Walking

My gallstones have forced me to improve my eating habits and I’ve managed to lose three kilograms in two weeks. I’ve just started seeing my clothes becoming looser on me and I’m hoping to get back into the size 14 clothes I bought a couple of years ago. I’ve been a lot slower to get going with any exercise program. I was going to do some exercise using the Wii and one of our programs but the Wii fit board was out of power and by the time that was sorted out, it was close to dinner time. After dinner I went out for a walk instead.

Walking really is the best exercise for me but I do have one tiny problem. I go out and I find myself wandering along and it’s well over an hour later that I find my way back home. By this time it’s usually dark or nearly so. My feet are sore and it will put me off walking for several days. Tonight I started out like usual with no particular route in mind. But at some point I decided where I was headed and which route I would take to return. There was a slight temptation to keep going further but I managed to stick to my plan once it was made. It probably helped that I had some upper abdominal pains starting around the time I might have strayed. The last thing I needed was to be stuck a long walk from home with severe pains. Anyway, I made it home just under an hour from when I left, which was just about right. And happily, my blood glucose level was a fairly low 4.7 when I checked it two hours after my meal. All in all it was a successful walk.