Couch 177: I Get a Strange Magic - ELO

Wow. That gave me chills! In a good way.

I hear you as well, Jersey

I'm heading out for a walk. My goal is twice around my long block. I gotta break through this plateau, I've been stuck at -50 since my trip in early July! I do try to look at it as a positive thing though, it also means I've maintained my 50 lb weight loss for like 2 months. In the past when I've lost weight as soon as I stopped losing it would all come back. This time the changes I made in eating have more or less stuck. I just haven't been walking as much. Here I go... !

Maybe a fitbit or using a simple pedometer would help motivate you track the number of steps your walking and you can make it a challenge to get more than X.

Yep I just use my phone, the rally app through work. I jes got lazy....

The morning sky just now on my walk...

Thanks everyone.

Another sky with mountains, and yours truly! (removed)

OK, Art, you've inspired me to go on a walk, too!

I need to go for a walk as well.

Yay! I love the quiet on a Saturday morning. All I hear are birds and the wind in the trees and dogs barking.....

Another mountains pic...

I’m watching extreme couponing on TLC. First, I have no idea how people do that. I think it’s awesome but that’s too much to keep track of. Second, these people who rack up these stock piles of all this food-I mean stuff expires. How doesn’t some of it go to waste?

How come I never inspire anyone to go to the gym and lift weights?

Speaking of which, I bought a weight vest. Partly for me, partly because I can add weight to it and use it in my history of warfare class to give students a sense of how heavy the armor of each period was.

Nice pictures Art.

There is a way to cycle food around so you eat it before it expires. OR they are like me, and will eat food way past the best by date.

I love armor and weapons stuff like that. My person used to roll her eyes at me because I would make us visit museums to look at that sort of stuff every time we travelled. One time when I was not with her, she got kicked out of a museum in Spain for taking pictures of some spanish armor to send to me.

Of course, she dragged me to look at paintings so I thought we were even.

Thats what i was gonna suggest to Art. Doesnt the boy have a weight set?

I feel like I am too fat to show my face in a gym. Honest truth.

He has a couple yes but I don't know if I could even lift them very many times. I should try!

You're a QT Artie!

2.10 miles go me!

Me to and they make work out clothes so clingy-they show every flaw.

One can usually find free weights on craigslist or at garage sales for not very much money.
And my person, when she decided to start lifting weights after her first bout of cancer, started with cans of beans - they were about 1lb -1.5lb each. She worked her way up to 3lb hand weights (a present she requested for xmas from me) and then 5lb. She would get up and exercise with an exercise show on pbs every morning.
There are now a lot of free ones on youtube.

I want to lose more weight before I go and sign up again. Gym sounds harder and I have to be in a gym mind set- when I go I really commit to it thanks to my all or nothing mindset, I'm either going to go 5/6 days a week or not at all. (plus I'm kinda weak, I only lifted weights when I had someone showing me how to do it properly.)

I dance around my house holding a can of beans in each hand sometimes haha

Yeah, that... walking I can do anywhere without any thought or planning lol