NEW PLAN

I have been thinking a lot about my exercise. Its so off and on that it worries me that I'm not consistent.

I really do enjoy first thing in the morning but it seems that I quickly weary and what works one week suddenly becomes exhausting the next I'm not sure what this is all about but I do know I need to be consistent for my health. I'm not talking weight loss here because whatever I weigh there is value in walking and stretching and resistance exercises to keep the body agile and healthy. Improved weight loss is a spin off of being active.

I am approaching my 10% lost milestone. When I reach it I'm going to work all over again as though that is past and gone and begin to lose another 10% of my body weight. I have 1.5 kg to lose before I count myself as having reached the 1st milestone.

My next one will begin when I weight 95 kg so I will count it reached, and passed when I am 85 kg then I can decide how to proceed once more. 85 kg will be my lowest weight since sometime in 1991 or early '92 I would think.

Back to exercise. I will walk with a goal of so many kilometres a week.

I will set my goal on Sunday night or Monday morning for each week. I'm less likely to overstretch myself and burn out if I don't make long term predictions.

I'm not worried about this week that is more than half gone because my focus has been on what I eat.

Since I am here I will tentatively set my walking distance for August 16th to 22nd at 15 km. Since I have 4 days of going out for various reasons that will be something of a challenge but it is achievable so I'm leaving it there and I'll see how I go.

There are about 20 weeks to the end of the year.

One goal I thought might be fun for me is to see if I can walk 500 km before the year ends. That would mean some weeks I need to walk 30 or more km to get my average up but I think I can do it. Map My Run will help me keep records. It's a pain to use but I don't know if there is a better one. It wuld be easy-peasy if the maps stayed stable while I put in my run. I don't know whether I am using it the wrong way or not as it takes quite a lot of patience everytime I put in a new route. The Google Maps are detailed so I can be very accurate but they do want to slide around and in and out of zoom. Is it me?