My DH called me at 8am to ask if I wanted to go for a walk when he got home from work. Sure, I said, trying to be cheery, even though he had awakened me from a strange dream. My plan was to get back on track with diet and exercise today, so that was great timing. I put on some jeans that were less than clean, pulled my hair back in a pony tail, slipped on a t-shirt and sweatshirt and waited for his arrival. Shortly after he got home, I was checking out Yoville (almost have enough coin to buy my Cape Cod) when DH made a disgusted noise...he was trying to put my shoes on. You see, my feet are big and so we get our shoes mixed up easily. Anyway, we got our walking shoes on and away we went. It was cold...32 degrees! It was good to get out and walk...I have had so many things going on the last couple weeks that I have really ignored good eating habits and exercise has only been hit or miss. We were walking under the railroad underpass (highline as they call it here) and spotted a tiny little white mouse! He looked like someone's pet. He didn't look underfed, but I wanted to go to every house and ask if anyone had lost a mouse. You just don't see white mice out in the wild like that! I am still thinking of the little guy and hoping that he hasn't become anyone's lunch! We had a good long walk, although it wasn't as vigorous as it should have been. Stopped by the bike shop and when we got home we took our bikes over to have Spring maintenance done. Last year we didn't ride at all, this year, we just have to. DH took a new bike for a test drive, but decided to wait. It seems to be warming up, maybe I can get some outside work done. First priority has to be cleaning out my car and filling it back up with work junk that is sitting on the porch.
One of my goals is that when I have lost 28 pounds, I will start doing the P90X workouts. I bought the set of DVD's two years ago and was just too heavy and out of shape to do them. I tried, but it was too much for me to sustain. Now I am 6 pounds away from meeting my goal so I started looking at the program last night...specifically the eating plan. I did all the figuring and it came out that I should eat 2400 calories a day when doing the workout. I can't imagine that is correct, I am sure that with the job that I have...spending much of my time in a car or sitting in meetings, that will be too much. Right now I eat between 1300 and 1500 calories a day, burn around 1100 calories in my workouts and I lose 1-2 pounds a week. I wonder if that calculation is based on maintaining weight and building endurance and muscle....who knows? I will have to research it further. The other thing is that I don't know if I will do the P90X every day, or if I will do other workouts, li...
Nice flower pics..i have never been to Longwood...will have to get there someday! Thanks for sharing the beauty! It makes me hopeful that spring is near!
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