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jianantonic) wrote2013-10-15 11:15 am
jianantonic) wrote2013-10-15 11:15 am
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I'm trying not to let today be a completely lazy day, but it's a challenge so far. It's the first day in what feels like absolutely forever where I've had nothing at all on my agenda. I do want to go to the gym, and I will, but I have no meetings or plans of any kind. I slept for a blissful 12 hours, which is more than I probably should have, but it did feel great. I'm trying to focus on not being sedentary. WW encourages members to be some kind of active for at least five minutes of every hour. That's not an average of five minutes per hour -- I've definitely got that covered with my daily workouts -- but the point here is to never let an hour of time go by where you're completely sedentary. Just five minutes of some kind of being off your ass per hour. I started focusing on this on Friday, and I set the timer on my phone to go off every 55 minutes, but that was annoying at work, because it would inevitably go off when I was on the phone or up from my desk anyway and then it would annoy my coworkers...so I stopped using the timer and instead now I'm just working really hard to be mindful of it. When you've got nothing to do, though, staying out of a chair for five minutes can be a real challenge. At home, I've been running up and down the steps or doing a little something with the weights I have here, but it's not necessarily about exercising during those five minutes. Just non-sitting. Anyway it's something I'm trying and I'm kind of getting it.
Another thing I'm trying to be more mindful of is my posture. I'm a big sloucher, and my shoulders are all kinds of fucked up from all the time I spend at a computer. I watched a TED Talk about posture a little while ago, and it talked about how assuming a powerful, confident posture actually affects your brain and makes you more powerful and confident. I've been trying to focus on this for a while, but it feels like something that really goes hand in hand with the changes I'm trying to make through WW, so I'm able to be more conscious of it right now. We'll see how this goes. I've only been back at it since Thursday :)
Another thing I'm trying to be more mindful of is my posture. I'm a big sloucher, and my shoulders are all kinds of fucked up from all the time I spend at a computer. I watched a TED Talk about posture a little while ago, and it talked about how assuming a powerful, confident posture actually affects your brain and makes you more powerful and confident. I've been trying to focus on this for a while, but it feels like something that really goes hand in hand with the changes I'm trying to make through WW, so I'm able to be more conscious of it right now. We'll see how this goes. I've only been back at it since Thursday :)