My Journey With Health And Fitness – A Successful Week

Yet another beautiful day in paradise. Today we are getting ready to host our first dinner party at the condo. Over the past year in particular we have made some great friends down here and I thought it was time to start doing something a step up from going out for dinner which is what we normally do with them. Fortunately I brought down my new Instant Pot so will be doing a rotisserie style chicken which is super easy and turns out awesome. Trust me, I’d rather socialize than cook.

I’m pretty proud of myself this week. As I mentioned before I tend to get lazy when I am here because it is like being on vacation. By that I am making comparison to my usual life of being retired. But you get down here and it is just so easy to kick back and relax by the pool with a cold beer. I am firm on doing more than that this time and I certainly have been successful this week. I have put in 6 days of either walking or running and making my goal for minimum steps each day (note one day I was about 1,000 steps short so walked throughout the condo until I had made those up). I have not slept in a single day and quite frankly I am proud of myself.

So what is different this time? I think part of it is I brought some work with me and have spent several days this past week working for a client. Don’t get me wrong, I am still doing pool and patio time but the mornings I have put aside for a workout and then at least 3 hours of work. On top of that yesterday I did my usual Friday morning phone calls to isolated seniors (it helps that our landline here allows for unlimited calls to Canada). Because of keeping to my usual home routine it helped me to keep to my minimum workout routine. The good news is that I have enough work to do to keep at this most of the next 2 weeks though I may take a day off next week due to some birthday celebrating that I will be doing.

Keeping my routine has also allowed me to remember to post my blog on the regular days which I hadn’t anticipated. Having said that, there will not be a blog on Tuesday because that is my birthday and we have some plans with our friends that will take up most of the day. Now, it is patio time!