Hiking
Been hiking about 5 days a week, 4 to 7 miles a time, depending on how much time I have available with someone else to look after mom. I had started fattening up at the start of July. Too much comfort eating combined with ridiculously sedentary lifestyle was to blame. I got lazy with junk food consumption, which I find far too easy to slip into.
Anyway, my vanity made me decide I had to actively do something about it. So I stopped eating out more than once a week, and cut back on all my junk, while embarking on a new hiking hobby.
Due to time constraints, I walk the same place every time, bar the one time I went to the ocean. There are a couple lakes not far from here, and I walk around those. Its very pretty in a semi groomed but not kinda way. I tend to walk like a man late for an appointment. After all, the idea is exercise. But I'm far too worried about my knees to get into jogging or cycling, although the latter introduces an entire new subculture of people into one's life.
Still, I'm not really THAT motivated. I just had to get rid of my porky pig belly, and it's more or less accomplished after 4 weeks of regular hiking, and I've no intention of stopping hiking. Its a good form of meditation.
Sometimes, I chant my mantra while I hike, but there are usually too many people, and I think a guy like me mumbling some weird Sanskrit words might come off a bit oddball. Its not that I care what they think of me so much, I simply would rather not make anyone uncomfortable for such a selfish reason.
Anyway, my vanity made me decide I had to actively do something about it. So I stopped eating out more than once a week, and cut back on all my junk, while embarking on a new hiking hobby.
Due to time constraints, I walk the same place every time, bar the one time I went to the ocean. There are a couple lakes not far from here, and I walk around those. Its very pretty in a semi groomed but not kinda way. I tend to walk like a man late for an appointment. After all, the idea is exercise. But I'm far too worried about my knees to get into jogging or cycling, although the latter introduces an entire new subculture of people into one's life.
Still, I'm not really THAT motivated. I just had to get rid of my porky pig belly, and it's more or less accomplished after 4 weeks of regular hiking, and I've no intention of stopping hiking. Its a good form of meditation.
Sometimes, I chant my mantra while I hike, but there are usually too many people, and I think a guy like me mumbling some weird Sanskrit words might come off a bit oddball. Its not that I care what they think of me so much, I simply would rather not make anyone uncomfortable for such a selfish reason.