Whooops! I let myself get negligent here, and my website postings dwindled. :-/ In addition, my biking slacked off a bit, too. . . guess the two are related. I find that it's much harder to get myself to post if I haven't done what I'm supposed to do!
I haven't gone on any hour-long bike rides in a few weeks. To compensate (somewhat), I rode my bike to the coffee shop a few times. The odometer kept track of my distance and mph . . . but I'm not home now, so that may have to wait until the next post. I was thinking about behavior change interventions and wondering whether there was a predictable time when most people stop doing the new thing (2 months? 4 weeks?) -- surely, it depends on how much a person wants to change and how difficult the change will be to implement. I *wanted* to ride my bike that often, but I found myself going back to my habitual forms of exercise -- jogging, dancing, yoga.
Did anyone else find that? I mean, did anyone else intend to do a specific health behavior (like biking) but compensate with another "healthy" behavior when you didn't meet your goal (jogging, etc.)?
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Yes! I just finished writing about that in my post as well. I'm doing exercise classes because I love them and always feel good afterwards. I'm a little tired of running, and I just don't like it quite as much as group classes. But if the end goal is health, then replacing exercise goals with different healthy habits, it is relatively successful right? You may not be biking, but you're out doing things you love, which may mean you're doing it for longer periods of time and with more energy. I think that sounds just as good... if not better!
ReplyDeleteMe! I began with the health goal of exercising 4 times a week, but have definitely not met my goal. Instead, I somehow tweaked it to a goal of healthy eating, maybe because it just seems easier than getting up off my ass! But for the record, I'm doing pretty well on the healthy eating front! :) I think that as long as you're making progress towards some health goal, you get credit.
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