Day 349

I know I say this quite a bit but, it is hard to believe that it has been 349 days since I came down this road.  I am still amazed at how much I can handle, and I am also surprising myself every day as to how much I can actually take on now.  I feel unbelievable and it can only get better from here on in.  I have another 2 weeks to  go and I will be at my year of embarking on the path of a healthy lifestyle.

I realize that this blog is fairly late, and I probably should have done it sooner but, I have been a little preoccupied with painting my nails, doing some shopping, and visiting with Jan.  I really love being here and being able to do pretty much anything I want.  I could do it anyways but, Jan and I do spend quite a bit of time together and it is very enjoyable.

I have been up since 4:45am, I came downstairs and made my breakfast and then I thought, maybe I will walk to the lrt today.  As it got closer to the time to leave, I decided that I had way too much stuff to carry in order to walk and therefore, called a cab and made a pit stop at Timmie's.  Once I got to Churchill station I realized that I didn't have my smokes with me and so, I dropped my stuff off at Sara's desk and booked it out to find a store that was open at 7am.

I did a speed walk for a half an hour downtown not finding any success and when I got back to work, I realized that I must have been really giving it because my legs were feeling a little on the wobbly side and I was almost huffing and puffing by the time I got back.  I think it's time to quit the smoking.  Maybe I will be able to go longer speed walking without the puffing.

On my 15 min break, I decided to take a walk to go to the smoke shop by work and again, did the speed walking.  So maybe I didn't do the gym this morning but, I am pretty sure I got a good workout in.  I didn't really have to stop for any lights and therefore, I was doing a speed walk for a total of 45min today.

After work, I had every intention of going to the gym after work, since I had packed all of my gym stuff with me and I was going to walk over from clareview.  However, the weather had other plans for me and as I reached the Clareview platform, it started to pour rain and then hail the size of a pea.  I gave Jan a call and asked if she wanted to go for supper at that point being 5pm and then I would go to the gym afterwards.

By the time we got home from supper though, I just really wasn't feeling up to going to the gym.  My back was starting to seize up on me and it was just not going to be a long workout even if I did go.  So, I just relaxed in my chair for a half an hour and then 45 min later I was headed out the door to go Walmart to do some shopping with Cassandra.

Once I got home again, it was too late to go to the gym, and to be honest, I still wasn't feeling up to it.  So, I sat down to paint my nails and when I was done with them, got the yoga mat out to do my stretches.  I did 4 of the normal stretches, held the plank for 47 seconds and continued on to do 60 ab crunches.  I am still not feeling too good in the back but, I will be going to the gym tomorrow weather permitting.

I am excited about this weigh in, because I have kind of been keeping an eye on it.  I am pretty sure that I have done well and we will just have to see what it says tomorrow.  I will hopefully be going first thing in the morning to the gym as Jan and I do have some things that we need to get done tomorrow.  The blog will be up in the afternoon at some point, depending of course what time we get everything done.