This is the hardest part of any lifestyle change I have tried in the past. Usually I am successful for a while, then I get bored or tired or busy.....or some other excuse to stop working at moving my body. This is the part that scares me the most, that huge fear of failing. Because I have ultimately given up every. single. time. during the past 22 years. And that IS failure, to give up. This time, I don't want to give up. I don't want to fail again. Even if I never reach my goal weight, even if I can only get so far, I want to keep going. I want to succeed at this. I want to learn to ENJOY working my body, moving. I want to learn to enjoy SWEATING (I have always hated sweating....I really need to get over that). This is the part of my lifestyle change that will require the most monitoring, the most reporting, that will require loved ones to push and nudge and maybe even get mean once in a while, especially after the first couple of weeks. Just sayin'.... Again, I want to keep this joyful and upbeat, something I can do and stick to (and hopefully add to and improve upon as time goes by), not some drudgery that I absolutely hate after the first couple of months. I MUST HAVE VARIETY to keep at it, so I bought a dance/exercise DVD for fun, and I still have my bike:
My Self Investment!!!
I had a whole plan here to start with, but that's gone with the wind since I have a knee that is arthritic. The doctor told me to keep all exercise as low impact as possible...preferably NO impact, even walking is iffy at my weight, since it's still pounding. His suggestions were biking and swimming.
So my simple-to-keep daily discipline (from The Slight Edge) is 30 minutes of exercise at least 5 days per week. I will hold myself accountable for that and check in regularly. That will mostly be walking, but I will try to add other low-impact workouts for variety.
That's it for now. I will plan to get fancier as I get slimmer and healthier! My ultimate goal is to be able to play tennis again, and golf, and to be able to play outdoors with my grandkids without hurting myself!
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