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Little by Little ... Choosing my OR

New Year, New Focus!

1/2/2020

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A week ago I started using the treadmill. The first day I walked 1/2 mile at 0% incline & 2 mph. My knee (with the torn/sprained ACL & MCL) felt like it was nothing but jelly. The next day I made it a mile - 1/2 of it at 2 mph and 1/2 at 2.5 mph. It took me about 30 minutes to walk that mile. 
Then I spent 3 days cooking for New Year's Eve and didn't walk on the treadmill. 
Today, I walked a mile again. 1/2 mile at 2.5 mph & 1/2 mile at 2.8 mph, all at .5% incline - and did it in 23.32 minutes!!! 
Woo-hoo for me! 
Not where I was. Not where I want to be. 
But better than I have been these last 3 months.
And it is encouraging to shave time off that mile. 

I'm forcing myself to drink water. I have a low tolerance for it. But I know I need it. 
It's hard not to think about food at certain times of the day - breakfast, lunch and supper especially. But I am trying to break that thought pattern. I know I need to eat, but I want to make the wiser choices, and eat better - as well as eating less. 

I'm going to make an appointment with my new doctor. I need a complete check up. Praying for excellent reports, and a complete "ok" to exercise and lose weight. 
I think it will be both a discouragement & a help for me to be weighed at the doctor's office. Document it. I think about what it will feel like to go back in a month and be re-weighed, see less numbers - - I HOPE! 
I will work at it seriously for 3 months. If I don't see some pretty good numbers, then I will ask about help. But I really want to do this by myself - FOR MYSELF. 
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    I have struggled with my weight since I was 8 years old. Trying one diet after another. Some with momentary success, others with no success at all. At 59 years old? I'm done. No more. Enough of the ups & downs. 
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