Bah!

Okay I have not been nearly as good with the getting up in the morning and walking thing as I want to be. I didn't walk yesterday and I didn't this morning. I DID, however, use my shake weight this morning. My arms want to detach themselves and beat me. Going to try and take a walk after work if I can. Depends on how I feel. Have been feeling run down. I need to get on a better diet/vitamin regime to help with that. Focus, focus, focus!

*yawn*

It's going to take some getting used to and to feel any major difference, I know, but I did get up and take Anubis for a walk around the park. One circuit around, from the parking lot, is .88 miles. So almost one full mile. My goal in the next few weeks is to do the entire circuit from the parking lot around and do the main square of the park twice. That would be just over 1.5 miles. I think that's doable.

If all goes well, maybe by the end of the summer my goal can be to start at the parking lot, go around the park three times and back to the car. That would end up being just over 2 1/4 miles. That's another goal that I think is doable by say the end of August.

Now to just break in my new walking shoes. I might have to get bandages to wear on my heels till I do and maybe some better socks that are strictly for the purposes of wearing with the walking shoes. Because my goal by the end of this week/beginning of next week is to also walk after work either at the park or over at our fitness center on the treadmill.

And my next goal after that is to eventually get to a point where at least one of those circuits around the park I will be doing by jogging. But I am not going to rush myself there because otherwise I will give up and I don't WANT to do that.

Once I get this regime down, I'll tackle my spotty eating habits.

Getting back on track

I've been very bad about updating this and health stuff in general. I've been watching what I eat for the most part, but exercise hasn't been at the front of my mind. We were hiking each weekend, but that fell by the wayside for right now since just before my mom came to visit in April. Then we got busy preparing for Media and we've just not gotten back to it.

I did, however, finally get back to exercising. I walked 20 minutes on the treadmill on Tuesday and yesterday as well as today, I took Anubis to the park and we did a lap around the trail there. I've been wanting to get up in the mornings to do that since Anubis is crated all day now, but I haven't felt up to getting up early enough to do so. I haven't decided if I am gonna try tomorrow or if that will be my goal starting Monday.

I also want to start using my shake weight in the mornings as well, which will be something I'll start when I start doing the morning walk with the pooch. I need to find something to work on getting rid of the massive gut I have. But it's a start.