It's been a while since I've posted in health and fitness.
I've been off of diet medication for a couple of months now,
having received no substantial assistance from it since I reached
about 230 lbs. Laurel reached her weight goal of 175 and generally
maintains her weight in the low 170's. But before she hit that goal,
she was afraid she was going to fly past it — so she started taking
on extra carbohydrate to try to "slow her roll." And I took on extra
carbohydrate right along with her. By the end of April I was back
around 240lbs, and not fitting into those lovely size 34's any
longer.
Enter vacation — our biennial Disney death march. Went from
walking about 1,500 steps per day to around 12,000 steps per day.
For as much as I hate all of the walking we do, I always come
home with some extra pep.
One particularly nice evening not too long after we returned, we
took a nice evening walk. After a few evenings of this, My Apple
Watch started to tell me I was doing good things. We started setting
these evening walks as workouts, and now I'm been able to sustain
my longest Move streak now for 16 days.
We've walked outside every evening save tonight — storms going
through the area nixed tonight's installment — but I was able to
grind it out on the treadmill to keep the streak alive.
Over the course of this Move streak, I've noticed my rings are
fitting more loosely again, and tonight I'm back into one of those
pairs of 34" waist shorts.
Over the past few days, I've been trying to take a lap around
the block at some point in the afternoon, then walk about a mile
and a half in the evening. Last night we took a little detour and
ended up logging over 2 miles. I don't think I'm quite ready for
that as a new standard, but it might happen in a few weeks.
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