My Journey With Health And Fitness – A Very Successful Week

Sorry there was no post on Thursday, I was going off on a excusion for the afternoon so had to spend the morning getting my 3 hours of walking done.

I have to say yesterday I had 2 amazing customer service experiences. The first was with my accounting software technical support line. Not only did they resolve my issue but they set my system up so I can do the work via the cloud meaning I don’t have to try and rely on saving everything to a USB. This will actually make my saved work more stable. The 2nd was a call with a credit union that I deal with. They resolved all but one issue which was referred to another department but I was given the instruction that if I don’t hear back by Monday I am to call the rep I spoke with directly. It was so great to finish both calls feeling good.

It has been such a great week workout wise for me. When I got back from Mexico I committed to going back to really pushing myself when it comes to working out. And so I set a goal of Monday to Friday fitness class every morning then at least 3 hours of walking/running during the day. It is a pretty hefty goal but one I have done before and that I want to get back to. The only real issue with this arose on Monday when I realized it was a holiday and there was no early morning fitness class so instead I walked 4 hours that day.

But I have pushed myself even further. Tuesday I got in a good 7km run. At the fitness classes I am not letting myself shy away from doing things that I don’t think I can accomplish. Instead I am trying things 1st and funny, pretty much all of them I was able to do. As well I am forcing myself to reach out of my comfort zone and instead try to use the heaviest weights I am able to. Yesterday I even kept upping weights doing exercise ball crunches because I didn’t think they were challenging enough. As well yesterday I decided to do one last quick walk which brought me up to burning nearly 3,100 calories for the day.

I finished the week off this morning with a run. Initially I had decided to just do a 5km since I have really pushed it this week. However, I started running and after the 1st km thought, hmm, this feels pretty good. And so I decided I could do a 7km run. When I hit the 7km mark I figured I was about 1km from where I would turn to go up a steep hill and went, what the hell, let’s do an 8km run today and so I did. I was pretty proud of myself so as a reward I had a nice soak in the hot tub.

All in all it has been a very successful week and I am proud of myself. On top of the exercise I have been very cognizant of keeping my carbs low and my lean protein high. I have also gone back to measuring my blood pressure twice per day and have to brag that it is pretty friggin’ amazing.

Now on to another successful week.