Five Minutes exercise is better than no minutes
Doing what you can is better than doing nothing at all!
Starting an exercise routine for weight loss can be quite scary. You see many exercise programs expecting you to put everything aside to follow some kind of physical activity for an hour, five times a week.
How will you ever fit that in? How will you ever have the strength and energy to keep going that long?
If an hour looks daunting, try keeping going for half an hour - try half of the suggested routine. If that looks too much, just start with 10 minutes or even 5.
Any exercise is better than no exercise at all when it comes to weight loss!
Start out slow walking for 5 minutes. Maybe once you're up and doing it, you'll feel like more. Maybe not. You never know until you try. Pat yourself on the back for the 5 minutes you've done.
After a few days walking for 5 minutes, see if you can manage 10. Feeling the benefit of 5 minutes, you'll probably find that you want to. And let's face it most of us can find that amount of time each day to improve our health. If you truly haven't then you have real problems and not just with your weight!
Continue to add in as much time as you can. Enjoy the level you can achieve, whatever that is. Feel good about yourself again, rather than berating yourself for not being able to do an hour a day.
Exercise on your own terms. You know your body and its capabilities, your life style and what you can manage, more than any of the diet gurus out there.
Just don't use the impossibility of a full-blown exercise routine as an excuse not to bother with any at all. You owe it to yourself to do the best you can for your weight loss efforts and if that starts with 5 minutes that's great- you're on your way to a fitter, slimmer lifestyle.
© Copyright 2004, Janice Elizabeth Small
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