I’m in Cleveland now for the next leg of the Good Mood Diet book tour, and I have to tell you about Lolita. Lolita was at the front desk of my hotel as I checked in on a very soggy Friday night. As we were laughing about the rain, she asked me what I was doing in Cleveland. I told her about the book and the tour. She got very excited, and quickly said that she had lost 70 pounds.
“Wow, that’s great! How did you do it?” I asked. “I’ve been doing a boot camp exercise program,” she said, with a huge smile on her face. “I really hate to diet.”
“How do you like the exercise?” I asked. “It makes me feel great!” she replied, smiling even more broadly.
I told Lolita that I was going to put her story in my blog, because she had found one of the most important keys to health and weight loss maintenance: an exercise strategy that she really likes. Just as important, she’s tuned in to how it makes her feel.
Now that you’ve started the diet plan, you should start to have the “get up and go” to get up and get moving. What you eat and how you move work like a hand in a glove. On a cold day neither is very successful without the other. But just like I want you to eat what you enjoy, you need to find an activity that’s fun, that’s easily accessible and that makes you feel good. That’s why I love those pedometers. You can walk just about anywhere.
Yours in a Good Mood,
Susan
[Editor's note: If you missed Alice Lockridge's articles on the pedometers, check it out now: Good Moves for a Good Mood.]