#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!

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

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