Back in about 2012 I think it was, I read an article that read if people would walk 10,000 steps every day, they would be healthier. 10,000 steps is about five miles give or take a few feet.\u00a0\u00a0 I decided I was going to try it.\u00a0 I began by walking a mile or so every day.\u00a0 I had the same route I’d take every\u00a0 day, over the railroad track and around the back road where there was a rock quarry.\u00a0 There were always a lot of trucks I had to dodge, but I would take this route every day. Then I started to branch out, walking around our block two or three times, it being a little over a mile around our block.\u00a0 Then I started walking all over. Living where we do, there is a lot of traffic and not a whole lot of walking spaces. No sidewalks.\u00a0\u00a0 I would find lonely roads to walk. People began to notice me and talk to me\u00a0\u00a0 Then they began to notice I was losing weight. When I finally hit 10,000 steps I celebrated.\u00a0 After that I walked five miles pretty much every day.\u00a0 Rain or shine.\u00a0 Even in the snow. I did not walk when it was icy out, but I walked inside.<\/p>\n
I really did not do this to lose weight.\u00a0 I never weigh myself. NEVER.\u00a0 I went that route for years obsessing about my weight and finally\u00a0 decided I would rather be healthy than skinny.\u00a0 But, the weight began to fall off me.\u00a0 I was still eating well, but it seemed like every day I would lose a pant size.\u00a0 I think some people thought there was something wrong with me, but I was perfectly healthy.\u00a0 My doctor, at one of my regular visits, told me how much I had lost and I didn’t believe him.\u00a0 I knew my clothes were loser, but still I never weighed myself and I never look at how much I weigh in the doctor’s office.\u00a0 I was rather shocked. Even more so that I had that much to lose.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I told him I was not on a diet, I just walked.\u00a0\u00a0 He said to keep it up.<\/p>\n
The year we went to Alaska, David would stop at rest stops and parks and I would walk a mile or two before we drove on. I counted my steps diligently.\u00a0\u00a0 When we rode the ferry up to Alaska, I walked the deck over and over. One day it was pouring rain and only me and one other woman were out walking the deck.\u00a0 I was obsessed with getting my 10,000 steps in.<\/p>\n
Then about three years ago, I hurt my right leg. Pulled a muscle or tendon or something and I was in great pain.\u00a0 It was hard for me to even walk three miles, let alone five.\u00a0 I was just getting back to normal when in Fredericksburg, Texas, David and I walked up this small mountain and I tore something in the back of my left\u00a0leg that hurt so badly, I just fell down where I was.\u00a0 From then on, I was afraid to walk much because it hurt too much.\u00a0\u00a0 Then that\u00a0began to heal and I was getting cocky about myself and was coming down the stairs pretty fast and got the most excruciating pain in my left leg again.\u00a0 I became careful about going up and down stairs. I walked very little.\u00a0 Then, this Summer, I thought I was having heart trouble\u00a0 and could barely walk around in my yard without getting winded.\u00a0 I had many tests done and my heart was fine. Just needed my medication adjusted.\u00a0 The cardiologist told me to walk. \u00a0Soooooo.\u00a0 I am slowly starting to walk again. I am doing it\u00a0in my house.\u00a0 I set the timer on the stove for twenty minutes and just walk.\u00a0 Today I managed over two miles.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I am hoping to work up to 10,000 steps again.\u00a0\u00a0 Next year David and I plan a big trip out west and I want to do a lot of walking along the way.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t care if I lose weight, but if it’s a side benefit, that’s okay.\u00a0\u00a0 I just don’t worry about my weight any more. Fat or thin,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I just want to be healthy.<\/p>\n
So I am writing this in order that I will keep the walking up. David is getting me a treadmill for when the weather is bad.\u00a0\u00a0 I am going to get up to 10,000 steps again,\u00a0if it kills me. Let’s hope it doesn’t.\u00a0\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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