{"id":211,"date":"2009-10-14T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T10:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/10\/30-days-to-a-charmed-life-day-4-commit-to-the-basics-exercise.html"},"modified":"2009-10-14T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T10:22:36","slug":"30-days-to-a-charmed-life-day-4-commit-to-the-basics-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/10\/30-days-to-a-charmed-life-day-4-commit-to-the-basics-exercise.html","title":{"rendered":"30 days to a charmed life &#8212; Day 4: Commit to the basics: exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"running woman.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/133\/import\/running%20woman.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"203\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span>Without exercise, you can&#8217;t keep up with a charmed life. It&#8217;s not optional. Like the NIke people say, just do it: 45 minutes cardio 4x\/week; weights upper and lower body 2x\/week; stretching after every cardio and weights session, with a little more stretching night and morning just to keep things working properly. Do it a day at a time. Take off one day a week. Make it the same day so you don&#8217;t find yourself taking off lots of days. And if you miss one, don&#8217;t miss the next one. If you miss two, don&#8217;t miss three. This is serious. Do it.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yesterday I got to go to the East Village twice. Oh my gosh, I love it down there! It is totally funky. All the raw food restaurants and things I like most are there. In the morning, I had breakfast with a colleague at Quintessence. It was probably the best breakfast of my life ever: banana bread (from a dehydrator, so it&#8217;s technically raw) with banana and cashew &#8220;cream cheese,&#8221; and a ginger latte. When she said it was ginger juice and steamed cashew milk (not raw, obviously, but it&#8217;s October&#8230;), it didn&#8217;t sound very good. The server said, &#8220;Trust me.&#8221; I did. It was heaven in a cup.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here&#8217;s a dream: that I could one day have an office in the East Village so I&#8217;d a have a bona fide reason for going every day. &#8216;Just putting it out into the universe.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tomorrow: letting your Higher Power in on your charmed-life plan&#8230;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>Victoria Moran is the author of ten books and she is a holistic life and health coach with clients in New York City and by phone around the world. 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