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Healthy Eating and Exercise Intentions

By Carol | July 22, 2008

Sometimes all my good healthy eating and exercise intentions go to the wall. So much to do and so little time to do it in. It just doesn’t seem worth doing 10 minutes of exercise here and there, so I often end up not bothering.

Mistake Number One.

All exercise “counts”. Every single, solitary little bit, as long as you do it as if you meant it.
So walking the dog for 15 minutes in the evening as well as the morning is well worth doing and will carve some fat off Fido as well. Walk to the mailbox, the local store, go upstairs to use the loo instead of using the downstairs one.

Every little helps.

I am so not a morning person. I make a hibernating grizzly seem approachable. So when I have a Personal Training client at the crack of dawn, it is always the temptation to make her do the exercises while I watch her posture and count the reps, instead of doing some of them along with her.

So this morning I made myself join in. At 8 am I was counting grapevine and box steps as my client and I pranced up and down her gym – mostly in step and sometimes even on the beat. She thoroughly enjoyed this change to her routine, and I? Well, I burnt a few hundred calories and went whistling home in a much better temper and feeling at peace with the world. So now, if I don’t manage to get in a “proper” workout today, I won’t feel so bad.

Thinking about it’s worse than doing it.

All the best,

Carol J Bartram
(Personal Trainer, Pilates Instructor & Massage Therapist)

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