Part 2 ...... more about exercise ... long post a bit rambling

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Of course do I do it?? NO!!!!!!!! I am just saying why he pushes the outside

walking. He has been encouraging me to " treat " myself to all weather walking

clothes so that I can walk in the rain (not just a rain coat but one of those

sets of pants and jacket ), all weather comfortable boots, etc. He also tells

me that if I have a relationship with " God " as I choose to call Him/It/Her ...

communicating during a walk outside is spiritually beneficial as well as

physically, mentally and emotionally.

(can you tell I am TRYING to psyche myself up here) Darn why is it so hard to

do something that is so good for me.

He told me, " if I told you that you should take $60 worth of vitamins with

your antidepressants to make them more effective you would do it. Well walking

will make them work better. "

He's turned my own logic on me. WAH... After I told him how diligent I am about

using Vitamin C with my Iron to make my body absorb the Iron better that I

should think of walking as making my body absorb my antidepressants better.

What it's going to take to make me do the walking I don't know. Maybe if I

would get $1000 at the end of 1/2 mile it would work for me. hehehehehe.

I am confessing that this is my number one resistance to weight loss.

I do have a new idea... based on something someone on here shared. I am going to

get a pedometer and attach it to my pants each morning and see what I do in the

normal course of the day. And then make it a goal to find ways to make that

number go up ... gradually. (I am always wanting to take the slow adjustment

road) If I park my car two spaces farther away than I did the day before I will

increase it a few steps. See if you tell me to start parking a lot farther away

.... I won't do it. If you tell me to make one more trip up the steps at school

(after I am permitted because of my post-hysterectomy instructions) THAT I can

do.

What I am saying that maybe I can do exercise like the old eating an elephant

trick. If I can gain weight by eating just a little bit more each day, by

grazing a bit. Maybe I can do the same thing with moving and walking. I don't

know if this will work ... I HATE exercise.

But maybe a little bit more here and little bit more there and I won't even

notice it. Like a nibble here and a nibble here. Sort of using the behavior I

know can cause weight gain to cause exercise gain.

Anyone game to try to join me on my silly way of gradually increasing my moving?

Thank you to everyone on the list who has confessed too that they are closet I

hate to exercisists. I am coming out of the closet I guess. Gee whiz...

willing to give up refined sugar, flour carbs, then water with meals... each

step has not been easy but unwillingness to exercise is the strongest force of

resistance in my arsenal right now.

B

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