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Here’s the challenge to get you moving about more and shedding those excess pounds. All we want you to do over the next seven days is find either one block of 30 minutes (1800 seconds), two blocks of 15 minutes (900 seconds) or three blocks of 10 minutes (600 seconds), and when you’ve got them we want you to walk for Diet Freedom. That’s it! It’s as simple as that – chuck on your trainers and start walking. Every step you take will lead towards your own personal Diet Freedom, and you will start to feel the benefits we’ve talked about very quickly. Your body will soon notice you’re asking it to do more than usual if you are doing this every day, and that’s when the changes will start to happen.

We find the best way to fit in those 30 minutes is to look at your routine and see where you could walk instead of drive or take the bus, or just take some of the time wasted sitting down watching television when you could be out and about.

  Could you?

  Walk to work, or part of the way?

  Walk the kids to school?

  Cancel the papers and go and collect them yourself?

  Get out of the office at lunchtime?

  Take a walk when you get in from work?

  Get the kids away from the television or computer and walk with them?

  Walk the dog or someone else’s dog?

The choices are endless. You might find it useful to have a couple of circuits in mind which will take you 10, 15 or 30 minutes, then you don’t need to worry about where you are going to walk. Make sure you feel safe walking your circuits, and if you are worried about becoming more active check with your doctor first.

If you already go to the gym, take an exercise class, swim or whatever, that’s great. But we want these 1800 seconds a day to be on top of what you already do.

Do this for the next seven days, then write a list of all the good things about getting more active – the pros. After that write another list of all the not-so-good things about getting more active – the cons. Which outweighs the other? We challenge you to come up with more cons than pros. If you do find some cons about your activity plan, look at each one in isolation and see if you can come up with a way to make it a good thing or a pro. Here’s an example: