I seem to respond better to words than pictures. When Dr. Natalie wrote the words "Exercise 30-60 minutes each day" and then spoke the words "Exercise is not optional", I internalized those orders. Trying to deal with the eating and minding part has been much more challenging than the moving part. A previous blog post described the first anniversary of my exercise log; and there are already 52 entries since beginning the second year on August 15.
One of my favorite wake up TV shows is Morning Joe on MSNBC. I think of it as a thinking person's show because it is funny but thought provoking (and I like Mika Brzezinski too). Anyway, they talk sports (baseball mostly) and politics, tracking the Republican candidates and the debates. Lately, they have been having some fun at Herman Cain's expense. It seems that when he was in single digit popularity numbers, he did not actually have well thought out policy proposals. So 9-9-9 was his mantra for awhile until people actually began to seriously examine its impact. And when he tried to explain the 9% sales tax added onto already existing state and local sales taxes as apples and oranges, the resulting reaction forced him to rethink the whole 9-9-9 concept in pretty short order.
But my 10-10-10 concept has been working pretty well when I cannot get a continuous 30 minutes of exercise on some days. It means breaking up the exercise into three 10 minute blocks. Or it can be 10-20 or 15-15. Today was 10-20. Upon arriving home, I still had 20 minutes to go. That's four times around the circle that is our neighborhood. Done.
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