My name is Veriria, thanks for visiting my website! What would happen if a rather sedentary person finally got enough motivation to actually work out? Well, you'll find out here! I'm conducting a 30-day experiment to see how exercising approximately 8 minutes a day and eating slightly more healthy than I'm used to will effect me at the start of the new month. I'm using a book titled 28 Day Fitness Program by Thorsten Tchirner, because I know next to nothing about creating an exercise plan. Care to follow my progress? This main page is now my journal -- If you were looking for my cartoon dolls, please see the link to the right.
Motivation
We are surrounded by cell phones, computers, cars, appliances, and other such tools that have made life much easier for us, compared to past generations. The negative side to all these conveniences is that they basically make us lazy. We're the least active and most overweight generation yet seen on Earth -- and if you are living in the United States like I am, you're also living in one of the most obese countries as well! Our health suffers, yet we live longer but have a terrible healthcare system in the USA. Some people suffer from chronic diseases that may be a direct result from inactivity.
While you should probably see a doctor before starting any sort of exercise/weight loss program (and don't consider me an expert, because I'm not!), I think most people agree that any activity is better than nothing and the risks of not exercising outweigh any risks associated with becoming more active.
Now motivation is a great thing: you can just look up thousands of pages online and read people's success stories. Some make you wish so hard that you had a body just like theirs, and motivate you to want to work out. You decide to buy that expensive gym membership, or buy those free-weights. But then...You don't start working out. It just doesn't happen. You can't switch instantly from being sedentary to Fitness Pro Superperson. You don't like the idea of knowing you'll have to work out so many times a week for forever. I know! That's how I felt.
You need motivation and drive to get your rear in gear! I was motivated for many months to get into shape and lose weight, although it didn't happen. The drive to actually do it came from another website. The article basically suggested exercising for 30 days -- as long as a "free trial" for anything you buy might last. I thought: "This is SUCH a great idea!"
30 Day Trial Period
If you would like to read the full article, please go to Steve Pavlina's journal. It is a long article, which is why I'm putting a summary here.
We all wish we had better, healthier habits -- whether that be exercising on a regular basis to not smoking. Getting started and sticking to a new habit is always a challenge! But once you overcome the first few weeks, its much easier to keep sticking with your new, healthier habit. Unfortunetly, us humans tend to think too much sometimes, and rationalize perfectly valid reasons why we shouldn't make a big change. And the more you think about it, the more you are disinclined to start the new, healthy habit.
Thats why you make a temporary change -- decide you will try it for only 30 days...Hell, 20 days or even just one week! Once you are done with the set amount of days, promise yourself you can go back to the way things were before you started the "trial" with NO regrets. You can count down your days to freedom: "Just one more week left!". But after you are done...You may well have created a new habit, and may want to stick with it after the "trial" is over!
You can look back on 30 days of success. 30 days of benefits from the new habit. 30 days of "I stuck with it!". What is there to lose? If you don't like what you tried for those 30 days, dump it -- or try something else for 30 days! You can try out a new diet, stop watching TV, stop using the internet, give up caffeine, the possibilities are endless.
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