Chapter 13 - Exercise - Feel the Difference

Here are some thoughts from this chapter:

• Focus on how it makes you feel...
• Start slow or you might not enjoy it
• Don't look in the big mirrors at the gym
• Compare how it feels to exercise to how it feels to not exercise
• Exercise helps prevent health problems
• Incorporate physical activity into your everyday life
• stairs
• ride bike to work
• walk to class
• walk around the airport while waiting for flight
• Exercise is a NON-NEGOTIABLE PRIORITY
• Exercise to take care of yourself - reevaluate your priorities - make time to take care of yourself
• make an appointment with yourself and keep it just like you would keep an appointment with a friend
  
• Make exercise fun
• walk with a friend = uninterrupted talk time (Larry and me every morning at 5:30 AM)
• basketball
• racquetball
• biking
• Exercise can be a good way to channel anxiety while learning to eat intuitively
• Remember to REST - be smart
• Sometimes taking care of yourself means choosing not to exercise.