90 Days: A Journey Towards Health

Chapter 3 Just Get Up And Do It

Just getting up and doing it isn't as easy as it may seem. You first have to shake off the excess sleep, fight of the weight of sorrows and trials trying to bombard your newly awakened brain, refresh your way of thinking and plan, plan, plan to overcome.

Yesterday, I planned and was able to complete most of it. I drank ten plus cups of water. I still cannot see drinking twenty cups of water a day. I am trying to get them down. How much time can one spend in the bathroom?

I even finished my exercise early. It felt good. I felt accomplished, regardless of what happened  throughout the rest of the day.

Have you heard? There's a new disease in town, it sounds silly but it is real. If you're plopped on a bed, couch, or chair for long periods of time, you might have what is arguably the most common health problem in America today—sitting disease. And I have it! Since COVID-19, many people have it. We have spent over a year sitting, waiting for lockdown and social distancing to be over.

You may be surprised, but it is a real disease I assure you. I laughed when I first read about it but not for long; my doctor mentioned it at one of my visits.

I sit in a car for six hours, it is emotionally draining to deal with the large amount of self-centeredness and foolishness shared by careless drivers while on the road.

Prolonged, morning-to-bedtime sitting—doctors call it sedentary living—has been shown by researchers to play a significant role in many of the most troublesome health issues of our time, from obesity and heart disease to diabetes and depression.

This information is believable. I've lived it. I am living it. I see the affects taking shape in my body and mind now.

What am I going to do to fight this lifestyle? My goal is to make sure I am moving ten minutes for each hour I am awake. I need to get up and stretch, dance, walk, or workout. If I can move around longer than ten minutes, I will.

Experts use to consider the antidote, the cure, to sitting disease to be exercising. As it turns out, getting up and about throughout the day can be healthier for you than doing a rigorous workout, than sitting the rest of the time.

It makes sense, when you think about how we used to live, walking and working all day. In fact, other than athletes and soldiers, the idea of "working out" never existed until just a few decades ago!

That bit of information was a surprise to uncover.

This new thinking is important. It means that if you can live with greater vitality throughout your day, you can get all the health benefits, and more, than people working out in a gym but otherwise being inactive. Now that is s something to think about.

Habits to Develop:

1. Walk faster. It burns more calories.
2. Take the stairs. Consider this: Walking just two flights of stairs daily burns enough calories to melt six pounds in a year. In fact, climbing stairs for two minutes, five days a week provides the same calorie burn as a 36-minute walk. So, take the stairs.
3. Add fifteen minutes of walking to your lunch menu.
4. Dance. One of my favorites.

Around the Home:
1. Straighten daily.
2. Turn tv time into a workout.
3. Put drinking water in a gallon jug.
4. Exercise your calf muscles while brushing your teeth.

How do you plan on fighting the sitting disease? Remember, if you don't plan for success, then you are planning for failure.

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