New Game

The weather has finally decide to crawl out of the basement, the sun is shining so brightly to make up for all the cloudy days this winter and I’ve finally decided to try and get walking in more regularly..

I recognize that it will be harder for me to maintain or lose more if I’m not engaging in cardio on a regular basis, so I have to make the effort to get the steps in, to breath heavy and push myself up small hills in my neighborhood so I will stop huffing and puffing while I push myself up these darn hills. After a year of doing random 5Ks, clearly the lungs and legs were unable to hold on to the good health and now I have to build all that back up again.

The walk I took this weekend was almost 4 miles or 6.4 kilometers. All during the walk I was fine, even when I stumbled across early Mardi Gras partiers, but as soon as I got back into my house, my body seemed to get heavier, and my inner thighs (always those inner thighs) protested mightily when I finally went upstairs. It wasn’t like I was going to sleep on the couch, but I was gross from the walk and needed a shower in the worst way.

Yesterday was weights, but today I did another walk, about half what I did over the weekend, cause, ya know, work and all. Again, the walk felt good while I was doing it. Raised the ole ticker (really does anyone use that anymore?) and got to see some great architecture around the neighborhoods, but once I hit the house, the thighs wobbled going up the stairs, so I could dive into the shower.

The goal is to alternate weights and cardio so I can continue to build the muscle to fill out some of this excess skin, but also put the pieces in place to continue to burn the fat even when I’m in front of my desk. The hard part is making sure that I’m doing it. Tomorrow should be weights, so hopefully that won’t be as hard to motivate myself to do, and Thursday I have just a bunch of things I need to do outside of work but if I can squeeze in some time to get a walk in that would be amazing. If I can’t it will have to be the rower in the basement and while I don’t hate the machine, it doesn’t hold any real excitement for me either.

If I want these changes to stick I need to find a new game that I’m interested in that keeps me engaged and allows me to just slowly seep into it. I cannot allow others opinions and words of wisdom and good advice to put additional pressures on what should be fairly simple. Eat healthier foods in smaller quantities, and get off the couch. And while the statement itself is simple, goodness knows the actual doing is a pain in the rear. Perhaps I’m finally putting all the pieces together correctly to make the picture finally jell. Or it could just be another attempt.

But at least it is another attempt.