Dusted off the pedometer today and wore it as I mowed the lawn.  Decided (again) that shooting for 10,000 steps per day is one way to get me up and moving.  There was an internet article about a woman who has lost 300 pounds in three years by exercising and healthy eating - no tricks, just hard work. (She still has more work to do because her starting weight was over 550 pounds.)  Her story was interesting enough but the part that I'm really remembering is when the interviewer asked her trainer, "She's obviously learned a lot from you, but what have you learned from her?" and he answered something like, "She looks for reasons TO exercise;  she doesn't look for excuses to NOT exercise."  Keeping that positive mindset about looking for what can be done (or eaten) or needs to be done (or eaten) to be healthy, definitely helps to stay on track rather than wallowing in the "don't feel like it, don't want to do it" rut.  Sometimes it's easier to come up with a lot of reasons NOT to do something than to just shut up and do it.  I can waste more time with thinking about and making excuses NOT to do something than to just take that first step and go for it.  (And as I write this lecture to myself, I find myself thinking about when the boys were younger and were complaining about chores that needed to be done and I can hear myself  telling them, "You've just spent ten minutes complaining about unloading the dishwasher and you could have had it done by now!"   ((Another parenting and life example of "do what I say, not as I do!!" Doing something is better than doing nothing. A fifteen minute walk and choosing to eat an apple is something and a step in the right direction in the feeling that you are taking action to make a positive change in yourself. One step at a time - with or without a pedometer! Barb