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by scelerat 538 days ago
The hardest part about exercise is the mental aspect of pushing past the inertia of habit and comfort.

As Dr Ashley says in the OP, if you can just walk 30-45 minutes five or six days a week, you're already doing your health a great service. The hard part isn't the walk itself, it's the motivation to start, and the discipline to make it part of a routine.

Once you have ingrained exercise into your routine, it becomes easy. Not exercising feels uncomfortable; feeding your body with things which do not support your more healthful state will feel more innately uncomfortable. Once you establish a routine of exercise, you have the basis for a virtuous cycle.

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> feeding your body with things which do not support your more healthful state will feel more innately uncomfortable.

Getting used to exercise every day will in no way make you like McDonald's less.