Pumpkin1172
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 14, 2016
Slow and steady wins the raceI've been doing some walking but today I am waiting until later, we have an air quality advisory. Apparently we have smoke from the forest fires in NW Ontario. Should clear up this afternoon sometime. I do feel bad, I was doing so well last summer and now I am back to start. It took me 20 minutes to walk what was taking 15 minutes last year. Oh well... someday I will learn to keep going.
When I started walking...I was horribly out of shape. It has taken me over 6 months to get to where I am today. I have had a few setbacks due to contracting covid, weather, and lack of any extra time at times to fit it into an evening ( I am NOT a morning person)
Do what you can, and keep getting out when you can. Even if you tell yourself...I only need to do this today for 10 minutes....or this many blocks....chances are once you get to that milestone, you will keep going. Many times it's finding the motivation to even get started. If you put a time limit or a number of blocks that you minimum need to do "just for today" you usually find that once you start, you will go farther. For me, I would change my course and add an extra block.
I hope this helps give you some motivation to keep going...even if you only walk for 10 minutes or 2 blocks. That is better than nothing. And it's ok if you need to not walk for today. We need to learn to stop the negative self narration we speak to ourselves when we don't achieve something that was on our to-do list. (if that makes sense) the negative self talk needs to stop!!!! That has been my biggest step and focus in the past 9 months.