Day Fifty-Seven: Finally! A Walk!

After a lazy morning, we got lucky and had a break in the rain today. We immediately hit the neighborhood trail for a VERY MUCH needed walk! We were all getting cabin fever.

It's been eye opening taking family walks on the weekends. I watch the effect it has on the kids to get out into the woods for a little while, even when they don't want to go. They can be full-on hot whine-y messes all morning, and they can resist going to the point that we almost don't do it, but then, the minute we get into the woods and surround ourselves with trees, it all changes. It is extremely rare that we don't end the walks in better moods than we start. And I have to believe that it's having the same effect on me as it does on them. I know for a fact that walking mid-day makes my afternoons better and more productive. More and more, as I go through this process, do I see the effects of moving more and eating better on me, on my kids, on our family dynamic, on my work--everything.

It sure feels good tonight to have done something active today.

Log:

Exercise:

• Family walk on the neighborhood greenway: 2.76 miles
• Short evening walk to finish steps: 0.52 miles

Nutrition:

• Breakfast: spinach and mushroom frittata, a pile of little tomaotes from the garden, 2 cups of tea with milk and sugar
• Lunch: Salem Street Pub's tuna salad wrap with a side salad
• Dinner: vanilla yogurt with this amazing cashew and coconut granola and half a banana
• Snacks: N/A

Stats:

• Steps: 12,213 (YAY!)
• Calories: 1272 consumed,  461 burned
• Weight: 196.5 on the home scale