I hate to exercise too so try to think of ways to get "exercise" into my life day-to-day. I have a set of hand weights by my chair and when I watch television I "play" with them, just move my arms up, down, around, etc. without playing much attention.

I play a game of seeing how many trips up and down my stairs I can make and sometimes make up little rules like I can only take one thing at a time up or downstairs :-) or I think of chores half upstairs and half downstairs and alternate which I do so I have to go up or down between.

I walk all the aisles in the grocery store and I joined a gym for the shortest time they had available, 3 months, and got a personal trainer at the same time and learned about 10 exercises I could do at home with simple balls, hand weights, etc.

I wrote a short story about "John" an invisible trainer :-) and made up exercises "he" would have me do (pull a branch from a tree down to your shoulder height, walk backwards, etc.) and then thought of writing a book about the adventures I'd have with him (started with a little old lady walking her dog seeing me talking to him and, of course, not seeing him :-) but the premise of the story was that "my" boyfriend thought I was fat and made fun of me and we'd just moved in together and he could afford the gym but I couldn't and was determined to lose weight. But he kept subtly putting me down only the little old lady had a gorgeous, "gentlemanly" son and I met them again and they helped me in my life, etc. and things got worse (I was talking to "John" in my sleep and my boyfriend thought it was another man and threw me out on the street but the little old lady took me in) and then the ex-boyfriend saw me with the gorgeous guy and figured he was "John," etc.

But I often think of things like that; "invent" a scene and then go "live" it. If you can come up with an activity you can do while doing something else that is very good too. Reading while riding a stationery bike? Think of all the "chores" and things you wish you'd do and figure out how to do them. Is there any sport at all you liked in high school? I liked archery and looked up how to take lessons? I once took a temporary job delivering phone books; doesn't pay much but is a real workout.

I use to mail myself postcards each day; the Post Office was exactly 1/2 a mile away. I also use to try and think up a "story" each time I walked from the same route. I once found 9 pennies and wrote a story about the 10th penny :-) which I looked for a long time and I once decided to ask someone I met on the street for a penny :-) That was hard. But I think of challenges and fun things like that to do. I lived near a huge antique mall too http://www.savagemill.com/ and use to take $10 and walk around looking for the one thing I "had" to have that trip :-) I do that in grocery stores too; if you could have one thing for yourself in a grocery store, what would it be?

Or, think of a list like this and just do different ones. I took a 3 x 5 pad of colored paper from the drugstore and wrote 80-100 things I wanted to "do" on them and folded them up and put them in a "special" bowl and picked one a week at a special time and "did" it? I've gotten the little "treats" Glad/ZIPLOC bags and put a vitamin and a "note" in them, like a fortune cookie? Put a "routine" or activity in them and take your daily vitamin and do the activity the same time?

I bought a pedometer for work :-) and walked the hallways during lunch/breaks without anyone quite realizing what I was doing (so I didn't look too stupid :-) I started jumping up and going to see people/get supplies, etc. and volunteering to help others, etc.