Christmas is over. I ate too much and exercised too little. I lost the step meter, but even then I wasn't walking enough. So here we go, start over. I made some vegetable soup last week with lentils an acorn squash very tasty. Today I made vegetable soup out of the following

Cabbage, onion, celery, carrot, garlic, lemon juice, beef broth, and worchestershire sauce.

I am going to start making much smaller batches of my soup. What happens is i make a big pot and then get sick of it, but there is still stuff left and I don't go on to make a different batch of soup. Now, I will use a sauce pan instead of a stock pot. I am asking for a Wii and a Wii fit for my birthday, maybe that will get me off my rump.

Sunday stuff

six hours of housework and gardening burned 1410 calories. Seems like it should have been a billion. My feet hurt.

The Nottingham family reunion kind of got me off track. I am back on it today though and ready to get my walk on.

Day 2

yesterday I clocked 4.10 miles. Not to good, but better than the test day. Today I had lunch with Rhonda. We split a meal. Now I need to go out in the garden or go for a walk or both.

Day 1

Okay, I'm back. Scary pictures made me start walking again. Well I was planning on walking again anyway. I bought a new, nicer pedometer. I did the daily activity test and found out that I don't move very much. I went for a 30 minute walk earlier today and will do it again later this afternoon. Really out of shape. My goal is six miles a day. At this time, I am 37% of the way to that goal. Need to get moving. They say it takes three weeks to develope a new habit. So for the next three weeks the goal is to walk every day. I would also like to do about 50 crunches. This should be doable. I don't want to worry about my diet right now, although during the time I spend walking I cannot help but daydream about bigger and better plans. I need to remember not to overwhelm myself. One thing at a time. This month walk. Next month maybe diet changes or maybe add weights. Anyway, til Christmas, I focus on walking.

I did make a yummy lunch. Shredded cabbage, finely chopped carrot, celery and garlic sauted and then finished with some soy sauce. Tastes just like an eggroll without the deep frying and startch. Yummy

Evil three day diet

The three day diet didn't work and I think it might have hurt. I feel bad and I have fever blisters. I won't be doing that again.

Some Good Numbers

A few good things to post about. I have now lost 10 lbs. The ticker shows 27 pounds to go. I take off more than that, but we will stick with that goal for now. Even better, my blood pressure was down in the normal normal range this morning. The wanted me to keep it at 130/90. This morning it was 108/77. Very nice number for me. My heart rate has been running mostly in the 90's to 100's. This morning-77. That is in the normal resting heart rate range. I am showing improvement in my health not just my weight. I think I can bring the numbers down more. I would like my systolic bp to be under 100 and my heart rate to drop into the 60's.

I did two works outs yesterday. My regular aerobics class and a 1 hour walk in the evening. I was hoping to walk this morning, but when I woke it was too hot. We will go to the track again tonight.

Today is the last day of the three day diet. Thank goodness, I don't like it, but I needed a jumpstart.