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[nny]

So the doctor told me I should really lose some weight, which is no news to me; I'm not obese, but I could definitely stand to get rid of a number of pounds. I've already made an involuntary start on it, which might even continue since conflict cripples me and makes me entirely unable to eat, but I have to turn it into more of an active thing. And active really is the operative word; I genuinely don't eat all that much, I just don't move either. That's part of what comes of having much of your social world on your computer, you see.

So I've looked into the opening times of the local swimming pool, and I've looked at the times scheduled for adult lane swimming and...

6:30 to 9:00 am?!

... well shit.

Can I take the executive decision to remain fat, rather than give up Thursday mornings in bed?



*sighs*

I'm waiting until the weather gets a little warmer, at least.

Comments

[florahart]

Yes, you can make that executive decision. And, while I am currently coming up on 40 pounds lost since November 18, so I can say this from a position of having needed to and still needing to lose weight, I also can promise you that if your heart isn't in it, it isn't the right time for you. It isn't like my doctor, my mother, and everyone else hasn't been telling me for ten years I needed to do this; it's that at this time, I became ready to do it. Also, I am, please believe me, in no position to judge anyone on this topic, and I am not judging you.

Also, you can make the executive decision to start with really small incremental changes. Changes like, on purpose, every day, get up and walk back and forth for five minutes in your home. What? you say. That is not exercise!

That is exercise, and is also the beginning of a habit--if you can do that at 2 or 5 or whatever every day, then it will be less of a hard thing later to choose to take that walk outside, to make it ten minutes, to see how far you can get in five minutes before you turn and come back, and so on.

Tiny positive changes are still changes, and are still positive.