So These Three Old Ladies Walk into a Blog...

It’s What's in My Head Wednesday so here's what is rolling around in the vast expanse of my noggin.  I was driving home yesterday when I saw three women walking.  Now these were three old women.  Ain’t no way to be politically correct and say “mature” or “senior.”  I’m talking OLD.  One of them reminded me of the Shoebox Greetings lady and another of Clara Peller of “Where’s the beef!” fame.  The third looked like her social security number could be a single digit.  Seeing these three elderly ladies out for a late afternoon stroll, the first thing I thought was here are three women of advanced age and they are out getting exercise.  How sad is it that I haven’t gotten my butt out here to do the same.  Okay.  So that was the second thought.  The first was better hurry, ladies, before you miss the early bird  senior’s special down at the Sizzler.  But, honestly, I was a little shamed.

So this week my thoughts are about exercise, blog content and long-term planning.  Exercise first.  I am in a mental struggle about motivating myself to do this movement thing religiously.  As much as I want to be healthier and burn off calories (Did you know you never actually burn off fat cells?  More on that another day), I equate exercise with discomfort and boredom.  I'm trying to change my 'stinkin’ thinkin’' as someone i used to know would say.  But it is gonna be freaking hard.  Well, this whole thing is kind of hard so I will just add it to the 'suck it up' list.

Blog content is bugging me a bit.  I am doing my best to provide insight into my journey as well as entertaining, informative content.  A few weeks ago, in my inaugural post, I said I would be doling out small bites.  Well, damnit, I am having trouble coming up with enough bites that meet the above criteria.  But the writing is fun, cathartic and I know I am impacting some folks.  I do hear from them and it puts me on top of the world.  Several of you have been giving me potential material and I will be using much of it.  I am truly grateful so please keep the suggestions coming.  The daily writing thing is all new to me and I just need to get into a groove.  Enough on the blog content for now; let’s talk something long term.

I am dreading having reconstructive surgery.  Like so many things, exercise, for example, I want to procrastinate.  Avoid the unpleasant at all costs.  I’ve been lucky to be fairly illness-free and, let's face it, surgery is downright scary.  But just today I realized that, sooner rather than later, I should find a surgeon to get an initial consult.  It will be much easier if I find out his/her opinion on when I should do it, whether it’s multiple procedures or just one and how much money will I need for the whole shebang.  That info will likely either relieve any stress I have about the whole mess or amp it up considerably.  Good thing I don’t let too much get to me. 

Well, that's WIMHW for this week. 

Oh, and I did walk tonight.  Right before I sat down and wrote this, I walked 1 mile at exactly 3 MPH.  That burned around 248 calories.  If you want to know how many calories you burn when walking, go here http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

Cya tomorrow,

M

What I ate today:

Breakfast ~ Kashi Vanilla Island cereal with skim milk, 1 banana, and toasted almonds.

Lunch ~ I was into a work flow today and didn’t make time enough for an adequate lunch.  I had ½ an apple with about 1 Tb of peanut butter.  Shame on me.

Mid-afternoon ~ Decaf iced coffee with skim milk

Dinner ~ Miso soup, a seaweed salad split with the wife and 2 Maki rolls (sushi) made with brown rice.  FYI, I wasn’t digging the brown rice in rolls containing fish.