Health Journey: Week 3 – No, you haven’t missed an installment…

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Once again, blogging took a back seat to the other events in my life, including a book manuscript, new editorial projects, and some other interesting new prospects. I also may have turned the corner from loving cold to hating it, mostly because I no longer belong to a gym and now do all my exercising outdoors.

The weather hasn’t been conducive to that lately. There have been long periods of rain or snow, lots of ice, and very little sun. I don’t really mind exercising in the cold so much as long as there’s sun. The geography around my house is NOT flat, and icy roads and I don’t get along. Short days mean no more 8pm walks in the park.

Yeah, I know, whine, whine, whine.

Truth is, when I don’t get lots of light and some exercise, my creative energy wans dramatically. A type of mental lethargy takes over, and I crave long hours of Law & Order and hot tea. Not good for my writing – or my backside.

Today we had sun for the first time in almost a week, and, boy, did I strap on the hiking boots. It helped – I came back in much more ready to work – so I hope the coming moments of sun do more than melt snow – I want them to melt the freeze in my spirit.

As to the other health goals – I’m doing about as expected with cutting out colas (I’m down to about 1 a week), but the weight loss is still stalled. We’ll see what the hiking boots can do about that over the next week or so. Till then – back to the creative part of the world….

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