Half of Phil

Slow and steady wins the race they say in the tortoise and hare stories. I got the slow part down!  Can't seem to get my walk times down much but did have a bit under 42 minutes one morning. Walking is going good aside from speed and becoming routine.  Up at it everyone morning, since school is out I've been going a hour later, it is nice to sleep but has been warm.  No doubt I couldn't do it mid day at work now and not need a shower and change of clothes! My energy level is much better, I've been doing yard work mid week after work.  I never had the energy for that before. This week I even weighed in under 400 lbs for the first time in years.  Can't say I remember the last time I was maybe a CAD biggest loser?  Probably not though. Next week I'm off to help at a camp with the kiddos.  Will be tough to keep the walking up away from home but I'm planning to do it.  I'll be driving home Friday so my next update probably won't be until Saturda

I just went back and looked this is my 7th week of this journey. I met my first short term goal last Sunday.  I rode my bike to the pool with my daughter.  My son didn't want to ride his, but we had our summers open party and rode.  I had to push some on the first hill, but to be fair it's a very steep hill and I nearly made it up. Hopefully next week we'll get a chance to bike up one day after work. This weekend we are headed out camping with our CAD friends.  We go a couple times a year and have since my son was 3.  My daughter started the next year and has been going since she was in diapers. I'm excited since Santa brought me a fancy REI tent.  Should be a good trip, hopefully not too hot and looks to be dry. I've settled into a routine of walking 2.1 miles every morning prior to work, most days my average time is 42 minutes. The daily stairs was really stressing my knee so I've paused that for now. I've controlled my intake this week and not

Short week after our trip to the coast. I will say it was nice to not be exhausted after the walk to the beach for once. Buoyed by my success at losing weight I lost focus on limiting calories so my weight has held stead the last couple weeks. I got to do better on limiting intake for sure. Walking is becoming more routine.  I was encouraged that I convinced myself to just get on up and walk Tuesday morning after a long weekend.  Reason being that I'd still be sleepy after 45 min in bed when I'd have to get up, and then feel like crap all day for not walking.  So I drug my fat ass out of bed and walked.  Took 48 minutes instead of 43ish but I did it.  My best time has been 39 minutes but it was raining that day, so I had extra motivation to get done. Next committed update is 6/10.  May do it on the 9th since I hope to be in the woods with no cell service on the 10th!