take a walk everyday

Did the 1 mile trail at Walsingham Park. I started around 2pm after a lazy morning and regretted starting so late. I think I would have walked more if the sun weren’t beating down on me from directly above. I’ll have to get an earlier start tomorrow.

I plan to walk every day for 30 days – with the exception of my 12-hr days at work and days when it is thunderstorming when I plan my walk. I will try to make other arrangements when it storms, such as use the treadmill or plan a different time, but if work doesn’t allow for a change in plans, I won’t penalize myself for it. I plan to start slowly and work my way up. I hope that this goal allows me to transition into some of my other fitness goals that seem too lofty for me at this point.

Day 1: I walked the 1 mile trail behind my house. The weather was beautiful and not as hot as I was expecting. The trail was strangely empty, I only saw 3 people the entire time. My calves were & still are burning – I am so out of shape! I feel great and proud of myself for getting out of the house.

If I make it for 9 more days, I’m going to call this goal complete. If I don’t walk, I feel worse than if I do walk. It really gets my day going so I think this has become a positive habit.

I hate to say this but some mornings I want nothing more than to lie in bed and rest but I can’t. I feel too nauseated and dizzy to stay there. It’s just too uncomfortable to ignore. I can’t stay up late either. I’ve been converted into a morning person! LOL I never would have thought it could happen to me. I have always been a night owl. But it makes me feel so much better than I have to do it. The only other thing I can do is go to bed earlier to get more rest since I still feel tired from going out of town this passed weekend.

around 6:30 in the a.m. Can barely believe I’m doing it. If it weren’t for the obvious improvement of my mood, I wouldn’t have as much motivation. But if I walk I don’t have crying spells. I don’t get angry and blow up as much. I laugh and accomplish more. I wish I could say I was losing massive amounts of weight but not yet. I do work out at the gym as often as possible too. If it were just weight loss or health, I’m not sure I could be so consistent but exercise flat out controls my moods. I’ll do anything to keep from feeling yucky on the inside. I believe! If it weren’t for the bursitis in my hips! I hate needing to balance how much I do to keep the pain level in control. But if it gets too painful, I have to back off and that is not a good thing at all.

I’m doing far better on this goal than I thought I would.I’m doing my third week. I actually experience a pretty serious emotional crash if I don’t walk. I needed to rest my hip joints since they were getting achy from some much exercise so I didn’t walk this weekend. I got extremely irritable and cried a lot. Monday I started back on my routine walk and my moods have stabilized. I’ve been working out at the gym on Sunday afternoons but that doesn’t seem to replace the morning walk. What am I going to do when it gets cold?

I have taken a morning walk every day since Saturday. That’s 5 days. i can tell a definite difference in my appetite and my mood. Since I feel better afterwards, I’m in a better mood at work. I start feeling bad again before or after lunch but if I continue with the activity, I have felt pretty good by 4:00 and the rest of the day. This is such an improvement over previous weeks. it really gives me hope because such a small things made such a big difference.

According to my physical therapist, a walk in nature everyday will help my problems with balance and ease the effect my vision(nystygmus) is having on my balance. Actually several short walks a day would be best to reprogram my brain but I don’t think it possible. Five minutes around the block will help re-program my brain and fascilitate my healing. If nothing else, I can go outside a few times a day and look in the distance at trees and fields. Being inside looking at walls all day isn’t good for me.

this has been really easy for me to accomplish lately. my son is now old enough to go outside a lot, and boy does he love it. i really enjoy this. my son loves to be outside, i’m getting some exercise in, and i get to breathe some fresh air everyday. good stuff :)

All right, I have to be realistic about this – there is no way this is happening any time soon so I’m taking it off the list. I am nine months pregnant with my second child and my husband is deployed to Iraq – I just can’t get out for a walk every day even if I want to. I am hoping that I can get out every few days after the baby is born – I got a double stroller and would like to take the kids out when I can, but I don’t need the guilt right now of seeing it on my list!!