Last week I changed my goal from thirty minutes of exercise three days a week to sixty minutes of exercise three days a week. Although I met my goal I am officially changing back to my original goal.
I found sixty minutes was taxing on me mentally. Whenever I thought of exercising for sixty minutes I felt dread and didn’t want to do it. I even broke it up into two sections of thirty but having to do that extra thirty was miserable. I wasn’t even going to complete my goal this week because I was dreading having to exercise for an hour. I hated it.
What’s interesting is the reason I upped the goal to sixty minutes was because I was getting my thirty minutes in and continuing until I got to sixty minutes. When all I had to do was thirty minutes I was fine. I would cool down for a bit and then hop back on the elliptical and do another set of thirty minutes. I loved it.
I don’t know why one was mentally depleting me when I was exercising for the same amount of time but I got a better workout with my original goal. So that’s what I’m sticking with: exercise three days a week for at least thirty minutes.
By the way, here’s my weight.
This sucks because this is the first time in over a week that I’ve been 200.
Be sure to check out the progress of the other participants in the Ragamuffin Top Challenge.
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