Mad Dogs, Englishmen and Me
Everyone
probably knows the rest of that quote. Why me, you ask. It happened about a
week ago. In the last eight months I’ve lost fifteen pounds. Well for the past
two, I have remained at the same level. I would like to lose a bit more. What
to do? The only way to achieve this is to exercise and walk.
Walk
to me is boring. But I know I must. Now they say the early bird… You know the
rest. I am not a morning oerson. I am awake and my brain works but my body
refuses to exercise at that time. I spend the hours from seven AM until around
twp PM convincing my self “I can do that.” Therefore, I have cone to grips with
the midday sun. But I set forth, increasing the distance every day. My goal is
to reach the hook and that’s three miles from my house. I figure in a year or
two I will reach that goal. Then the problem will be walking back.
One
good thing about doing this walk is I can think about my WIP. That is moving
forward. Since the first of July, I’ve planned and now have about finished the
rough draft. The total will be 40,000 words and I write tight in the beginning.
I figure when I’m finished the book will be somewhere between 50,000 and 90,000
words. So every day, I hit the pavement while the midday sun is high and push
myself another hundred steps forward.
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Oh Janet, that is so exactly what I am doing. Of course my weight loss has been slower than yours, I'm down 12 pounds so far and my goal still seems far away, but since we moved here to BC I've been doing my daily walking. Now we're in New West, which is built on a hill, and it kind of reminds me of San Francisco, so not matter where I go I either have to climb on the way there or climb on the way back. Yesterday, for the first time, I did a climb on the way there and had the relief of walking down all the way back. My usual pattern is to get out there early in the morning (when I'd rather be drinking my coffee and reading my emails) and take any one of the directions that lead downhill; I know good sense tells me it'll be harder on the way back when I'm tired to climb up to get home, but who has good sense that early in the morning. Congratulations to you and to me. Let's keep it up and see where we are by the time 2021 rolls around. Jude
ReplyDeleteI'm happy to join you, Janet and Jude...15 pounds down and 15 to go to reach my goal. Our town is built on terraces going up from the river, and I live on one of them, so it's a nice walk up and down! I feel much better and my clothes fit better..hooray! Keep up the good work, us! Looking forward to the new book, Janet!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to everyone walking off the weight. High 5s all around!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to you for sticking to it the walking. I was told by my chiropractor that walking and swimming are the best ways of exercising. If I go for a walk it's always first thing in the morning. Notice the if!
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