26.48 miles walked last week!

My daughter and I at Kiptopeke State Park hiking

 I have let myself get off track with my yoga. In my defense, it is because of my newfound joy of being able to just put on my hiking boots, and decide to go walk 5 miles. I couldn't even have done that last fall. Also, the weather has been perfect for walking but I know in a few weeks it will be too hot and humid to walk every day.

So why am I suddenly able to just walk so much when I couldn't before? I am honestly trying to put my finger on it. I think it is because I have reached a place with my core strength where I am able to stand straighter. I can get more air in. My back doesn't hurt nearly as much, although I still need to stop and touch my toes about every mile to relieve pain that starts to build. My feet are starting to pay the price for it though. I really do need to keep up my yoga practice or I think I will get too stiff and I won't be able to walk to so much again. Last week I walked 60,696 steps (20,000 in one day for a fitbit badge) which according to fitbit is 26.48 miles for the week. But also I think that 20,000 in a day is the reason my feet are hurting me now.

 I am also starting to lose weight again, oh hallelujah! I have been sticking to my primal eating fairly strictly for the past few weeks and it is working like magic. I tracked my calorie intake for a few weeks very strictly, through the fitbit app. It turns out that I was actually not eating as many calories as I would have thought I was. I didn't try to change my eating, I was just tracking what I normally eat, and it was coming in between 1300 and 1600 calories normally. A few days I got up to 2100 or so, if I ate ice cream and who doesn't eat ice cream once in awhile? I really like the fitbit app for tracking calories. It is very easy especially with the barcode scanner.

I will try to figure out before next week how to post the fitbit reports instead of just typing it in. And I will try to get my step count up to 70,000 for the week! My Glow Run is getting closer, so I need to be ready!