Let's go for a really long walk!

 

Every day is a winding road...

I really got depressed about my weight last year and started tracking all the food I ate while walking every single chance I got. Every time I got out to walk, I would walk 6 miles or more. I love walking on the local Suwanee Creek Trail. It's such a relaxing walk. If you walk from the top to the bottom and back, the total milage is more than ten miles. I've done it before and it felt great. I'm sure there's someone screaming...."What the hell are you thinking?! That's insane!" Let me explain.

I love being outside. The fresh air is intoxicating and the exercise is so good for everyone. More people should be getting outside and going for refreshing walks. Granted, we in the northern hemisphere are now in the bowels of summer and it is going to get much hotter than it is now. This week, we in the state of Georgia are looking at 90+ degree weather each day. When I walked outside the house yesterday, it felt like I was walking in a sauna. No joke....the heat almost took my breath away. Fat people have that feeling when they walk out into air soup in the South. It's the added insulation!

I had lunch today with the husband at Waffle House and then stopped by the Jesus Chicken place and got a Peach Milkshake which I love with all my heart! It's the best milkshake around...at 620 calories. I will need to take a long walk today to get those calories taken off my calorie budget for today. That's one good thing about taking a walk. Calorie burning is necessary for either losing weight or weight maintenance. I was raised on a southern diet of vegetables, meat, and bread with pure lard added into all of it. Sure, there is weight issues in my family but the shit food didn't help anything or anyone. If it did anything, it added to heart issues, blood issues, fat issues, and probably mental issues. At nearly 48 years old, I had to do something to start reversing all the bad that food did to my health.

Last year, I had a test run to see if there was any calcification in my heart walls. Thankfully, the result was a zero. That's great since that leads to heart disease and heart attacks. The grand father-in-law just had his third heart attack and it looks and sounds scary as hell. That's something I wouldn't wish on anyone. It hurts everyone around to see someone in pain and in the hospital, but the person suffering is the one getting the brunt of it and needs some life changes. Maybe the beer, cigarettes, and whatever else could be lessened. We'll be standing by to see.