Challenges.... in more ways than one...

Week 1 Pedometer Average:

I didn’t do as well as I should have because I had a couple days off more than I usually do but yesterday I made up for it. My count yesterday was 18607 steps – 12366 of them were aerobic. Which for this little pedometer means, anything that is steady past 15 minutes of walking. I literally walked my a$$ off yesterday. Anyway, my average for 6/7 days was 10823. I think that’s pretty good considering. I’m going to try to beat it this week.

Yesterday I made up for not doing anything on Saturday. In the morning, I did my C25KW3D2 session because I missed D2 last week. Tomorrow I’m going straight to W4D1. Then I walked on the treadmill another 25 minutes and afterwards did some core work as well as a lot of stretching. Of course in my house, after exercising, the housework and laundry start. So I don’t sit down much. Then my daughter and I went for another 60 minute walk through the park. All in all by the end of the day, that was a lot of steps. And the nice thing was, I really wasn’t as beat as I used to be on Sundays. However, today will be a telling tale as I’m now about to sit on my fanny for roughly the next 7 hours.

I am going to go walk at lunch today just to break up the day. It is very nice weather here right now so I am going to take advantage of it.  One of my co-workers, well she doesn’t exactly work with me - just on my floor, wants to walk with me at lunch. As selfish as this may sound, I don’t want to walk with her because all this lady does is talk. I mean it never stops. I like to listen to my music and people watch when I walk. Kind of zone out, and I guess I kind of do it with her as well but you know…. She walks too close to me, swings her arms (and constantly hits me), and talks, talks, talks, …. talks…. J OK, I know it sounds stupid.

After work today, I am going to Hot Yoga. I haven’t been going as much as I like to and tonight I have the chance so I’m taking it. I just hope it isn’t the instructor from h3ll, who really likes it hot in the room to “teach us all a lesson”. But the website isn’t listing the names of the instructors today so I’m going to just take my chance and go. Then later tonight, my daughter and I are going to an information session for the Kidney March we are doing in September. We have already signed up, but this will be in an opportunity to hopefully meet some more walkers, get a training schedule, etc. Helen had sent me one that she did for a 3-day Cancer walk and I’m following it (more or less) but my daughter needs to see just how much walking we really need to do. It was a challenge for me yesterday to just get her out, never mind walking more than an hour. We are already at the point where we should be walking at least 2-3 hours a  couple of times a week and for two days consecutively in the weekends. I worry she won’t be able to do this because she doesn’t have the drive her Mama has….

You know, I’ve been going over my body numbers and they are not much different right now than they were exactly a year ago. It depresses the heck out of me. I know there is a difference because my clothes are all fitting differently, I’m down a size and all but the measurements are roughly the same (on paper). I said to Kim the other day, maybe I’m not measuring consistently. You know, did I suck it in hard for my measurement before I went to Mazatlan last year or did I let it all hang out? I’m definitely smaller in the area’s I can’t suck it in so I know there is improvement but I am not where I wanted to be at this time of the year. I also know I have no one else to blame but myself. I accept that.

Blah blah blah – bet you are as tired of reading this as I am of writing it. I want to be like Jack, 266, Chris, and all the rest of you that have done such a fantastic job in the year that I have been blogging and following. I am so proud and happy for all of you. I guess I just don’t have the commitment that everyone else has (at least not in the food area ….. I definitely do in the exercise department). And that is entirely my choice.

So now I’ve got to think about what my future choices are…… And I’ll stop whining I promise J

I hope you all have a FANTASTIC day!!

Ttyl

Sandra