Day 33: While the Cat's away...

 the mice go for longer walks?

I may have mentioned that my personal trainer is on vacation this week, having gone down to Tennessee to visit his son, DIL, and grandson.  Oh, my how quickly those children grow!  So I don't blame them for getting in that family time!

I have not been very good about replacing the workouts with on my own strength training.  Instead, I have been walking a bit further, not every day, but enough days to feel I am "building".  

It's an overcast day today, so I was out a little before 7, pre-breakfast for this morning's walk.  Since getting home, the wind has kicked up, and the cats who live here have been a little... on alert?  Well, Rubia, anyway... scampering all over the house... and in sudden bursts.  Enough to make me wonder whether there's a mouse or a bug or something triggering her hunting instincts.  However, once she was done with that game, she sprawled out on the dining room table in a "don't bother me" pose.  (p.s. It was a house fly!  And she got it!)

Meanwhile, old man Prisoner is curled up and napping while I eat my breakfast and write, down in the family room.  

Our companion animals certainly do enrich our lives.  Especially when we live lives where the highlight of the day might be changing the battery in a smoke detector, hanging the drapes, or cleaning a bathroom!

Several of us have noted that the transition to a platform other than Spark has refreshed our motivation to carry on.  There are other motivating factors in the air, too.  I became more motivated after getting my second shot of the Covid-19 vaccine, the end of March.  Two weeks after that is when I went back to the trainer.  Took a while longer before the nutrition mojo kicked in.  The bottom line, in terms of graphable weight management progress is shown here, is a shot of the past 90 days:

Left hand Scale:  top is 162.8, bottom is 150.2
Bottom scale first date is 4/16/2021, last date is today, 7/9/2021. 

Interestingly, the last "peak" high weight was a couple of days before we got the news about Spark going dark on August 17th.  I started using cronometer as my tracking tool "to test it out" on June 11th, which on the graph is about the beginning of the mostly steady downward trend.  Don't get too excited, it's about five to six pounds in a month.  Nice and slow.

The philosophy that is driving this is one I remember (and reading old blogs has reinforced) from when I first entered "maintenance" at about the weight I am now.  "I have found a way of eating that is comfortable, and a level of activity that makes me happy... now we'll just see what the body gives me."

Edited on 8/14/2021:  MamieAllie wrote about this kind of "lifestyle, living our lives" attitude in her blog August 8th.  I had linked it, but I see the link no longer works, so removed the link. I was going to start linking the blogs of other Spark refugees that speak to me.  But on August 13th, warnings started to appear that too many invalid links in your blogger entries could result in "bad things happening" to your account.  So, while I might put a link in at first and test it, this is subject to later removal, to maintain the integrity of my own blogs!  I think this is most likely to happen as we are in flux, finding our true "new blog homes".  Apologies to any who might want to read her blog!