Soooo….Day 1

October 2nd, 2014

….of Michael Wood's 10,000 step challenge….how did that go? With the exception of two hours for a manicure and dinner, for many unexpected reasons, I spent the day – literally from the beginning to the end – at the Mashpee Koko FitClub. Both food and step wise this made day 1 pretty easy. Sugar grams, according to the packaging of my New Lifesyle Diet food was 22g, 17 more for the Activia Greek yogurt I had at night, and however much is in 1/2 tsp (I hardly touched it) of Panera Ceasar dressing that I dabbled my dinner (chicken Ceasar salad) in. So, for day one, added sugar total is 39g plus a few.

Steps were easy, although I didn't get to do the cardio I intended to do, I still did pretty good. My step total was 8,498 steps at the time I took my watch off. Since I walked almost all of those in the Mashpee club, I think the carpet will have to be replaced soon. Lol!

Steps today are starting off good – 496 – and all I've done so far is come downstairs and eat breakfast – NLS Diet cereal – 5 g of sugar. Next will be a workout – back to Mashpee! (I should've just slept there.) Then home, shower, lunch, and at 1:45 off to work in Harwich until 7pm. We will see what the step and sugar count looks like for this type of day.

How did you do yesterday? How will you do today? My game plan is to just live each day as it is not try to adjust anything until I have a few days data to look at and then look for ways to make it better. Good luck – walk on!

And so, as another day goes by, my goal is to be a little better today than I was yesterday in everything I do…and…I have written.

This photo, taken by my photographer friend, Diane McDonough, helps me do this:*