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

   1 July 2024  Leave a Comment on The Wandering Hermit: It’s July. Now what?

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]

The Wandering Hermit: Justin & the 10-Day Meal Plan Plan

   30 June 2024  Leave a Comment on The Wandering Hermit: Justin & the 10-Day Meal Plan Plan

I’m starting to feel a bit better.  I was reluctant to wake up this morning, but I still just did it anyway.  I’ve got some yard work to do this morning, but I think I might try to get some extra sleep this afternoon.  I have a lot to do this week and I want to make sure I’m fully over whatever has been keeping me lethargic lately.

Justin has decided to do a 10 day diet.  He wants to start on the first.  I think that’s great for him.  He struggles with the permanence of a new way of eating, but he knows he can handle a 10-day diet.  And when that’s over, I think he’ll give himself a few days to go back to normal and then he might resume the 10-day plan as a more permanent situation.  I had been trying to help him do some planning that included all of the things he likes, but that wasn’t working.  He found creative ways to go around the plan and sneak in hundreds of unaccounted calories.  He needs something far more strict.  He is also working uphill a little since one of his medications causes weight gain.  It used to be easy for him to stay thin.  Now he has to work at it, and I think adjusting to that is frustrating.  I totally understand that.  Since he’s doing something strict, I’ll probably be tightening up my own eating for the month.  And I love that.  I’ve gotten a little lazy about food; I’m still basically eating the same way, but I’ve found myself forgetting to record things.  Part of that is that I had started using Cronometer, but I’m back to writing everything down.  I am far more mindful about my diet when I’ve written it all down as I eat it.  Cronometer is a great tool and I still use it for planning out Justin’s meals for the week, but for myself it quickly became a crutch and an excuse.

[Walk #106]

The Wandering Hermit: Building Rome

   27 June 2024  Leave a Comment on The Wandering Hermit: Building Rome

I’ve been thinking about schedules since my walk yesterday.  I do tend to obsess over things.  I need the structure.  I have a tendency to never get something done if I’m not operating within a strict schedule, and I am never doing that!

I have a slight amount of swelling in my legs at the moment.  I don’t know if I’ve overdone things this week or if I’m having a histamine response.  I’ll keep an eye on it; I don’t want to cause myself problems by being overly ambitious.  And I’m not sure it’s unusual, but my legs have looked better for a while, so it is concerning me.  Rome wasn’t built in a day, and all that.

I’ve gotten lazy with food lately.  Not reckless, but lazy.  I started using Cronometer instead of writing things down in a notebook and I think it has just allowed me to pay less attention to what I’m doing.  I think I need to go back to the notebook actually.  It isn’t hard to track calories; I thought an app would help by showing me nutrient breakdowns of my day.  It does do that, and I can plug that in anytime I want.  But I feel more connected to my day’s meals when I’m responsible for writing everything down and weighing it all.

[Walk #103]