For those new readers of this blog, let me introduce Pedals and Pedometer Steps, and me, Oni Raynbo. I enjoy writing about my experiences in walking to lose weight and counting pedometer steps. I also hope that the experience I have gained and the love of this life I have developed, is of help to others who have had similar issues with being active.
It took some time before I gradually understood the benefits of ongoing everyday activity. At this point a decision needed to be made. How could I have an active lifestyle rather than superimpose an activity i.e. exercise, over and above my ‘normal’ daily life. I had never thought of myself as active. On the other hand I wasn’t keen on seeing myself as inactive either, which was the accurate description.
It seemed to me from observing others, that the truly successful weight losers (who lived with the new body they’d discovered through exercise and weight loss i.e. did not return to their previous weight) continued the activity even after they had lost the weight and created a fabulous new life.
Hello…getting the message?
Decide now what changes you are prepared to make to get the body you want for a lifetime.
There is a totally different approach mentally and physically to a short term exercise and diet program compared to a lifestyle change.
Think of it this way. Do you remember studying for school exams? The last minute cram would get many of us through but did any of that stick with us?
I know when I went to my first job after I graduated, and for too long after, I still used the same approach. It bugged me that others did better with promotions etc. when I couldn’t see the difference between us. Eventually the concept of applying my talents daily to my work rather than as a special full-effort event began to take hold. Success was almost instant. It was something I knew how to do under certain circumstances but didn’t apply regularly, until that point.
That attitude change has benefitted me in many ways.
With weight loss I was also a cram for 3 days kind a’gal. Often 3 days was enough to achieve my desired results then.
Some 20 years later it wasn’t the same at all.
What had happened? Somehow weight loss had become less important or perhpaps lost amongst the many competing priorities and I had focused less on it when the focus was needed. This led to accumulated weight past earlier overweight experiences. Activity had decreased markedly without my having any real understanding of this. Starting an exercise program and ‘going for it’ was more likely to lead to overdoing it and extra fitness-related issues. It became a multi task event instead of a single focus. Too hard, too hard, too hard…
Again, over time, I realized that now I was not up for the gang busters approach to weight loss. And slower methods and results meant less impact upon my body and my lifestyle. Slowly the results and other benefits of including activity daily through using a pedometer steps approach accumulated to the point where even I could see it.
Change up your lifestyle with pedometer steps’ blog. It’ll help condense your understanding of how to be the active person who’s always been inside of you waiting for permission to come out.
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