In Shape

Well, I'm walking again. Finally.

Seattle was both good and bad for me. Good: I walked just about everywhere I went, including a few times up and down my dad's 500 ft. elevation hill. Bad: I ate meat, and drank my weight in coffee and beer. Excellent, delicious, Seattle coffee and beer. Mmmmmm.

I started my 3-mile walk again yesterday, and surprisingly I haven't felt like total crap afterwards. I think this is partly because it has been quite chilly outside...in the 40's and 50's...and I end up paying more attention to the lovely weather than I do to the fact that I'm walking.

I'm able to do 3 miles in about 50 minutes, at present. Not fantastic...but getting better every day. That makes me feel good...like I'm at least somewhat "in shape," if not totally.

When I get home, I eat something with a lot of protein...usually fake chicken. The only bad thing is that I cannot get full when I eat dinner. Last night I had an entire can of peas, a fake chicken patty, and a banana for dinner...and I was still absolutely voracious. Tonight was the same situation. I guess it's a combination of the walk and the cold that's making me so hungry...but it's negating my good work.

Now all I need to do is get back into the Wii Fit. I haven't done it since coming back...to be totally honest, I'm afraid that the hunk of plastic is going to admonish me if I haven't lost weight, and that's discouraging. Sigh. I will be starting that again tomorrow, though. Sunset is getting closer to 6:15, which means if I get home at 5:15 I should have just enough time to get a walk in before dark, and then I'll do the Wii Fit immediately afterwards. We'll see how that works.

I just calculated on some website that I'm burning about 282 calories during my walk. So, add to that the 145 from the Wii Fit, and that's about 427 calories burned! Wow! If I could do that every day, that would be awesome...almost a full 3,000 calories burned per week, if I could do it 7 days a week. Very nice.

Little by little. Small steps aren't bad. I have to remember that.

Later! : )