Way behind on blogging

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Couple of bad news items:

  • I've definitely not done good at is keeping this blog up to date.
  • I missed my goal of 30 minutes for my morning walk by Labor Day.  The best time I made was 35 minutes twice the week before labor day.  Once soley just walking and once running, ok jogging, ok well best I could do to immitate these.  I got the same result both ways




The good news is I've stayed the course in walking monday to friday.  My food logging is still going strong and I crossed the 45 lbs lost mark last week.  The downward trend is starting to show through


One of my co-workers started a step challenge at work for the month of Sept.  I figured it would be a fun thing so I signed up.  I bought a Jawbone UP cia bug and started using it 8/27.  The goal is to get 10k steps each day in Sept.  So far I haven't missed a day.  My morning walks get me 4200-4500 steps and then with a little effort I can pick up the rest througout the day.  The tough days are the weekends, especially Sunday.  The good Lord told us to take a day of rest right?  Anyway it's a good extra motivator.  As of yesterday, my whole family is bugged.  The kiddos have discovered the duel option on the app and the battles are on.

I've started tracking my food on the jawbone app vs. the myplate app.  Some things are better abour myplate, but some are better in jawbone.  I decided I'd just plug data into the one app for now, I've still be entering my weight some on the myplate since it has an api to integrate with the blog.  So far I haven't found one for Jawbone.

I'm bummed about not making my goal for the 30 minute time on the walk, but I definitely have felt relief once I realized it was missed and over.  I enjoy the walks more now without pushing for faster speed.  It's also cooled off so the dog goes again most days.  He definitely don't go for speed, too much to sniff and checkout.

Next committed updated 9/20/16, Lets try mid-week udpates, Fridays are hectic

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