The first step

I now have my book - yeah!   (Written by Sarah Lorge Butler, Michele Stanten, and Leslie Bonci).  The introduction says two very important things for me.  First, if a person has been sedimentary they should begin by walking 10 minutes a day for the first five days.  Second, it is very important to schedule your walk time.  Both of these apply to me!  Even though I spend my day running taking care of work, and home, and family, I definitely classify myself as sedimentary.  This same set of situations also applies to the part about scheduling time to walk.  As an aside, I like the way the book tells you to walk five out of the seven days during the week.  I am sure this is done so that mentally you can feel that while you are accomplishing something, you still get a break.  Which, again, really works for me.  So I have scheduled my first walk.  Where I am walking is another story for another post.

The journey begins...

This is me – 4 ft 10 in tall and 150 pounds!  I am smiling in this photo because it is a very happy occasion, but looking at this photo makes me grimace.  Sure, I have lots of excuses, but none of them are very good explanations for how this happened.  But this week I had a life-changing moment that I have decided to use as my springboard for getting fit and healthy.  I finished the last project for my Masters degree.  I have always told people that once I finish my degree I will have time to read the books that I want to read, not the ones that I have to read.  So, I bought a book that, after looking at this photo, I really want to read – and live – “Walk you Butt Off.”  And so this journey begins with the first step!