One Day Down

First of all, let me say...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MEREDITH!


Yesterday was my first day of the 6-week walking program "Walk Away the Pounds." You were supposed to walk a mile in 30 minutes, and I did just that. I walked a mile on the treadmill and I did it in 28 minutes. Yay! I also drank 64 oz. yesterday. Tonight I have to do the same thing. Tonight I am going to walk while American Idol is on.

I was unsure I could walk a mile because I am so out of shape. But I did it, and it wasn' t horrible. I was proud of myself. A part of me is scared my back is going to start hurting in a few days. That is the problem with back pain - it doesn't happen right away. It is a gradual thing. Whenever I start a new activity, I have to wait a few days before I can really tell how it will affect my back. So far, so good though. They say that walking is the best exercise for your back.

In the "Walk Away the Pounds" book, she has a lot of success story blurbs. One of these is a woman that suffered from migraine headaches. But once she started the program, she never had another migraine. I wonder if that could happen to me. I never thought about my migraines being associated with being overweight or out of shape. When I started getting migraines, though, I was in high school. I was young, healthy, and full of energy. So I don't know about that. I guess we'll see.