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May. 23rd, 2012 01:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llcoolvadI have no idea what I've been up to lately. Sleeping, eating, walking, working, doing a few fun things. There you go, update!
I guess I could figure out a few details. Start with walking: Since my last post I've walked 20.06 miles over 9 occasions. I use the Runkeeper app on my phone--very handy to keep track for me. On two occasions it fritzed out (maybe lost GPS? I dunno) so the amount is actually a little higher than that, but that's what I've got tracked. Pretty decent considering all the rain we've had. I walked 2.35 miles this evening in the mist and came home pretty damp, but feeling good.
I had to buy new sneakers to support this. My old ones were never really used for a lot of exercise before, and honestly were the wrong size (a little too big, and yet gave me blisters on the bottom of my toes). I did a little reading about walking shoes, and found out that the ones I had were running shoes which are really not great for walking, since your foot strike is totally different when you walk than when you run. Since you plant your heel then toe when you walk, you need a different design of shoe than a running shoe, especially in the flex of the sole and the shape of the heel. So I went looking and tried on lots of stuff, and found the Merrell Dash Glove in delightful orange. It's a running shoe, but it's the minimalist style and felt great on my feet and a lot of people recommended it for walking. I have ridiculously wide feet and one foot is a little bigger than the other, so buying shoes is an exercise in patience. Wore them for the last two walks, and DAMN if they're not awesome! I've never spent a lot of money on shoes before, really, other than some hiking boots I bought back in the 80s. But wow! Big huge massive difference. No shin splints, joints feel ok, no new blisters, awesome! I might have to think about a second pair for everyday, because they're that awesome. Maybe the black, tho. I mean, for the office! :-)
So the walking thing is good. I still haven't seen a lot of action on the scale lately. I've gone down about a pound this month, but since I bounced around a lot last month I guess that's good. I might have to change up some of what I'm eating. I'm thinking of going low carb, but it's going to take some serious meal planning ahead of time. But I'll see how the next couple of weeks go, first. Trying to increase water and cut out a little more sugar first (hidden sugar, I mean, in processed food) because I really dunno if I can handle low carb when I live with someone who eats practically only carbs. My total weight loss since July is about 81 pounds, which is awesome, but it's been slow for a while and I need to shake it up. Still haven't gone back to the gym, so maybe that's the answer.
At any rate, I FEEL a lot better, so even if the scale is stubborn right now, I'm ok with it. My blood chemistry is excellent, my energy level is good, and see previous re: walking. Which this time last year would have been completely outside of my realm of possibility. Patrick and I were out to eat the other night and he suggested going to the mall near the restaurant we were at, and so I started to walk towards it and he said "where's your car?" and I said, oh, I thought we'd walk, and he was all "it's a totally new world!" which was amusing.
(The embarrassing part of that previous thing is that the mall is literally across the street from the restaurant. And previous me would drive there. Of course previous me didn't like to go to malls at all because there was too much aimless walking around.)
Work is fine. Have to write some training materials this week to hold some training sessions on MS Word for everyone, since we're highly sick of everyone sucking at Word and using it as an excuse to never work on Word documents. I am going to try to kick ass at that so I can add it to my portfolio.
Sleeping: not sure how this is going. I haven't been using my CPAP since I moved. I hate it. I can't help it. I read about another technology that I need to explore and see if I can get. It's some kind of single-use nose plugs that don't attach to anything, just apparently provide resistence when you breathe out. Since I'm a nose-breather it SHOULD work for me. And without the hose and machine and so on I'll probably use it. It's not covered by insurance, but it's not that expensive, so I need to find out where I can get it. Mom hasn't been able to tell if I'm still snoring because I keep my door shut and I wake up if I hear anything going on.
Not sure what I've done for fun the last few weeks. Let me check facebook (the respository for my brain, apparently): Hmm, watched some tv, Sherlock most importantly. Read some, listened to some audio, listened to the final shows of Adam 12 and Julie Kramer on FNX, watched some more Revenge with Patrick. I think that's it.
I guess I could figure out a few details. Start with walking: Since my last post I've walked 20.06 miles over 9 occasions. I use the Runkeeper app on my phone--very handy to keep track for me. On two occasions it fritzed out (maybe lost GPS? I dunno) so the amount is actually a little higher than that, but that's what I've got tracked. Pretty decent considering all the rain we've had. I walked 2.35 miles this evening in the mist and came home pretty damp, but feeling good.
I had to buy new sneakers to support this. My old ones were never really used for a lot of exercise before, and honestly were the wrong size (a little too big, and yet gave me blisters on the bottom of my toes). I did a little reading about walking shoes, and found out that the ones I had were running shoes which are really not great for walking, since your foot strike is totally different when you walk than when you run. Since you plant your heel then toe when you walk, you need a different design of shoe than a running shoe, especially in the flex of the sole and the shape of the heel. So I went looking and tried on lots of stuff, and found the Merrell Dash Glove in delightful orange. It's a running shoe, but it's the minimalist style and felt great on my feet and a lot of people recommended it for walking. I have ridiculously wide feet and one foot is a little bigger than the other, so buying shoes is an exercise in patience. Wore them for the last two walks, and DAMN if they're not awesome! I've never spent a lot of money on shoes before, really, other than some hiking boots I bought back in the 80s. But wow! Big huge massive difference. No shin splints, joints feel ok, no new blisters, awesome! I might have to think about a second pair for everyday, because they're that awesome. Maybe the black, tho. I mean, for the office! :-)
So the walking thing is good. I still haven't seen a lot of action on the scale lately. I've gone down about a pound this month, but since I bounced around a lot last month I guess that's good. I might have to change up some of what I'm eating. I'm thinking of going low carb, but it's going to take some serious meal planning ahead of time. But I'll see how the next couple of weeks go, first. Trying to increase water and cut out a little more sugar first (hidden sugar, I mean, in processed food) because I really dunno if I can handle low carb when I live with someone who eats practically only carbs. My total weight loss since July is about 81 pounds, which is awesome, but it's been slow for a while and I need to shake it up. Still haven't gone back to the gym, so maybe that's the answer.
At any rate, I FEEL a lot better, so even if the scale is stubborn right now, I'm ok with it. My blood chemistry is excellent, my energy level is good, and see previous re: walking. Which this time last year would have been completely outside of my realm of possibility. Patrick and I were out to eat the other night and he suggested going to the mall near the restaurant we were at, and so I started to walk towards it and he said "where's your car?" and I said, oh, I thought we'd walk, and he was all "it's a totally new world!" which was amusing.
(The embarrassing part of that previous thing is that the mall is literally across the street from the restaurant. And previous me would drive there. Of course previous me didn't like to go to malls at all because there was too much aimless walking around.)
Work is fine. Have to write some training materials this week to hold some training sessions on MS Word for everyone, since we're highly sick of everyone sucking at Word and using it as an excuse to never work on Word documents. I am going to try to kick ass at that so I can add it to my portfolio.
Sleeping: not sure how this is going. I haven't been using my CPAP since I moved. I hate it. I can't help it. I read about another technology that I need to explore and see if I can get. It's some kind of single-use nose plugs that don't attach to anything, just apparently provide resistence when you breathe out. Since I'm a nose-breather it SHOULD work for me. And without the hose and machine and so on I'll probably use it. It's not covered by insurance, but it's not that expensive, so I need to find out where I can get it. Mom hasn't been able to tell if I'm still snoring because I keep my door shut and I wake up if I hear anything going on.
Not sure what I've done for fun the last few weeks. Let me check facebook (the respository for my brain, apparently): Hmm, watched some tv, Sherlock most importantly. Read some, listened to some audio, listened to the final shows of Adam 12 and Julie Kramer on FNX, watched some more Revenge with Patrick. I think that's it.
