I had a fairly nice relaxing week and for exercise all I did was walk. Walk, walk, walk. No running, no strength training. I actually started feeling like crap because I wasn’t eating well enough, drinking enough water or exercising enough. All for very dumb reasons (hence why I am in trouble). Here is my list and the ensuing excuses:
Not eating well enough
- Didn’t bring very many raw veggies or fruit because I just didn’t have the fridge room.
- Didn’t eat every 3-4 hours like I should
- Ate sunflower seeds which I know aren’t all that BAD for you, they do have a lot of salt and fat involved.
- Drank too much beer – in fact I realized why when I was out there. When I get bored, I want a beer. It must lesson the boredom or something. It was a kind of light bulb thing that went on. So in 3 weeks, I have another 3 weeks of camping so I need to come up with something quick to replace that boredom beer with something more to my benefit.
Not drinking enough water
- Hate the out houses
- Out fishing along the rivers in the middle of nowhere in waders and just didn’t want to have to constantly have to go to the bathroom in the bushes with the bears :)
- Reason number one again…
Not enough exercising
- Walked the dog 3 miles or more for 4 days in a row. Got bored doing the same route each day around the campground and didn’t trust going completely out in the wilderness without someone else (my BF to be exact).
- No one else would walk with me so after awhile it was easy just to sit on my @ss like everyone else.
- Didn’t do any strength training with my bands because we had my BF’s 10 year old son staying with us, so he takes up the hide-a-bed in my trailer and therefore all my floor space. He doesn’t wake up until 10 or later (same as his dad) and I wasn’t into doing it outside where everyone could see me. Stupid I know…..
- I could have done it after everyone was up and about but by then I was so pissed that everyone spends all morning sleeping then gets up and asks me “what’s for breakfast?”.
I need to find something to do with myself when I go camping. We do a lot of fishing which involves lots of walking but none of it is aerobic. Walk, stop, fish, walk, stop, fish, etc…
I bring my bike but after one or two rides by myself, I find it boring. I walk the dog, but again, walking the same route gets boring. I crochet so maybe I need to dig that out again and get my fingers moving instead of holding a beer. I read, tons… but I can still drink beer while reading (and eat sunflower seeds). I can read a book every other day depending on how good it is (but that doesn’t keep my active or not bored really). I can’t get anyone else to do anything active with me so not sure what else to do….
TTYL
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I totally understand all that you write, lol (even down to the BF bit!).
ReplyDeleteHave you thought of getting audiobooks to listen to while walking? They keep me from getting bored sometimes!