Question # 25 How many days a week do you work out ?

I just had my first appointment with a family practitioner in...oh..15 years. I've gone to the gyno for my girlie parts.  A LOT. (infertility and babies do that) I've had to see a couple of specialists and I've had to go to insta care maybe 3 times...other wise I have just sucked it up and or consider myself to be quite healthy.
I felt like it was time to get a check up.  Make sure everything is still there and at least attempting to work.

I'm sitting in a gown on a chair in the room and she's going over some of the things I marked off on the medical history/information paperwork...#7. recent change in appetite (I have this insatiable need for sugar where there once was none) and #8 significant weight loss or gain (10lbs in 2 1/2 maybe 3 months....I chalk it up to the Holiday spirit) #11 Constipation. (ahem)  #16 Girly part issues (PMDD, just thought I'd see what she had to say about my yam cream and little blue pills) #17 menstruation. (what the hell is this brown sludge bleeding for a week, red bleeding for a week and brown spotting for several days crap) #36 skin cancer screening question. (what can I say...I'm guaca-moley and my mom had melanoma...best to be safe) and #52 breast check.  (it's always nice to be felt up I think, again...best to be safe)

She gets to #25.   I left it blank.  It confused me and by the look on her face my verbal response wasn't on her list of possible answers.
She looked at me like I was trying to get away with something.  Gave me a bit of the, you've got to be kidding me, look.  and then wrote something down in her notes.   I'm pretty sure it was in the psychological noteage area and mentioned my need for acknowledgement and genetically congenital liar. 
My answer :   I take care of 5 little kids all day every day.  
simple and sweet.  and hello-oh......I'm not kidding.
Doesn't she know that I would weigh like 120 lbs more with the way that I eat...with what I eat....if I didn't take care of these kids and this house.
I'm CONSTANTLY bending and lifting and pushing and pulling and wrestling and crawling under, crawling over, stretching up, down, running, running REALLY fast, using my lightening fast reflexes (again with the blind side example) Whether I'm pushing a kid out of the kitchen/bathroom or pushing the vacuum.....I'm working it.
What I wanted to know....was how the hell do I not have a finely tuned body like those olympic athletes ?
Oh right.  referring myself to the way that I eat and what I eat comment above :)

I honestly wanted to challenge her.   See if 12 hrs of doing what I do, didn't compare to her 30 minutes a day suggestion in a gym.
cha !

I mentioned a few of the things that I was concerned with.....I didn't take my panties off (always a good visit when you get to leave your drawers on)  I left with a referral for a dermatologist a sore friggin arm from my tetanus shot.  (holy shit those things pack a punch....and it's usually not for a day or 2 before you really notice how sore it is) adult conversation albeit medical, but still...and feeling bad about myself because I just sit on my lazy ass all day with my kids and I should be scootin it to the gym.  (sigh)    I do wish it were spring/summer/fall so that we could get out of this damn house and get a little more activity going on...but COME ON !
It's late.   I've got to go eat a graham cracker that someone took a bite out of and left on the counter.....I can't waste that...sheesh...and then I'm off to bed :)

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