Writing, Fitness, and Other Challenges

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I still haven’t made it to water aerobics, but I did make it to my appointment with the nurse at the aquatic and fitness center. She says my goal to lose a pound a month is a good goal that will help me make steady changes that will last. She does think I’ll need to do an hour of cardio three to four times a week in order for me to lose any weight. I’m not sure that’s true, but I guess we’ll see. Going out to California for the birthday celebrations is probably going to put me a bit behind on that unfortunately, but we’ll see how it goes. With the touristy stuff we have going on, I may do enough walking to counteract at least some of the food and booze I’ll be shoveling in my face. Maybe I’ll do a little exercising while I’m there in general. We’ll see.

 

I miss having the writing challenge thing going. It was a good way to force myself to get a few words out and I think that helped me get into writing some stories too. It’s not like I don’t have 3,295,748 prompts I could work on, including everything from my Avengers BigDamnTable (I still have forty-five or so of those to go). I have several prompt books that I could definitely use to write a little something, something. I don’t know. I guess because those prompts were usually diary like entries it was easy to write about them and get started. I’m sure I could find something to replace it. I’ll just have to do a little research. Of course, it helped that other people were doing it with me. It’s always nice to have someone to be accountable to. And not just that there’s someone who is saying, “hey, have you done this?” but also knowing that someone else is going to get it done and if you don’t get it done then you’re the “weak link” or something. I don’t have much of a competitive streak--if anything I tend to shy away from competition, but I think the concept here is a similar one. Like, who can go the longest without breaking the pattern. Who knows, but it was helpful.

 

I haven’t written at least a little something every day for the last few weeks, even if it might have only been a couple of words here and there. I’m pretty excited about that.

 

Tomorrow I have work, but today was a good day off. I’m definitely tired after getting up early for a day off for me to go to the appointment. After that, I ran errands for a bit by myself then had some food. I had to get some stuff down with mom and then shortly after that (and I think another snack) I went for a walk/jog. I wanted to make sure I got my three training  days for the Couch to 5k done for the week. I may have saved that for the very last moment, but I made it. Granted, I’m sure I’ll be short next week, but it’ll be better for me in the long run the more often I can get in the practice of exercising a few days a week.

 

I also decided I try out some protein smoothie/shake things. Dad has a blender and so I got some stuff to give a few things a whirl. I’m excited to see how things go. They might be terrible, but I might also find some good ones. And they may be able to help me manage my appetite.

 

I wanted to work on a story or try to start something, but I barely hold my eyes open and I’m definitely going to need a shower in the morning--plus I want to try out the blender in the morning which means getting up even earlier so I’d better head to bed.