Scheduling

I just read a great tip on a message board - schedule the rest of life around workouts (exercise) as you would eating and sleeping. We eat and sleep no matter how busy we are because they are necessary to live - we should treat exercise the same way. Our other activities will always fill any available time we have.

Doing the math

I wonder how much walking it will take to lose this extra 5 pounds. If I do the math, it's rather daunting. 3500 calories for 1 pound. 17,500 calories for 5 pounds. 100 calories per 1 mile walk, give or take, depending on intensity. (how intense is a walk on the beach?) Looks like 175 miles? I'll make the math easy. Let's say I have 20 days. Not quite 10 miles a day? Not very realistic. 5 miles a day I can do. I guess I should have started earlier... and I have, sort of. Well, 2 miles in today already, some more to go.

Learning New Habits

Today, I'm practicing not eating unless I'm hungry. Got to keep busy, but I have a lot to do today so that helps.

Cookies

Chocolate chip cookies that have less than 150 calories each. Yum! I can have my cookies and eat them too.:-) (as long as I don't eat too many)

Motivation

A good book - what a great motivation to get on the treadmill! Another motivating factor - it's still gray here and I'm cold. Exercise will warm me up for a brief time, anyway. I'm back trying to eat healthy, so any small incentives, especially related to exercise, are good.

A New Friend

I decided if I could only walk a couple of times a day, at least one walk would have to be more intense. Re-enter my friend, the treadmill. I had set the treadmill aside, so to speak, to walk outside now that something that is not winter has arrived. (with the constant gray and nearly constant rain - we had 20 days in a row with measurable rain - I'm not sure what season we're in) However, the treadmill gives a good workout, and a way to read a book reliably without getting wet. I'm already seeing results.

"More" Exercise

I ran out of time to walk 6 miles a day. So a few days ago I tried jogging. Not good. It has taken me days to recover. Not because I was out of shape - with all the walking I don't get winded. Too many other things got sore.