Of course the snow would wait until we start moving. The weather is making it very easy for me to make decision and choices to get healthy. Shoveling show, moving furniture, boxes and so on is making me find muscles I never knew I had, or forgot I had them.
Today is day 3 of moving with at least another week to go, and again it is snowing. At least 5 new inches need to be cleared from walk ways, driveways and so on before we start. Getting the snow out of the back of the truck is one of my least favorite things, climbing up there and getting down makes me realize just how fat and out of shape I am.
A day or two ago Seth Simonds who writes Primal Stride offered a Five at Five Challenge, I think it would be fun to take this challenge, and participate with others making healthier choices. I am not sure I can commit to the first challenge, due to moving and so on. Walking at 5 a.m. is not really safe in my area due to weather conditions. I am going to do my best to take the challenge, get up at 5 a.m. and walk sometime around 7 when the temps and daylight make this more favorable. I am not sure I can complete the just over 3 miles, but will do my best.
Thinking I could also do walk away the pounds for 3 miles in my house – if I can get the family room set up in time which may be impossible with the snow we are seeing today.
We do not have to be alone as we make healthier choices, I have convinced my husband to walk with me and depending on the next challenge I may find he will again participate. Regardless, I will not feel like I am alone in the tasks as I have the Primal Stride to follow.
Signing off for now, boxes to pack, snow to Shovel – Today is New Year’s Eve – be safe, be healthy and see you next year!
Happy New Year!
It is said that it takes 30 days to break or make a habit. Trying to eat breakfast everyday, I failed at that little task today. Once again I allowed my silly schedule to get in the way of eating. We have started moving, and with a fresh snow there were driveways to be shoveled and stuff to do.
I left the house with the intention of shoveling a little snow, eating then shoveling a little more snow. It did not work out that way. Lesson from today is – eat before I leave the house – even if it makes me change the rest of my schedule a little. I did get some great exercise today. With 2 driveways to shovel and things to pack I am feeling a few muscles I did not remember having. I forgot how much your heart rate can raise by pushing a snow shovel. Even the light and fluffy stuff we had today gave me a little work out.
Snow is in the forecast for the next several days, so I am sure I will be getting more exercise throughout the week. I know this week will be extremely difficult to keep a schedule, or stay focused on me, but I will do the best I can and keep taking baby steps.
This morning was one of those mornings I dream of, knowing there is no where to go, no one to see and I can get some work done sitting in my robe drinking coffee. I love my morning coffee, and there is nothing better than a morning that you can jump in the shower – throw a towel on your head – pick up the computer catch up on some emails and sip black coffee. Today I got to do all of the above for a couple hours while my little sister watched Julie & Julia which I love too.
We knew this was the last morning we would have together in a while and enjoyed it immensely, breakfast was kind of late, but at least it was eaten. Not sure you call peanut butter breakfast but it is high in protein.
This afternoon we were blessed with Lisa, AJ and all 4 kids coming to see us for the afternoon – we roped them into staying for dinner which took the act of the mother in law look at AJ – I love making him think I am tough. Dinner was one of my husband’s favorites, Pork Steaks, hash browns and eggs. I made a choice of not having the hash browns or eggs and opted for some broccoli and an apple with mine. It was great to have 4 more grandkids here.
Tomorrow we start moving, and that will be my exercise for the next several days. It is kind of funny, I am a real estate agent, and I think moving is the biggest pain in the butt there is. I have a lot of decisions to make about what to keep, what to throw away, as this move is intended to make me healthy, to purge some of the clutter in my life. Wish me luck, I am going to need it…. my goal is to eat right and make it through this next week.
Today is really the first day of the rest of my life, and tomorrow really does matter. I know that I have made a mess of my body by not taking control over my choices. Some might say I make bad choices or decisions, but in reality I often times do not make any choice. The lesson there is it is time to start making choices and decisions instead of just ignoring the matter and going forward.
This morning after having a couple cups of coffee I thought – I should eat breakfast. Eating breakfast is something I do not do, I know, I know most important meal of the day, starts your metabolism and all that good stuff. I don’t eat breakfast, usually because I don’t want to take the time. I don’t want to make the decision of what to eat and it has become a horrible way to start every day, by not eating.
Over the last few years doctors have told me that I need to eat more often and make better food choices to loose weight. What a funny concept to those out there that do not understand fat people. The general public thinks obese people over eat, that we love to eat and it shows in our weight, I don’t know how many people out there are like me, and don’t eat enough, I bet there are plenty.
I ate breakfast, just a small slice of ham from yesterday and a devil egg, but it was something. The rest of the day healthy choices were made – an apple, some broccoli and even a bowl of soup, Tonight, we are taking my niece to Mexican food and although I know Chili Rellenos are not all that great of a choice – I did have one for dinner – instead of two.
Lesson and decision for today – to make tomorrow matter; Start your day with something to eat – even if it is small, get something nourishing into your system. My energy and food choices were much easier today, and I think it was because I fed my body throughout the day.
We had our traditional Chambers Family Christmas today, some of the family was here some were seen last week and some will be here later in the week. Having a large family with a lot of blended families means seldom do we all get to be together at the same time. We make do and life is often full of chaos.
We had 2 of our girls, their children, my sister and her daughter here for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. This blog is the beginning of my daily diary of making better decisions for me. The gift I decided to give to myself this Christmas. Although times are tough for many (us included) I know there are a lot of things I can be doing to make my life better. By making my life better I hope to share, and discover a better person within me.
Today the biggest decision I had to make was whether or not I would make more Caramels – they sounded so good, and they are good… but today was the end of a holiday that we all over eat and I did not need those caramels made from real cream, butter and sugar. Not sure how many calories I saved myself, but tonight there were no caramels, instead I had a very juicy Apple sliced thin. It was actually very good. Exercise, well I did play a couple games of wii bowling with my grandson, we boxed and that was about it… but hey, it’s Christmas! To anyone that stumbles across this – Hope your Christmas was a wonderful one… What are you doing for yourself this year?
