I went on a walk with Justin this afternoon.  He’s been feeling sick, so we couldn’t do a full 2 miles, but he did a mile and a half.  I think that’s pretty good.  He went to his room to sleep the rest of the day, but that was likely his plan anyway.

I feel like going to local parks and walking as many as possible for a while.  Maybe mixing that with my usual walks in the morning… maybe doing those in addition to the morning walks.  It’s just so much better on my feet to not be on gravel, but I do miss my usual walks.  It’s been almost a week since I did one out here.  I’ll try to get one in tomorrow morning.  Change is uncomfortable, even when it doesn’t matter.  Walking the paved sidewalks just felt so good, I could have done twice as much as I normally do.  I need to pay attention to those sorts of things.  Wherever I can increase distance without overdoing it, I need to do that.

I need more hats.  I’m trying to get used to wearing hats more.  I like the look of them and they do protect me from the sun.  If I’m going to be spending increasing time outside when the sun is up, I need to wear hats when I walk.  I’m wondering if my 5:00am walks are over for now.  It is my favorite time for a walk, but it’s already too dark now.  If I was going to a gym, I could continue, but I think I might need to push back to 6 or 6:30.  I don’t love that, but I can still get up and do things at 5.  I just need to shuffle around my routine.

Okay, I need to get more work on my sides.  I’m not sure what to do exactly.  I know I can just look it up, and I will.  But it is apparent I need more work on that.

Over the weekend, I lost too much weight.  I had lost 7 extra pounds since last Thursday, which I felt was too fast.  I actually had that revelation while showering on Monday morning.  I just felt like I had lost too much and I wasn’t feeling great about it.  I was eating, but I just felt off.  I confirmed that Tuesday when I noticed I’d lost 7 pounds.  Rapid weight loss is fine, but if it is too rapid that can cause a lot of problems.  In the hopes it was an illusion caused by dehydration, I got some higher calorie foods and just packed in calories for the day.  When I woke up this morning, things made more sense.  It looked like I had lost 2 pounds since last Thursday, which is more reasonable.  I also feel a lot better than I did… and I wan’t feel bad per se.  I was just feeling a little off.  I felt like the fat was decreasing, but not correctly.  I was drinking a ton of water, but it’s dry out there.  I think it might have just been dehydration.  I’m back to normal eating and I’ll just have to wait to see what next Monday’s weight is.  I’m taking this morning’s as my end of week.  I just don’t trust Tuesday’s, even though it would be nice.  I never want to do anything illusionary or so quickly that I make myself sick.

[Walk #126]