Author: Sarina Michel
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Review of the Last Two Weeks Walking
Steps: 10,359 / 20,000 Weight: 159ish /135lbs Hydration: .5 / 2 gallons Writing: 250 /250 words Veggies: 1 / 2 cups How I’m Feeling: Paranoid, Grateful, and Lonely. Overview of this Month: In two weeks, I’ve moved my step count average from around 4,000 steps a day to almost 10,000. Already, that’s a huge win.…
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Steps: 5,887/ 20,000 Weight: 159ish /135lbs Hydration: 1.5 / 2 gallons Writing: —/250 words Veggies: 0 / 2 cups How I’m Feeling: Unmotivated, tired, creatively inclined. Today I did not take great strides towards meeting my step count. In fact, I practically avoided it. I did make an attempt to stand more, but that doesn’t…
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You Can’t Win Every Hand
Steps: 16,530 / 20,000 Weight: 159ish /135lbs Hydration: 3 / 2 gallons Writing: 185/250 words Veggies: .5 / 2 cups How I’m Feeling: Discontent, emotional, and exhausted. I could have pushed to 20,00 tonight. With just about 4,000 shy, I know that one final two mile walk would have gotten me to where I was…
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It wasn’t fun, but it’s done.
Steps: 20,192 / 20,000 Weight: 159ish /135lbs Hydration: 3 / 2 gallons Writing: 250/250 words Veggies: 1.5/ 2 cups How I’m Feeling: Tight, a little sore, and content. Today is the second day in a row that I accomplished my goal of 20,000 steps–and it was not easy. I didn’t have an opportunity to go…
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At long Last, & So it Begins
Steps: 20,277 / 20,000 Weight: 159.2 /135lbs Hydration: 2 / 2 gallons Writing: 250/250 words Veggies: 0/ 2 cups How I’m Feeling: Still sick, but motivated and ALIVE. Today, on the third day of my 20,000 step challenge, after a three day hiatus for the Fourth of July, I have FINALLY accomplished my goal. I…
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That’s a lot of steps, my guy
Steps: 6,712 / 20,000 Weight: 160? /135lbs Hydration: 1.5 / 2 gallons Writing: 250/250 words Veggies: 0/ 2 cups How I’m Feeling: Sick, sick, sick, more tacos please, sick. Step count is at a low today, both because of my sickness and because of the rain, which came to pour at exactly my walking hour.…
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20,000 steps a day & other unattainable goals
Steps: 12,156/ 20,000 Weight: 160? /135lbs Hydration: 0.5/ 2 gallons Writing: 250/250 words Veggies: 0/ 2 cups How I’m Feeling: Sick with a head cold. Before the summer began, I was a heartfelt dreamer of a girl, and I really did, with all my might, believe I would be capable of following through with 75…
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Angry Woman, Where Aren’t Thou?
My mother is a midwestern woman. A landlocked, rural woman from birth to what should have been death, except that at 34, her husband, in following whatever voice most sounded like God’s, took her East. In the East there were fewer silos reaching up than there were shores pulling out, and it wasn’t long before…