Well back to work for me after 6 weeks holidays- I dont know what has hit me, and now is going to be a BIG BIG test of eating well and keeping up my excercise.

A big focus for the Ed. Dept this year is the health and well being of the staff, so yesterday as part of our proffessional development we had some guy (very technical I know) came and was talking about health and well being- in terms of stress and job satisfaction etc. and he said some very intersting things about health and excercise that made alot of sense to me. The first thing he said was that people who think of excercise in terms of going for a walk/run/swim etc find excercise a chore, people who think of themselves as a walker/ runner/ jogger etc see it as part of their everyday life therefor they have had the shift in mindset that allows them to reap the benifits of that excercise fully. He also said that for most woman if they dont excercise first thing in the morning, statistically they are less likely to go, because they just get too caught up in the day to day mechanics of life. The other thing he said that I found to be uite true was that when a woman excercises alone (for the most part) she see's it as a chore, when she does it in a social setting it becomes a much ore pleasurable experience. Anyway I just thought I would share as I found it quite interesting, especially what he said about how we think about excercise, and I think for me that is why I will be successful this time as I LOVE going to my PT session, they have become part of who I am, not just what I do.