ten reasons to join me

Still thinking about spending 100 days with me adding something new to your body practice?

Feeling like maybe 100 days sounds like too much?  That it sounds scary?  That you can’t think of anything you know for sure you want to do for that long?

Let me give you 10 reasons to think about joining me anyway.

1.  This is an experiment.  Even if you completely fall off the horse and don’t get back on, there’s no way to lose. As my TV boyfriend Adam Savage says, failure is always an option. Any result is a result.  That’s what experiments are about: finding out what happens when you try something.

2. It’s really only 50 days.  Unless you want it to be more.  What you’re committing to do is to do a new thing in your body practice at least every other day for 100 days, on the “if you didn’t do it yesterday, do it today” model.  That’s 100 days of bang for 50 days of buck, a rate of return any self-respecting person should be able to admire.

3. Doing something you want to do for the sake of bettering your experience of living in your own body, just because you want to, is a radical kickass expression of self-respect.

4.  Because you’re bigger than your fears.

5.  You get to stop if you want to.  You get to stop whenever you want to.  Whether you make it the whole 100 days or you decide on day 3 that you just aren’t up for it, you get to stop whenever you damn well please.  And you can start again whenever you damn well please, too.  You are the boss of this.

6. Body practice can be about moving your body more, but it can also be about anything else you do with your body that you find positive.  If what you want to do for your 100 days is pledge to give yourself an orgasm every other day, or change your toenail polish every other day, that’s totally legit.  It’s just as legit as if you decide what you want to do is to run a 5K  or do an hour of hot yoga every other day for 100 days.

7.  You can change horses in midstream if you feel like it.  It’s really just fine.  If you start out with the idea that you’re going to do 20 minutes on the exercise bike every other day, but halfway through you get bored with the bike and decide you’d rather go for a walk for those 20 minutes every other day instead, that is perfectly fine by me.  (And it’s also OK if you go back to the bike.  Or if you decide you want to jump rope.  Or tap dance, as I say, to the music of Philip Glass.)

8. You don’t have to report in or make your progress public in any way unless you want to.  I recommend writing down your intention just because it helps make it more concrete.  But you don’t have to tell anyone else, or report in on what you’re doing, or keep track in any way save remembering whether you did whatever-it-is-that-you’re-doing yesterday, so you know whether or not you need to do it today.

9. Spring’s a good time for new things.  There’s great new-thing juju in the air as the days get longer and the air gets warmer here in the northern hemisphere.  Might as well take advantage of it, hm?

10. You only live once, so why not?

 

And a bonus 11th reason, because this thing goes to 11: I’m not the kind of girl who likes her exercise to be a social occasion, but I do like doing experiments alongside other people, so if you join me, you’ll be keeping me company, and I like that.

Oh, and if you’ve come this way from an interview?  The book you heard about is The Unapologetic Fat Girl’s Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts… get you some!