe that says, 'beat eggs until they form a thin ribbon' [which takes ages] or 'peel, core and dice..' I feel a need to lie down for a couple of hours. Being virtuous and trying to eat healthily is an exhausting routine of chopping, slicing, par boiling, watching and waiting, to say nothing of the scrummage to do the shopping and dodge the usual connected social issues. These days, when I find a recipe that says, 'preparation 5 mins, cooking 10 minutes', which is very rare, I  almost dance with glee. Well, I think about it anyway Relieved.  I don't know why going to the gym and other forms of aged-body exercise punishment are recommended for older people, when eating, cleaning and shopping are so tiring. Anyone else of my years [73] experience this? Or does this happen for younger people too?

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Its part of my routine I need to stick to. Has been for years

  • in reply to FitMisfit

    Why are you doing it if you think it's doing you more harm than good?

  • I wish I could do things like that for exercise. I have insane training routines in and out of the gym that I feel do me more harm than good at times with what im putting my body through

  • Its one of the reasons I batch cook, it's no more tiring to cook 6 portions instead of two so I cook 6 and freeze the other 4 in two seperate tubs, if I do this once a week with different things, then I don't have to cook so much and I love cooking.

    I walk almost every day with my dog Fearn, why on earth would I want to go and spend shed loads of money to go on a treadmill in a loud and sweaty gym, when I'd have to come home and walk the dog anyway? So much nice to be out in the fresh air and surrounded by lovely countryside.

  • I'm only 20 but also find cooking exhausting. I've taken to drinking huel meal replacements for lunch (which I buy online, so the issues with going shopping are also avoided), batch cooking simple meals using frozen pre-chopped vegetables, or eating what my parents have cooked (which I am very grateful for). Sometimes I sit at the dining table to prepare food instead of standing at the counter, which helps a bit.

    I like the idea of cooking though, and when my sister visits she will often bake things while I sit down and watch. 

    I took up sewing over the summer, and found that similarly tiring. Maybe it's the combination of physical effort and concentration that makes these tasks seemingly irrationally tiring.