New Habits

Day 3
Date:  Wednesday August 9, 2013
Weigh in:  Don’t know yet.
Exercise Report:  Got my baseline pedometer reading, taking a walk after I post.
Pounds lost: 0 (No Weigh in yet.)
Healthy food decisions: Lunch:  2 Krab sticks and a no-sugar added cup of applesauce.  Green tea.
Not so healthy food decisions:  Food at work, Qdoba for supper.  But it was delicious!
Distance walked: My pedometer reset itself at some point, but I checked it throughout the day.  When last I checked it, I was at 2156 steps, and when I got home it was at 190.  I’m just going to make my baseline a nice even 2500.

So my goals for today were to get a baseline walking distance and to drink my 5 refills of water, one being green tea.  And I sorta got those accomplished.

If you recall from this post, one of my goals for right now is to double my walking distance.  So for today I got my baseline reading.  I tried to keep my walking at my normal distance.  I must have accidentally hit reset at some point, but I checked it toward the end of my work day and I was at 2156 steps.  When I got home it was at 190.  Not sure how many steps I took in the time between checking and resetting, so I am going to just call my baseline 2500 steps.  So my new goal is to walk 5000 steps.

As far as water goes, holy shit.  How do people drink that much water?  Keep in mind, I am coming from being a teacher.  Believe it or not, teachers don’t get a lot of time to take care of their own basic needs.  Drinking something means you have to go to the bathroom, and ain’t no teachers got time for that shit.  My new job gives me a little more freedom for that sort of thing, but I still work with kids, so I get distracted and realize “Wow!  It’s 4:00 and I haven’t had a drink since noon.”   Is that weird?  But!  I am about 4 ounces into refill #4, so there is still hope for me tonight.  And the very first one I drank was a full 24 ounces of green tea.  Woo hoo!  Go me!

I had tried green tea before and thought it was foul.  But this blend is much less bitter.  So, there’s still time to drink 2 more… although I feel like a very full pitcher of water as it is.  So I will realistically try to drink at least one more.  Goes well with my walk.

No gym membership yet.  Unfortunately I need to wait until I get paid.  Kinda broke at the moment.  But!  The two block area I live in is great to walk.  The first two sides are both pretty flat, but that third turn… UPHILL.  Pretty steep too.  I was pretty excited.  I felt the burn.  My poor fiance felt it too, and he is less into this fitness thing, but he wanted to keep me safe on my walk.  So this was a decent exercise until I get my pass.

I feel like this post was boring as shit, so if you have made it this far, low-fat kudos.  But here is one of the reasons I want to lose weight:  for the fucking adorable clothes.  I really don’t care about looking hot like so many people do.  I just want to wear cute little dresses and jeans that make my ass look good and nice tops, and I never want to wear the fucking plus size floral pattern ever again.  Ever. Again.  What is it with plus sized retailers and the ugliest fabrics known to man?