Update

Every Saturday I review my weekly goals.  This week I had wanted to walk every day.  I managed to walk 15 minutes on one day.  Hummm, not quite what I wanted to achieve.  Ok, this next week I will walk at least 20 minutes on three separate days.  I have got to get back into the habit. 

Standing Up for Weight Loss

A health coach friend of mine just posted this on Facebook. 

STAND UP
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic found that lean people spend 2 more hours per day on their feet than overweight people. Participants in the study who stood, paced, and fidgeted burned as many as 350 extra calories a day and were much leaner than those who didn’t move as much. Get up from your desk at work, talk on the phone while standing, and stay on your feet in waiting rooms—the simplest effort will yield an extra calorie burn that may help you shed those remaining pounds.

A New Beginning

When I started this blog I was a health coach with a program called Take Shape for Life and walking was a big part of my weight loss.  At the time I was living in Gladstone, Oregon, and had started a group called the Gladstone Rainwalkers.  We walked rain or shine...and it was usually raining.

Then I moved to Healdsburg and I stopped walking and gave up my health coaching practice.  That was a couple of years ago.  Now I want to start walking again.  I need to walk again.   I have decided to use this blog to record my success (or failure) to start walking again and to share my experiences.  Hopefully they will help motivate other people to tae up walking. 

Happy Walking!

I'm Back

I seem to have solved my access problems.  Now I can start writing again, but first I have to start walking again too.

Surprise

Surprise, I'm back. It has been a long time since I created this blog. I have moved and have spent the last year learning my new community and creating a support group. Now it's time to get back to walking. This blog will help me get back into the grove.

Walking Humor - The Importance of Walking

Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $7000 per month.

My grandpa started walking five miles a day when he was 60. Now he's 97 years old and we don't know where he is.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

The only reason I would take up walking is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

I have to walk early in the morning, before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven't lost a pound. Apparently you have to go there.

Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise', I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

I do have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

The advantage of exercising every day is so when you die, they'll say, 'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

I know I got a lot of exercise the last few years,...... just getting over the hill.

We all get heavier as we get older, because there's a lot more information in our heads. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

AND Every time I start thinking too much about how I look, I just find a Happy Hour and by the time I leave, I look just fine.

Gladstone Rainwalkers Update

We have had a couple of successful walks, with the group doubling in size. However, we didn't make it out this week. The sidewalks and streets of Gladstones are covered with the ice, the remnants of our first snow storm of the season. We'll walk in the rain and we'll walk in the sunshine, but there a limits and ice is one of them.

Today we're in the middle of our second storm, with both snow and freezing rain in the forecast. The next storm, the big one, is scheduled for Sunday and into Monday. The outings of the Gladstone Rainwalkers may not occur until sometime in the new year.