Celebrating Activity

Here's a quote I really like (I can't find who created it):

"Exercise is a celebration of what your body can do, not a punishment for what you ate."

But my brain proposes these wacky responses:

* Yes, I should find ways to make the punishment more fun.

* No, right, everyone should exercise, even if they don't eat too much, because exercise is good for you. So it's really a punishment for living a life of leisure.

* "Exercise" in itself means something you should do. Celebrating is something you (ideally) want to do (I admit that some celebrations are no fun for at least some of the people involved). So this quote should be about activity, not exercise.

* And, well sure, some activity actually is fun. Stretching feels really good sometimes, like after waking up in the morning and after sitting too long. I like dancing to music. And of course it's obvious just how many movements I like to celebrate whenever something's aching or broken and I can't do those things.

* Oh yeah? Well what about all the aching the day after the celebrations, huh?

* And what about when we celebrate things that it turns out our bodies can't do after all?