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Staying Motivated for the Long Haul
Healthy Living | Last Active: Jan 29, 2023 | Replies (499)Comment receiving replies
@mnretired @contentandwell @hopeful33250 @rosemarya I've been doing good for the most part lately! I've found that having someone in my office that is also trying to eat healthier and exercise had been extremely helpful. We talk about what is and isn't working for us. I wish I had someone that lived closer by that I could exercise with though. I get bored doing it alone, but I am normally good about getting it done. I want to be able to tell the gals at work if I lost that week! Lol
Blessings,
JoDee
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@contentandwell, I have always had the feeling that if you are at the gym, you are already well ahead of a large portion of the population. Sometimes I feel a bit awkward at the gym too because my joint issues and surgeries force me to modify exercises. I'll admit, that the way I modified some of my workouts gets some looks, but in the end, I know that I am there to improve my health so the looks don't really matter. Getting to the gym some days is a major victory in of itself. As long as it makes you feel better, the rest of it is less important.
@JustinMcClanahan Thanks Justin. I just feel sort of inept really. I don't know very well what I am doing on the equipment, and I don't have a lot of confidence in the personal trainers, plus they are really costly at my club. I think when a person has limitations and/or issues they don't know how to deal with that. Maybe I'm wrong, but the one I went to when I first joined my club a number of years back really did not have me doing things I should have been doing.
I feel better when I am on my way out the door. 😉 Then I feel smug that I did it!
JK
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@jodeej As I have mentioned, when I go to the water classes there's always a good group of women there so despite not really socializing with any of them individually it does help. For the regular gym exercises though I too wish I had a "gym friend". That would make it more tolerable. I hate the gym, I feel very stupid and inadequate there.
JK