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Message: <blockquote data-quote="devilish" data-source="post: 2085419" data-attributes="member: 17552">Small, small, small steps.  Always.I've read that everywhere, but it was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761129235/qid=1110384256/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/002-1526712-2096852" target="_blank">here</a> that it struck the right chord.When you take big steps, you start to worry.  Worrying kicks an automatic biologicalreflex of fight/flight/paralysis : then you are at the mercy of your body/biology/monkey-bits.Even though your higher brain knows it's ridiculous, it's too late because your bodyhas taken over.Small steps keep things under the radar.  No panic, no worries.  Then build on it.One example he gives: a woman is told she has to lose X lbs in order to live.Doc says she has to do 30 mins of exercise a day.  She panics at the thoughtof doing all that exercise and never does it.   The author comes along and suggests 1 min of exercise : no more, no less. No panic; under the radar; buildsconfidence; she's able to do 2 min the next week, 3 then 15 then 30.Small steps.Rel's advice is valuable.  Wash two socks. One t-shirt.  Build up from there.And in the words of Saint Douglas Adams, "Don't Panic."<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-D</blockquote>