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4 Week Walk: Day 13

4 Week Walk: Day 13

Stamina, heart-and-lung-capacity, fitness, muscle strength, endurance… it all sounds so very sweaty and athletic! Endurance walking — going for distance, not speed or intensity — is on the program for today. Sometimes it feels like this just isn’t working hard enough, to be walking at a comfortable pace… but this is the kind of exercise [...]

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4 Week Walk: Day 12

4 Week Walk: Day 12

Have you noticed a change in your appetite, when you are getting more exercise than usual? I’m not sure whether I’m really more hungry than usual, or if it’s just a temptation to think that I can get away with eating more of the fattening foods I love because I’m burning more calories than normal… [...]

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4 Week Walk: Day 11

4 Week Walk: Day 11

This morning I managed to up and get my walking exercise done early, knowing that (a) it’s going to rain before long, and (b) today is the day that we’re getting a new furnace boiler installed, so things will be a bit chaotic. Not to mention, the service guys will have to keep shutting off [...]

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4 Week Walk: Day 10

4 Week Walk: Day 10

Ooh boy, is this ever a Monday! Up half the night with bizarre bad dreams — don’t ask — and then HHHTPT and I had a rather heated difference of opinion about the cellar steps (again, don’t ask) — and in general the day is just plain cold and raw and grey. I ache in [...]

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4 Week Walk: Day 9

4 Week Walk: Day 9

Starting the second full week of the 4-Week Walk for Weight Loss, my Day 9 walk will be another round of fat-blasting intervals — one minute of very fast walking, then two minutes of “active rest” walking. And I’ll do that fast/slow cycle a total of three times. I’m speaking in the future tense here [...]

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