What are the biggest challenges to regular exercise and a healthy diet that you face? How are these challenges going to change for you over the next five years?
My biggest challenge with regular exercise is time. I have been evaluating myself weekly and the only exercise I have done is walking for half an hour and only three times a week. I need to take some time out from my day and just do exercise. My four month old baby boy keeps me very busy. Little time that I have I do homework or cook and clean. Before I had my son I was just busy with job and school. About a year ago I bought gym membership and I went to work out every day. The reason I went everyday was because I was paying for it but, after few weeks instead of becoming a routine it was a burden. I found it difficult to take time out to go to gym. I took the health self- assessment for this class and it too suggested that I need to do regular exercise for my better health. Healthy diet is not so much of a challenge for me because I cook at home and I try to make healthy food. Sometimes we crave “outside” food and that day it gets harder to maintain a balance diet. If I continue my habit of not exercising and giving in to my cravings I will never achieve my weight goal. I have a family history of diabetes and if continue to being overweight I might get this chronic disease. I need to motivate myself to lose the weight and eat healthy every day. I need to set a weight goal and off course a time limit so I can achieve that goal within time.
Susmani,
ReplyDeleteI can relate to your blog so much! I too struggle with maintaining regular exercise and giving in to my cravings. It's so hard to say no to good food! ;) I don't know yet how it is to have a baby, but I'm sure he takes up a lot of your time. My time is taken up with mainly work homework. It might be my fault, but I'm taking so many classes that it's hard to find time to exercise after I get done working 9 hours everyday and then doing homework right after. But I'm with you on having to set a goal so that we can achieve it!
Hello Susmani,
ReplyDeleteI think that it’s great that you have incorporated walking three times per week for thirty minutes. Just walking alone has a ton of health benefits, and you are already keeping your body healthy just by going out and walking. A little work out goes a long way, and I think that it’s great that you’re being proactive about improving your health. I would set a goal that increases intensity of your work outs, as well as variety. Try different activities that you enjoy, and remember you don’t have to go to a gym to work out. Keep up the good work!
-Brittany LeBron