It's not working. Have you ever said that? Have you ever thought that? Let's talk about it.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action providing a little extra of motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to

yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps

a day. I am walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

Andrea recently posted something on the Start Today Facebook group.

She says, in part, didn't feel like walking today.

Still, haven't lost any weight.

Clothes are still just as tight. Have you ever felt that way where you

have an end goal, you have a reason, a purpose why you are walking, while you're pursuing fitness.

Maybe it's to lose weight. Maybe it's to change a health metric. A recent physical

that the doctor indicated something like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and before you

jumped on the meds, it's like, I want to try something else. Let's see if I can get those down

where they should be. Or you just don't feel as good as you want to feel you're tired you're lethargic

maybe you just feel lazy and you're thinking that if i get up i start moving if i pursue fitness

i will feel better so you've got this this goal in mind and you get after it and you're doing it for a while and nothing has changed.

Like Andrea, still haven't lost any weight.

Clothes are still just as tight.

Or you're not feeling any better.

And you can hear, I think, the discouragement that is kind of underlying Andrea's post,

Andrea's words.

It's not working.

Why bother?

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