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Tomorrow is the two year anniversary of my Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy surgery. Lately, I have had trouble getting motivated to excercise. This is unusual for me. I have two really good habits: 1. I drink a lot of water and 2. I excercise 5-6 days a week. But lately, not so much. Neither water nor excercise. Maybe the two are related. I bet they are. Maybe I drink water more conisistently when I excercise because I start out the day w/ water and just keep on going. If true, then it would stand to reason that if I get excercise back then the water will follow.

I have been slacking off on excercise. But I was at the gym this morning (and w/ the personal trainer yesterday). On the machine I was thinking about why my motivation was off. Here is what I came up with. When my goal is to do cardio for 30 minutes I have NO problem getting to the gym 3 or 4 days a week. But I had conversation w/ my personal trainer last month and he explained why 40 minutes of cardio is so much better for you than 30 minutes. So 40 minutes became my new goal. That became a daunting task. 30 minutes no problem. 40 minutes and I quit going to the gym. I have kept up w/ weight training 2 times a week but I just could not bare the cardio.

My conclusion today is that 30 minutes 3-4 times a week is still better than 40 minutes no times a week. Set goals you can live with and do them. If you can't or won't do them, find different goals that you can do. It's all good as long as you do it.

And do drink the water.