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[quote=Anonymous]I have come in and out of fitness/wellness culture the last few years as I've had babies and wanted to get healthy. And because of particularly miserable pregnancies I have started at the ground up four times now (never again!). I had my last baby in November so quarantine was, for me, a back in the saddle kind of thing. It actually gave me the time and focus I needed to get going but again I have been struck by how, if I didn't have a level of familiarity with it all, I would be so discouraged reading articles and boards that I might just give up entirely or never start at all.

I started jogging again and while googling jogging on the treadmill all I found were articles saying, 'outside running is the only effective running' or '4.5 isn't fast enough' or 'you will see no results if you're not also strength training.' 'None of this matters if you're still drinking wine.' I see people talking about losing pounds to get to 170 and other people askance that that would be enough for someone.

Its all so discouraging and I feel like it makes the horse so much harder to get on. When I laced my sneakers back up a few months ago I could barely run 5 minutes! Now I can jog 2.5 miles. I've lost 10 pounds! But if I tried to take in all this stuff I'm not sure I would have even started.

I'm not perfect and super not claiming to be but I just want to advocate for the mediocre middle ground of fitness. If you're 200 pounds and you start jogging conservatively twice a week for a half hour, do a yoga class and stop eating after 7, you will probably become a lot healthier! Even if you never achieve like 10% body fat and 130 pounds and able to bench press your weight, being 170 and able to run a mile is still awesome! I know I'm not breaking new ground here, but if this speaks to you, you're doing great! Whatever it is, if you're working on you, its great![/quote]

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