Comments on: Starting with baby steps http://www.cadenceoflife.com/2009/08/starting-with-baby-steps/ Chronicling my life and positively loving it, one day at a time Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:13:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Claire http://www.cadenceoflife.com/2009/08/starting-with-baby-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Claire Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:28:04 +0000 http://www.cadenceoflife.com/2009/08/starting-with-baby-steps/#comment-19 What? You don't like that face? LMAO. It's a random generator. Hmmm. I can change it to something that looks like funkadelic quilt squares, but this one makes me laugh. As for the baby steps, Wendy, you're spot on too. Little things all add up. We don't eat a pie in one bite, right? (Well, I eat only a bite of pie anymore, but that's beside the point.) :) What? You don’t like that face? LMAO. It’s a random generator. Hmmm. I can change it to something that looks like funkadelic quilt squares, but this one makes me laugh.

As for the baby steps, Wendy, you’re spot on too. Little things all add up. We don’t eat a pie in one bite, right? (Well, I eat only a bite of pie anymore, but that’s beside the point.) :)

]]> By: Wendy http://www.cadenceoflife.com/2009/08/starting-with-baby-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Wendy Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:25:22 +0000 http://www.cadenceoflife.com/2009/08/starting-with-baby-steps/#comment-18 LOL What's with that face your website has assigned me? LOL What’s with that face your website has assigned me?

]]> By: Wendy http://www.cadenceoflife.com/2009/08/starting-with-baby-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Wendy Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:24:39 +0000 http://www.cadenceoflife.com/2009/08/starting-with-baby-steps/#comment-17 I'm really glad you wrote this post. I started back on my treadmill, doing ten minutes each evening, and felt really foolish about it. Because those are ten LONG minutes, let me tell you. But between my heart condition and my years of inactivity, I found that doing more than ten minutes made me feel physically wiped out and I would avoid it the next day. I needed this reinforcement, this permission to start with ten minutes until I feel well enough to move up to 12 minutes and so-forth.. In the winter of 1995 I realized I hadn't done a lick of exercise in 15 years! My kids were 15, 13, and 9 and I was still using the "baby weight" excuse to myself. So I started walking to the end of my street, about a three minute walk, once a day, then twice a day. Like you, one thing led to another and by the fall I was up to six miles a day. I'd lost 35 pounds without really changing my diet too much...I did cut out making bread pudding and a cheesecake every week, and I stopped keeping the ingredients for TollHouse cookies in the cupboard. But you're right, it's baby steps, and I really needed to be reminded of that. I’m really glad you wrote this post. I started back on my treadmill, doing ten minutes each evening, and felt really foolish about it. Because those are ten LONG minutes, let me tell you. But between my heart condition and my years of inactivity, I found that doing more than ten minutes made me feel physically wiped out and I would avoid it the next day. I needed this reinforcement, this permission to start with ten minutes until I feel well enough to move up to 12 minutes and so-forth..

In the winter of 1995 I realized I hadn’t done a lick of exercise in 15 years! My kids were 15, 13, and 9 and I was still using the “baby weight” excuse to myself. So I started walking to the end of my street, about a three minute walk, once a day, then twice a day. Like you, one thing led to another and by the fall I was up to six miles a day. I’d lost 35 pounds without really changing my diet too much…I did cut out making bread pudding and a cheesecake every week, and I stopped keeping the ingredients for TollHouse cookies in the cupboard. But you’re right, it’s baby steps, and I really needed to be reminded of that.

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