Walking

I like to try and keep my weight under control.  But because of an old injury to my ankle most exercising is out.  So walking is about the only exercise that I’m able to do & not injure myself in anyway. 

I love being outdoors, so walking outside is what I like to do best.  This past winter I tried to keep up doing my walking by walking inside at a local building that allows people to come in & walk for free.  I kept it up for a while but the building itself isn’t heated & with the winter we had stopped walking all together.  I know, I know shame on me.  LOL

So spring has finally arrived & it’s finally warm enough to start walking outside again.  Walking by yourself for a full hour no music or anything else you have a lot of time to just think, plus the time just crawls by.  But today I made my son go walking with me, see they didn’t have school today because it was Easter break.  So he had a friend over & spent all morning inside on a nice day like today.  So when I went walking he went with me.

Time goes so much faster when you’re walking with someone else also. Thirty minutes flies by in no time at all & that’s usually about the amount I can get someone to walk with me.  Then I walk the other thirty on my own.

I know your thinking how can just walking help keep your weight down?  But it actually does, if you’ll eat kind of right.  By that I mean not eating junk food all the time & trying to get your fruits & veggies in.  Then walking an hour a day as fast as you can walk without jogging or running.  It does help.  It will take longer to get weight off by just walking buy if that’s all you can do then it’s better than nothing.  You just have to make the commitment to yourself that you’re going walking every day.