Day: July 1, 2024

The Wandering Hermit: Sizing Down

   1 July 2024  Leave a Comment on The Wandering Hermit: Sizing Down

Got in a second walk after I saw the July challenge on Apple Fitness: 2.77 mile walks at least 14 times.  That must be based on my walking average because it is a perfect increase in what I’ve been doing.  But I don’t like taking longer than an hour, so I’ll have to get these extras in in the evening.  It’s so warm.  But I’ve always been averse to even the mildest warmth, but I actually thought it wasn’t so bad.  I suppose that makes sense.  I’m likely having some changes to my body relative to my own heat tolerance.  I’ve always wanted to be someone who could stand to be outside in July, so maybe I’ll get there someday. 

One of the new shirts I got for walking arrived and fits perfectly.  It’s a 2XL, and if I’m being honest, that still feels too large.  It’s been a long time though, and I can start retiring my 4XL & 3XL shirts I think.  My favorite part was that it fit, but was not clingy or snug at all… that’s progress.  My weight loss might be slower than I’d like at the moment, but I am shrinking an that’s the part I’m excited about. 

[Walk #108]

The Wandering Hermit: It’s July. Now what?

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July arrived so quickly!  We had a massive cool-down yesterday, so my morning walk was very pleasant.  I worked up a nice sweat and just generally felt good about it.  

Today I start a bit of a schedule shake up that I’ve been working on for a while.  The point of this schedule is not to get bogged down by the various things I need to do, but to constantly give myself prompts to aid me in keeping up with being present.  I’ve become good at maintaining some of the routines in my life, but I did so by having something specific to do at those times.  A lot of aspects of life require structure for me, especially if I am going to make those things feel spontaneous.  I’m not very good at spontaneity, and that’s okay.  Not everybody has to be.

I’ve arrived in July without any new health goals.  That isn’t to say there is nothing at all to work on, but I have no specific thing in mind.  I’m just continuing to work on my fitness.  That seems to be going well.  I’ll be tightening my diet up a bit, but that comes and goes as well, so it’s not new.  It’s a good month for that as well.  Having a very strictly planned diet works well with the chaos I’m anticipating for the month.  Apple’s Fitness app is challenging me a little.  I need to be doing 2.77 miles of walking every day.  I don’t know if that is based on how much I walk, but it’s actually the perfect goal.  It’s just a little bit more than I normally do, and fits in well with adding a brief afternoon walk.

[Walk #107]