[SPAM] Re: Diet Mentality & Exercise Mentality are close cousins

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This reminds me of a joke I heard a couple of years ago. something like 'jogging

adds two

years to your life (probably not, but they seemed to think so) but you'll spend

two years of

your life doing it, so it had better be something you enjoy'

-- In IntuitiveEating_Support , " Ellington "

wrote:

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> I am so happy to hear someone else say this (or read it, as it were!). I have

not been

listening to my creaky body this week telling me Yoga! Yoga! My brain keeps

saying

" Cardio-burn fat! Cardio! " I am struggling with the " prescribed " gym routine.

Has anyone

else noticed that " they " keep upping the time one should spend in cardio-I've

heard as

much as 60-90 minutes a day. I almost fell over when I saw that. I'm a stay at

home Mom

with one in school and one at home, so fitting in workouts is rarely a problem.

But if I were

in the gym doing 60-90 of cardio and then weights 3 x a week...aren't I supposed

to have

a life outside of the gym? How in the world would someone who works and has a

family fit

all that in? Really, if we think about food and exercise and do all the " right "

things, we

would constantly be thinking about meals and exercise. My husband is an exercise

fanatic

and we really bump heads about the workout thing. This thread is a great

reminder for

balance.

> Thanks!

>

> [sPAM] Re: Diet Mentality & Exercise

Mentality are

close cousins

>

>

> Jane,

>

> Great points and something I've been working on myself. I do the same

> thing: go for the calorie burn.

> I've been doing a different rotation the past few weeks of isometric

> movements, pilates, etc. and I fit in cardio when I can.

> I'm really enjoying the break and I feel worked yet refreshed.

>

> However, those old thoughts pop in . I remind myself over and over

> that fitness is a life time thing. I'm still taking care of myself

> and part of being fit is lightening up once in awhile.

>

>

> >

> > I'm with you on that! I know that activities like pilates and yoga

> (fusion type workouts, I guess) are just as important as cardio and

> weights. But I still think of my workouts in terms of calorie burn -

> so I'll go for the cardio or the aerobic weight training and feel

> guilty if I do " just " pilates or spend too much time on deep

> stretching. Quite a disappointment to realize that the diet

> mentality isn't just about food.

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