Just a boring old Tuesday in the Flemerslon household.
I walked 14,000 steps and burned 3,000 calories today. Now that is getting nicer out I am parking at my brother's house and walking to work, which is about 1.5 miles each way. It's a nice easy way to get my steps in, plus save me $4/day on parking.
I followed my diet really well today, too. (Minus those 7 m&m's I had at that meeting.) I've started eating breakfast later in the morning. I used to eat it between 6-6:15 am because that was the only time I had. Now I actually wait until I get to work and eat it between 8-8:15 am. It really cuts down on the mid-morning snacking!
I was supposed to go to yoga today, but my back is still so sore from my accidental 8 mile trek that I knew I wouldn't be able to partake in all the stretching, twisting, and bending that yoga would entail. I feel guilty about not going, but as Bill likes to remind me, you must respect your body and give it a rest when you need it.
So this is what I spent my evening doing instead:
That's my Xbox headset there. I entitled this post "Bad Habits Die Hard" because I do enjoy playing video games, but I also feel like they have a negative impact on my weight loss. If only playing video games wasn't such a sedentary activity. So I have a new idea: I can only spend as much time playing video games per day as I do exercising that day. That means if I exercise for an hour a day, I can play video games for an hour. I'm hoping this will balance out my activity level and get me more motivated to get moving!
If anyone has any other ideas on how to break my "bad habit", I'm open to suggestions! Obviously I'm not going to quit gaming, but I can't spend 5 hours a day doing it, either.
Until tomorrow, readers.
Kayti
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