Day 7 - Happy Trails

What an incredible day!  The weather out here was near perfect today.  It’s been the kind of day I’ve been waiting for all week.  Today was also the first day of training for the Bolder Boulder.  Seeing that I haven’t ran in many years, I’m taking a slow approach to this training.  So I put on my new shoes and headed out the door with my wife and youngest daughter in tow.   We are very lucky to have access to the Cherry Creek walking/biking trail from our neighborhood.  The trail is a paved pathway that stretches for about 26 miles from start to finish with offshoots all along the way.  The best part…no traffic to contend with.  We had a great walk of about 3.5 miles before my baby girl needed to go down for a nap.  I think it was a great start and it was fun having my family with me.

We enjoyed ourselves so much that we are making this type of activity a regular thing every weekend.  We’ve even created a calendar to schedule the time on Saturday and Sunday.  It might be walking one day or biking or anything else we can come up with.  It felt great to be outside and do something active.

My wife also showed me a website to help with my new diet plan (no longer Atkins).  I will say that it is nice having a variety of foods to eat.  I know I only was on the Atkins for a week but I was really craving some fruit, and I don’t even like fruit.  But now I can eat it, but I’m going to in moderation along with everything else.  I plan to pay attention to the calories, sugar, fat, carbs and everything else in my food.  I’m also going to try and eliminate any enriched white flour products.  While this is not a specific diet plan like Atkins or South Beach, I think it will work for me.  Plus my wife is doing it with me so the additional support is fantastic.

Breakfast

Crispex cereal with ½ cup of 1% milk (I will be switching to skim as soon as we finish up this gallon.  Milk is expensive)

Tully’s caramel bellecino (This was really bad, I know)

Lunch

Ham and turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread with 2 slices of cheddar cheese

Dinner

Spaghetti with whole wheat pasta (and it was good.  I couldn’t tell the difference)

I had about 80 oz of water today. 

In addition to the walking today, I started doing some push-ups and sit-ups.  I figure it’s time to go back to the basics.  I completed 3 sets of 10 each.  As I get back into the habit, I will increase the numbers in each set.

I’m looking forward to some more walking tomorrow.  I hope the weather holds up.