Day 42: Hope Never Dies

 

Saturday September 28, 2024

Here is the link to my original Day 42. It was  Thursday February 14, 2019. My headline that day was "Love Yourself". It was Valentine's Day and I was alone. There was a foot of snow on the ground and more coming done, so I had taken a vacation day. It appears I started doing the Hauru Beach Walk with John Peel that day. This is where I started doing the same workout every day until it became easy. I scheduled a workout from part 2 of Road to Recovery and the beach walk for today. My plan is to do the beach walk every day, just like I did in the beginning. It has 2.8 mph intervals, which is a big step up for me right now. After the beach walk I stepped up to the Atlas Mountains walk with Tommy Rivs. That was a big step for me, because I don't like beards and he had a thick one. He still does but you can't help but love him, even with the beard. It's also a much longer workout at 32 minutes. There is some incline but it's nothing I can't manage.  Max speed is 2.6 mph and that is also easy enough to manage.

I woke up several times but didn't get up until about 9:15 today. I had a hard time getting to sleep for some reason, so it was long after 2 am before I finally settled. It was cloudy when I got up but by 10 am we had blue skies and sunshine. I opened all the windows to enjoy yet another day of fresh air. I put away the rest of the dishes after I fed the cats and it felt so good to have the kitchen cleaner ! I'm going to work harder to keep it that way ! I had my breakfast and watched some YouTube while playing Cookie Jam, then got up to get dressed around 11. I ended up making the bed, vacuuming all the carpet and cleaning up a new stain on the carpet before I got dressed. Looks like Minnie barfed a little bit. I also cleared a lot of junk off the kitchen table. I have 6 Nutrisystem dinner items that expired in September so I'll be having rotini & meatballs for a few days. The calories are low enough that I can have them for lunch or dinner.

I weighed myself this morning and the scale still says 280. The only items I've had that are not on the program is that bag of pretzels, 2 glasses of wine, 2 beers and a flatbread pizza. Is that enough to keep the scale from moving ? I will finish the wine today (very little left) and I will stay away from the pretzels. Is it possible I'm not eating enough ? I don't know. For now I'm going to keep doing what I've been doing and I will be sure to get 2 workouts a day.

Breakfast was 150 calorie pancakes with sugar free syrup. I had an 80 calorie yogurt around 12:30. Morning snack was a 155 calorie vanilla shake with peanut butter powder. Lunch was the usual 220 pepperoni pizza melt and chef salad. Afternoon snack was an 80 calorie cheese stick and 100 calorie crackers. Dinner was 220 calorie rotini & meatballs. Evening snack was a 140 calorie lemon zest cake. That puts my calorie at 1145 for the day.

I didn't make it to the treadmill at noon today but there is no reason to set a specific time for my workout, since I'm not working. Why am I putting that pressure on myself ? Going forward the only goal is to get 2 workouts in before I go to bed. Simple ! I did make my shake before I sat down with my yogurt and coffee. I had also scheduled my 2 workouts. All that was left was to put on my socks and shoes and get it done !

Workout #1 ended at 2:52 pm. I again went with the 2.3 mph speed for the bulk of the workout, along with a 3 minute warm up at 2 mph and 4 minute cool down at 2 mph for 2 minutes and 1.8 mph for 2 minutes. This seems to be working, so I'm going to continue at this pace for the Road to Recovery workouts. The Hauru Beach Walk that I will do later is 2.4 mph with 2.8 mph intervals. This will be a stretch, so we'll see how it goes. I believe it's only 8 intervals so I'm hopeful I can do this ! My left hip seems fine so I feel like my exercise program is going in the right direction. The more weight I can shed, the better off my joints will be !

Below is what I achieved today. I am focusing on what I did today and not looking back to what I did or didn't do yesterday. I changed up the checklist to only list exercise once. Each x equals a completed workout.

Make the bed - x

feed cats - x

have breakfast - x

exercise - x

clean litter boxes - 

take vitamins - 

get dressed - x

have morning snack - x

have lunch - x

have afternoon snack - x

have dinner - x

have evening snack - x

shower - 

skincare - 

brush teeth -