Modern Molly Mormon is hosting a meme dealing with living the Word of Wisdom as a lifestyle choice. In introducing their meme they say "The Word of Wisdom is not just a set of guidelines, but also a lifestyle. We will have a monthly challenge, and I'll also post different topics for us to dive into it deeper." This seems to me to be very much what we are about on this blog, so I thought I'd do play along this week! The theme right now is walking and drinking water.
Although I know better, I've badly fallen off the water-drinking wagon. All my water-drinking habits were sedentary ones and I find that as the mother of an active two year old, I'm not terribly sedentary any more! I miss it. In addition to everything else that water does that's wonderful, it makes my skin and hair great and I haven't been very happy with either of them, of late. I guess that since I've been barely drinking anything that makes some sense. Several years ago my father-in-law (a chiropractor) told me that I should drink a quart for every 50 pounds I weigh. It's a lot of water, but it makes such an amazing difference when I do it!
So here's my resolution: to drink a gallon a day. It's going to be a while before I get down to a weight where I need less, even assuming that I do get some good momentum going and start loosing as quickly as I want to. And a little extra water isn't a problem, so I'm just going to aim for a nice round gallon. It's exactly what I need now, and as I start loosing a little extra can only be good for me.
As far as my running is going, I missed today. Andy was gone, and there wasn't enough nap time before my piano students got here to do running and a shower, so I was out of luck. But I did get my pushups in for the pushup challenge: 19 in total today, though not at all consecutively.
More water would help with the sore muscles. It would also help with the weight loss. Water's cool like that.
