It’s hot and I sweat out a ton but I walked 1 mile today! I have definitely gotten in better shape over the past 40 days. For example, when I used to start a walk, by the time I crossed the street my heart was already in the 130s. It’s now in the 1-teens. This morning it was 116.
In the next walk or two, I should be able to make it to the store. That full walk is around 1.29 miles. I also did this walk at an average of 2.05 miles an hour, which is also great for me! That might seem snail slow to many but 3mph is basically jogging for me, even at my lowest weight of 206lbs.
As for the scale, drumroll…………………………………..
I am currently 317.4lbs That’s down another 1.8lbs. That’s 18.6lbs down in 40 days and over 5% of my body weight and more than 10% of my total goal.
So I’ve been in a peaceful happy mood all day. I saw fireflies the last two days and love those little blinking bugs. I took a short video which I shared on the facebook page. I plan to try and get a better one tonight after dark.
I slept well and had interesting dreams. I love remembering my dreams because they often are interesting and entertaining. I only recall bits and am going to work on remembering them more often.
So, what has any of this to do with my weight loss? Well, being around things and having experiences you love always help any journey for health.
I also got a few more bits for the thigh protectors I’m making and a new plant. Well actually, it’s a big chunk of thick roots haha
Guesses?
Anyone want to guess what I have? I’ll give a hint. It’s supposed to spread a ton.
Anywho, I plan to weigh in tomorrow. I feel very good about my progress thus far. Everything is going well.
It is beautiful out today. I got up early like normal and did 25 minutes on the TG. My body has adjusted to level 4 and my hear rate was below 100 for like the first 7 or 8 minutes. I had to run on it, jump squat and use my arms a lot to get it up to the 120s. That means… it’s time to move up to 5 for legs. This is great but also sad since my highest level is 6 meaning I’ll have to change things up to get the same calorie burn. It’s exciting more than anything to know I’m gaining that strength.
On to the big 500. I reached an awesome milestone that I have all of you to thank for.
Thank you all soooo much for the support! It is very much appreciated.
I realized earlier today, I made a list of rewards back in September to give myself with milestone losses. I don’t remember ever posting that list, but I feel there should be rewards for you all as well. Look out for a giveaway announcement soon. I will probably do it when we hit 1000 likes. I’m excited!
Happy humpday! A coworker of mine says that often on Wednesdays to make callers laugh. She’s quite adorable, really.
Anywho, it’s been humid and hot. Not even the plants like it. They are mostly still ok, but it needs to rain soon. The ground is hard and dry. I love the weather, even if it doesn’t always seem like it haha! My beans were much bigger when I looked yesterday, so hopefully they will reach the fence I put up for them soon and cover it. I trellised the rows for beans, tomatoes and cucumbers. I might be able to sneak a pepper or two as well.
Well, enough side tracking, why does this post have that title? Because someone recently posed the question to me. So, I posed it myself. Does it have to be hard? My adamant answer is no.
My journey hasn’t been hard up to now and when I was doing this a decade ago it wasn’t hard then either. There were frustrating patches in the journey, but the journey itself wasn’t what I would consider hard. I don’t think we should think of most things as hard. That puts walls in our path.
The journey is just the journey. It will go as it goes. I can try to lead or follow but I can’t force anything to happen that shouldn’t. I can, though, halt progress with self sabotage. So, does it have to be hard? Only if we choose it to be hard. Life is life. It’s not always going to be easy. But it doesn’t have to be hard if I just let go and live it.
We have free will. We almost always have the ability to make choices in our life. What do I want to be, do and have?
If I never make a choice I’ll be stuck where I am, which is an ok place, but not where I want to be forever.
This journey I’ve chosen to be on is one for health, yes, but that is far more complex than what appears on the surface. What is healthy?
It seems to me that that is something we all come to our own conclusion on. I feel and believe that health is internal and external, mental, spirtual and physical. You can be the most in shape person on earth, running marathons and competing in sports? Does that mean your healthy?
There is no instant trip to health, either. You can lose 170lbs ( my personal total goal) but if your mind and spirit is in turmoil it won’t make you happy long. If I wasn’t working just as hard internally as externally I’d have many more worries about my life in general which would make the weight loss part a lot harder.
Now, never forget, I am admittedly lazy. I have tried to “cheat” the journeys in the past and it never gets the results I really need. We all are lazy in some way.
You know what works for me? I mentally and spiritually clean on things that bring me out of my happiness. What do I mean? Well I do whatever I can do take self responsibility. This issue was brought to me so it has to be a reflection of something inside me that I need to work on.
So, how do I do that? Through my life I’ve done it various ways, but love, asking for forgiveness for whatever was in me that drew the issue to me and then thanking my vision of “deity” for releasing it in m, is what helps me the most. This isn’t an instant fix, I still get angry, grieve and go through more issues than I like, but I am responsible for creating my life, my happiness and the choices that continue the journey.
Well, I should get back to my job. I don’t know why this pulled in me to write this today, but if it helps one other then I’m glad.
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