I would like to add one thing: turn these things into a habit.
You may walk a lot for few days but then you start losing the interest in that but IF you turn walking every day into a habit, you won't stop doing it. This is what I did at least. I went from literally not walking almost at all to walking 5-10 kilometers EVERY day. I have barely missed a day in over a year.
I also always drink at least 4 liters a day because other wise I feel like shit.
That’s an excellent point! I wish I would mentioned that in the post because that is exactly what I was trying to emphasise when I wrote “taking care of ourselves isn’t a spint of things, it’s a marathon of things”. 😋☝🏽 The “new year, new me” thinking helps to adapt an mindset and therefore create habits. Your walking training is a good example! In the beginning it feels awful(👎🏼) but when you just continue and push yourself harder, your way of thinking changes and it becomes one of the (dearest) routines.🤔
In addition, 5-10km per day every day is an honoured amount! 👏🏽 Have you tried running? I take walks with strollers daily, but I don’t have any goals on kilometres...maybe I should. 🤔 Or at least try what would be an adequate/doable amount of kilometres per day.
First I started walking a lot because I took care of my sister's dog for a month and then I almost stopped walking because it wasn't so nice to walk alone but I managed to turn it into a habit because I bought a new phone (Samsung S6) and it tracked my steps. I have some kind of OCD when it comes to numbers and I felt bad when I didn't reach my daily 10k step limit :D It really helps when you have an actual goal that you have to reach and now I can easily walk ~18k steps in a day if I want.
And yes I do run sometimes but I prefer walking for some reason. And also yes it is easy (for me) to drink 4 liters a day. 5 starts to be hard but 4 liters is the average even if I don't try to drink more than usually.
I hope this Polar activity tracker will help me to track the daily steps and kilometres. I haven’t use it for a while...I even had to put it on the charger before I could took a photo of it. 😝
I hope so too. I have also thought about buying a smartwatch which would sync with my health app to make it more easy for me to track my steps. I just don't know if it's worth it since I'm not actually even a "sporty" person :D
Mine activity tracker is also syncable with an app in the phone. I found it very convenient as is genuinely helped to track daily activities. I think following your activities via phone would help you as well.🤗
The Polar’s app, however, isn’t the best possible. 🤦🏼♀️ The recorded sport activities are difficult to change/otherwise make amendments to beforehand. 🤔👎🏼
Oh, and forgot to ask: is 4 litres easy to drink daily?🤔 Sometimes it feels 3 liters of water is my ultimate maximum and sometimes, however, I wake up at night and I’m still thirrrrrrsty!😃