There's a show on HGTV called "X-weighted". It follows an overweight person as they begin a regimen of healthy eating and exercise, over the course of 4 or 6 months. The trainer/host comes into their homes and cleans out their fridge and cupboards. And the things he throws away are just amazing!! Salad dressing, mayonaisse, peanut butter, yogurt sticks!! Apparently all very bad!! Healthy eating is the name of the game and there is a certain vicarious fascination in watching this, as I mentally walk through my own fridge and wonder what is "tossable". Then there is the exercise regimen that he puts them on... wow... I feel more and more like a couch potato and a slug! A part of me sits there and thinks, "come on, get up... do some stairs, get on the treadmill, go for a walk"... All good talk and yet... no action!!! This evening though, I learned how to operate the treadmill (there is a secret on/off button!), so now I have no excuse. It can no longer be too cold or too hot or too wet or too windy outside... it is the perfect temperature in the basement. And... for added incentive, there is a tiny TV right at eye height, so I can watch my favourite HGTV shows and walk off the calories!!
What makes it so hard to exercise? So hard to get off of the couch and moving. Our bodies naturally are built for movement, like to move... and yet something pulls us the other way... How to shift out of that, to shift into a healthy mode... As Nike would say... Just do it!!!!
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