Exercise Mindset

1. Don’t be a dropout - be sure to accurately gauge the space and pace of exercise to match your environment and mindset. This is important to keep you exercising; you can use heart-rate monitors, stopwatches, pedometers and accurate scales as good exercise progress indicators.

2. Give yourself a healthy reward - rather than a gooey ice cream Sundae after a workout or run, treat yourself to a steam or sauna, a favorite video, a healthy fruit snack, or even a nap. You doubly reward yourself through the positive act of choosing wisely and well.

3. Be realistic with your weight-loss program - It is important that people stick an exercise level that feels comfortable, rather than trying to match cultural expectations of what exercise should look like or feel like to be effective.