Author: walkeveryday_e6wtle

Weight = 107.5 Kgs

Steps Completed = 12086

So after getting down to 107 kgs yesterday I relaxed on my diet and wasn’t surprised to see that I have put 0.5 kgs on over night! I got ready and went for my walk but I had to turn back as the crap food from yesterday has upset my stomach and I was going to have an accident if I carried on!

i got home just in time and I think that I have lost the extra 0.5 kgs or more 😁

i am now going to get ready and head to work as I have a bunch of servers to move this morning so I may as well crack on.

I am only on 1300 steps but I think I should be fine to get my steps in this morning as I will be doing a bunch of walking while moving the servers.

This shows that the extra stress from work on top of the stress from a really messy unorganised flat mean that I slip back into my old crappy eating habits and kill my weight loss!

My new heater arrives today so once that arrives I will stick it near the outside wall in my room and leave it on all night. Hopefully by tomorrow then wall will have warmed up and dried the paint properly so that I can do the second coat of paint in the room and then put the furniture back until I can get the floor sorted. I am thinking that I will leave the floor until the weather heats up a bit as the cold has really messed up the painting so I don’t want to mess up the floor too!

i need to sort the flat a bit as the furniture being all over the place really messes with everything and even makes my Luften up as I can’t get to the front door or a lot of the windows so I am only partially doing it at the moment 😔

By the time I got home from work around 12:00 I was only on 8000 steps so when I went to the post box aat 13:00 I went the really long way home along the 2 tunnels and when I got home I was on 11500 steps and my heater was 10 minutes away so perfect timing and I have set myself up to make 12000 steps easily without trying again today.

Once the heater arrives I will set it up then start moving stuff back into my bedroom as I am not going to have time to paint before the weekend as its office move time so I will have to make do until its dryer next week.

This morning I bought some straps for my roof bars so that I can get some battens tomorrow and I also bought some more temporary blackout blinds to use in the lounge and kitchen as well as replacing the current one in the bedroom as its covered in paint now 🙁

The heater has arrived and it is now running and heating up the wall and window on the outside of the room so hopefully this will dry the wall out ready to paint next weekend.

I am amazed at how walking at lunch time has really woken me up as I was starting to get sleepy before I walked and I am now wide awake again 🙂

Weight = 107.2 Kgs

Steps Completed = 15419

So this morning I woke up at 5 with my alarm, went and made my salt water and then did my weigh-in and i had dropped another 0.1kgs to 107.2 kgs so moving in the right direction slowly. I then showered and got dressed and walked up the hill and did my usual loop and I was surprised just how easily I got up the hill and I didn’t even need my inhaler which was lucky as I left it at home anyway.

When I got home I did some work then packed my bag and rode the ebike into the office! The battery was super low so it was a bit of a slow ride but it was good to get my legs spinning again anyway 🙂

I then worked did some bits then built my standing desk and setup my PC and 4 monitors properly and tidied all of the cables so its all looking amazing and is so much better to use now 🙂

I worked until 13:30 then headed home and made some food as I hadn’t eaten all morning! The ride home was way easier and faster as I had charged the battery fully at work which made the bike so much faster 🙂

After eating I went to bed for a nap and woke up at 16:00 and got up and got ready for my on call tonight!

By the time I got home I was already on 15154 steps so going into the office makes it really easy to get my steps in so its a good call to work in the office in the mornings 🙂

For the past week or so I have been losing about 0.1kgs a day so I I can keep that up for 1 year I would weigh 71.9 kgs which would be close to my weight when I was in my prime playing basketball 2-3 times a day which would be amazing.

Getting back to my morning routine felt really good this morning and I was back to feeling chilled out and happy so I really need to keep this routine up.

At 17:00 I had to put my fitbit to charge as its battery was super low so I may not have counted all of my steps today but I have way over 12000 steps already so not a real big issue if I don’t count some.

Today was also my first spend free day of the year so I will try and string a run of spend free days together too so that I can start to save money. I have a lot of pasta and soup and a bunch of stuff in the fridge to eat and 24 eggs so that should keep me going for the rest of the week at least 🙂

Weight = 107.3 Kgs

Steps Completed = 12319

This morning I woke up at 5am and then went back to bed until about 7am. I then got up, went to the kitchen and made my salt water and then went to the bathroom and did my weigh in and was happy to see that I was down from 107.5 kgs yesterday to 197.3 kgs today 🙂

I then went back to bed and messed around on the chrome book and updated my Training log and wrote my weekly update post and then watched a film until 8:15 when I woke my son up and I had a shower and got dressed and we headed to the tip to get rid of all the old carpet, underlay and other carpet related bits and I also binned some old helmets and old sports supports as well.

When we got back from the tip we went for a walk on the shot 2 tunnels loop as I was on less than 1000 steps for the day 🙁 By the time we got back I was on 5500 steps and was starving so I ordered a McDonalds breakfast and I am just waiting for it to arrive now.

After breakfast I tried to plaster the bottom of the walls but it was too runny to fill the big holes so I bought some seam tape to cover the holes and then did the first coat of paint of the bedroom until about 6 inches above skirting height and then had to go to my parents for my Dad’s birthday lunch but went to Screwfix to pick up the tape on the way!

When I got home I realised that I still had 2000 steps to go so I got the treadmill out and got the steps done while i was waiting for my tea to cook and then chilled for the rest of the evening.

By the end of the day I got to 12319 steps which is not great but better than not doing them and kept my 14 day streak alive 🙂

This week has been a pretty sucessful week although I have been busy doing diy most of the week so I have consentrated of walking mainly this week but I have done way more steps most days to make up for the lack of doing anything else.

This week I have done 109333 total steps which is an average of 15619 steps a day with a high of 20824 steps on Friday. I have also dropped my weight from 108 kgs on the Sunday to 107.5 kgs on Saturday morning so another solid 0.5 kgs dropped and again it is mostly fat being burnt judging by how my body is changing.

The past few days I have been really tired so I have been getting up later and holding off on walking until about 9 am and doing less diy than planned but I have still easily been getting my steps in so its all good.

Other than the walking I have also been consistantly doing the Lüften and my 1/2 chinups as well which is good.

I haven’t got as much painting and decorating done as I had planned and I need to get that done today and tomorrow so that I can get my room in order. I am going to hold off on doing the flooring until after the office move so once the painting is done I will sort the bedroom out and work on the placement of the furnature then when the floor is done I will know how to optimally set up the room

Next week will also be a bit up in the air due to the office move but I want to make sure that I get back to doing my morning routine properly again at least as I have slipped out of the habit a bit due to being busy decorating etc.

I am taking the next week off from the bike too as I need to focus on the office move so I will hold off on sorting out my luchtime routine until February I think.

Weight = 107.6 Kgs

Steps Completed = 20824

So this morning I woke up at 4:30 without an alarm and got up and did my weigh-in and found that I am back up to 107.6 kgs which is partly due to lying in bed most of the day yesterday and partly from eating crap again yesterday with a fryup sandwhich and fried bread for breakfast and chicken nuggets and chips from the chippy in the evening.

This has proven that I need to work on my diet so from February I will work on that once I have got my getting up and walking more automatic.

I have now caught up with my jornals and my Training log so I am about to get in the shower then head to the office to drop off my desk legs and pick up some bits before heading back there to do some bits in the new office.

I will then head back home via screwfix to pick up my painting kit and then I will get on with the prep work for the painting and take off the skirting to make painting easier.

My plans for today are:

• Drop desk legs at the office
• Take bits from the office home
• Fit legs to desk
• Get rid of remaining sticky on bedroom walls from cable manangement
• Remove Skirting in bedroom
• Remove broken tiles from around the wall and put in bag ready to take to the tip
• Mask off window and door frame
• Wash last wall with sugarsoap
• When dust sheets arrive put them over the bed and paint 1st coat of paint.
• Wait for first coat to dry then paint second coat

That is basically all that I have to do today 🙂 so quiet day really 🙂

Between coats I have to go to the other side of town and meet up with my ex and her cousin and family for a bit as they are visiting for the day from London. Depending on how long that takes I may have to do the second coat tomorrow!

So I have just got home from the office and its 8:30 am and I am on 10366 steps and I picked up the painting stuff from Screwfix on my way home.

I have decided that I will do the prep today and then paint tomorrow when I have the dust sheets and more time.

I am just doing my Lüften as I missed it yesterday then I will get going on the prep work until about lunch time then I will chill for the afternoon once the room is ready to paint tomorrow.

Weight = 107.2 Kgs

Steps Completed =15011

So this morning I had to go into the office and fix a server even though I was on holiday so I got up at normal time as I had slept at home last night as it was snowing pretty hard at my parents house last night.

When I got up I did my weigh-in and I was down to 107.2 kgs which is amazing! I then got showered and walked into the office and moved the server with issues and then set up my new monitors on my desk.

I then walked home and waited for a call from the lorry with the type 1 for the track maintainance. I got the call at 10 ish so I headed to the track and sorted that out and then headed home. By the time I got home I was on over 12000 steps already.

When I got home I was hungry so i ordered takeout for beakfast which arrived about 11:30 so I ate that and then chilled while I then waited for my desk legs to be delivered and they arrived at about 13:30. While I was waiting for the desk legs to arrive I was watching TV which I did all afternoon until about 8pm when I loaded the desk legs into the car and tried to take them to the office but one of my neighbours had parked their car in such a way that they had blocked off the road and left it like that! So I reversed back to my driveway and gave up for the day!

Today was a bit of a waste of a day in terms of working on the house as all I got done today was getting rid of the carpet strips and got rid of some of the sticky pad residue on the wall and that was about it but I did get some well earned rest and also got my monitors set up to hit the ground running next week and also got in 15011 steps for the day in so a really good day walking wise.

I unfortunately did not get a ruck in or do my Lüften but other than that it was a good day and I am feeling a lot better for taking it a bit easy.

I spent most of the evening researching self levelling flooring as I am going to have to do this in my bedroom now as all the tiles around the edge of the room are smashed to pieces from the carpet strips being installed so I will need to self level before I can fit the flooring.

I have decided that I will paint this week and then put the room back how its going to be without the floor and live with the tiles for a bit and then the last weekend in January I will self level the floor and then put the lino down and put the skirting boards back on again.

Weight = 108.1 Kgs

Steps Completed = 14473

So i was really tired as I had a really big day yeaterday and needed some sleep to recover a bit! I woke up just before 7am, got up did my weight-in (up 0.2 kgs to 108.1 kgs 🙁 ) made my salt water then opened up the flat and did my Lüften then drank my salt water and I am now writing this post!

I am going to wait until about 8 am to go for my ruck and then I can go up the 2 tunnels and go for a longer walk before getting home and waiting for my delivery to attive between 10 am and 2:30 pm (better than the 7-7 window I was given when I ordered the stuff!)

Once I close up the flat I am going to continue clearing out the bedroom to get as much stuff out as possible so that I can pull out as much of the carpet as possible ready for the new flooring to arrive later in the week.

I noticed that it had snowed again last night so I am expecting my walk to be fairly cold this morning so I will wrap up warm to make sure its OK.

At just after 8am I jumped in the shower then got dressed, put the weight vest my coat and shoes and went out for a quick ruck. I decided I would do a short walk as I was a bit tired from yesterday so I wanted to take it a bit easier today.

I also have a lot to do today clearing my bedroom ready to start ripping out the rest of the carpet and prepping ready to paint and then do the flooring this week so I should easily get my steps in today doing that.

The walk was 80% on the 2 tunnels so zero traffic and super relaxing other than all the ice trying to take me out 🙂 I only walked 2.35 miles in 41 minutes and climbed 177ft and checked off 5030 steps for the morning.

I am currently 5852 steps so almost 1/2 way to the 12000 steps already.

As my flat is a mess while the bedroom is out of commission I have decided to give backwards walking a miss this week as the backwards treadmill is currently in the kitchen surrounded by stuff so I can’t use it at the moment! If my knees start giving me issues then I will do some backwards walking outside while I am on my walks until the flat is sorted but the knees are feeling good at the moment so fingers crossed they stay that way!

After a couple of hours of removing stuff from my bedroom and pulling up carpets I am now at 9016 steps and its only 11:08 so I am pretty confident that I will get to 12000 steps easily today 🙂 I have taken a break to make breakfast then I will empty everything from my bed and break it down and store it in the kitchen out of the way. I am going to have to sleep at my parents house this week as my bed will be in pieces in the lounge for the rest of the week!

This means that my morning ruck will have to be around 6am as it will take me 30-45 minutes to get home in the morning after getting up at 5am but I will be ready to start work my 8ish in the mornings so it should be good 🙂

I have just recieved a notification that my flooring will be delivered tomorrow which is good news as it can be in the flat acclimatising while I paint the bedroom and then I can crack strainght on with the flooring hopefully by Thursday or Friday so the room can get rebuilt by the weekend.

I had a really busy day yesterday moving furniture and all of my stuff out of my bedroom and removing the carpet and underlay ready to paint and put down new flooring this week so I managed to walk 14473 steps yesterday even though I had only done a short ruck in the morning so all is good.

Weight = 107.9 Kgs

Steps Completed = 18713

I woke up with my alarm at 5:00 and got up and made my salt water then went to the bathroom and did my weigh-in and I have dropped another 0.1 kgs so I have dropped 1/2 kg in a week since I started my morning walking challenge which is a really good start!

I then got dressed and went for my walk without the weight vest today as this morning was my rest day! It was really wet but the walk was so much easier without the weight vest and I was amazed how much easier it was to be honest!

I was over 3 minutes faster this morning and I was trying to walk slower as it was my rest day!

When I got home I decided to not do my Lüften as it was so wet and instead had a shower and rode into the office and worked until 12:00 when I headed home. I was amazed to see that I was on over 17000 steps already after walking a bunch at work so today wasn’t really a rest day to be honest!