My dad gets those physical cravings for exercise. He's got a heart problem and was told to exercise. He's told me that the heart problem causes him some anxiety and the exercise not only helps his heart, it helps the anxiety a LOT!

I think he's feeling the anxiety the past couple of days because he hasnt been able to get to work out. My mother has been a bit....needy. (she had a head injury about 50+yrs ago and she's showing a lot of signs of cognitive problems) She has no empathy to speak of and has been yelling at the poor guy to entertain her (by taking her out) as soon as he walks in the door.

He's tired, but wants to go exercise because it helps him so much, and she wont let him do it.

Tomorrow afternoon, I'm going to be dressed and ready to go to the gym when he gets home from work, so he'll have the good excuse to go. For some reason, sometimes if I go with him, she doesnt whine...but, sometimes that backfires and she gets mad because she doesnt go with us. ("there's no where to sit!". It's an exercise place...you're supposed to exercise there, not sit)

Hopefully we can get past my mom and get to the gym. I'm going to try to see if I can get up to forty minutes on the treadmill. I want to eventually get up to an hour on the thing within the next month.