Just like that I have finished the first week of my Walking when I wake up and 12000 steps as day challenge. It has now changed to Ruck every day except Monday morning now too 🙂 Only 51 weeks to go until the challenge ends 🙂
This week has been really sucessful both walking wise and organising my flat and building better cleaning habits and building my Morning and evening routines to make be use my time more effectivly to improve my life!
As you can see from the photo of my fridge step tracker I have eaisly got my 12000 steps in every day! This has taken little to no effort due to consistantly walking at least 6000 steps in the morning as soon as I wake up. Because of the morning walking I averaged 13724 steps this week so 1724 steps above my 12000 step goal 🙂
I was not able to Ruck on Monday and Tuesday due to knee issues but I have rucked every day since then and that plus the 10 minutes backwards walking Monday to Friday has really helped my legs feel really stong and pain free which is amazing!
I have also found that walking first thing has made me feel way happier and so much less stressed that I didn’t get anywhere near losing my shit Thursday and Friday even though both days were made way more stessful due to outside issues which before my holiday and starting walking would have lead to me losing my shit and being in a bad mood for the rest of the day didn’t even affect me at all 🙂
I have also noticed that I am much more active when I walk first thing and don’t just feel like going to bed and watching TV as soon as I finish work. I have also found that I am not as interested in watching TV so I stop after an hour or so and do something else like backwards walking or cleaning! This has meant that getting my 10 minutes backwards walking and 30 minutes cleaning before bed has been super easy to so and some days I have done an hour or more of cleaning by choice which is unheard of 🙂
All the extra cleaning and the Lüften (basically opening all the doors and windows for 10 minutes to air the flat out) have meant that the flat is a much more pleasnt environement to live in and the amount of mould is dropping all the time!
I’m not sure if its the flat being cleaner and having less mould and stale air in it or all the walking but an unexpected affect is that my asthma is so much better this week 🙂 I am also way more house proud and this had lead to me finally buying some vinyl flooring for my bedroom to replace the horrible carpet that has annoyed me for 5 years and never looks clean no matter how much you hoover it 🙁 I have also bought a bunch of stuff to finally paint the bedroom while I am updating the flooring it made sense so I will have a super clean and clutter free bedroom by this time next week hopefully!
We also got around to cleaning out the shed and taking a 1 ton bag full of crap to the tip yeaterday 🙂 I now have a semi usable shed although some more clearing out is needed but I have space to get a bunch more stuff from the flat into the shed.
I started the challenge at 108.4 kgs and I am 108.0 kgs today so that in its self is healthy weight loss for a week for very little effort other than getting out of bed and walking instead of pissing my time away on my phone! I have also noticed that although my weight hasn’t significantly over the past week my face, stomach and chest have become way more toned and my trousers are feeling much loser and sagging more than before so all good signs that I am burning fat! My t-shirst are also feeling way baggier than this time last week too 🙂
Another thing I have done is take facebook off of my phone which means that I have not really wanted to be on my phone anywhere as much which has also made me more motivated to do other more positive things!
All in all its been a really productive week and I am looking forwards to seeing how doing this consistantly helps to improve my life further.
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