8 weeks have come and gone. Hard to believe we're this far into the new year all ready. For those of you who have been trying to post comments I have made changes so now you should be able to post without belonging to anything. Sorry about that.
Well, I'm curious as to how well everyone is doing at sticking to their goals and meeting each week's challenge. It's vitally important now that you do not stop recording your daily foods and exercise. If you let that lapse you will not be able to continually change and track along with us as the week's go by in order to meet your end goal.
We're going to have an ongoing challenge that starts this week. It's a very tiny challenge but one that you will continue to do every week from now on. It has to do with your amount of exercise. I want you to aim to increase your exercise every week by 10%. That means if you've been doing your 10 minutes per day 7 days per week you are going to do 11 minutes per day for the next week and then 12.1 minutes the following and 13.31 the next week and so on. Just round them off to the nearest half minute. This will continue on until you are doing atleast 300 minutes of exercise per week. Write it down on your calendar at the beginning of each week and make sure you have the increase.
Again at this point it doesn't matter if you put on some great music to dance around to, decide to walk around the block or head to an aerobics class. The bottom line is to just move! Again, you should be able to keep up a conversation while exercising or you are working too hard.
I understand that for many of you this is the hardest part of this challenge. I know many people do not enjoy exercise. I realize you'd like to cheat on this part of the challenge and just do the others. You must commit to this totally! The bottom line here is health. You can lose weight by starving yourself without doing exercise but that doesn't mean you'll be healthy. As a matter of fact you will most likely have more body fat and less muscle, a weaker heart and joints and more long term disease prospects. You'll look flabby even if your weight is low and will feel tired.
Also, with this being Family Day in Canada I'd like to suggest that you consider what your example will do for your children, your grandchildren, your partner, etc. There are enough studies proving the link between inactive parents to obese children and the increase of adult onset diseases in children. Repurpose for yourself and your family your end goals. Wouldn't it be nice to actually enjoy moderate exercise. Wouldn't it be great if it felt weird to sit around on a nice day and actually want to get out and be active. Well, that's what happens when you train your body to feel better being healthy and it starts by teaching it what to eat and how to move.
You're doing great! Don't back off now. All ready two months of this year have almost gone by. If you find yourself slipping you need to speak to your encouraging person. You need to get up each morning and reread your goals. Changes are all ready happening.
Please send some comments in so we can all hear how it's going and if there is anything that needs clarifying I'll do my best to do that. Have a wonderful week!
2 comments:
So far, I'm doing well. My downfall has been weekends. They are not in the normal routine of things so I must work on that - because if not, all the good I have done during the week will be lost. I have been enjoying this blog very much. I like that I can make a slow gradual,lifestyle change that lasts rather than trying to go from zero to hero overnight and failing 6 months down the road. Thank you for the gentle coaching (and coaxing) you give here, I appreciate it.
I was doing so well, then I was sick all last week and did a total of no excercise all week - there were days I could barely stand.
I'm mostly better now, so back to square one and start increasing!
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