PWLP: Week Three - Lesson Seven

Personal Evaluation

1. What is your attitude today about physical activity? What habits result from the attitude?    I do not have a confident opinion about physical activity - part of my mind, the part influenced by the media, thinks that physical activity is only for healthy and fit people, or for people who need to lose weight. On the other hand, I feel that physical activity should be a natural and normal part of every day life. I feel like physical activity is something that must be forced, or consciously be pursued, that it very rarely comes naturally as a part of daily living. As a result, I tend to avoid physical activity because I am neither a fit, healthy or slender person. However, because I am trying to get healthy, I do actively force or pursue physical activity in my life. Because I don't have very good or true attitudes about physical activity, I don't have very good habits in regards to it either.

2. When you think of increased physical activity in your life, how does that make you feel?   I feel empowered and in-control and excited.

3. Do you believe that slender people are more active than overweight people? What does your answer mean to you?   Yes, I do believe that slender people are more active than overweight people. Partially because they don't have the obstacles that excess weight poses, but also because it's like they pursue fitness to become slender. These thoughts or this answer means that I can also be slender by increasing my physical activity, and stop being a couch potato.

4. How does the excitement of becoming the healthy, TRUE YOU that you were created to be compare to the extra time and energy you might have to expend to achieve it?   Some days it sucks to be exercising or being more active, but it really can't compare to the way I feel or the way I know I'll feel a few months or years down the road of making a consistent effort to be physically active.

5. What are some ways that you can incorporate more physical activity into your life?   I am already trying to take the stairs when I get to the train station - right now I'm up to one set of stairs, but I really need to start doing the second set as well. I could get off a stop early on the train and walk the rest of the way to work. In the summer, I could try walking all the way to work instead of taking transit. I stand on the train, I don't take a seat. I can try to do 30 minutes of cardio AT LEAST 5 days a week, if not 7.