Quick: What habit do you want to develop (or break) but feels a little overwhelming to do "forever"? You know it takes a month to develop (or break) a new habit, but even that feels like a little too much. Do you think you can do it for a measly seven days? Sure you can! It's only seven days. A mere week. Get a taste for the cost, feel the benefits, and decide whether you can (or even want to) do it for another seven days (or more). And if not? Well, it was only seven days. You can do anything for seven days, right?
Yes, those of you who read my blog a whopping, um, two days ago know exactly where I'm going with this. And, yes, that speech above is a pep talk for myself at least as much as for any of you. So it's official: I'm going to work on my "getting out of bed" habit.
For seven days I will get out of bed within ten minutes of naturally waking. (And not turn around and lay back down.) The one exception I will make is if I wake for some bizarre reason before 6:00 a.m. (I mean, come on. I'm on vacation, right? No need to go totally insane.) The plan is to also get in the habit of checking my morning resting heart rate before getting out of bed. But that's the most painless part of the whole thing.
My seven days will start Wednesday. Why Wednesday? Why not?
Your seven days can start whenever you want. You like the way I pulled you into this? Slick, eh? C'mon, you know you want to join in (even if you're reading this long in the future). Pick your target and pick your start date. What do you want to change for the next week? Use your treadmill (coughCidtalkcough)? Eat breakfast every day? Try a new veggie every day? Cut off the tv for a week?
I'd love to hear about it in the comments, but feel free to do it secretly if you'd rather. Either way, pick a tough goal and join me. I dare you.
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I'm in. Starting Monday (yesterday) I'm going to take a walk everyday. I'll either go to the nature park and walk the hot tree lined mile, or do 1.5 on the treadmill..either way I'm doing it for at least 7 days!!
Let's hope I fall in love with the whole process and do it everyday forever!! (some restrictions may apply)
Hi FA,
My name is Leslie Goldman and I'm a writer with Redbook, in the beginning stages of a story on women, weight, body image and being healthy at any size. I've read your blog before and thought I'd give you a tru...I'm looking for real women, all weights and sizes, age 25-50 (approx), who have embraced their bodies (ie not obsessing over the number on the scale anymore). I'd love to interview you -if you're up for it, please email me at leslie@lrdiaries.com and we can set something up! Thanks for your time and consideration, leslie
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