<p>Must-read article in the NY Times today about how bad it is for you to sit.</p>
<p>[Stand</a> Up While You Read This! - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Stand Up While You Read This! - The New York Times”>Stand Up While You Read This! - The New York Times)</p>
<p>She posts…as she sits at her computer desk…</p>
<p>My attitude to everything is if you do not like it, do not do it, not worth it. We live once, today happens once, tomorrow is another day, if you did not enjoy today, you lost a day in your life. Feeling guilty is not the way to live. Finding activity that is enjoyable is. I even changed my profession, went back to school, took me many years. So, if somebody is not looking forward to do something little in life like exersice, do not stress over it, try a different one. Or it could be that the way you do it needs to be modified. Walking with partner(s) is definately beneficial for me. I have made a lot of friends in my life just walking with them. We still remember walks in any weather while kids are at their sport practice. It was great fun, falling in a snow and not being able to stop laughing about it. I do not like listenning to anything during exercise, but others might love it. Some even read on elyptical machine or watch TV. Whatever works to make it fun.</p>
<p>We still remember walks in any weather while kids are at their sport practice.</p>
<p>You mean you didn’t stay and watch? 
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<p>I disagree that you should read or watch tv while exercising.
Part of being physical, is being * in your body* and those things are a distraction for many people.</p>
<p>Music can tune you into another part of your consciousness, and help you pay * more* attention to what you are feeling, and stimulate you to higher levels of performance, but IMO distracting yourself from your physical body by reading or television, is just as inappropriate as those things at the dinner table.</p>
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<p>I am so ready to get out of these layers and layers of sweaters and jackets and wear my spring/summer clothes. It’s good motivation to picture myself in my dresses and open toe heels…but it’s taking way too long to get to wear them!</p>
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<p>Exercise of any kind is so mind-numbingly boring to me that if I couldn’t read or watch TV, I would never ever exercise.</p>
<p>well that isn’t good.
ya do what ya gotta do I guess.
<p>missypie, I hear you! I’m sick of my winter clothes, too! I want to wear my summer dresses; of course, most of them are a bit too loose. The ones that still fit are resort wear, so I will have to do some serious mall walking!</p>
<p>so I will have to do some serious mall walking!</p>
<p>OMG I hate shopping- you know how long it took me to find a bra last night? I went to Nordstroms and find it so ironic that the years I wore a 32DDD I * never* could find one that fit and now the salesgirl says they go up to K! </p>
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<li>I still need to get a sports bra that doesn’t strangle me- plus I promised H I would find a push up. 
^hate shopping too, what a drag. When I have to do it, I am so physically drained that I most likely would not even attempt to go for a walk or gym.
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<p>And here I thought I had it bad. I’m just trying to **do **a pushup.</p>
<p>Interesteddad - You crack me up.</p>
<p>I have been thinking about chocolate for a couple hours now. We don’t have any in the house - I looked. If I can just hold out, I know that I am planning to have a chocolate cupcake with peanutbutter icing on Sunday. If I can just hold out…I need to stop thinking about it. Wonder how I do that?</p>
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<p>I’m still working through those issues myself, but I can pass along some advice from quitting smoking that I am trying to apply to stuffing fat food in my face:</p>
<p>a) Overall, it is far more effective to be motivated by positive thoughts of gain than by negative thoughts of “giving up” something. People who feel like they are “giving up” cigarettes almost never make it. Those who feel positive motivation visualizing being free from that ball n’ chain or breathing better or whatever have a much better chance. So when I find myself rummaging, I try to visualize the moment when I fit in the next size pants and how great I’ll feel.</p>
<p>b) Deep breathing is an unbelievable mental trick. Five or six deep breaths. It’s calming and a terrific way to snap out of it.</p>
<p>c) Get mad at it. Sometimes you just have to acknowledge the truth. Hell yeah, I want a piece of Alden Merrill Chocolate Cake (or to eat a whole tube of Pringles), but I don’t do that anymore. So the craving for it is going to have to hit me lot harder than it is to make me cave. Taunt it. “Is that all you got? Come on, hit me with your best shot…”</p>
<p>d) Iron clad no is far easier than playing should I or shouldn’t I with each temptation. I haven’t gotten there with grazing yet, but I’m working on it.</p>
<p>e) If all else fails, hang a photo of Sarah Palin or Barack Obama in your fridge (depending on your political viewpoint). That’ll keep you from even opening the door, let alone grazing. In a mixed household, hang both photos and cover all the bases!</p>
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<p>What makes the eating thing a toughie is that I don’t think starving yourself or depriving yourself of every enjoyable food is a sustainable approach. Personally, I’m thinking the key for me is probably to enjoy meals, but learn to live without the snacking. I mean, most of us need somewhere between 2000 and 3000 calories a day to maintain our body weight, so it’s not like we have to starve ourselves if we set a goal of losing weight at a moderate rate – say a pound or two a week. What I cannot do is sit down and binge through a 1000 calorie snack. Exercise seems to helping a bit on that score.</p>
<p>Thanks, interesteddad, for the info about your ipod nazi.</p>
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<p>I had to chuckle when I read this because this at least I can do, from all the years of yoga. Who says yoga isn’t challenging? </p>
<p>And I agree about the deep breathing. It’s hard to believe how effective it is for so many things.</p>
<p>Yikes. I got as far as lie on my stomach. That’s about as much as I could process. </p>
<p>eddie, I like the fact you are planning for your “splurge”. I think building in optional food choices ensures long-term success.</p>
<p>Idad…good tips but I’m a bit puzzled by the Obama/Pailin pics. Is it because they’re fit? Or perhaps putting Palin up on my fridge would make me nauseous every time I approach the fridge…now that actually might work. </p>
<p>I’ve done the flying superman thing in Piates…it DOES burn the stomach but unfortunately hurts my back. I have a very cranky back lately. </p>
<p>Here comes some more snow. I’m tired of hibernating and tired of gym machines! I saw a pic of a sign online yesterday. It was in front of a church and said “For those of you praying for snow, please STOP!”</p>
<p>Thanks, Interesteddad for the help.</p>
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<p>Or Obama, depending on your point of view. I think they would call it an “aversion technique”.</p>
<p>Or a picture of ourselves in slimmer/healthier days. I think that might do a good job of making me remember why I am on this path.</p>
<p>eddie, how in a world you can live without chocolate in a house? Not only in a house, I have it in a drawer in my bedroom in addition to stack in a kitchen and in a drawer at work. It is addictive and I have at least 3 squares of Lindt 85% Cocoa every single morning for breakfast - makes me happy for the rest of the day. Some c-workers are asking me for it - they also want to feel happy, I always share. Do not deprive yourself of Chocolate!!!</p>