Stair Master!

I'm not the master of the stairs just yet, but I think I'm probably hiking - on average - 24 flights a stairs a day now.  I used to mayyybe do 6-10.  I'm hoping that in a few months I can walk the six flights without feeling complettely out of breath.  It's slow going - but I beleive it will come in time.

on another update - my mom has no more diet coke and has promised not to buy/drink anymore as long as I continueu to walk the stairs at work.

We Found A Roommate!

Great news!  We've found a roommate! 

I'm very pleased to share that we've found a roommate to move in January 1st :D

Headaches....

I've had one since I woke up this morning 6.5 hours ago - yuck!

pulling my hair out!!!

Ahhh!! My roommate gave notice last night!

Going to have a little cry I think.

A Deal...update

Phew!

No more elevators equals sad face.

Monday I did 18 flights of stairs, and Tuesday I did 40 (half up & half down).  Not all at once of course, but throughout the day.  The most I ever do at a time is 6 (as I'm on the six floor).

I find that the first floor is pretty easy, the second one is doable, but by the third I'm winded.

I've started doing slow breathing, in and out, as a I walk up the stairs.  I try to coach myself through the breathing rather then focusing on how many more steps I have to walk.

I think it's helping.

A Deal

On my last post, I mentioned some learning from a recent Health & Safety meeting we had at work. In one of the comments, my mom issued a challenge.

Does this mean that the diet coke and chocolate bar theory is busted? Oh no! And I shouldn't buy diet coke any more? I do know that it hasn't helped me lose weight. If you do the stairs I will stop buying diet coke. ( but I can't waste or waist what I have)

Mom, I accept your challenge. I will stop taking elevators if you stop drinking diet coke.

I work on the sixth floor, and this morning - walking hurt. I hope that in a few months, it doesn't hurt so much and I get to the feeling good part.

Health & Saftey Meeting

Yesterday we had a health and safety meeting that lasted 4 hours!  In it we had some group exercises, a guest speaker, and some interactive conversation.  The key things I learned were:

• You should drink a liter of water for every 100lbs of body weight 
• 2 liters of water for me = 8 cups of water
• When reading nutrition labels, take care to read the serving size - it can be very misleading
• Meal planning can go a long way to save you money, time, energy, & stress
• Simply by increasing the amount of Omega 3 in your diet (via supplement) you can decrease your chance of heart attack and decrease joint swelling, and help your body manage it's insulin levels
• People, on average, eat their body weight in sugar every year
• Our ancestors ate less sugar in a year, then we do in a day
• Aspartame, commonly found in diet products, was originally created as a chemical weapon
• It also makes our body thing there is sugar when there isn't which can numb our bodies ability to tell when their is real sugar to process.  This messes with incline levels and often results in a weight increase not decrease
• The number one symptom of heart attack, is death
• most people don't survive their first (and therfore their only) heart attack to tell about it's symtoms - they just die

I think I might start walking up the stairs in the morning and drinking some water...also going to pick up some Omega 3 pills at Costco next time I'm there.