#WellnessWednesday

For me, one of the biggest obstacles to wellness in my life is, well, me!

And one of the ways I am in my way is moving. I am pretty lazy and all of my favorite things to do involve sitting. Additionally, moving usually requires some things I'm not too fond of - outdoors (especially the sun), sweating...I'm an indoors girl. BUT moving is vital to wellness. I saw this infographic about the lack of movement in America - it IS concerning:

I gotta get moving. Because I am an indoors girl rather than an outdoors one, we do have a treadmill. That's right people, I have a treadmill and I'm still lazy about moving! Perhaps you can see where my thoughts are on this #WellnessWednesday - walking. Walking for wellness.

Here's what walking does for us - it does things I wouldn't even associate with walking! Which proves that wellness IS holistic, it has benefits for us that we aren't even aware of.

The goal is 10,000 steps a day - which is hard to do! But never fear, there are so many different ideas out there to help you get there. No matter what - just start (I'm going to) - baby steps are always the best way to start anything. Here's a schedule I found:

And here are other ideas to help you reach that 10,000 steps goal.

Not sure how far you can walk? Remember, start small - even standing is a start!

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