Week 5!

Now we are into our 5th week of trying to get this exercise habit going. Should be trying to get in  a total of 75 minutes for the week...could be every day for 7-1/2 minutes or 5 days at 15 minutes or 3 days at 25 minutes or any which way you feel like doing!

Does it feel like a habit yet? Are you starting to get addicted to flowing endorphins? I am. That is to say, I feel rather guilty and worthless when I don't get to exercise, is that the same thing? Probably not, but at least I don't feel guilty and worthless about my weight...even though it has not gone down, it still feels like I am doing something about it.

Last week I exercised for only one 30 minute period. However, on Saturday I did 4 hours of yard-work, planting, mulching, lifting...and on Sunday I spent about 3 hours block walking door to door rather quickly, probably about 8-10 miles total?

Sure that is exercise, it is activity, but it just doesn't feel right to me unless it is a more conventional aerobic exercise, like jogging. I need to be huffing and puffing I guess.

According to this activity calculator  I burned 400 calories jogging on the treadmill for 30 minutes, 1, 400 calories  doing the block  walk door to door and 1,900 calories doing the yard-work!  So why then does it feel  like I did not get my exercise in? Why does it feel like I did more with that 30 minutes than I did on the weekend? Huffing and puffing I guess.

Experts say that its all the same, but I don't think so. There is something in that aerobic activity that goes further, last longer, changes your metabolism rather than just burn calories, at least for me. I have never had a successful or sustained weight-loss without aerobic activity, like jogging. Never. Last year I walked and walked for the marathon training, about two months worth, I was feeling great, but not losing any weight.

Maybe this is just me, maybe just my imagination, maybe I tend to stick to a diet if I am doing more aerobic activity, but I wonder how many of us feel or react the same way, and how many of us give up when we can't get to that aerobic activity level routinely?

Well... such things don't matter right now for what I (and we) are trying to do here, establish the exercise habit...worry about the intensity later!

I like what you guys are doing out there, you are keeping me going, don't stop now!!!

Comments

[Krista]

I am like you in that if it isn't the "conventional" exercise I don't count it, and don't feel like I really worked out. I guess that has to do with it is more enjoyable. Ha ha.

[FB]

Margaret, Karen...you are our sherpa guides!!!

[Karen]

I reached my 1200 minutes of exercise goal that I set for myself for October. I am proud of me! I am going to do 1300 minutes in November.

[Margaret]

I am still doing my 5-6 days of jogging, my weekly mowing, and my constant up and down the stairs with laundry. UGH!