Stubborn extra weight/fatigue

[shootingstar]

Re exercising daily: It helps if you consider that our bodies were built for daily activity, almost constant movement, and thrive on it. Thinking of "exercise" as yet another daily chore that has to be done makes it sound so depressing. The truth is that we weren't made to sit around on our butts for very long and our bodies deteriorate if we do so...

Certainly I don't view cycling as a chore, but more as a "drug-inducing" activity because of the endorphins. Even if I have to do an errand, my attitude does tend to be: it's alot faster to get there no matter how slowly I cycle and I can carry more weight effortlessly coming back home. Bike is a necessity for us folks who don't have a car.

True that our bodies need physical activity daily. I've had several jobs where my work included getting up from computer desktop several times each hr. or at most nearly every hr. and it never bothered me. I welcomed it since jobs have been client-focused which accounts for multiple interuptions throughout the day and doing something/demonstrating something for them.

Over the years, I tried to encourage other staff in the department to be grateful that their jobs isn't just data entry, but much more diverse where it requires them to vary their tasks and change their physical activity/get away from prolonged viewing of the computer screen to do something else on the job.