My Journey With Health And Fitness – Getting Back Into My Routine

I’m excited because my husband and I are finally getting to do our Christmas date at our favourite restaurant. We had planned on doing it on Dec 23rd but that was when we were dealing with the cold weather and the horrible freezing rain that made our roads to be like skating rinks. We wisely opted at that time to delay our date until we returned from Mexico. He did suggest when I proposed doing the dinner tonight that we hold off until Valentine’s Day however, I reminded him that we are doing Dry February so if we wait until Feb 14th there won’t be any wine with dinner. He agreed tonight was a better idea.

Now that we have been home a few days I have started getting back into my routine. Now I was pretty good in Mexico in that I worked out at on average 5 days a week. Having said that, it was nowhere near the amount I normally do at home. Yes, I got in 10k steps most days which included, when necessary, doing a walk around the neighbourhood later in the afternoon to get them all in. If I go back and look at my history on my Fitbit for the time I was in Mexico I often walked more than 10k steps in a day though still not the 20k goal that I have been trying to keep.

So yesterday I hit the treadmill for 2 hour long walks at a pretty good speed. However, that only gets me to about 15k steps and I wanted to get in more. I was going out last night with my husband and brother and thought you know what, I’m going to walk and meet them there. I didn’t quite hit 20k steps but I was close. Today, despite the fact that I have been working a good part of the day I still got in a couple of good walks. I know next week I will likely meet my daily goal because I will be back to walking a senior’s dog Mon – Fri. Yes, back to my routine.

And I have also started adjusting my eating habits. I know I am going out for dinner tonight and that likely will mean extra carbs. I was looking in our fridge trying to determine what I should have for lunch and I realized the best plan would be to have some leftover salad to keep my carbs as low as possible so that I can have a nice dinner without doing too much damage.

Apparently my head is fully back in the game. Let’s see how well I do next week.