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[featherynscale]

In other news, I walked 9/10ths of a mile today at lunch. I understand that this is not much compared to the sort of walking a lot of the folks on my flist are doing, but when you are a large fat sedentary slug such as myself, 9/10ths of a mile is nothing to sneeze at. It's a hell of a lot farther than I normally walk in a day, anyway. We'll just ignore the part where the reason I walked all that was to pick up fish and chips, won't we?

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[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Walking has dropped me 10 pounds and my sweats are currently falling off my ass. I'm still slurping microwave pizzas doused in hot sauce and expresso brownies, but a lot of the general achiness I feel (leftover sciatica) tends to go away with brisk walking. Particularly if walking at 2AM across town aimlessly sucking on a whisky sour. There is something undocumented yet theraputic about that. 8-)

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Oh, the point being that you don't have to walk 50 miles a day to see the benefit. 8-) I don't walk a whole lot right now, I just make sure that when I do, it's brisk. Getting the blood flowing strongly purges out a lot of sediment, like a thunderstorm will wash bodies and other detritus out of storm sewers. 8-)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Mac. Charming as always, you are :)

Actually, yeah, I'm thinking anything is better than nothing, right?

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Correct you are... putting $5 a payperiod into savings is not much, but after a year you've got the funds for Heartland! 8-)

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Hooray for movement! Hooray for not driving 0.9 miles for an errand! Hooray for fish & chips!

(Clearly, all that extra caffeine is being absorbed through my skin and coursing through my bloodstream.)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

And 19 cents left over, due to the miraculous power of compound interest.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I'm so down with not driving. As much as possible, which isn't much, but hey. That's like .10 gallons of petrol I'm not using, too.

Also, fish and chips. I am prepared to walk a lot further than that for fish and chips, if need be.

[aint2nuts.livejournal.com]

LOL! Well so much for the benefits of walking off calories. Were the fish and chips any good?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I would go so far as to call them "good", but they were certainly better than any of the other options available. I am a devoted fan of fish and chips in all their glorious varieties and permutations.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

*raising fat sluggy hand* good for you!

microwave pizzas in hot sauce

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

That's like my kind of meal!

What brands of pizza & hot sauce do you use, if you don't mind me asking?

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed! How did your knee(s) hold up? I'm beginning to suspect that my knees may be the body part most likely to incapacitate me.

Fish and chips are an excellent reason to overcome inertia! Certainly it's no worse than my personal carrot, which is to get back home where I left my tobacco.

I think the value of walking is much more than merely burning calories; more important (to me) is that it builds strength and endurance.

So, to summarize: Yay! Way to go!

Re: microwave pizzas in hot sauce

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

My usual answer is "the ones at Costco!" but for those not feeding half a squad -

The Pizzas are Sabatasso's deep dish singles.
The Hot sauce is Franks Red Hot Chile -n- Lime.

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[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Unless you put it into a money market account, with a stock OTHER than Sprint right now. 8-)

Re: microwave pizzas in hot sauce

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

The lip on the pizza allows you to get about 3/16" of hot sauce over the whole thing.

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[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Okay, now you're just taunting me.

*salivate*

[infintysquared.livejournal.com]

I dig, totally. I find my best long bicycle trips and/or aimless wandering happens after I've begun to medicate the pre-existing condition known as 'sobriety.'

As for sweats falling off... I know the feeling. kryssaira sees no end to the humor when I'm wearing one of my older pairs of shorts and carrying something I can't put down. The rest writes itself, hilarity ensues.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

My knees are fine on flat ground. And I didn't huff or puff, which is good. I don't mind particularly about being fat and sluglike except in that I fear it will one day begin to interfere with me being able to do normal usual things.

Also, as the other folks in the house pointed out to me, I was going to eat the fish and chips anyway, so it was probably a net gain to walk to get them. So, yeah, go me! (And I think you can adapt the logic to your cigarettes.)

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

I think the "fat and sluglike" thing is a trick of the mirror, distorting perspective.

Whatever your physical condition, it need not interfere with normal things. One thing I've been thinking about lately, precipitated by dumbbell exercises and my batshit conditioning program, is that the human body is astounding in its ability to adapt.

E.g., if an object is too heavy for you to lift, but you keep trying, eventually your body will adapt so that you can lift it. Alternately, if you stop exerting your body, it will adapt back into a weakened state in which it is only capable of doing the things you regularly ask it to do.

So, you can continue to be "fat and sluglike" if you like... just occasionally walk a mile for some fish'n'chips and you won't lose the ability to walk a mile.

I was at a conditioning seminar the other day, and the presenter said that muscle tone only requires one exercise per week to maintain.

I'm certain that you know all of this, and I appreciate your forbearance while I indulge in reflection.

[senset.livejournal.com]

Can we make you a little hat with with fish-n-chips dangeling on a string attached to a stick on your hat? *wink/grin*