But we can all do our part to help keep as many around as possible. Then hopefully some of those people can inspire others to get started, and snowball effect takes place and boom, no more obesity. I want to have thousands of people NOT stop working out after six weeks and get healthier. And for some reason many of them stop after a few weeks. But something is going to drive them into a gym (besides marketing hype) very soon. Over half the population doesn’t exercise at all, and only about 10% regularly (meaning 3x a week and sustained for over six months) because it just isn’t on their radar and never has been. See – you’ve already swallowed the pill of fitness, but you are in the vast minority. With society the way it is and a massive obesity epidemic, we should all play our own part in not only helping these people get into fitness, but keeping them around as long as possible. The fact we even have a nickname for new exercisers says it all. The first thing I need to mention is that in the fitness world there tends to be a lot of elitism, and I’ve already seen the “resolutionist” memes going around Facebook. It’s time to hang up on my iPhone addiction.I know this might be a bit early, but in three weeks it is 2016 and a whole new set of people will be undertaking new fitness goals. Those closest to me deserve to have more of my attention more of the time. Not for me, though, because I’m going to kick the habit. If I’m lucky, I have managed to untether from the phone maybe half the time.īut on those successful nights, I’ve slept better because I didn’t momentarily wake up in the middle of the night, roll over, grab the phone and then spend the next hour or more trolling through Facebook or checking my bank balance or reading emails or composing to-do lists or Googling to find out what ever happened to Brother Louis DeThomasis, who retired as president of Saint Mary’s University in Winonna, Minnesota, in 2005.Īnd that might be a topic for a future blog post: Looking back at your middle-of-the night Google searches. To be honest, I am not batting 100 percent. So, awhile back, I bought a cheap alarm clock, put it on the nightstand and tried to banish the phone. She posted it on Facebook with the comment: “Because that’s how Chris rolls.”Ĭlearly, I have a problem with my phone, which my girlfriend has nicknamed “my girlfriend.” A friend shot this photo, which documents the degree of my addiction, during a break in a 2011 group bike ride on the most celebrated trail in Iowa. In order to make a full confession, I have often been among the 55 percent of Americans who say they sleep with their cell phone on the nightstand, 13 percent who sleep with it on the bed and 3 percent who say they sleep with it in their hands.Īnd I can see the eye rolling of my family and closest friends - many of whom have pointed out this flaw in my personality for years. Short of that noble goal, I’ve sometimes left it across the room, where I’d have to actually get out of bed to get it. Yes, I have been trying to charge my iPhone overnight in the kitchen, which means it isn’t at the side of my bed, in the bed, or, even worse, in my hand when I am sleeping. Succeeding will put me in the minority of American adults, according to surveysthis year. With that in mind, I’ve been trying to make a positive change in recent weeks that I am determined to establish as a habit in 2016. The better idea is expressed in the meme at the left. But for the most part, I agree with my friend about the effectiveness of making New Year’s Resolutions. “Remember that concise editorial I wrote all those years ago about New Year’s Resolutioners,” she asked as she shared the meme at the right.įor those of you who missed her letter to the editor nine years ago, here it is: “I resent New Year’s resolutioners who decide to lose weight, crowd the gyms and disrupt routines then quit six weeks later. Yes, we are approaching New Year’s Resolution time on our calendars.Ī friend pointed this out Monday with a message on Facebook.
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