inactive versus sedentary

Big lesson today at clinic, although admittedly I'm suspicious of anything starting with "recent studies show..." Roo, I would love your opinion! Apparently, the more time you are sedentary has more impact, or at least impact that was not previously considered, on your weight loss or gain. If you are generally active and meet the requirements for Canada's guidelines for activity/week, but spend a lot of your day in a sedentary job, you are at a higher risk, even if you do your daily gym routine. So our challenge this week is to track and break up our sedentary periods as much as possible, every 10 min if possible or 30 min at the least. Even standing periodically helps. I will be giving up my rolling chair at school, will park further away at the gym, school and office, and will stand when helping students whenever possible. I may set my phone to vibrate every 10 min to remind me, cause we can get pretty wrapped up in a lesson sometimes. At least I wasn't hungry today, so I'm glad that transition is over! We are also looking at what our priorities are for life, such as money, things, family, work satisfaction, health, self esteem, spirituality, power, activity, etc. We are listing them in order of significance and then looking at how much time we spend in a week on each item. Obviously, your higher priority items should consume the most time, so if we are not aligned that way, we are to consider how/where we would make adjustments. I'm still really enjoying the program, am learning lots and really like some of the women; others I don't know so much yet, as I sit at the other end of the room. With love and gratitude, elly "Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible." Jimmy Connors "If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body." Michael Merzenich YIKES!