Exercise and Goal Setting

Hi @BlueBay,

I recognise what you describe in feeling bad about not achieving the goal you set for yourself. Personally, I don't do concrete goals very well. Rather, it works better for me if I set a general intention inside myself and celebrate when I achieve it and avoid beating myself up if I don't. At least if I achieve what I'm hoping to some of the time, that is better than not at all, and a cause for celebration.

Remember that you only just started doing this yesterday! I think it's too soon to expect that you will do this every single day just yet. It's just too hard on yourself to expect 100 percent 'compliance' immediately. In fact there always needs to be room to move with these kinds of things as life has a way of interrupting our best intentions. Very few people would achieve 100 percent compliance with any goal.

Just keep trying to get out there and celebrate when you do is my suggestion. One small step at a time has a way of gathering momentum so that eventually you may reach your goal of every day, but maybe not quite yet. Or maybe you will. Either way, celebrate the successes, minimise the lapses, and more success and greater wellbeing is likely to come your way. Go gently with yourself is my best advice, for what it's worth. 🙂

Hi @Silenus

Thanks guys. I know i am too hard on myself. I think it would be better if I didn't set unrealistic goals. I won't do that agsin. If i go for a walk then that's good.

Yes @Silenus i did enjoy yesterdays walk, i do remember the salt air of the beach in my face and the wind blowing in my hair. it was so cold but it was so good.

Everything you wrote in your reply is exactly what I do - I need to look at things diffreently.

Hi @Mazarita

I know i will have to be a bit more gentler on myself. i need to not be so hard. I have all my life been hard on me, expecting things to be always right, always good.

You're right i need to enjoy and congratulate myself when i do go for a walk and it doesn't matter if i don't go every day. i think for now if i just go when i want to go for a walk and not put expectations on myself to do more.

thank you @Mazarita for your advice, i really appreciate it 🙂

hi everyone ,

no exercise here, looking after hubby , my mum and our little business here

as for me -- going to kidney specialist for a six monthly checkup

Hey all,

I'm just going to butt in here and add that this kind of thread is exactly what I need right now. I'm sick of sleeping my life away and doing little to no movement and I want to start getting out and about and moving my body more so I'm going to do my best to commit to SOMETHING active every day. Literally anything!

Walks are usually my go to, as well as follow-along workout videos and the occassional run (though I haven't done that in yonks thanks to my extreme fatigue!) So I might just check in here to keep myself on track and be motivated by all of you too!

Yesterday I went for a walk for around 45 minutes which was good, and I'm hoping to keep it up!

Great to see you @CannonSalt

Wondering how you are @MoonGal .. have things settled enough to be walking the doggits again?

Hey @Appleblossom, @BlueBay, @Silenus and every one else... Long time since I dropped in here, thanks for the prompt Appleblossom.

@Silenus I loved this... "All of us in this life, muddling through, making mistakes, learning as we go, repeating mistakes, trying to get it right but often falling short...

Be gentle with yourselves... be gentle with others... life is difficult... we all make mistakes..."

it is gold.

A while back I wrote on this thread that I started, (then fell off the planet along the way, glad to see it is still resonating or helpful for community members), something about how I set intentions and fail, and sometimes I fail so badly at what I want to do, I end up throwing the baby out with the bathwater and not trying anymore. Someone mentioned me in anothe thread the other day and something I wrote here...

****** Keep on Starting *******

As for me it has been so crazy being Mum's primary carer, themonths of hospital, home (with wheels falling off) hospital, respite care and driving for hours every week. I had to double down m=on my anti-psychotic to cope witht he mess changing anti-depressants made of my body and head, now stable again but put on 5 whole kilogrammes in weight since I strated this thread. In the end I decided I couldn;t worry about it I had enough to worry about. I have no clue if it is going to be doable to lose this weight again. I am heaver today than I have ever been in my entire life by 3 kilogrammes. 😞 Still better that than dead.

I walk doggit still every day IF I can the weather has not been condusive to walking much, and I have often been out from 8.30 am to after 6pm chasing stuff for Mum.

Good news is we have found a permanent room in an aged care facility andwithin the week Mum will move in there. My life should resume to near normal (haha!) within a month or so.

Good on you ALL for keeping up when you can, for getting back up when you haven't and for being a lovely community supporting one another so we can all do the best we can.

Hi everyone,

@MoonGal, so great to hear you have made it over this new threshold with your mum going into much needed permanent care. Also good to hear you are still getting out for walks when possible. It's understandable that you have not been able to focus on much more than caring for your mum during this time, and yourself with medication changes and chronic illness. Try not to worry too much about the weight gain for now, though I understand how hard that can be. I'm the heaviest I've been in my life too by about 20kgs (damn those bipolar medications, but thank goodness for them in other ways). Anyway, with everything you have had on your plate lately, I think you have been doing a champion job.

@Shaz51, just sending greetings and well wishes, haven't heard much from you lately.

@seekingserenity, welcome to this thread. Sorry it's taken a while for any of us to get back to you. Sounds like you have some good activities that you engage with. How have you been going with it lately?

Report from my end: exercise has been down lately, coinciding with an increase in troubles with my often-dodgy lower legs and feet. It got to the point where I couldn't even walk around the flat without significant pain and stiffness, and my joints and muscles have been dull aching pretty much around the clock. But I'm now receiving some medical treatment for this, with further exploration of what's going on with a rheumatologist later in the year (waiting lists!). The last couple of days I have been out walking to and from bus rides and around local shops again. Might be able to get back out on the beach again sometime late next week for some longer walks. This time with the help of medications, shoes, inserts and compression socks (oh the glamour!), instead of fancy free in bare feet as I was used to. During this time of restricted mobility with walking, I have been engaged in a short course of hydrotherapy once a week. It's enjoyable and has been a bit of a compensation for the loss of mobility.

Hope things are going okay for everyone else, sending happy exercise vibes your way.