My Journey With Weight Loss – Keeping My Mind Occupied

Just back from spending a few days at the trailer with the princess cat. Unfortunately during the heat wave last week some of the wifi equipment got damaged. That meant if I wanted to do anything on my iPad I had to tether it to my phone. Pretty sure I used up a good chunk of my data plan over the past few days.

Training while at the lake is kind of boring. When I’m at home and the weather is nice I get to walk/run along our beautiful bay which in itself keeps me distracted. There is always lots of people to greet, sometimes I run into a friend, often times I am trying to strategically figure a safe pathway around flocks of Canada geese (they are especially mean when they are with their goslings) or avoiding diving seagulls. It means my mind is always working.

The lake is very different. I run on the road that winds throughout the resort but just keep passing the same trailers, trust me I have memorized more trailer brand names than I ever thought I would need to know. I then head out to the road into the resort and run down to the highway. 3 loops around the resort and 2 runs to the highway is what I need to do to hit my goals.

So to avoid total boredom while training at the lake I have to listen to a very engaging book. Can’t be one of those fluff books, has to something I need to focus on. I learned last summer (before I had dared walking to the beach and back up the hill) when I was getting a bit tired of walking uptown and seeing the same things all the time that this would keep my head is the game and not provide me with an excuse to quit. I realized it was really working when I listened to Dr Jason Fung’s The Diabetes Code. Because I loved his anecdotes so much I wanted to do another walk just so I could listen to more. Right now I am listening to Road To Tara which is a biography about Margaret Mitchell. It is fascinating hearing about how she came to be a writer and developed Gone With The Wind. Focusing on that story means the boredom is kept at bay.

I do want to note that today I started my new intervals, 8:00 minutes running/1:00 minute walking for 10 intervals. That means I actually ran for 80 minutes and 9.69 km. I so see doing that 10 km soon.