Sue's Healthy Lifestyle

Walking Around the Block

Today was not so cold out so after doing a good round of situps and pushups, off my stairs. Thank hubby for the good advice here. Makes it easier than trying to do them on my knees or full blown version, yet!

I braved the Canadian winter and took Skyla around the block. She is a really strong lab and loves to pull, so I had to devise a way so that she was not pulling me over in the snow. I ended up putting her leash across my shoulder blades so if she pulled I used my arm as a lever and shortened the leash. It was a tough hour and hard going but we made it around the 4.5 km back home for a nice bowl of Butternut squash and sweet potato soup.

Not sure who is going to be more sore, my shoulders or Skyla! Skyla is three now and if I don’t conquer her pulling when we walk it will be impossbile to do so in the future.

I am feeling really good right now and my stomach muscles are sore so that must be a good sign.

Calories burned for 60 minutes of walking with the dog 332.

Sue

photo credit: AMagill

Off To The Races!

Well I finally got back on track and am raring to go again. A lot of self talk and telling myself not to get disappointed about life. Things normally happen for a reason and my reason will become clearer as the days pass by.

My next goal is to lose 25 pounds. I started back with the 30 day shred again and this time went to level two. There is actually less jumping involved but it is very tough. I was sweating like crazy by the time I was finished and boy could I feel my arm and stomach muscles.

Now that I am not doing my course anymore I miss my walks. I had every intention of starting them up and taking Skyla for a walk around the block, about 4miles. I was just getting dressed to go yesterday morning when a snow squall came in with high, high winds. So needless to say we stayed inside. The storm raged all day here!

I spent some time looking through some cookbooks and picked a few recipes to try out that sound good and are low in fat and healthy. I am pretty much cooking for only the two of us right now, so I have to remember to make less. Especially when it comes to the potatoes! Unfortunately I do love my roasted and oven baked potato wedgies.

You can find part of the reason of how I got more motivated over at my other blog, Whoissuefleckenstein, take a peek and feel free to leave comments.

Sue

photo credit: C-Ali