We need fun. Desperately. We invent endless time and money sucking stuff like gender reveal parties, promposals, and smash cakes while lamenting the lack of time to exercise. Ideas to add fun to fitness instead of creating more nonsense that keeps us from it.
Getting the high score on a video game is a feeling you can now get by eating plants. See who can get plant-eating high score in your house!
There is no health at ANY size. Trading one type of harm (fat shaming) for another (pretending obesity isn’t unhealthy) is not progress. Nutrition influencers are finally getting exposed for the frauds they are, and we can all hopefully get back to the simple basics.
When it comes to fitness, motivation is often missing the ‘e’ it needs to be successful. When motivation is lacking, you will also find a lack of emotion.
How you frame your activity can affect the quantity and quality of food you eat after and how hard you perceive it to be. Hint: framing it as fun makes things better for you.
When your exercise is fun, you automatically work harder (without anyone forcing you to). We’ve always known this to be true intuitively, but now research shows it.
Let’s stop forcibly cramming so much “fun” into every life event (holidays, births, weddings, pets) that life no longer is fun. Let fun movement be an essential part of your life.
My random Human Lily Pad workout was “effortless effort” and somehow burned almost 500 calories while I felt like I was playing. The world is your fitness playground.
As little as 50 stairs a day improves cardiovascular health (and thus brain health). Don’t sell your stairs. Even if they feel hard. Even if your knees hurt. If you do, soon you’ll find stairs out in the world almost impossible and you’ll also miss out on an everyday way to improve health.
Make health behaviors easier by keeping them in-the-moment and front-of-mind. How to use cognitive reframing to either enjoy a few drinks when you want to and say “no” to a ‘glass of diabetes’ when you don’t want to.
